The Soaplady

I woke up late this morning …
Ignored the phone ringing twice, and ignored Mindy’s barking downstairs when someone was at the door …
It’s Saturday after all, and my shop is not open …
 
Unfortunately there was another motivating fact which kept me in my warm snuggly bed …
Yesterday I injured my back …
I now have affinity [...]

 
Hi all,
 
just thought I’d do an update on the paper logs …
the paper has been soaking for umm ten days or so now, so I just got me little gizmo out, and made some logs …
It was remarkably easy … not a lot of strength required …
The soaking paper and water half-filled a laundry-basket sized bucket [...]

A man sat at a metro station in Washington and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning.
He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes.
During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way [...]

I *think* I’m allowed to do this …??!
 Hello, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple.. Please tell ten friends  to tell ten today!
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free  food donated every day to abused and neglected animals.
It takes [...]

Hello everyone …  and a Happy New Year to you, albeit belated …
Long time, no see …
This is a picture of my living-room tonight:
 
On the left we have Mindy, on her blanket, enjoying the rays, and on the right we have my intrepid cat Finn who sees no reason why he shouldn’t do [...]

I spend my life in jeans …
They become my friends … comfortable and familiar …
They are useful because they do not show dog and cat hairs, neither do they betray the fact that you wiped a variety of dirty fingers on them during the day …
I currently have only one pair (imagine!), and they unfortunately [...]

 
A lot of things were going through my mind this afternoon, as I was wandering around the Castle Grounds with Mindy …
 
Some I will not mention here …! 
But mostly, with a mind that has that New Year’s ‘swept clean’ fresh-page sort of thing, I was mostly assessing and measuring the parameters of next years [...]