My Altar

This is my Qabalah Altar.

I Stand Corrected!

It has come to my attention that the creation I called "Osprey's FAB Tent" is actually a tent pavilion. I apologize and blush to the roots of my hair!

The Bottling Plant

When Jasmine and Leila saw me making my own bottles of iced tea, they were amazed and curious. Of course, it was Gordon . . .

[Wait, wait, let me tell you the background on this! Gordon drinks between six and twelve cans of diet cola EVERY DAY(?? yes, every day !!).]

. . . Gordon who, seeing me purchasing bottles of organic iced tea, complained that I was spending an awful lot on the stuff. Yes, I admit, he did not realize at the time that I had begun buying it at the supermarket. The last he had heard I was buying it for over $3 a pop at La Madeleine, with my fancy old-lady-go-to-lunch lunch.

*sigh* OK now I will continue with my story. Leila and Jasmine were TOTALLY amazed I could and would make my own bottled iced tea. So of course, they wanted some. Although I was reluctant to give up one of my precious products, I gave them each a bottle. I later saw them in the kitchen putting sugar into the bottles (which were already sweetened with sucralose).

THEN GRRRRR they left the abandoned half bottles of ruined tea in the living room. (The child in me spits at the child in you!)

Maas Nursery

Although there was an argument in the Target store over what style of underpants Jasmine should buy, we mostly had a good day. Leila did yoga with me in the morning, both girls rode their bikes and played tennis, we took Jasmine's bike to the bike shop and got it worked on, and had turkey ham and cheese rollups and cracker sandwiches for lunch.

Then we went to Maas Nursery in Seabrook. The place goes on for EVER it seems, and has all sorts of odd sculptures and geodes, and fountains and exotic animals and trees and wind chimes and . . . well I never feel I see it all!

HI ROBYN!

HI ROBYN!!! It is so nice to have you leaving comments on my shiny new blog! I hope you will make a blog of your own and then I can link to it.

Notice Osprey is also leaving comments. She is my bestest friend. Her blog and websites (I think there are 432,127 of them), start at http://www.atomic-raygun.com/.

That Sinking Feeling

I came to Mysterio Gallery dock last night and the boat was sinking!

I am not sure why this happened, but it may be that I had not used it for a while. Who knows?

Osprey's New FAB Tent

Osprey made a new and voluptuous tent texture and created this haven in Bodega Hills. She deleted Art's build (OMG!!!). We had a brief concert with my Senong and her Tibetan horn. Then the twins and Gordon summoned me for popcorn and a movie.

2006 minus 1946 is 50!!!

I am SO relieved! I thought I was going to be 60 in May, but it turns out I was wrong!

Leila and Jasmine said their favorite class is math, so Gordon began asking them math questions, and they did not know many answers. They could work things out on paper, but these days, it appears, they have to do a table on the side in order to work out a division problem, comme ca:

1/5
2/10
3/15
4/20
5/25

and so forth. Well, we said, that is a Multiplication Table! so right now they are industriously drawing out their own multiplication tables (and they are QUIET for the first time in hours!). Thank you Gordon!!!

Osprey suggests

Osprey suggests I have my granddaughters write a play (with mandatory dragon), make sets and costumes, and perform it with me as the audience. I think we may do this if other activities are not possible (i.e. if the weather continues to be rainy and grey).

They are bringing their bikes, swimsuits and various other accoutrements. I am hopeful this means they will keep busy while they are here.

I missed a lot of my children's growing up time, and I guess this is my opportunity to learn about these stages.

Robyn's phone call and Leila and Jasmine's visit

We started out talking about astrology and the upcoming lunar eclipse, with her telling me about Susan Miller's astrological web site :
http://www.astrologyzone.com

We then moved on to Robyn's relationship with our youngest sister, Betsy, and Robyn's new assistant being almost a clone of Betsy (!!).

. . . and went from there to the Gherkin, a new and extraordinary building in London, designed by Norman Foster:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/30_St_Mary_Axe.html/cid_1107570533_London8690f.gbi

Tomorrow my twin ten-year-old granddaughters are coming to stay for two days. I have cleared out the things I do not want to share with them, and I am feeling relatively prepared. It is like knowing a double tornado is on its way, and putting up shutters, but knowing that there could still be damage LOL.

Leaves are falling

We have three live oaks in our yard and they are starting to shed leaves in preparation for blooming. They are always green but now they will have these tiny yellow-green flowers and then small chartreuse leaves. Now they have sorta forest green leaves that are turning brown and falling all over our yard.

Patrick's drawing

Today my son Pat called me and asked me to send him photos of wolves for him to draw. Osprey said he is cool. He already sent me a self-portrait, which was very good, especially considering he has had ZERO art education.


The azaleas in the back yard are in riotous bloom, as is the orange tree next door which hangs over the fence. There are so many blossoms; I keep hoping they will all be oranges. Usually by November, when the oranges ripen, there are only about three or four of them on our side of the fence. Oh well.

Yesterday in yoga class the teacher had us doing all sorts of chest opening and back straightening exercises. Now my shoulders feel like they have been on the rack or something. I have a cold, so I did yoga postures from the Iyengar book that are supposed to help it. I felt great. Then I ate cheese and sausage for dinner, and got all stuffed up again! Maybe there IS something to that "dairy creates mucus" crap.