My Old Dollhouse, part 2

Only a few of my original pieces have survived. Most of these are toys from when my girls were little. I want to spruce it up some more, but my granddaughter won't care about those details. She's going to have a lot of fun with this.

My Old Dollhouse

I think FlyLady says something about how you can't organize clutter. If you try, the next time you go to get anything out of it, it just throws up all over the room. She's right. It does.

I spent yesterday sorting through all my craft stuff in the spare room. I would like to turn it back into a spare room instead of a junked up, can't walk into or find anything in room. I am going to set up my old dollhouse (my dad made for me when I was little) in a place that my granddaughter can play with it, where it will still be safe from the dogs (the dogs are not allowed in the back bedrooms). I think she is finally old enough to play with the little pieces without putting them into her mouth.

I hauled a lot of stuff out of that room. Filled a couple garbage bags. Made a pile for Goodwill. Vacuumed and cleaned (can't have her playing in a dirty room). Then my husband called and wondered what time to tell his friend that we could meet for supper. Basically, I had to quit right then, and put everything back in there, to have time to get presentable enough to go out for dinner.

Going out to dinner was a fun surprise, but I'm still not finished with that room. There is room in there now to organize what's left and get it out of the way. I'm going to sit on the floor and sort through the pile of printed out patterns this morning. There is actually room to spread them all out. I bet I don't really need all of them.

My granddaughter is coming over this afternoon. There will be no dollhouse for her today, but there are plenty of other things to do. I'll have the dollhouse ready for her by Friday. I am looking forward to setting it all up tomorrow. Getting all the furnishings out of the box they've been packed in, and making the house pretty again. I will see if I can't maybe get my youngest daughter's input on how to arrange all of it. It will be like playing dolls with her again. I don't think we girls ever get too old to have fun with little bitty dolls and miniature furniture.

Tattooed Jeans

 Tattoo your legs

(pretty, but permanent),

or

paint your skinny jeans

(temporary tattoos)

like I did.

People Say My Husband's Scary

People say my husband's scary.

An opinion I can't dissuade.

He is big and bald and brawny,

but I have never been afraid.

He's my tall polite provider,

playful, pleasant, pertinacious,

protecting of his family,

practical, and perspicacious.

He had to let his hair grow back

and his face fill up with a beard

for a movie roll he landed.

His friends and family all cheered.

I was totally excited.

I'm his greatest supporting fan.

Now my hairy handsome husband,

I see a teddy-bear-ish man.

Alas, I'm told the role he plays

is massive mean mobster muscle

for the movie's leading bad man.

He's not one with which to tussle.

So, whether he has hair or not,

doesn't apparently matter.

He will always scare the strangers.

When I'm with him, they all scatter.

By: Paula D. Nevison

Supermoon

The biggest full moon of the year. Today, at 7 a.m. EDT, the moon will be the closest to the Earth of 2013, perigee — the point in its orbit bringing it closest to Earth, a distance of 221,824 miles.

Huge moon at moonrise

When the perigee moon lies close to the horizon it can appear absolutely enormous. That is when the famous "moon illusion” combines with reality to produce a truly stunning view. For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, a low-hanging moon looks incredibly large when hovering near to trees, buildings and other foreground objects. The fact that the moon will be much closer than usual this weekend will only serve to amplify this strange effect.

So a perigee moon, either rising in the east at sunset or dropping down in the west at sunrise might seem to make the moon appear so close that it almost appears that you could touch it.

Moon Data
The following information is provided for Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama (longitude W88.1, latitude N30.7):

Saturday:  Moonrise                   7:17 p.m. On 22 June 2013
  Sunday:  Moonset                    6:03 a.m. On 23 June 2013
           Moonrise                   8:16 p.m. On 23 June 2013

If you miss the rise of the supermoon, “you can watch the lunar event live online with the online skywatching website Slooh Space Camera. The Slooh Space Camera will offer a free webcast of the supermoon fullmoon at 9 p.m. EDT on Sunday”

Moby Dick

“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick 

There's Nothing To Do

I'm bored. There's nothing to do.

I'm hungry. What can I eat?

There's carrots,

but they have to be peeled and cut.

There's celery,

but that has to be washed and cut.

Onions, yuck.

Why do I even buy them?

They sit until spoiled, then I throw them out.

Apples,

but I'd need to peel them,

or the skin will get stuck in my teeth.

Oranges,

they'd need to be peeled or cut,

so I'll get pith stuck under my fingernails, or in my teeth.

Watermelon,

but it's big and heavy and messy to cut up.

Last night's leftovers,

but I have to dirty dishes to warm that up.

There's lunchmeat and cheese.

I could make a sandwich,

but there's no bread.

Wait, I don't even eat bread.

It's weird to make a sandwich without bread.

I should put the ingredients in the bread machine

and make some bread.

My kids would like that.

My dishwasher is full of clean dishes.

I should put them away.

The dryer is done.

I should unload that too.

Those clothes need to be folded and put away.

Ironing.

My daughter has two shirts that need ironing,

but then I have to drag out the ironing board.

I could go check the mail,

but it's so hot outside.

I should knit some more on my friend's sweater,

but my elbow hurts.

I could paint that picture that's been in my head,

but then I'd have to clear the table;

sort this pile of mail,

move these library books

(that I should read).

I wonder what's on TV.

Probably nothing.

I'm bored. There's nothing to eat.

There's nothing to do.

By: Paula D. Nevison