Algae in the reflecting pool:
This makes me laugh. But also, we’ve been making trickle down jokes since the 80s, yet our economic policy is still trickle down economics. I think it’s the rich people who are really laughing.
The president did his level best to make the celebration of the USA’s 250th birthday un-fun.
I wonder if people bought the shirt on the left?
It was a great night for the Good, the Battleship, and the Ugly this month at the Movie Quiz.
We aren’t even holding up the bottom of the middle; we’re smack dab in the middle! Our 130 points is 10 above what I consider an acceptable score!
Fun names this month: Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie, the quiz; the Rambo Connection; and Ken Burns’s Squatty Potty
I was fairly confident of my skilz with the summer pants pattern, so I drafted some in-seam pockets and cut everything out and finished the edges before sewing together my practice pants. And everything was too small, which meant the in-seam pockets became vagina pockets. A big no.
I went back to the drawing board and made a toile with more of the material I’m using for the top layer of my mystery masquerade skirt.
It took two tries for the back, but I got it fitting, so next I will cut out again in the fun red/pink lines fabric.
A photo of Matt (and a G Love employee) on the day of his birthday.
We had “the works” their name for a prix fixe menu, and had many delicious thing. Pictured here: focaccia de fromaggio, and the crusty avocado. Both were quite good.
Matt also enjoyed this zero proof drink and I took a picture of the can in case we want to revisit that beverage.
Every once in a while, the stories on the front page look like a tiger chasing its tail.
Why are the data centers (owned by corporations worth billions of dollars) and the Blazers (owned by a billionaire) getting tax breaks? And how does that affect Portlander’s cost of living?
My assigned character for the mystery masquerade ball is the mouse, a poor relation. So I figured, no need to spend a lot of time finishing seams. Instead I used wooly nylon serger thread to finish the edges. It’s a very pretty brown color.
Other progress: Not only did I manage to cut out the upper panels, I pieced them together using French seams, and then finished the edges in the same way as on the lower skirt.
Ideally, I would have gotten the correct tension and the edges wouldn’t be wavy, but I like the effect here.
I have one pair of shorts to exercise in, and I could no longer exercise in them due to a hole in the inner thigh. I went with machine repair because I had a lot of other sewing to do.
Here you can see the front side.
And here is the inside.
And the shorts were back in action!
I had a fun time drafting the flared skirt, but it got confusing enough that I got out the colored pencils to differentiate which flair went with which panel.
This was pretty enough that I traced the pattern pieces on other freezer paper and hung this up in my bedroom.
I’m too young to remember the Bicentennial. I was not yet two. (And still an only child!) So I’ve always felt a little sad to have missed it. People painted fences red, white and blue! There were cool flag pants! My brother’s unofficial birth certificate from the hospital labeled him a bicentennial baby! And manufacturers made stuff.
Like this bicentennial canning jar that I inherited from my grandmother. I keep the backup salt in it, because it’s one of my favorites.
The US Semiquincentennial has been a bust. Not much fun to be had, mostly due to the president wanting to make it all about him. But when I came across Ball’s Americana Jars, I immediately purchased them. They have stars on the jar!
And stars on the lids!
It’s not as good as a red, white, and blue painted fence, but it’s something, at least.
I was quite excited to find this duvet cover at the Union Gospel Mission.
Because…
We have the same one at home.
It would have been fun to reunite the two, but we have enough coverlets in the house.
Although now that I think of it, I could have made it into a fun square dancing skirt.
