A friend laughingly said one day that if she learned needle felting she’d make a voodoo doll. That comment started me thinking about how I would make one.
The larger one was the prototype. I went on to make smaller versions about 4″ tall.
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Most people who know me might remember my dad passed away last May. I’ve had his ashes my house since then.
I’ve finally decided to let them go today. It’s a beautiful day in the 60’s tomorrow, so my son & I are taking his ashes to the Reservoir to let some of them go.
Then he’s leaving to go deep sea fishing & is taking the rest.
My dad was a Navy man, so he’d like that. My best memories are of fishing with my dad, on lakes and ponds and deep sea.
It’s time.
I had to restore my iPhone this afternoon. The external speaker stopped working at some point. I don’t know when because I think my iPhone is a great mini-computer that I can occasionally make calls on. I didn’t realize it until someone tried to call me and I could’t hear them without turning the speaker on.
I’ve read about this: if you use headphones with your iPhone, sometimes the iPhone gets stuck and doesn’t realize you’ve taken the headphones out. The weird thing is, I can’t even remember the last time I used headphones. Use them with my iPod classic, yes, all the time. iPhone, not so much.
So I tried the trick of plugging in the headphones, playing some music, and taking the jack out while the music is playing. In a perfect world, your iPhone will realize you’ve removed them and pause the music.
No joy.
I repeated it several times, plugging and unplugging while the music was playing. No dice. I tried rebooting the iPhone and then plugging and unplugging.
Finally, I just restored the thing. And it’s fine.
I’ve really come to the conclusion that the iPhone will need to be restored around once every 3 months. Things just get glitchy.
Anyway, that’s my story.
Starting late Thursday Feb. 11 and continuing through until the afternoon of the 12th, much of Mississippi got hit with quite a bit of snow. Well, a lot for us anyway. I think we got about 5-6″ covering most of Jackson and more in other parts of the state. Some people lost power.
We don’t usually get much snow. Maybe 1/2 an inch every few years that doesn’t even stick. I planned for it as best I could, stocking some survival foods (like I’d starve over a 2 day period even I had no food in the house. Yeah, right. But I was out of Pop-Tarts anyway.
This morning at 7:30 a.m. walkies with Radar were pretty chilly. It was still snowing at that point, coming down pretty well. Radar does not like cold weather, he doesn’t like rain, and he was stepping through the snow like it was laced with battery acid. He promptly dove under his blanket when we got back inside and I didn’t see him for a couple of hours.
So I was inside most of the day, not needing to go anywhere, working on the video, talking to some friends, playing around with Google Buzz, and making the “Snowmageddon 2010″ t-shirt down at the bottom.
I took Radar out 4 p.m. (It occurred to me I’d better scrape 5 inches of snow off the truck’s windshield before it froze tonight.)
Ok, it’s official. I’m a big wuss. To all my friends who live in colder climes who’ve read about the snow in the South and laughed, it’s ok. I understand. I just can’t handle the cold anymore.
I’m sitting in my chair now, teeth chattering, drinking hot coffee laced with Bailey’s to warm up.
Felted gnomes
This is the most complicated project I’ve done in needlefelting so far — and my fingers have the wounds to prove it!
If you use Gmail at all (You know, Google, as in “All your email are belong to us.”) then you might have heard about Buzz, a social network rolled out yesterday. If you don’t have it yet, check your gmail box often, but mobile phone users can use it now by going to buzz.google.com
Google’s Buzz video explains it all:
After a whole day spent mostly inside, I got out for awhile this evening and visited my favorite coffeehouse, Cups.
If caffeine makes you jittery, it might look at bit like this:
@ChihuahuaLife my own chi mix pup @RadarDog 
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