Laure K

Loved Doors of Sleep by @timpratt.org, especially at 2 AM while trying to get to sleep ;)

I listened to several of your audio books from my library via Libby. No Audible required. No money required. I wish more were available, since these old eyes don't do print as well as they used to.

I don't have a recommendation for a single-bird book, but if you are looking for general avian geeking out, I can recommend "Introduction to California Birdlife" by Jules Evens and Ian Tait, which is more about bird habitat than the birds themselves.

So what are they going to do, deport us?

The bill doesn't exempt the citizens of 500+ federally recognized Indian tribes. If we chose our tribal citizenship and renounced our US citizenship, could we be deported LOL? Or if we renounced our tribal citizenship, would all the tribes disappear, as a final solution to the "Indian problem?"

I'm currently listening to the book series for the *ahem* umpteenth time, thanks to my local library and Libby. The audiobook narrator, Jefferson Mays, is excellent.

This time I'm listening to both the English and Spanish books, alternating by chapter. I am on Cibola Burn/La Quema de Cíbola now.

Book cover of Scalzi's "The President's Brain is Missing".

Start with this one?

The Expanse? I'm all ears!

Unless you were a child during Jim Crow.

Thank you! I just donated $$$$ to my local food bank, and also to a food bank in a less well off community. If you want to support a community harder hit than your own, go to www.211search.org, type in a city, and search for food banks there.

Am I the only one who feels somewhat sensual ripping one of these open with my teeth and suck out the slippery insides?

According to the website of the food bank I donate to, they can get $7 worth of food for every $1 donated. They especially need cash around the holidays, to buy turkeys for food baskets.

Go to 211search.org, type in a city you think could especially use the support, look up food banks in their local database, send money. The food banks can use the money to buy turkeys for holiday baskets around this time of year (e.g. Thanksgiving and Christmas).

They can only be open when they can find volunteers to man them, and have amassed enough donations to give out. For some small churches, that's just once per month. They do what they can.

There are agencies and non profits out there helping the hungry, the underhoused, immigrants, people with health and mental health concerns, tenants, kids, elders, pets, you name it. Or go to 211search.org, select a location you want to support, and check out their website/database.

Anywhere in the USA you can dial 211 to find referrals social service agencies serving your area. Ask about your favorite cause, then get contact info to find out how you can support them, thru labor or donations.

Opinion = O(pi)nion = something that makes you cry, and is partly irrational.

Not to mention rising sea levels will overtop the "watertight" barriers around old landfills, leaching out all sorts of things.

I was thinking the same thing - the workers did not look adequately protected. But hey, when has Trump ever cared about his workers?

I know others who have pulled the same hat trick - for 17 years! Here's to 6 more months and counting!

This is why I'm too busy to post on 🦋 - too much good stuff out there to read.

OK, I'm sold. I put Gideon the 9th on my increasingly improbable "SF/F to be read" tag in the Libby app. (Improbable as in there are 420 other books on that tag.) Too many books, too little time. I only listen to about 130 audio books per year, while driving, hiking, volunteering, doing Sudoku 🙃

They are about 10 inches tall.

Then I stitch the cloth on the underside, tight like a drum head. Then repeat many times. Then stitch the triangles (and other shapes) together with blind stitches.

I stretch a piece of cotton cloth over a triangle that I cut from a thin, stiff, plastic sheet. These are sheets used for stencilling.

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Five intersecting octagons, made of fabric.

For example, I have 3-D quilts I created, sitting on my shelf. People ask, "what is it for?" I reply, "It's art." And that seems to satisfy them.

I think of art as something that is moving to behold, and craft as something that is useful. Sometimes what is created is both.