Strictly Miscellaneous

[Mem]

Greek alpha privative, yes?

if you wanna believe my high school Latin teacher, Mrs. Berringer (and i suggest we all do that ), it's the Latin preposition ad (toward; to) before muse. odd, i remember practically everything Mrs. Berringer said, and have no idea where i left my glasses or what day of the week it is.

Aw so, thats what an adhominem is all about. I looked up the etymology and the Oxford dictionary has it earliest back to Middle English but, alas, I must needs to subscribe for to read mine article. Forsooth.
Have an amuse bouche.

 

[JohnDB]

"BRIANNA" on left lower corner...
is that SIL name?

John, that is absolutely gorgeous!

Was there a special type of machine used for stitching it all together, or just a regular sewing machine with a special needle?

Hand stitched using a saddle stitch...even the gold embossing of SIL's name was done with metal letters, a clothes iron and meticulously setting up the embossing and "tape" one letter at a time to get the spacing right. (Hard to un-emboss if you get it wrong)

There's a LOT you can do by hand without machines using ingenuity and patience and carefully thinking through every step. Mistakes happen...and the materials are expensive...but....when you finish you have a wonderful, usable gift that is completely unique and more valuable than anything sold in stores. (Which was somewhat the purpose for me picking up the talent....I couldn't find a toolbag that I liked but I knew what I wanted)

PS.
Brianna is single and her sister, parents and I would like to get her married off....so if you know any good single young men (26-30)

 

[JohnDB]

https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1781030579561001237

 

[Zandar]

I heard someone say once, men will never understand women because women have too wild of an imagination.

 

[JohnDB]

Today I got really bad news.

Orchard fruit flavored skittles have been discontinued. I'm really sad about that.

 

[Godsgirl1983]

Today I got really bad news.

Orchard fruit flavored skittles have been discontinued. I'm really sad about that.

Aww!
It's always a bummer when favorite things get discontinued.

 

[Cold]

Brownies are just soggy chocolate cake and cheese cake is just a dry a pie.

 

[PennEd]

Too cool!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/KzA5h7pgAFCYhnnY/?mibextid=0VwfS7

 

[D3vot3d]

Too cool!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/KzA5h7pgAFCYhnnY/?mibextid=0VwfS7

Yes koooool.
There are many things we see but find hard to believe. Imagine the things going on around us that we cannot see, invisible things.

Yet faith is having not seen but believing anyway.

There was a quote from Polar Express that has stuck in my mind, The Conductor: "Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."

 

[Billyd]

A few years back (2019 or 20) a friend's mother passed away. When they cleaned her freezer, they found a package of butter beans dated 1969. It looked like it did the day her mother put it in the freezer. Curiosity got the best of her, so she cooked the beans for dinner. Only she knew the story behind them. Everyone thought they tasted like mom's butter beans and no one experienced any ill side effects.

The beans were blanched, placed in a plastic freezer bag, dated and frozen. Nothing else was put in them. They were grown in her home garden.

So much for expiration dates.

 

[notmyown]

A few years back (2019 or 20) a friend's mother passed away. When they cleaned her freezer, they found a package of butter beans dated 1969. It looked like it did the day her mother put it in the freezer. Curiosity got the best of her, so she cooked the beans for dinner. Only she knew the story behind them. Everyone thought they tasted like mom's butter beans and no one experienced any ill side effects.

The beans were blanched, placed in a plastic freezer bag, dated and frozen. Nothing else was put in them. They were grown in her home garden.

So much for expiration dates.

Billy, a few weeks ago i noticed there was an expiration date on my bar of soap!

hard to take any of it seriously.

 

[Cold]

Billy, a few weeks ago i noticed there was an expiration date on my bar of soap!

hard to take any of it seriously.

Perhaps someone should invent Twinkie soap, since supposedly they never expire.

 

[notmyown]

Perhaps someone should invent Twinkie soap, since supposedly they never expire.

lol! can you get right on that, please?

i really like your avatar, by the way. it's not only beautiful, but restful to my photophobic eyes.

 

[Cold]

lol! can you get right on that, please?

i really like your avatar, by the way. it's not only beautiful, but restful to my photophobic eyes.

I suppose I could smash a Twinkie into a bar of soap for a prototype, but I don't know how well it will perform. You're welcome to be the first tester though.

It took me a good while to find a picture that I liked and seemed relaxing enough to me. I've always liked the cold and night time and always had the thought that a snowy pine forest on a mountain at night would be the most relaxing place. The picture is the closest I could find, lol.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Time for some HOT morning coffee and watch the sunrise.🙂

 

[notmyown]

Time for some HOT morning coffee and watch the sunrise.🙂

that's what i've been doing! it's just 7am on the east coast, and it's coldish (31 degrees), but the sun is quite warm.

thank You, Lord.

 

[D3vot3d]

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Is a $500.00 pair of nike tennis shoes built better than a $80.00 pair of a non popular name tennis shoe?

 

[GaryA]

Is a $500.00 pair of nike tennis shoes built better than a $80.00 pair of a non popular name tennis shoe?

The only honest answer I can give you is 'I do not know.' - but, I am also thinking - and, feel pretty good about - the idea that, even if they are built better, I doubt that they are built 6.25 times better...

(The majority of that $500 is probably buying the name.)

 

[Zandar]

speaking of niki, jordan's nascar won taladega.