Purple Houses

Who cares what the neighbors think?
Treasures
Found a couple of treasures in my mailbox this week, words of encouragement among them. As always these things come at the right time. Reminded me that discussions of usefulness are largely useless. Planning is smart but knowing yourself is smarter. The real world isn’t...
Could we just ... not?
This Yahoo article about Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe dealing with criticism about her weight just makes me crazy. Could we just please, please stop commenting on women's bodies being too large, too small, too whatever? I cringe every time a late-night talk show host...
 

Northern California Weather Blog

Northstate Weather

Current and expected weather for Northern California
Weather Discussion for Wednesday March 17, 2010
Click here for latest satellite animationHigh pressure is now in place along the west coast. The forecast upper air map below for this evening shows the weather pattern we will have through Saturday. Northern California will have mostly clear skies with afternoon...
Weather Discussion for Tuesday March 16, 2010
***Upper 70's and lower 80's in Northern Sacramento Valley by Thursday***Click here for latest satellite animationA high pressure ridge is now firmly in place along the west coast and should stay there for at least the next 7 days. There will be a few clouds over...
 

Windshield Rosary

Irish Luck
John and I were lucky to be married by a great Irish priest, who blessed our marriage and all our guests with this sweet prayer: “May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your...
Menu Planning
My mom and I started planning our Easter menu Sunday afternoon. Let me tell you, it looks good. We have pecan rolls listed as an appetizer and an entire subsection under dessert dedicated to chocolate. Don’t worry. Plenty of vegetables will be eaten during the main course....
 

Renee Harris

MadeOn’s Start-Up Blog

getting my business off the ground
Help! My Son Got Stung by a Bee!
Less than 24 hours after posting my last blog with the video of the bees, my 6 year old got stung by one. I'm not naturally good at handling situations like this and my mind becomes blurred with memories of childhood bee stings (what did my mom do?) and first...
Smoking the Bees
Just a short distance from my home this weekend, the beekeepers were smoking the bees (to calm them), preparing the "factories" for beeswax production.   In the heat of the summer I'll be able to gather the beeswax from local beekeepers for my...
 

Darcyarts

Semi-daily, Art rant and Process, etsy-related blog
Wild Bees of Truth
The sun will shine today and bring warmth after lots of cool rainy days. Inside our home it’s almost always sunny. We make the best of what we have, Frank and I. We, united now for seven years, after a hiatus of 23 years, will make it official next month. I...
Moon in Pisces
The Moon in Pisces can have two effects on my changeable consciousness. I can fall easily into an artistic project and flow with it, dream up solutions I may not have under some other moon energy or I just want to sleep. Sleep is good because I love to dream and feel there...
 

Peaches and Plums

Swimming against the current of mediocrity
crispy
a new round of strangely tragic dreams lately. won a gnarly sunburn after picnic-ing at the park yesterday. which made for a restless night of tossing and turning. guess i got too excited about the advent of sunny, warm days here....
the visit
stepdad came into town this weekend and managed to cram in some nice, chill activities in between the frenetic stuff of work. saturday evening we made it to the beach by sunset, which was beautiful albeit windy. then, ate dinner at the cliff house, which i have heard much...
 

Erin Friedman

Still Married

Fresh tunes with North State Roots - Shasta County Country.
A Bit of Irish for St. Patrick's Day
According to family legend, my great-great grandfather George Convy brought a piece of sod from the homeland when he emigrated from Ireland in 1866. Now and again he would take it out and have a good cry.The Irish, who fled their country by the thousands, did not have a...
Music You Can Sink Your Teeth Into....
That's Whole Wheat Radio.It's a hardy, flavorful treat after a bland diet of mainstream radio's fluffy Wonder Bread.From the WWR website:"Whole Wheat Radio is a homegrown grassroots online radio station originating from Talkeetna, Alaska.""We feature the music of 2,794...
 

tea4kate

It's not "life's illusions", but "life's infusions" that I recall!
'Tis the season for planting...and growing....
This beautiful sunshine calls me...." Come....Come...Come outside. Come dig. Come plant." I heeded the call and ordered seeds !! We've always been interested in the Seed Savers Exchange and used them extensively when we had a big garden at the ranch. In the United...
There's no place like Portland....a fascinating gourmet experience.
Portland, Oregon is a virtual epicurean wonderland !  And we are trying our best to take full advantage of all opportunites every time we have a chance to be there. In our short visit, we were treated to  fantastic Korean food at the  Be Won on North 23rd Street in...