Marian Allen's Blog, page 68
March 10, 2023
Counting on You — Fridays For Future, Climate Strike Online
In case you don’t know who Pete Seeger is:
March 9, 2023
Thursday Doors: Eh? What?
I had a feeling my eBay hearing aids weren’t adjusted properly, and I didn’t know what size domes (the bit that sticks into your ear) I needed for best reception, so I did what I should have done in the first place: I went to…
March 8, 2023
One-Liner Wednesday: Pay Attention!
The other day, #4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, said something from another room that neither I nor her housemate, the marvelous Dora, could understand. Dora asked her to repeat it and she said something that was almost identical to what her grandmother, my mother,…
March 7, 2023
Food: Fondant Potatoes
I went down a Gordon Ramsey rabbit hole the other day and watched a quick video of him making these. Usually I see fondant potatoes as cylinders or cubes cut out of potatoes, but he did halves. You cut the potatoes in half and brown…
March 6, 2023
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Knowledge And Beautimusness
This site is THE BOMB! It’s called thekidshouldseethis.com, but kid, schmid, it’s fascinating. It has videos demonstrating many things. OF COURSE I searched for decomposition and found, among other videos, a time-lapse of vermicomposting (composting by feeding food waste to worms). The worms they used…
March 5, 2023
Sunday Snapshot: Fern
A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Something ferny or frond-like. MA
March 4, 2023
Caturday: Adi On The Things
Hewwo. Um, I’m Adi, okay? EverMom holds me in her lap and brushes me and brushes me, so I never have mats anymore. Yay! I like to go where she is, although Tipper growls at me when he sees me. He growls realllly quiet, because…
March 3, 2023
March 2, 2023
Thursday Doors: CoryDoors February 2023
I got out and about and took some pictures of places that have changed since the last time I snapped them. This used to be Arlston’s bookstore, but now it’s the new home of the Harrison Count Arts, formerly the Artisan Center: Across the street,…
