Random Musings

In the past, I've not been crazy about a weed eater and have used the push mower as much as I could, to the point I think I surprised my husband with how much could be accomplished with a push mower (specifically in the ditch in front of the house). Growing up, we didn't have a weed eater, and so we used the push mower for everything. This weekend I tried weedeating the ditch instead of using the push mower, as all the boys who've cut grass for us in the past preferred that.  And now I'm not sure which is the best method. A weed eater takes longer, much longer...as in, I'm still not done with the trim work. However, a weed eater is much easier on the ankles and shoulders. Instead of having to fight inclines, you can simply stand in one spot and move up and down the sides...harder on the hands and forearms, but I didn't turn my ankle or feel my foot slide in my shoe once. So as far as ease, weedeater hands down. But as far as time goes...a weedeater does n...

On Mother's Day, a friend of mine posted a link to this blog  post that made me both sympathetic and mad at the same time. I've read many articles, most by Moms, a few by nurses, addressing the whole medical terminology of "abortion".  Bascially, the term abort means "to stop", so an abortion means a stop or termination of the pregenancy. Medically, it has always been used to define a miscarriage. After the 1970s in America, it also came to mean a voluntary ending to a pregnancy, often labeled as a "selective" abortion after numerous women began complaining after learning their miscarriage was on their medical charts as an abortion. My heart goes out to any woman who has to deal with such a situation, especially in the case where something was medically coded incorrectly.  But I fear the author of this post is totally ignorant when it comes to our country's history, specifically in cultural matters. Women who lived prior to Roe v. Wade wil...

Yesterday Bobby told me there was a news article I would be very interested in. I was, but not in a great way. The Federal Communications Commission has requested that every phone provider submit proposals detailing how they would move all customers to wireless phones (ie, do away with landlines).  Carbon Hill, AL (where my aunt lives and my Granny Rea lived the last 20 years of her life) was chosen as one of the two cities in the US where this will be tested to see what kind of problems businesses and the government can expect to encounter. I wish they had moved it 25 miles south to the community of Curry where cell reception is so HORRIBLE that many people refuse to give up their landlines or else drive into town to call anyone because the few signal towers don't have enough strength to reach all the valleys.  Not only that, but high speed internet simply does not exist there for anyone without cable. That's one of the reasons Bobby somewhat enjoys visiting my parents...

I cleaned/organized 3/4 of my work room last month when I couldn't find a quilt square I had made (and needed to complete a block for class). Ever since, I've been quite resolute in this being the year of unfinished projects (but I can so easily manuever around that one...I mean, if I have the pattern and the fabric already purchased and set aside...that counts as an unfinished project, right?).  I'm almost finished completing one project, and the time out the last two weeks with yardwork, garden stuff, animals, and elections have given me a lot of time to THINK about what needs to be done and what I'd like to tackle next. Unfortunately thinking seems to be all I have time for lately. Meanwhile, it's strawberry season in NC, which means I hope to get quite a few to put up (including a few pints of jam for my niece's birthday) in the next few weeks. And in the midst of life's normal craziness, my heart is in AL a lot lately. We're doing the waiting ga...