Monday, February 27, 2012

Anyone Like Good Beer?

One of my son's friend LOVES beer...better yet he loves pairing beer and food..like wine.

He just started a Beer Blog....it's called Beer Blog   It is brand new, and he is mostly local...for now, but who knows... here's to launching a dream career...

http://philchesteakbeer.blogspot.com/

This is his latest...it is about Black Raspberry Lambic...

 (His picture since I don't have black raspberries and they are way harder to grow then red raspberries!)


http://philchesteakbeer.blogspot.com/2012/02/southamptons-black-raspberry-lambic.html

I think we need more GUYS doing blogs....don't you?  (same as we need more on Pinterest)

See you around the corner,

Janie

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

I Found Another Blog-Dragon Fly Dreams

I found another blog.  On Pinterest.  Dragon Fly Dreams....She does stamping art, as a hobby, and her studio is beautiful...

                                                    Here is a picture of her studio..
                                                
                               http://kimchaltry.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-stamp-studio.html


 

                                                          Here is another angle.... a real dream hobby center....which I understand the organization, given what her "day job" is.   She works in nuclear medicine!
                                                          There are many other pictures of the studio on the link-enjoy ...I know there are many out there that will enjoy this.



http://kimchaltry.blogspot.com/

Have to run now, visiting my sister today....

See you 'round the corner,

Janie

Monday, February 20, 2012

This is Just A Fantastic Plant Story..And A Rant....

Saw this on the news tonight..maybe you did too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/new-life-from-an-arctic-flower-that-died-32000-years-ago.html

 

It is 32000 years old!   Russian scientists found it in the Siberian Tundra..buried by a squirrel (probably anyway) all that time ago...  with a lot more! 


It reminds me of what was supposed to be a  a small ground hugging Phlox I've had coming up in a small bed, for a few years now... I have ever been able to find an actual name for it, or a picture, but it kind of looks look this..even the leaves...

I think it attests to the resilience strength and longevity of plants. Of the earth itself.  It makes me think of the pines that need a forest fire to germinate...  The amazing-ness of the world we live in..could this all just "happen?   Could there be anything but a creator?  That creation just keeps on going on!  A creator that makes sure no matter what happens on earth, no matter what humans do to it, it will never be destroyed, but be renewed..over and over again...what ever it takes... 


If man would just stop trying to make it bend to what he wants......and "go with the flow" of life....work with it..instead of fighting it...or time.....or change....and renewal....it can take care of itself...renew itself...and us too...


Time to think about what BIG business, and corporation farming is doing not only to the planet, to the ground itself, to the seas...to the air and water, but to humans as well..and the animals, and birds and even the insects, and yes, the plants as well, that live on it.   Time to think about what pharmaceuticals are telling millions of people "what they need to ask their Drs for"...  GMO foods....ok..let them do that..but LABEL it so the ones who don't want to poison themselves and their families....OUR families, can say no to it...

They keep saying that "our" voices make a difference...so I figure if no one buys it....they will have to stop right?   But of course they should have to label it.  Wonder if thats why corporate farming doesn't WANT it labeled..  Because after all, it is all about the profit right?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-spiegelman/genetically-engineered-food_b_1245023.html


Sorry...That's my rant for the night..thanks for listening!  Wish I had some pictures to share...but the camera needs some repair!!  Too many people using it I guess...haha!


See you 'round the corner..

Janie



Sunday, February 5, 2012

The NY Giants! Good night! Good Game! Sports And Families...

                                                       
                                                   

                             They did it!  Had no doubt they would...what a great diversion this was!

I made some snacks...I made some S'more bars for dessert.....I will post that tomorrow..I wasn't even sure how they would turn out but if you like s'mores these are dangerous!

Might not seem like a lot to some..maybe even most...My father came from the country...South Western PA. (Crucible to be exact)

Sports, even if you don't play, are a big part of this country...especially if you COME from the country.  Even high school teams play an important part of the country life....the community...Sports may actually be "glue"..even if you aren't a sports fan...

As a kid I wasn't that interested in sports..I did like running.  (only because it reminded me of horse racing..horses..yum....)  But my father and brother ate sports...Even now, a summer nap with a ball game in the back ground is heaven to me.  Especially on the radio!  And as I grew into a teen, as the games were on TV..ANY game.. I would sit in the living room, as they watched and sketch the players in action for practice.  And the family dog.

Horse racing...  Growing up, this horse crazy kid had to scour the sports section to find racing pictures, just to "see'" a horse, in this very non horsey no horse access community, I grew up in....  I even managed to get a hold of TB racing breeder magazines (I have no idea where I found one, or how I got it)!  Just so I could draw them.  (a brutal sport in that the actual athletes are treated like property, and discarded like garbage if they are not money makers (even now).)

Interestingly, my husband did not like sports.  He never watched any kind of sports in the 25 years we were married.  He did play soft ball with friends now and then at picnics, but never watched it on TV.  Me?  I LOVED the Olympics and watched every minute...in between doing what I had to do or go where I had to go with the family....(summer AND winter..) My 2 sons probably trying to figure out why???  Because since their father didn't like sports, neither do they.  Is that weird?  I LONGED for a game of catch with a mitt in the front yard.   I used to play catch with my brother, in the front yard, so he could practice for Little League!...But now I can watch baseball, and football, and if I want to, even basketball  (which I Loved to go see in High School, although not so much now..but I DO like the Harlem Globe Trotters..and now they even have a WOMAN on the team I hear!)  

Does this fall under the heading of "be careful what you wish for?".. I hope not..I hope it falls under the heading of women who put themselves aside (although that might not always be a good thing) for their families, because really, our families are the most important thing...families are what make up communities..even countries... Never mind the husband who likes sports, and their wives don't...but thats a whole other story...I am not talking about the husband (or wife) who excludes the family from what they do.)

But for me..sports are home..a family get together just doesn't seem the same without a game droning in the background...

It might be different for you and your family....whatever helps you all grow...and thats ok too..whatever is good for your family, is what is right to do...

But for today...tonight....for me...was a night of peace for me.....a respite from worries, or sadness...or even what I just "have" to do next...

And that the Giants won!  Was icing on the cake!

So from my picture folder..here's some thing blue for Big Blue...although is kind of violet....


See ya later,  have a great night...

Janie                                      

Thursday, February 2, 2012

So Sorry.....A sign of the Times...Ground Hog Day...

So sorry I haven't written lately.

I am going through a very depressing, hard, bad time.

My camera is broke...I have no car....I think I messed up a relationship that I thought had promise...and I need a roof.  Plus my washer is ancient and showing signs of giving out..the stove only has 2 1/2 burners working and the glass on my self cleaning (albeit second hand) oven door broke...(I don't even know how)  On a deeper level..the electric in the house badly need updating...several plugs in the bedroom don't even read my laptop battery....thats nothing new..we've know for a long time now, that the electric wiring in the house is sub-par and not up to code......"wing and prayer", folks....(that sounds careless...ALL safety precautions are in place where we can put them..)

I am not giving up or stopping...I am still looking for my True North... I am actually not even "taking a break".  More like a "delay"..like the LIRR.......

On the good side, it was SOO warm yesterday in NY I went out and did garden work!  I raked out some chickweed...a LARGE patch formed in the garden in the fall when I left some broccoli raab in place because it was so warm...not wating to distrub it the weeds grew.

And BEST of all....THE GIANTS ARE IN THE SUPERBOWL!!

And lastly...it is Ground Hog day.....and they are saying 6 more weeks of "winter" if you can call it that...(actually the ground hog in PA said 6 more weeks and the one in Staten Island said early spring...BUT the NY weather people are saying 6 weeks all round.)  Now really...we are going to have 6 weeks til spring no matter WHAT the ground hog says!!  LOL!!  I just wonder what all this mild winter stuff is going to do to spring and summer!  We have had warm winters before....not even sure if these warm days have set any records..but generally when we have a warm winter, we have a cold wet spring and summer...so we shall see what we shall see.....  

I think I will post  few "happy" pictures..from last summers garden..

OOOKKKK..guess I won't...Blogger is giving me trouble loading pics!  What else is new!?

Is anyone else having this trouble?  I know they are making changes (merges whatever) but to not be able to upload pics for  your own files???  Somethings not right here...

See you later...I have much to do today, and if I can get a chunk of time, try to figure this picture thing out.  If I do I will post some posies...

Janie