Wednesday

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Beholden: under obligation; owing a debt; bound

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"Not My President Day" Observance!

Protests took place all across the nation yesterday for Not My President Day.  We were out at Long Beach City Hall with many many others.  I never dreamed I'd be this person at this time in my life, and yet here we are.

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Base: morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly; worthless; characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing

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Rock Hounds

Lorenzo is an avid rock collector, and for his birthday party yesterday Dave actually built a gold panning sluice with recirculating water pump out in their yard so the kids could 'excavate' gems and fossils and arrowheads.  A wonderful success, complete with a geode birthday cake!!

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Bad: not good in any manner or degree; having a wicked or evil character; morally reprehensible; inadequate; not satisfactory; injurious;  having a disastrous or detrimental effect; causing or characterized by discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; irritable or surly; more dangerous than usual; causing or resulting in disaster or severe damage or destruction; disobedient; disreputable; dishonorable; displaying a lack of skill or judgement; causing distress; unfavorable; dangerous; not keeping with standard of behavior or conduct; obscene; having the character of a villain

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Sunday

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Awful: extremely bad; unpleasant; ugly: inspiring fear; dreadful; terrible: extremely dangerous or injurious 

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RSC25: February - blue

RSC25: February - blue

I pieced my monthly quota of Disappearing Rails blocks this week. This gives me 10 of the targeted 35 blocks, so this project is progressing. 

And again used the leftover 2 1/2" bits to make small corner units.  I'll need a couple billion more of these to make an entire quilt.

Linking to SCRAPHAPPY SATURDAY

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Avaricious: characterized by greed; rapacious; desiring to possess more of something than one already has or might in normal circumstances be entitled to 

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Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Autocrat: a person invested with or claiming to exercise absolute authority not subject to restrictions.

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Thursday

Woohoo -- I'm ready ahead of time for Spring!  I just finished embroidering this odd little bunny portrait from DROPCLOTH SAMPLERS.  He will be put into a frame soon, but I'm going to let the piece sit for a few days to make sure I don't want to add any more stitches.  

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authoritarian: of or relating to a governmental or political system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as completely subordinate to the power or authority of the state, centered either in one person or a small group that is not constitutionally accountable to the people.

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