Dreamflower's Mathom-house

I thought that our Thanksgiving Day would be pretty easy and low key, even though we were expecting company for the day for the first time in several years. My son was bringing his new girlfriend and her four kids, 13,11,10 and 1.( Read more... )

Here is a purse I made for last weekend's craft and bake sale at the church: ( Read more... )

This was a day I was going to spend finishing up both art and a story for this month's challenges, so that I could post them without being late. I was also going to post some pics I'd been meaning to post.

Well, instead we spent the day with the plumber, who took care of our washing machine (the drain was stopped and running over) and the refrigerator repairman (because water was leaking into the vegetable drawer and freezing there).

And just before the plumber arrived, as I was attempting to clean up the kitchen before he got there, my utensil drawer broke (actually it was the track to the drawer which broke.)

So the plumber was here for about an hour, and after fixing the drain informed us that the problem is roots in the line, which if we do not get taken care of, will mean that the drain will stop up again. Ball park estimate? $2,500.00. Luckily, he thinks that the fix he did today (which, thanks to our home warranty only cost $60) will hold until next spring. The kicker? We don't have any trees large enough to infiltrate our lines; it has to be one of our neighbor's trees.

Then of course, there was a flurry to get the fridge and freezer empty before the refrigerator guy got here. Stuff from the freezer at the bottom went into our chest freezer on the porch. Then ever surface and counter in the kitchen was covered with the stuff from the fridge. It didn't take him long to fix it--and it cost us $50.

Then we had to try and locate a new track for the drawer, so that the DH could try to fix it--that took most of the rest of the afternoon...

Also, has anyone else been having trouble with Photobucket? It's being all weird. When I go there a pop-up appears asking me if I want to take a "tour" of their new features. Before I can either click on it OR close it, the whole page turns kind of grey and the screen freezes.

I swiped this meme from pandemonium_213 last week. It took this long for my voice post to show up!

Upload/record the answers to the following questions. Some people used "vocaroo". I used LJ voice-post

1. Your name and/or username:

2. Where you're from: (As specific or as generalized as you wish, depending on your level of comfort)

3. The following words: aunt, roof, route, wash, oil, theater, iron, salmon, caramel, fire, water, sure, data, ruin, crayon, toilet, New Orleans, pecan, both, again, probably, spitting image, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, syrup, pajamas, caught, orange, coffee, direction, naturally, aluminum and herbs.

4. What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?

5. What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?

6. What do you call gym shoes?

7. What do you say to address a group of people?

8. What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?

9. What do you call your grandparents?

10. What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

11. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

12. What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Here are my answers:

I feel a huge sense of relief, like a great weight has been lifted off my back.

There was some coverage of the voting in OKC, as a reporter interviewed people at one of the local polling precincts. She stopped one lady (she looked like maybe in her mid-60s).

This lady said she did not know how to read and write, but with help, she had voted for the first time in her life! She said it was too important to vote this time to be proud.

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Poor Polymer!Frodo, I knew him well. I returned from my knitting circle tonight to discover he was assassinated. It appears to have been a conspiracy. Miss Belladonna Took threw him from his high place upon my desk and then, to make certain he was dead, Miss Sophie ate most of his head, leaving only a few dark curls as evidence...

I thought I had a picture of him, but cannot find it. However, he is the default icon for lotr_crafts if you want to see what he once looked like.

*sigh*

This is the first chance I got to upload our Halloween pics. I thought I'd try crossposting them from DW, and see how it works. I am having to use Rich Text, because I can't remember the DW code for a cut; also the pics are very big. Sorry!
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Vote here: http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/nominations/vote.jsp?pollId=120017&cid=161440

I keep seeing hints that LJ is making major changes in our flists. So what's that about? I can't seem to find anything out about it.