http://crazybutable.com/zateraul Sat, 19 May 2012 14:59:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been working a lot in the gardens, MFH has been busy, and StrongBaby has reached the Age of Mischief. I made a laundry bag from yet another tablecloth. I usually don't like to cut up perfectly good vintage linens, but this one was rather garish and had barely been ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/05/19/long-week/ ...is featured on the Make: blog today. The amplifier is his Stella Amp design; with the addition of a few other things, it can be entirely powered by the sun. It has cute little LEDs that show when it is charging or fully charged. http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/05/07/mfhs-solar-powered-guitar-amplifier/ I've been hit hard by a combination of seasonal allergies and being sick this week. TLG has been teaching himself to sing, OLC has been practicing writing and a little Spanish, and StrongBaby has reached the dancing-on-the-coffee-table stage of babyhood. I've been reading off and on; just finished Thomas Sowell's Vision ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/05/04/sprung/ ...my children are much more interested in being read to. I've also been doing some sewing off and on: two tablecloth skirts done, two to go. More than a year ago I was given a better sewing machine than my crotchety old one, and I finally took the time ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/04/23/now-that-the-tv-has-died/ ...and everything is going my way." That is what keeps going through my head every time I see another commentary on Rosen's misstep into deep Mommy Wars doo-doo. (It is a paraphrased line from an upbeat song that was...um...not originally about babies.) I've been tweaking household routines since we ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/04/17/i-take-a-look-at-my-enormous-baby/ OLC and I did some quick experiments in painting on colored fabric with bleach yesterday. I wanted to try putting bleach into a dried-out marker for a homemade bleach pen. It worked, once the last of the ink was rinsed out, but it was drippy and tended to ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/04/12/midweek/ We've been busy, and are going to be busy for the next several weeks. And I'm so far behind on my Introvert Time that I feel mentally impaired. Ugh. http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/04/10/limping/ Let's build a new house. Let's build the new house out of the old house. Let's live in the old house until the new house is finished. --Remy Charlip, Arm in Arm Now that moving chores and tax season have begun to subside, I have been working (in my spare moments) on drafting an ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/04/04/economy-of-re-use/ A while back, I bought my very own copy of Lord, Please Meet Me in the Laundry Room: Heavenly Help for Earthly Moms, by Barbara Curtis (whose blog, Mommy Life, is one of my daily reads). I particularly like this quote from it: Somehow He made me understand that a mother ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/03/27/helpful-book/ After numerous and various excitements and adventures, we are settling in to the new place and enjoying it. (The phone company showed up two weeks late, so I've been living entirely offline until now.) The weather took a fast turn from snow to summer; I hope it backtracks a little ... http://crazybutable.com/zateraul/2012/03/18/settling-in/