Throwback Thursday (127/365)

“Looks who's talking 'Denim Dan'! You look like the President and CEO of Levi-Strauss!”
Super Troopers, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2001

TIME: 1992
PLACE:  My cousin’s basement
SUBJECT:  HH and me

This was taken at a going-away party for my cousin, Kathleen, who was moving to Iowa to manage a Camelot Music store.
I am wearing what I believe is called a “Canadian Tuxedo”
My earrings were purchased by my mother at an estate sale…at the home of my late kindergarten teacher.  I called them my “Miss June” earrings.
HH is wearing a sweatshirt I bought him when I was in Houston Texas for two weeks auditing 2 credit unions.
You can’t see his legs because they are camouflaged.

Shedding (126/365)

“Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within”
― Bob Dylan

TIME: 6:58 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Blade

Blade shed (and ate!) his skin today.

Blades of Grass (125/365)

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
        Samuel Johnson—Mrs. Piozzi’s Anecdotes of Johnson. P. 100.

TIME: 6:10 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Ornamental grass

We’ve had some warmer weather lately, which has caused my ornamental grasses to really take off.

Bisected (124/365)

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
~Anaïs Nin

TIME: 7:28 PM
PLACE:  Parking lot
SUBJECT:  Sunset

As the sun was setting, it was bisected by a cloud.
It almost looks like there are two of them.

Four Pounds (123/365)

"Chocolate chip cookie important to me… It mean whole lot to me… Om nom nom nom."
—Cookie Monster

TIME:  9:33 PM
PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT:  Toll House semi-sweet morsels

Yes, that is a FOUR POUND BAG of chocolate chips.
(God bless Costco)
What do you do with such a giant bag?



You try to make a dent in it by baking cookies at 9:30 on a Sunday evening.

Rope (122/365)

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.
Tim Finn

TIME:  7:03 PM
PLACE: Front Porch
SUBJECT:  Rope

HH and MonkeyBoy removed the rotten treads from the front porch this afternoon.
The husband then stretched a rope across the top and bottom of the stairs to discourage anyone from taking any big, and more than likely, injurious steps off of the porch.

Platelet Collection (121/365)

“Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.”
~Osbert Sitwell

TIME: 6:20 PM
PLACE:  Pheresis Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
SUBJECT: Double Needle Platelet Collection

After a week of iron supplements…I qualified!
(13.7 baby!)
So they hooked me up.
My whole blood went into the pheresis machine.
Some platelets were removed.
Then my blood was returned to me.
This was repeated for about 70 minutes.
I had a little bit of tingling from the anticoagulant that was used, so I was given some Tums for calcium.
Other than that, it went smoothly.
I believe I will donate again.