Scrappers Gallery Zanesville and small businesses in general
Scrappers Gallery, the locally-owned store where love to crop with friends, has opened a sister store in Zanesville, Ohio! My friends Mary-Jo and Jen spent several hours at the store on Saturday, enjoying the grand opening celebration. Mary-Jo and I played with our respective projects while Jen just hung out with us and talked. We [...]
Avon Calling
Our local Cheapcycle group has the usual assortment of stuff for sale, with the occasional post for services for things like babysitting or housecleaning. Today I read an ad that caught my interest, and I want to share it with my readers. Wanted: Online Customers for my 13 Year Old Daughter’s Business I signed up [...]
Camping: Day 1
12:16pm, Sunday 9/14 We are in Bardstown right now and the wind is buffeting our van like crazy. Power was out in the first section of town we went through. On the Bluegrass Parkway, Howie had a white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel and we were constantly swaying in the strong gusts of wind. It [...]
Hacked, but back
Twice in the last few weeks, my site’s been hacked. Whoever did it used it to send spam out, which resulted in my website being suspended. Talk about a rude awakening…It stinks to go to your website only to find a big banner going across it reading something to the effect of “This account has [...]
Googly eyes gardener
As both a gardener and a fan of Christopher Walken, this Saturday Night Live skit makes me laugh. Though it was pretty obvious during the whole episode that he was reading from teleprompters, it’s still pretty funny. “Ferns don’t have pricklers like cactuses, but what if they all ganged up on you, tried to choke [...]
Bada bing bada BOOM
Wednesday night found us listening to the snaps and booms of firecrackers in our neighborhood. Around 11:00pm, we heard a succession of loud booms. We assumed someone had put some big firecrackers in a trash can, for these explosions had that kind of muffled sound. Seconds later, however, our power flickered and went off. It [...]
Sharps
No, not Miller Beer’s Sharp’s non-alcoholic “beer” beverage. Sharps as in biohazard sharps. Anyone who’s worked in a hospital or other medical facility is well aware of these disposal receptacles. What’s odd is, I took this picture in the public restroom at our local public library. I know it’s probably there as a courtesy to [...]
