neigh whinny whinny buzz buzz buzz buzz

total eclipse of the heart - from many pieces into one

gotta find a backing!!!

mistaken identity

Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero

when this picture showed up on my phone, my first thought was that NoJo had shaved his beard and cut his hair...

brown eyes ... dark brown hair ... tattoos ... little  daughter ... mid twenties... 

yes, at first glance

i mistook this young man for my grandson...

he is not NoJo 

 he is Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero

and he is dead 

he was a documented, legal immigrant from Columbia, a taxpaying father and husband who had not committed anydamncrime other than driving while brown ... and he was murdered in cold blood by United States government agents because of the color of his skin - shot through the window of his car - his limp, bullet-riddled body dragged out of the car, thrown face down and handcuffed...

an eye witness said that his last words were, "I tried to stop."

his blood is still staining the pavement where he died.

he isn't the man they were looking for ... a case of mistaken identity ... public safety ... if you comply you will not die ... a full investigation will be conducted ... worst of the worst ... blah blah blah ... lie lie lie ... if you believe anydamnthing the current regime says, knowing that they are lying liars who lie, then you are a moron.

his wife and his little daughter are grieving and i grieve with them

he could be my grandson...

berry harvest

The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

little rebel

 on or about july 4, my country's independence declaration will be 250 years old 

there are a LOT of new cross stitch charts commemorating the semiquincentennial - i chose this one...

to celebrate the WOMEN rebels

who never seem to receive recognition for our struggle for freedom and for equal rights

dunno when there will be a start on this one - hopefully before the Constitution's semiquincentennial

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

deflecting pool

found a brand new recipe for a brand new drink invented to commemorate the recent "renovation" of the water mirror between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial...

bright green sludge and blue rubbery chunks - sounds like a concept of a plan

 let's have a party...

and, suddenly, no one is talking about Thing One's Epstein Fury (aka the war with Iran) surrender or his Kennedy Center vandalism or his destruction of the East Wing or his pardons for insurrectionists and his slush fund to pay them off or the affordability crisis or ICE's atrocities and murders or the genocides in the Middle East and Eastern Europe or the illegal bombings of small boats that may or may not be drug-running in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific or the Epstein files or the hundreds of thousands of people who have died from starvation or preventable diseases due to the current regime's destruction of USAID or the attacks on voting rights and due process or his blatant corruption or...

the deflecting is something to reflect on, innit?!?

the neighs have it

 so ... i fell for another panel

this particular one has a lotta personal meaning for me and i bought it with only a bitty bit of a plan - the phases of the moon, a lunar eclipse 

and two stars cuz you can't have a second star to the right without at least two stars...

even without two stars in the top border this layout is ... wrong

better ... but still not right

i'm thinking ... i'm thinking ... i'm thinking 

fireflies? yes, fireflies...

the phases are upside down, but it's getting there...

Adventure Is Out There by Liz Braswell

 

new signs from june 14, 2026

misbehavin' on a sunny sunday...

dip$hitiot...

flippety dippity

in the meantime - this is what's left of the White House... elect a clown ... expect a circus

seems the birthday boy wanted a circus/mixed martial arts themed party this year for his big day ... guess the squeaky little tank from last year's birthday parade wasn't enough for bitty-baby-boy's ego

and this is how he's reacted to being forced by the courts to remove his name from the Kennedy Center...proof positive he is in fact, a drape-ist

unbefreakinglievable...

 Somewhere, Caligula is looking up from Hell and muttering, “That’s a little much, fat boy.” 

  Rick Wilson

aimin' to misbehave

 the Serenity stitching tin needed a little sumpin' to hold bits of floss from stitching...

so i found the pattern for snippets 

and a fat quarter of pink fireflies in the stash 

 then ordered little glow-in-the-dark firefly charms

 and made this...

now it's time to misbehave 

Retribution by Trevor Reed with Jim DeFelice

 

you've got mail

 my phone knock knock knocks when there's a new text message ... sometimes (most of the time) i don't hear it and it can be a while (a long, long while) before i realize there are words or pictures waiting for me to notice the little flashing blue light...

i dunno how long this message has been waiting for me...

SOMEone who shall remain anonymous but whose initials are Melissa mustabeen hungry,  huh?

 i know Oscar, but i don't remember meeting Evan before...

hmmm...

bacon (meat's gateway to ending veganism or vegetarianism) and maple bourbon?!?

i'd give it a little taste* 

just sayin'

*we DID give it a try - it was okay ... was it worth two more dollars per pound than center cut bacon?

no, no it was not...

Coup de Grâce by Una McCormack

all together now...

working with this guy was a pleasure, lemmtellya...

choose wonder...

plant mom

   Melissa was looking for a way to give new (to her) perennials a way to make it through the drought 

she decided to plant them in pink buckets so they can be moved around till she finds the best place for them 

this one is a bleeding heart cuz she's a bleeding heart conservative resistance fighter

her watering system is upside down water bottles with drip caps

every morning all five-foot-nuthin of her totes around recycled plastic jugs of gallon after gallon of water and fills those little bottles 

 speaks words of encouragement to the Green Nation 

and promises to do whatever needs doing to help them thrive...

they love her back and gave her this garden flag for Mothers Day...

because

 though she be but little, she is fierce

William Shakespeare 

the math ain't mathing

 we were hunting and gathering today and drove past the gas station on our way to drive through tacos/burritos/chalupas... 

this picture was taken exactly seven minutes later...

in seven freaking minutes the price of a gallon of gas went up 24 cents 

this station is located at the same corner where we stand with our resistance signs on sundays 

as cultists drive by

rolling coal and flipping the bird

whilst shouting 

Thing One! Thing One! Thing One! 

and 

You're Stupid Effing Idiot Libtards! 

out their windows...

just sayin'

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

thoughts and prayers

putting my needle where my mouth is...

please

heal the sick ... comfort the dying ... soothe our souls 

stitched for the daughter formerly known as Mrs. Moth during her treatment for breast cancer

signs from may 10, 2026

sea shells

once upon a time i believed we had a federal  law enforcement agency that was committed to protecting the american people 

now we have this...

are we great yet?

asking for a friend...

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

no snow and no snow and no snow

for months and months 

the drought hit the extreme level (it could be worse - it could be exceptional) 

and the Green Nation was tricked into thinking it was safe to leaf out six weeks early 

and DID - lots  of leaves - like it was almost summer

and THEN

 it snowed 8.2 inches in twelve hours - heavy wet stuff that landed on all those thirsty, unsuspecting leaves...

this - times all the trees in the neighborhood  who thought it  was okay to come out of dormancy - is what happens when the Green Nation is totally confused by the climate change "hoax" 

and we're still in the extreme level of drought 

just sayin' 

sign from may 3, 2026

 this was the only "new" sign on our corner this weekend 

quack quack quack

 looks like a duck

waddles like like a duck

quacks like a duck

 has a frog on its little yellow duck head?

 must be a RESISTANCE duck

  getting its ducks in a row 

 for tomorrow's message to the Trump/Putin/Epstein/Musk/Bezos/Ellison/Thiel/Zuckerberg/Billionaires class of democracy killers

May Day Strong

https://maydaystrong.org/

cuz we still have a voice

 and

 we're louder together

just sayin'

When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén

 

Ranger's Apprentice Ambush at Sorato by John Flanagan

 

here there be ... thimbles

this was supposed to be Melissa's half birthday present...

but there's always a but i didn't wait till june - the easter bunny gave it to her with a box of Dr. Pepper Peeps on Easter Sunday

she is thinking that it would look waaaay cool with a border of celtic knots 

and i think that those celtic knots should be turquoise and lime green

so out came the stash's greens and blues

and the rather large stacks were winnowed down to these 

that leafy green and blue with a bit of yellow - the one under the top three - didn't want anything to do with the dragon

it whispered insistently that it wanted to be with the thimbles 

so it is

the pink fossil ferns was determined, too,  and now the thimbles are in one piece

  i knew there were that'll-do-pig fabrics hiding in the stash 

and i think it's gonna be okay 

next - gotta find fabrics in the stash for backing and binding 

signs from april 19, 2026

 

(post-friday's market manipulation)

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher