The cost of George Bush's war

Reposted from Judy Dunn's website.

"... I finally made a video I had been planning for about two weeks. As I told everyone at the retreat on Saturday night, I had folded a crane to represent Bobby a few days prior to the retreat. I never knew Bobby personally, but his story played an important role in shifting how I looked at my cranes, and what they could represent. Once again, the production is far from perfect, but I think it conveys his story, and why I feel compelled to take on this major project. I have titled the video Bobby's Crane. I struggled with my video editing software yesterday, so the title is not on the video itself. Things I could do the last time I made a video suddenly seemed impossible! But the message comes through. Hope you like it."

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July 4th tripity, trip! Food, fun and folks!

This was our annual July 4th lobster pot! Sunday we gorged ourselves on Lobster, corn on the cob, and fresh strawberry pie ala mode! YUM!!! We had Mom down and our friend "D" came over and ate with us too.

"P" house and puppy sat for us while we went to Peaks Island Thursday afternoon, stayed over one night and then back home.

She REALLY helped with painting the double living rooms downstairs! More pictures of that coming soon!

Last fall we went to a benefit (for George Carman who suffers from cystic fibrosis) motorcycle ride and pork roast. I won a gift certificate for a nights stay and a dinner voucher at the Inn on Peaks Island.

It was simply wonderful!! Gorgeous weather, beautiful views, delicious food, yummy drinks, fantastic company (smooooooch -----> sweet meat) super comfy king size bed, pristine room with a luxurious jet tub - simple divine!!!


This is The Inn on Peaks Island, where we stayed on the third. GORGEOUS!!


Arriving on the island.


Nancy and I on our private deck.


The king size bed!


The view from the couch.


Heading back down to the dock Friday morning.


Us waiting on the ferry.


The ferry we rode over and back.

A video on the ferry back to Portland.

Some of Augusta's fireworks. Taken with my new phone, a Samsung Slider.

More fireworks, even more pics and videos HERE.


Hope you all had a WONDERFUL holiday!

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Blast from the past!

Didn't work on anything upstairs today at all! Went up to Mom's and we went to the cemetery. Then we had lunch and I came home and prepped the desktop 'puter for the yard sale this Saturday.

I found lots of fun files on it! Including these two VERY fun videos from our southwest trip a couple years ago!




A link to the video



A link to the video

Motorcycle ride - not for slow dial up connections!

Isn't the price of gas !!!????



Until my shoulder heals up some more I am relegated to the "b*tch seat" on Nancy's bike - Bella, an 1100 Yamaha V-Star.





I am wearing my new Skid-Lid, half helmet with a loverly purple rose on each side! Aren't you jealous!? You should be!! HA!






Here's a couple of little videos I shot while riding along RT. 196 from Topsham to Lisbon Falls. That's our freind "D" riding lead.

Link to first video.

Link to second video.

And a google map -

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Moxie only costs .99 at this little corner store in Lisbon Falls! *G*

We had a WONDERFUL ride!! It was warm, sunny, and there were luscious flower scents all along the way! We a GREAT ride!

Cactii, sun and far away places *sigh*

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Originally uploaded by connie_clays

Just a quick little eye candy of the Phoenix landscape. This was taken a couple years ago at the desert museum.

Nancy and her favorite kind of cactus.

BTW? It's 64°F, and damp here at home today. BRRRR! Supposed to be in the 90°'s by Sunday!

Crazy freakin' weather!!

On a different note, I worked on the trim in the dressing room for a short time yesterday afternoon.

Today I had an appointment with my surgeon and he essentially let me out of the noose (sling). He threw away the pillow part and said I had to wear the sling part only when in public or doing things that I shouldn't be using my arm for - to remind me to NOT use it! *smile*

I'm a wee bit achy today because of the dampness and I've decided to putz around this afternoon, I did dishes, took the dogs out - many times, finished stringing a couple necklaces, took a few pictures, dragged a basket of clothes downstairs and did a load of laundry, but Nancy'll have to bring them up and hang them out.

Tomorrow is groceries in the AM and then a trip out to the motorcycle place in Lewiston for a new half helmet for me.

Weekend

Yesterday I went to work again. I worked from noon 'til four. It was good. Good to get out of the house other than errand running or going up to Mom's. I was tired out after getting home last night!! I'm vastly overestimating how quickly my shoulder is healing. Don't misunderstand... it's healing wonderfully and my physical therapist, Dana, say that it's leaps and bounds ahead of my right shoulder, which was repaired by the same surgeon last summer. I'm being impatient. Because it's doing so well I want it to be better, completely. NOW! Dammit!! I'm tired of being in a sling, I'm tired of being severely limited as to what I can do. I'm tired of it hurting. I'm just impatient.

I'd put some turkey cutlets in the crock pot yesterday morning along with some crushed Italian tomatoes and paste and some Italian veggies and mushrooms. What makes them Italian veggies as opposed to... say French veggies I'll never understand. *G* It was delicious when I got home and we ate. I LOVE no fuss yummy meals!

While I was gone, Nancy worked some more upstairs... details. DETAILS! The old saying "The devil is in the details" makes perfect sense to me. These rooms are taking much longer than we'd anticipated. She scraped and primed the crown molding in the bedroom and touched up ceiling spots in both rooms.

This morning after leisurely cups of coffee and home made banana walnut muffins on the front porch, we went upstairs and worked a bit more. She painted out the crown molding in the trim color while I finished caulking and trimming out the two windows. She then moved into the dressing room and scraped and taped the crown molding in there. I also vacuumed up all the loose paint chips from the painted floor and we realized that it was chipping. Easily. Ak! So, that will get another coat of paint and then a final coat of satin finish polyurethane. Hopefully that will stop the chipping.

This afternoon we are being deck dogs again. It rained yesterday and today it's a mix of clouds and sun, but nice and warm... so here we sit, me putzing on the laptop and her doing her Sudoko and reading her book. The dogs are lazing in the sun too!

Tomorrow is back to reality. Nancy goes back to work and I have a big day with Mom. It's our monthly go-to-lunch-with-the-the-low-vision-group and then I'll do her groceries.

On Tuesday I'll get back to trimming out the dressing room.

Connie

~ Life's too short to use cheap beads! ~

Nancy, Dilly and Nero

Daddi, Dilly and Nero
Originally uploaded by connie_clays

Now, doesn't this look like an idyllic scene??

We spent Sunday afternoon being deck dogs. It was wonderful!

Offensive?? I think not!!

Yesterdays post was NOT my norm. I'm not very political, although I do follow what affects me. This blog is for me, a place where I can talk about me, my loving partner, our home, our beloved pets and of course my main focus is my art work. It seems every time I stray from my regular focus and comment on something political, as I did yesterday, that's the day that someone comes to my blog, for the first time, looking for polymer clay work or jewelry, they see that political (usually about my Lesbianism) post and wham! They are so offended that they find it necessary to shoot me an email telling me what a terrible person I am for throwing my sexuality in their face! They (innocently) are looking for artwork and they happen across my "offensive post!" Sheesh! Get a grip people! Talking about my basic rights as a human being having been denied me is NOT offensive. Talking about what my (yes, female) partner did to help me whilst I was having shoulder surgery is NOT offensive! I read other artistic blogs all the time and they always post about their family life and various things that affect them. Do I find that offensive?? Nope. And if I did, I'd simply mark it as "read" in my reader and go on about my day! We all have things in our lives and beliefs that not everyone is going to agree upon! Just let it be and don't bash someone because they do or believe in something that you don't!

*shaking head*

So, without further political ado.... here's some shots of the flowers and yard I took the other day!

Ah spring!

Here's Dilly underneath the flowering tree in our back yard. It always puts on a glorious show in the spring! It smells nice too! Anyone know what kind of tree it is?

Dilly and the lilac...

Lilac close up.

My tomatoes, jalepeno peppers, basil and chive plants.

A flowering bush out front, I believe it's some kind of holly.

Our house plants live on the front porch all summer, the aloe has seen better days, seems every time it gets to looking good the dog knocks it over and breaks a bunch of leaves! The orangy-red begonia was sent to me by a dear woman I know when I had my shoulder surgery. It's quite lovely!

And our front porch...

ooops!

Better not look at that last foto, it has a rainbow flag (gay pride) hanging there in your face!

*removing tongue from cheek!*

Have a GREAT weekend everyone!!!

Connie

~ Life's too short to use cheap beads! ~

New Pictures

Well, this afternoon I plan on bringing all my finished salable items out onto the loverly, warm and sunny back deck (of Ice Out fame). Then I'll take brand new pictures of them all with the new camera we got for Xmas, I've been diligently working on getting better and better at taking pictures with it! I'll soon be in the process of resetting my Etsy store and my PayPal store (in the sidebar) and setting up my new eCrater store, which happens to be powered by Google!

So... yay for bright sunny days!

Connie

~ Life's too short to use cheap beads! ~

And the winner is......

This what was left as of 12:01PM yesterday. 4/20/2008

Rebeccah is the winner!!! YAY!! Congrats to her and thanks to EVERYONE who participated and offered extra cash to go the Maine Autism Society!

I'll be making the final donation later in the week.

Again, thanks so much to everyone!

Connie & Nancy

www.flickr.com connie_clays' Ice Out on the Pinette/Pelkey back deck! photoset

Warmth, dogs and Frisbee's!

Nero is OBSESSED with the Frisbee!! Now that the weather is warm enough for us to be outside more than 2 minutes without freezing our ass's off we toss it up into the yard for him and he will literally run and catch it endlessly!

Spring warmth - good for the soul!

*happy sigh*

Connie

~ Life's too short to use cheap beads! ~