Fore-armed : by Granville Roland Fortescue
2025-Dec-23, Tuesday 05:26 amLanguage: English
Huize "Canneheuvel" : by Marie Ovink-Soer
2025-Dec-23, Tuesday 05:26 amLanguage: Dutch
Organizing
2025-Dec-22, Monday 07:38 pmNow that I'm on vacation again, I'm getting back to organizing. I have two cube drawer things that I'm emptying and replacing with a little desk that I bought at IKEA today. The costumes that were in them are in a bin under the bathroom counter--a place meant for a vanity but I used for the cat box until I cleared out the shower closet last summer--and the fabric is going to go into the built in linen closet that seems to un-organize itself every time I clean it.
Slowly I'm making it so I don't have too much stuff. I don't count costumes yet. Maybe I'll get the energy to deal with those after everything else! For now, they're neatly in drawers or bins.
Slowly I'm making it so I don't have too much stuff. I don't count costumes yet. Maybe I'll get the energy to deal with those after everything else! For now, they're neatly in drawers or bins.
DANG that was a lot of work [vaguebooking, projects]
2025-Dec-22, Monday 07:51 pmAll I can say is that I really hope ya'll like your Christmasolstihanukkawanzaa gift! It is going to be given in stages, snail-mail stages first.
Whew.
Anyway.
Today I am also FULL OF RELIEF because I managed to secure excellent cat-sitters for George and Martha! They are two of my animal care student workers, so I already know they know how to take very good care of animals.
Now, time to sleep.
Whew.
Anyway.
Today I am also FULL OF RELIEF because I managed to secure excellent cat-sitters for George and Martha! They are two of my animal care student workers, so I already know they know how to take very good care of animals.
Now, time to sleep.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 73: Apocalypse
2025-Dec-22, Monday 11:42 pmLanguage: English
Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass by Christopher Whall
2025-Dec-22, Monday 11:42 pmLanguage: English
Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear by Harry Perry Robinson
2025-Dec-22, Monday 11:42 pmLanguage: English
Keepers of the house by Lester Del Rey
2025-Dec-22, Monday 11:42 pmLanguage: English
Bessie and the squirrels by Madeline Leslie
2025-Dec-22, Monday 11:42 pmLanguage: English
Gian Gabriele Borkman by Henrik Ibsen
2025-Dec-22, Monday 11:42 pmLanguage: Italian
Midsummer at Hay-Lodge by Ruth Lamb
2025-Dec-22, Monday 11:42 pmLanguage: English
Monday Word: Ignavia
2025-Dec-22, Monday 05:56 pmignavia /iɲˈɲa.vja/
noun
1. the sin of sloth or idleness or moral cowardice.
examples
1. Every honest man will admit that a violent effort is necessary to shake off ignavia critica critical laziness, that so widespread form of intellectual cowardice; that this effort must be constantly repeated, and that it is often accompanied by real suffering. ON BELIEVING WHAT WE’RE TOLD. 21 Dec 2004
2. The pity that proves so possible and plentiful without that basis, is mere ignavia and cowardly effeminacy; maudlin laxity of heart, grounded on blinkard dimness of head -- contemptible as a drunkard's tears. Latter-Day Pamphlets. Thomas Carlyle. 1838
origin
Latin
The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Canto 18: The multitude of the slothful - Illustration by Gustave Dore

noun
1. the sin of sloth or idleness or moral cowardice.
examples
1. Every honest man will admit that a violent effort is necessary to shake off ignavia critica critical laziness, that so widespread form of intellectual cowardice; that this effort must be constantly repeated, and that it is often accompanied by real suffering. ON BELIEVING WHAT WE’RE TOLD. 21 Dec 2004
2. The pity that proves so possible and plentiful without that basis, is mere ignavia and cowardly effeminacy; maudlin laxity of heart, grounded on blinkard dimness of head -- contemptible as a drunkard's tears. Latter-Day Pamphlets. Thomas Carlyle. 1838
origin
Latin
The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Canto 18: The multitude of the slothful - Illustration by Gustave Dore

Check-In Post - Dec 22nd 2025
2025-Dec-22, Monday 07:03 pmHello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.
Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?
There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.
This Week's Question: Does anyone have any plans for making Christmas gifts or cards?
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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!
De Saint-Louis à Tripoli par le Lac Tchad : by P.-L. Monteil
2025-Dec-22, Monday 05:56 pmLanguage: French
Ask a Manager, Update: "is this guy harassing me or just annoying?
2025-Dec-22, Monday 09:06 am( Read more... )