Went for yearly checkup @ Womens' Center. All systems are clear. YAY!!
Had to wait *45* minutes to see the doctor!! Bored reading magazines, I looked around the room and made these findings: 8Black 8White women. Wearing sneakers 11, shoes 2, flipflops 1, gold flats 1, high-heeled boots 2, skirt 1, pants 11, dreads 4.
Walked up to Borders for celebratory Americano and carrot cake. Got Al Franken's book, "The Truth (with jokes)" for *$1.97*!!!!!! It's *hysterical*!!!!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
reading@Borders
awaiting#27
Waited *40 minutes* in Barren Hill for the bus. Traffic is tied up in Center City because of the traffic from the funeral of a slain police officer.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
looking down Parkwayway
After you run up the steps of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art, you do the Rocky thing and then
look down Philadelphia's Champs Elysee
toward City Hall.
tastefulsign
@ the Philadelphia Museum of Art early on Saturday morning for the Members Tasteful Talk & Tour.
Gee's Bend entrance
After a talk by Linda Day Clark who showed her photographs of Gee's Bend and the quilters and told of the history of Gee's Bend, we had an excellent lunch.
I was surprised and delighted to see Charlie Fuller (won Pulitzer for "A Soldier's Play")with whom I grew up and whom I hadn't seen for decades. We'll do better at keeping in touch.
background&map
Gee's Bend is a rural community located in Wilcox, Ala., an all but inaccessible patch of land created by a loop in the Alabama River. Prior to the Civil War, two families, the Gees and the Pettways, took advantage of the area's rich soil to grow cotton, using slave labor in the harvesting of crops.
After the war, and with emancipation, the Pettway slaves remained in Gee's Bend as tenant farmers. Though touched by world events-Gee's Bend was a beneficiary of the New Deal and a stop on Martin Luther King's 1965 march to Selma-the residents lived in relative isolation for five generations, developing their own patois, religion and music. It is with their quilt-making that the inhabitants of Gee's Bend-the women, really-have made an incomparable contribution to our common culture.
------from the New York Observer
Linda explains quilts
She was a fountain of information about the quilts and their quilters.
(My pictures are awful because we weren't allowed to use flash.)
black&red
New York magazine said "These strikingly beautiful quilts from an isolated Alabama town might just deserve a place among the great works of 20th-century abstract art."
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
cityhall mkt
Mayor Nutter wanted to make City Hall more
user-friendly. There is a farmers' market on
the NE corner of Dilworth (former mayor) Plaza on Wednesdays.
its.playtime
Practice my solving skills----ha! I can't get it right no matter how hard I try.
Figured to get help from last year's winner.
lori.tries2help
I'm hopeless! And a photog from the Inquirer
kept taking our picture. maybe I'll be in the
newspaper tomorrow!!
I'm a WHIZ @ crosswords, but the logical
thinking it takes to do Sudoku escapes me!
I even have trouble saying the name correctly:suduko,soduku. I dunno.
lori.tries2help
I'm hopeless! And a photog from the Inquirer
kept taking our picture. maybe I'll be in the
newspaper tomorrow!!
I'm a WHIZ @ crosswords, but the logical
thinking it takes to do Sudoku escapes me!
I even have trouble saying the name correctly:suduko,soduku. I dunno.
last.scene
Last scene? Was he an actor like Lassie???
Out doing errands. Stopped in $ store & got a Sudoku book. Going to a demo/minitournament tomorrow so I'd better learn to do it.
suzuki2
Lovely last day of summer. Walking to the gym to train with Sue, I spied this great cycle! Gotta meet the person who owns *this*!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Benefit for Haiti
The Temple Dental students go to Haiti every year to treat peple. Saturday night they had a benefit @ the Clubhouse.
PreparingforMonday
Friday@ supermarket yesterday doing monthly marketing when I noticed these E-A-G-L-E-S cookies. Had to buy some to take on Monday when we play the stinkin' cowboys. If the weather's nice, there'll be a movie screen on the pool deck! Kewl!!
Going out tonight to a benefit for Haiti given by Temple Dental students.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
school.supplies
n Baltimore last week, Sis's church distributed 200 schoolsupplyfilled back packs to needy children.
(My BIL drew the pictures and designed the tee.)
doinmyduty
And it almost did me in!!
Sitting for almost 6 hours on hard benches and chairs in three different rooms.
Waiting............until they finally sent me home.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
The perfect day
Home alone.
Homemade BLT with extra T.
No distractions/questions during the E-A-G-L-E-S game.
E-A-G-L-E-S win 38-3.
Donovan is Donovan again!
All praises!!
awaitinghanna
Saturday:Turned over chairs and moved back plants. Lots of rain, lots, but very minimal winds. Good for me because I had to catch up on yesterday's newspapers and read today's as I was out all day yesterday.
Thank you Hanna for being a bust.
perfectangels
Up waaaay to early on Friday for doctor's appointment. Up waaaay to early *and* fasting because I had to get blood work done.
After my appointment and then Mom's, we all went to the mall for breakfast. You know I can't pass up a photo booth! Forced Mom & Sis to come in too. Scary angels!!
Friday, September 05, 2008
twosidedtee
Got this 2-sided tee from the street vendor today. He only charged me $10 because I send him so many customers.
2sidedtee
Got this 2-sided tee from the street vendor today. He only charged me $10 because I send him so many customers.
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