This posting contains spoilers for Infinity War.
This posting contains spoilers for Infinity War.
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Coming home and finding your house a smouldering wreckage, burned down to the foundation – that’s not what happened to me. For some reason, though, I dread it; it’s why I have a whole mental check-list I run through before I depart and arrive, walking down the list of systems that need to be turned off (or on) when I am home or away.
I landed at Washington, Dulles around 8:00pm last night and hit the road for the 3hr drive back up to the farm. So (allowing for bathroom and drink breaks) I got home around midnight, roared into the dark and dust called “my driveway” and up to the house, to be greeted by this:
Although, if I understand it correctly, it’s a monument to autocracy: “everyone stop fighting because if you keep it up you’ll die.” It’s not the best argument for peaceful resolution of political division but I guess it works.
I thought I’d make a bunch of soap busts to mail out along with the chocolate donuts and cookie-soaps that I just made. But, I managed to get a problem known as “soap seize.”
The last run of mokume was nearly a disaster. This time, it was nearly a cakewalk. For me, that’s the fun of doing crafts: figuring them out and getting better and understanding them more. And not hurting myself.
Over at Affinity, voyager posted a thread of famous graves in Russia. [affinity] These are not my photos.
This is some of the best soap ever. Those of you that I am sending refrigerator magnets to will probably also get soap as well. Be forewarned, if you are allergic to cocoa or coffee you don’t want to use this soap. But, here is a recipe and walkthrough.
Instead of a laborious and depressing sunday sermon I may just make soap today.
[I apologize for not being able to locate the comment that originally led me to this news.] Some ancient Japanese swords were found where they were hidden in 760AD.
