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Monday, April 7, 2025

A DAY OF BIRD SONG; Coalinga-CA

We didn't pack up and leave this morning as planned, because Holland had been sick all night long: don't know what could have set that off, but there was no way he could have hooked Independence up to Betsy and aimed them down the highway.

So, we decided to stay another night.

We also discussed the possibility of coming back down here, at some point. It's a nice place to enjoy a vaca hiatus 🌞

Around 1 PM, or so, we thought we'd go for a short drive and check out the landscape (in case we do meander down here, again). Coalinga-CA is an agriculture area - and birds are everywhere 😊; filling the daylight hours with 🎶 … and even taking to the streets 😉

Downtown Coalinga-CA from the Almond Tree Oasis RV Park-CA; 14 min (11.3 mi) via I-5BL
Raven seen in Coalinga-CA, this morning; an insurance company mascot.

Almond tree orchards are everywhere - hence the name, 'Almond Tree Oasis RV Park', where we are currently.

Coalinga-CA is quite a bit larger than we had thought - it's roughly the same in scope, and size, as Centralia-WA. If we do come down here again, we will not have to drive to Hanford-CA to grocery shop, as there are several good sized markets in Coalinga … as well as fast food places, gas stations, medical facilities, ect. The place really did remind both of us of Centralia-WA

It was a nice, sunny, countryside 30-minute loop drive into [downtown] and back 😁

When we got back, I checked FB & my Blog: there were no messages on FB - but I did have traffic on my Blog … and I noticed that one of my own designs had been featured in the past week's postings:

MOD Tall Grass & Beach Daisies Kitchen Towel Set was featured on one of the Blog Hops I share with ;-)

And following a link that was in my newsfeed, I was gratified to note that {"approximately 50 nations have already reached out to the White House to try to make some kind of deal, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday. Tariffs are scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday" …}.

Tariff results; they are working for American interests.

Americans have waited a loooong time to get our Nation back out of the world's greedy grasp, funded and encouraged by the demon rat party trafficking their anti-American agendas out of DC congressional seats: thankfully that dastardly nonsense is ending 👏🙏

And the hypocritical, godless, violence-inciting obamanites are continuing their ridiculous "hate trump-bad man" mantras and "destroy tesla!" violence - tone-deaf and realistically blind to what Americans WANT and DEMANDED with the landslide Trump WIN for president in the fall of 2024.

The obama worshipping demonrats in DC vociferously welcomed barak hussein obama as messiah (a title obama himself has NEVER denounced or decried) following his 8-year political coup, resulting in the embracing of every evil thought, action, and spoken word - that finally ended with his useful tool, dementia poster boy slo-jo biden's 2021 basement coup; funded and supported by the obamanites.

Because the obamanites are fueled with blatant hatred, evil intent at and on every level of humanity, and trying to outdistance themselves from the guilt that weighs heavily on what little gray matter they still have … they have lost their humor and cannot understand President Trump's wit when he uses their own nonsense against them.

Trump does not want to be king - but, he is not above getting a laugh out of the lunatic lefties who go into melt-down-mode when it comes to anything he does: basically at this point, to irritate the hell out of them 😂🤣

It was a sarcastic JOKE - but, of course the obamanites that literally crowned obama, have no sense of humor - and they will accept no king other than their kenyan man-god, barak hussein obama - to whom they have pledged life-long obedience, obligation, and servitude.

They all went miraculously after him, his wife, his children - spewing the most vile accusations, and insinuations, as well as rifling his wife's underwear drawer, shouting that she should be raped - and his son kidnapped and murdered. These people are truly lunatics. And none of them should hold seats of power in any American position. Their souls belong to obama - and their actions favor terrorism 🤬

On a lighter note, despite the way the day started - it has been a low-key day that started & ended with bird song 👂

7 PM bird song serenade ;-)

STUFF; Coalinga-CA


The TRUTH is, that all of the “STUFF” here on earth we work SO hard to buy and accumulate, does NOT mean a thing.

At the end of the day...people will be cleaning out our "STUFF", going thru our "STUFF", figuring out what to do with all of our "STUFF"... this "STUFF" we've accumulated in our life.


The only thing of VALUE that remains are the MEMORIES and what we deposit into others.

Mark Chesnutt - "Live a Little" song: 
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9Uq7W1094)

"You've got to give a little, take a little
Sit a spell, learn to whittle
Live a little now and then

Unwind, take your time, leave your cares all behind
And see what's around the bend

This life ain't coming 'round again

So give a little, take a little 
Live a little now and then …

In a hurry-late for work-Rush and worry
but what's it worth
You might earn a rich man's pay
But it won't buy you one more day

You've got to give a little, take a little
Sit a spell, learn to whittle
Live a little now and then

Unwind, take your time, leave your cares all behind
And see what's around the bend

This life ain't coming 'round again
So give a little, take a little

Live a little now and then:

Busy making your weight in gold
But you can't take it when you go
Don't care how high you build your stack
They don't make a hearse with a luggage rack

You've got to give a little, take a little
Sit a spell, learn to whittle

Live a little now and then

This life ain't coming 'round again;

So lean back, chew the fat
Take a day just to peddle
Live a little now and then"


May we all learn to spend less time accumulating "STUFF" and spend way more time making MEMORIES.

Living our Dream as Road Gypsies; Spring 2023

DENNIS THE MENACE DIED~2025

Jay North, ‘Dennis the Menace’ Star, Dies at 73: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jay-north-dead-dennis-the-menace-1236182969/

R.I.P. Dennis 🙁 - you were a menace, that's for sure … but you were a lovable little imp.

Dennis was the epitome of everything that embraces boyhood.

I still, to this day, chuckle at the sight of a mischievous little boy's antics, and think, "those poor parents; they have a Dennis the menace on their hands." 😉

Dennis was not a brat - but he was troublesome 😂🤣 to his parents and neighbor, due to his curiosities and the actions that followed his piqued interests.

I'm glad I never had a boy child, because I am SURE in my wildest nightmares, that IF I had had a boy child, he would have been the exact mimic of Dennis the Menace ❤️

BEACH HOUSE KITCHEN TOWEL SET; Quartzsite-AZ

MOD Beach House Kitchen Towel Set, finished.

Preparing for our upcoming beachy vagabond life, I knew I wanted beach themed kitchen towel sets ... so, when I saw this cotton yarn skein named 'Beach House', I bought it and designed a simple towel with an edged hemline using a pattern I haven't used in the past.

It fit: and the set came together very well 😁

This pattern may look difficult, but it is really pretty simple & easy to work.

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Materials: Cotton Yarn in White (1 skein), Blue (maybe an ounce), & Beach House variegated (1 skein); #10-1/2 knitting needles; #J/10 crochet hook; 1 Cable Needle; 1 Tapestry Needle; 1 medium resin button

Cable Needle


Terms used:

g st = knit every row

st. st. = stockinette stitch (1 K row = RS - 1 P row = WS)

k = knit

p = purl

sp = space

EO = end off yarn

CO = cast on stitches

EA = each

inc = increase 1 st (make 2 sts in same st)

dec = decrease 1 st (work 2 sts together)

sc = single crochet

dc = double crochet

sl st = slip stitch

rpt = repeat

tog = together


With White, CO 73 sts & work 4 rows in g. st.

Row 1: K 7 - *sl 1 st purlwise, k 4, sl st 1 purlwise, K 1* twice; k 31 middle sts; *k 1, sl 1 st purlwise, k 4, sl 1 st purlwise* twice: end with k 7.

Row 2: Purl, and slip the sl sts of previous row.

Row 3: K 7 - *put sl st onto a cable needle & hold in front of work, k2, k st from cable needle - put next 2 sts onto the cable needle & hold in back of work, k 1, k 2 from cable needle, k 1* twice; knit 31 middle sts; *k 1, put sl st on a cable needle & hold in front of work, k 2, k st from cable needle - put next 2 sts onto the cable needle & hold in back of work, k 1, k 2 from cable needle, k 1* twice: end with k 6.

Row 4: Purl across row.

Rows 5 thru 9: Repeat rows 1 -4; drop White and attach Blue.

Rows 10 thru 13: Repeat rows 1 - 4; drop Blue and attach White.

Row 14 thru 21: Repeat rows 1 - 4; drop White and attach Beach House variegated.

Rows 22 thru 61: Work these rows in st. st.; DO NOT CUT YARN.

Row 62: Continuing with variegated yarn, decrease across row as follows: P 2 – P 3 tog across row to last 2 sts: end P 2 sts.

Change from knitting needles to crochet hook and work in sc as follows: dec 1 st EA end until 8 sts remain; EO Beach House and attach Blue.

Alternately work 1 row sc & 1 row dc, for 13 rows.

Sl st x3 sc; ch 6 and sl st in same sp; sl st to end. Turn.

Dc x12 in chain loop; EO.

Add a decorative loop edging of your choice (or leave plain).

Sew button in place and weave in loose ends.


MOD GARTER ST SQUARE DISHRAG:

MOD Matching Dishrag.

Cast on 2 stitches.

Row 1: Knit 1-Inc 1 st in next st.

Row 2: Knit 1-Inc-knit across the row.

Row 3: Knit 2-Inc-knit across row.

Row 4: Repeat Row 3 until you have 50 stitches on the needle.

Row 5: Knit 1, Knit 2 together, knit to the end of the row. Repeat Row 5 until you have 3 stitches left on the needle; K 3 sts tog - EO off and weave in loose ends.