Dragon Con 2008

Well, the kids had about the best time ever at Dragon Con, the girls got to meet their heroes, Rogue and Jessica from the Cruxshadows, and Donna and Steve from Ego Likeness, as well as Perry being the ONLY WOOKIE!!

here's some more pictures of the kids at dragon con, the rest can be seen on myspace

Finally!!

Logged in again, and it asn't so had. I suppose google must have noticed, or I was just having an extended blonde moment. Updates, erm... my hair is shoulder length and blonde as of yesterday, going to be three shades of ren in the next few days... I'm playing Persephone next eek, three weeks is Alchemy and we're having a theme camp, the Sidewalk's End, and I've made lots of things... and we're homeschooling. And I'm dieting again, though Perry's still nursing, so not as intense as my down to size zero dieting before. Anyway, I will add pictures later. I am feeling rather icky today, cold AND moon.

need more reasons?

aside from countless amounts of animal welfare and rights issues, that I'm not going into, there is a new reason to avoid eating meat.

Here's a link to the yahoo news article about the tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase and it's ability to create new fat cells. It's a type of protein that is emitted from mammals. Avoiding the consumption of it, would avoid weight issues and regulate fat development:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080305/hl_afp/swedenresearchhealthobesity
and here's information about it from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrate_resistant_acid_phosphatase

and did you hear that the FDA approved cloning of farm animals for the meat industry
in january? I really don't know what to think about that... that's just messed up.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/healthmedical/a/safeclone.htm

and also, Bush is bullying up the European Union into allowing GMO crops, stating:

"I hope European governments will reconsider policies that discourage farmers in developing countries from using safe biotechnology to feed their own people," Bush stated in his Krakow speech. "America and Europe must work closely to develop and apply new technologies, that will improve our air and water quality and protect the health of the world's people."

Is he even more of a complete moron than one suspected? How could biotechnology EVER be good?? Is the nation that guilable? WAKE UP!!! Genetically Modified crops Genetically Modified crops are bio-engineered to repel destructive insects and survive chemical weed killers. All of these could be avoided with sustainable agriculture and organic methods of farming. We all operated on an organic farming scale until around World War II. "Those opposed to GM crops fear they could endanger human health, damage the environment and reduces crop plants' natural immunity to disease and insects." This is exactly what we've been doing for the entire 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, killing our selves, making our planet uminhabitable, and destroying natural selection.
ARGH!!http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/consumer/a/aagmfoods.htm

bored

and wasting time online. I'm going to read and then go to bed.








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bring those sillies out

rosalita
Originally uploaded by tres_madre

Tonight is one of those dizzy windy days that fills the jukejoint of my heart with velvet underground echoes

promises of snow... in March?
strawberries awaiting
penatration
into the fertile caverns
of the hibernating mother

Geoff and the kids got the bed ready, my swethearts getting the bed ready for my flowers, my shastas, my roses, my dianthus, my forget me nots and many other sundry varieties of flowers that I will make into some sort of sculpted art and take obsessive O'Keefe photographic memories of...

the strawberries will join them, but for now, they will take sanctuary for the impending return of frost

middle children

meandmymaddy
Originally uploaded by tres_madre

are so very special and need to be reminded that often! Maddy is my little helper now that Sylvia's off to preschool and always wants to be involved in anything I am doing. I'm going to make a nice post with pictures of her as an infant on her birthday.

now I must get out of blog land and clean clean clean!!

photography fun time!

wholeworldinherhands
Originally uploaded by tres_madre

Took some shots with Maddy and a daisy today-

"whole world in her hands"-









"Stairs and Flowers"-