So do I. 🙂

The article doesn't say where in Central Florida or where in my county specifically the cases are. However my county is anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours away from Disney depending on where one lives. Some Disney workers live here but not many and most are just college kids working at Disney for the summer. There also isn't a lot of agricultural land here anymore so there's not a lot of field workers. Sounds to me like it's just the general population. ETA: we don't get a lot of Disney visitors here unless they're going to the Space Center or staying overnight near the port if they're going out on a cruise ship, either the Disney ship or one of the other cruise ships. We get beach vacationers, but most are local to somewhere in Central Florida. https://www.wesh.com/article/leprosy-florida/44693829

Perfect. A much needed update to the David Allen Coe song (written by Steve Goodman and John Prine), You Never Even Called Me By My Name.

I read this a few days ago on a local news channel's page. I suspect national news picked it up from them especially since it was an NBC affiliate station that ran the story. Most of the cases are in Central Florida and most are in - surprised but not surprised - my county.

And at least two of the writers plus Aldean are NOT from small towns. This song was written to pander to a very specific group of people, many of whom are also not from small towns.

Granny Weatherwax posted in July that she's not going to continue the threads. https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/728288-2023-goal-group-july-new-members-always-welcome/?do=findComment&comment=9462104

I love book clubs but maybe it's because of the kind of book clubs I've always been involved in. For one thing, I've always known at least half of the people in the club and we're friends outside of book club. For another, we just have fun. Yes we discuss the book but we don't spend too much time analyzing it. Did you like the book? Why or why not? Did the ending surprise you? Which characters did you love/hate? In other words, just basic questions and discussion. There have been some books that deserved a deeper dive but mostly it's just talking about a book you read with someone else who also read it. Then have wine, good food, and enjoy the company of others. Sometimes one or two members didn't get a chance to finish the book. They're welcome to come if they don't mind spoilers. As for being told to read a book - that's one reason I like book clubs. The club I'm in now as well as my past book clubs has one person choose a book each month. Often these are books I end up enjoying but wouldn't have chosen myself. I like that book club challenges me to read outside my genre rut. Sometimes I don't like the book so I don't finish it and that's okay too.

Simplicity S9130. It was an older pattern re-released under this new number. The top can be sleeveless or 3/4 sleeve and it also has a skirt and wide leg pants pattern (both elastic waist). https://simplicity.com/simplicity/s9130

I kind of put these two together. I wanted a zipper tote but also more pockets. I used fat quarters for both the outside and lining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mSUy7ehU1w&list=PLebFrBLEo4sl6cWn7jyDUuOzJl7FEzuGi&index=10&t=439s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lr8VnSXe9I&list=PLebFrBLEo4sl6cWn7jyDUuOzJl7FEzuGi&index=12

I bought myself a new sewing machine last month and am loving it. So far I made this sleeveless top for myself and this tote as a birthday gift for a dear friend who came out as gay during Covid.

I've spent the weekend planning my fall vegetable garden and watching Florida gardening YouTubers. I have an abundance of basil so I made pesto last night for a shrimp linguine pesto dish (the recipe uses tagliatelle but I couldn't find any). There's still a lot of basil on the plant so I might just make more pesto and freeze it. My native plants are doing fine. I need to split some and plant the new ones elsewhere. I'll be starting seeds indoors this coming week - it's too hot to leave them outside. So far I'll start some tomatoes and possibly beans. I might wait a week or two for the beans. I also ordered a bunch of seeds for both warm and cool season crops.

I tried it years ago when ds was young and homeschooling took up much of my day. It didn't work for us and still doesn't. Our schedules, what's on sale, the weather, my mood, and many other things made it impractical. I do meal plans, just not with a set rotation or schedule. I usually start by looking in the freezer and pantry for what proteins I have on hand (pantry for beans). I then see what the upcoming week looks like and what days need easy meals. I'm out 3 nights a month (book club and nights with friends) so I usually make sure there are planned leftovers those nights though both dh and ds can cook if there aren't leftovers. I try to plan a meatless night, at least one night with fish, and the rest is built around what we have and what I feel like making. I make tried and true favorites plus often try new recipes (or tweaked old ones). This sounds a lot like how I plan except we have such a short winter and most days it isn't cold enough to even count as winter. I watch the forecast in our version of winter. If a cold front is coming I'll quickly change my plan and make soup instead of whatever else I had planned. Our soup window* is short lol. *I live near the space center and a lot of people use window as a silly way of describing a short period of time. We're so used to hearing about the launch window for every rocket that the term is common. When I was teaching the teacher's lunch period was very short and we called it our lunch window. I've heard moms of young children talk about their me window. There are others, including soup window, but those are the only examples I can think of off the top of my head.

My brother and sister in law would make them look amazing and you'd never know what they looked like before. I don't have that talent so I'd donate them. There are people who would want to buy them but it's going to depend not only on where you live but the timing of trying to sell them. You'd have to be selling them when someone wanted them. To me it would be more work than it's worth but I can't really give you advice about what to do. My view is colored by my own experience, likes, and talent level.

Oh no! How will we survive without monolith updates?

I've never been able to learn to knit but not for lack of trying. I'm completely left handed and most knitting books will tell you to just knit Continental. Um, no. Just because I hold the yarn in my left hand doesn't mean I'm knitting left handed. I still have to work the needles right handed. I want to scream at all those people and tell them to "Just hold the yarn in your right hand but work the needles in your left. Then tell me how that works out for you". I know many leftie knitters are able to make Continental work but I'm not one of them. Years ago I found a wonderful site called Left Out Knitting where a left handed knitter taught truly left handed knitting. Sadly she was diagnosed with early onset dementia and could no long teach or even knit for herself. I do slightly better with circular knitting but it's still too much work. I just stick to crochet where I can be my left handed self.

I listened to I'm Glad My Mom Died and liked it, if liked is the appropriate word. It made me really feel for her. I was familiar with the actress because ds had a crush on her during her iCarly days. Most of his friends had a crush on Miranda Cosgrove but he liked the tomboy girl. Persuasion is one of my favorite (if not my favorite) Jane Austen novels. I regularly reread Austen.

I think you're right that she was hoping to be able to correct you. People are weird. I keep thinking though that this is the mom. I don't know how old the child is but I bet as they get older they'll be happy when people spell the name correctly. The kid will very soon tire of having to correct everyone.

I love The Crochet Crowd. You can search for beginner videos or check the playlists. What I love is that he always does videos for both right handed and left handed. His tutorials are easy to follow https://youtube.com/@TheCrochetCrowd

This is definitely us and our cats.

Billy Joel hates this song but it's a fun intro to history of part of the 20th century. I used it with ds when we were homeschooling mainly because he heard the song and started asking about the lyrics.

This was fun! It took me a while on some but I managed to figure all of them out.

Not sure if that deserves a shocked emoji or laughing one. Probably both. Elvis was my mom's music, The early Beatles belonged to my older cousins. The later Beatles and Queen were mine. What I love though is that ds25 loves 70s and 80s bands, as well as some 90s stuff. I taught him well. 😄