Weeeelll…I’ve been partying lately, which is why I haven’t added new posts.
But I’m done for now!
Warning: The following is not PETA friendly…so PETA followers, you have been warned.
My plants are still alive, though the nasturtiums inside my house are looking rather yellow, after I placed them in the sun for a while, so now I don’t know what to do with them. The hollyhocks and poppies are also growing, strongly, so I don’t have any worries about them.
This morning I awoke around 6 am and went to water the plants, so that the sun wouldn’t take all their water and I saw this MASSIVE spider! No pictures, but the camera wouldn’t have captured it. The spider was brown and white, and was starting to make a web from the balcony to the watering can, so I quickly took away the can. To be honest, I’m scared of spiders…even if they eat bugs and such. I just don’t like them! And when it comes to killing them, I can be very brutal and then feel bad about the action. Anyways, there was a metal ruler next to me and i chased the spider around for a while, wielding the ruler as if it were a sword and the spider became cornered. The ruler lifted high into the hair , glinted in the sun, and swiftly came down without mercy upon the spider. The victim fell to the the fake grass, several legs still moved, and I kept hacking at it until it no longer existed.
After doing that, I couldn’t help but feel horrible! What right do I have to kill a harmless thing…but then I thought of all those horrible bites received as a child, and then my remorse promptly left.
As for my crocheting, I found some insanely cheap yarn at the dollar store on ball and brookhurst, $1/skein…of course, the yarn only comes in one color (Black), 100 grams (Very little) and is acrylic. It’s soft, very soft, but sheds as if it were a cat. I bought four of the skeins and with three, I’m very close to finishing my raglan cardigan. I’ll post pictures of myself wearing it once it’s done. Right now, it has no sleeves so it looks like a crochet vest from a crochet book claiming it is “hip” and “youthfull” but really full of horrible patterns that look like they came from the evil side of the 80′s. Trust me, the majority of crochet books are like that. I can see why the knitting camp doesn’t like crocheting much.
Finally, Anaheim.
I’ve noticed that the garden walk area had a lot of foot traffic today, which was pleasing to see. By the looks of some of the people, they were tourists and it’s interesting to see that some tourists do wander away from the Disneyland bubble (Even if it’s a couple of yards away).
As for the island, well 4th of July in the West Island is awesome! Every year on Harle Street, a man hooks a cart to his tractor, fills it up with hay and gives hay rides to the neighbors. Of course, the Old Glory is displayed on the cart.
Many people took to riding their beach cruisers and two boys kept riding on the street with gigantic flags…I thought of them as modern day flag bearers in the Revolutionary war.
And, like every year, a step ladder was set up in the middle of the street where many fireworks were let off.
Mariachi music, banda , cumbia…all drifted into the night sky along with the surprisingly advanced fireworks. No matter what colour, we’re all Americans. North, South, Central, it’s all America.
And the parties…oh the parties. 
indeed.
we are all americans
Yes!
I ate posole while listening to Italian music on the fourth of july!
It’s still American, just a different way of viewing it.