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Darkness Has a Hunger That’s Insatiable and Lightness Has a Call That’s Hard To Hear

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We focus a lot on The Horrors (™️ Betty Cracker Rose Judson).  Sorry, Rose!

With good reason.

But maybe we can make our own light?  Let’s do everything we can to make sure that Virginia is a lot brighter on November 5, 2025!

Here’s what we have in mind to help fund Four Directions and the Native vote this year in Virginia.

Let’s be the light.

This won’t be our only Virginia effort, just our first one.

A Raffle (with first, second and third prizes)

Raffle purchases will start with a post tomorrow morning (Monday).
$25 a ticket, no limit to the # of tickets you can purchase.
Details will be in Monday’s post.

First Prize is this Native-made Star Quilt

This quit is 78″ x 84″.

Second Prize is this pair of Native-made earrings – Frosted Star with Jade

Third Prize is this pair of Native-made earrings – Hammered Copper Discs

An Auction  (Native-made Star Quilt)

The Auction will be held one week from today, on Sunday, July 20, NOON to 7 pm.This quit is73 x 75 inches

This quilt is 73″ x 75″.

Starting bid will be $450.

Straight-up Four Directions fundraising with a $30,000 external match.

The regular fundraising with an external match will start with a post on Monday, July 21.

With one Balloon Juice Angel to start.

(Funds from the raffle and the auction will not be part of the matches.)

What say you guys?   Are you in?

Personally, I need to pair the current recoiling in horror with some straight-up action, or I am going to be in a very dark place.

What say you?   Are we up for this?

 

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  5. 5.

    WTFGhost

    So, if you wrap your fear around you like a blanket, and you’ve sailed your ship of safety ’til you sank it, there’s a driftwood fire and some mulled wine (and hot cocoa if you prefer that) to warm you up, plus baked clams and oyster stew.

    (Do you know how hard it is to get clams to absorb enough marijuana to be properly ‘baked’? I’m just saying.)

  12. 12.

    Betty Cracker

    I think Rose deserves credit for The Horrors. ;-)

    P.S. The title is a GREAT earworm, and I needed it because I had something awful stuck in my head. I dare not say or think it — lest it recur!

  17. 17.

    HinTN

    @WaterGirl: I’m in, although I’ll be hoping to come in second (or third) in the raffle. Either pair would grace Mrs H well.

    The date on the picture of the day has been hosed (31 July) yesterday and today. Both pics were/are lovely.

  19. 19.

    WTFGhost

    @Betty Cracker: Well, that’s one advantage I have over you. I know the darkness will come back to my brain, and need to be beaten down, curbs stomped, blasted with a 12 gauge, chopped into little bitty pieces, broken down in plasma to the atomic level, dropped into 99.9% rubbing alcohol, and then exposed to bright UV light, so it retreats for a bit.

    Do you know how annoying this was, until the discovery of UV-C lightwaves, during Covid?

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @HinTN: So weird on the dates.  I chose 7 or so for July and dated them all 7/31 so they would be easy to find.

    I changed the dates on both of them, yesterday and today, and saved the change.  Interesting that it didn’t take.

    edit: Looks like I need to be in the Media Library for the change to actually save, not in the “I am adding this to the sidebar” page.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @HinTN:

    FYI, we have already had a person who won a BJ raffle decline the 1st prize and go for one of the others.  The second runner up had REALLY hoped to win and had “bought” several tickets, so he was really pleased to win the quilty, and it was clear that things had turned out exactly as they should have.

    So whoever is the first winner can choose any of the three.

    The second can choose from the remaining two.

    The third gets the one that remains, and I believe the official name for that is “the cheese stands alone”.

  24. 24.

    lowtechcyclist

    If I win second prize in the raffle, I’ll have my wife’s birthday present in hand. (Or first prize, since I’d choose the earrings and let someone else have the quilt. Already won a quilt here in a previous raffle – thanks again, Quiltingfool, we’re still totally in love with that quilt!)

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @mark: Excellent question!

    A lot of the quilts at that gallery are 72″ x 72″, but I do not know about this particular quilt.

    I have dashed off a message with the question and hope I will have an answer in the morning.

  26. 26.

    WTFGhost

    In more positive news, I have a large pan of pork chops and marinara simmering in the toaster oven at 250F, having added some olive oil, halved cherry tomatoes, onion, garlic, plus some rosemary and basil, since they seem to go along well, and I still have the mischievousness of childhood, imagining I’m boiling actual people named “Basil” or “Rosemary” or “Morey Amsterdam, and, Mary Tyler Moore.”

    Why just those two? So I learn about what they do. In an hour or so I’ll taste it, and see if it tastes like what I had, plus, rosemary and basil, and then decide what else I need.

    I bet someone will say the cherry tomatoes should be added at the end, but they haven’t see these cherry tomatoes, nearly aged out of edibleness.

    Next time, I think I’ll obey the advice of experts, and saute some onion and garlic in olive oil first, then add it to the mixture, but those experts didn’t need high potency THC just to stand up and stare at the kitchen today. (Staring down a kitchen is not for amateurs! Try something easy, like a cat, first.)

    I think I’ve also learned that crushed tomatoes become tomato sauce, becomes tomato paste, so, depending on your final consistency and how long you’re cooking, you can probably…

    … I’m sorry, I’m taking a moment where I’m trying to banish the image of Stephen Miller suddenly being drenched by a pan of lasagna, and starts screaming in pa… starts screaming… (HuHEM) starts screaming “I’m melting!” in a crazed falsetto voice, as Americas melting pot (well, “pan”) demonstrates its power over him.

  28. 28.

    EarthWindFire

    Another bit of praise for your title choice. I’m in! We need to rough up Glenn Youngkin’s reputation and Winsome Earle-Sears is former Obama opponent Alan Keyes in a dress.

  30. 30.

    Harrison Wesley

    @WTFGhost: Please share what the addition of Morey Amsterdam and Mary Tyler Moore does for your sauce! Sounds tres piquant.

  31. 31.

    WTFGhost

    @Harrison Wesley: Well, Morey and Rosemary start cracking one liners, while MTM proved she can still distract me just by bending over in those heels, at which point a dancing, singing old man showed up doing a cooking show skit for some late night comic he was writing for. What a Dick….

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    I worked from 12 to well into 73 yrs old, minus school and 3 1/2 years in the USN. In most of my working life I mostly manufactured molds for plastic products, but did work in a general machine shop in this century for 9 years. I’ve built all my furniture and I’m still building furniture, 1 large piece about 75-80% built, for a neighbor and the other one is really simple shelf unit for me. And then I’m done. It does take a while as I only work rather slowly at it any more.

  36. 36.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    @WaterGirl: that is a beautiful turn of events!

    I would be so psyched for the matched donations, but I lost my job. So I’ll be cheering from the sidelines for now.

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