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The canyon behind my son’s house in Cortez CO.

Saturday, November 14, 2026

Women and their skirts AND FLIGHT STOPS!

 Sepia Saturday this week:

Copenhagen and bicycles?
These women have different kinds of attire. Many hats, some are the cloche style. But some women actually show longer skirts (over against the wall) while most seem to have mid-calf length skirts.

New York in the 20s.
No bicycles here. But the clothes on the women are interesting to consider. Cloche hats are popular, but not for everyone. And all the women I see have their skirts at least mid-calf. Did you notice the furs?


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Update Sat morning at 7 am mountain time.

Hey politicians who have miffed so badly by using money in the wrong wrong wrong places, and hiring inept untrained dolards to run the agencies of our government!!

I AM MAD!

My family is flying the skies this week and next. It was lucky that my youngest son had already flown to Florida on Thursday Nov. 12...before the FAA was hit by the ineptitude of governmentally run agencies on Nov. 13.

But he and his wife will be flying home to Colorado in the next week. Can things be fixed by then? Things that may not depend as much on old copper wires as the low paid, over worked technicians who are used to systems that did need upgrading, but instead were given something that wasn't at all SMART! (Smart being the name of the new system that had been installed without proper testing and left thousands of Americans at risk either in the air or sitting in airports.)

Yes those sitting in airports were just as at risk as those flying in circles without support ... airports full of people not prepared for hours of boredom, stressed to the max, many sick, the very young and very old and sick suffered the most. 

I guess I should be grateful that no disasters have happened. That somehow the backup systems kept those planes in the air safely. That they eventually could land and hopefully some had taken off which had been sitting for 3-4 hours on the tarmac. Can you imagine the toilet situations?

There had better be some reckoning!

From a concerned mother.




Friday, November 13, 2026

I'm not exactly actively aging

 Remembering the last time I flew on a plane, I said “I didn’t have to take my shoes off, but maybe it was because I was old.”

And that was a couple of years ago.

“OK, so now you're "after old.”

I wonder what to call it…this free life without the encumbrance of being elderly.  Certainly not “dead!”

I’m going to stew on it a while…

It's been fun thinking about what to call my life, my daily existence. Another blogger was talking about what generations are called these days. I wonder when we started naming each generation, anyway.

I remember when I studied psychology, there were all these stages of mankind...you know, infant to elders. And now so many people in their 50s are considering themselves middle aged...but when in mid-60s they often used to retire.

Many people now work into their 70s. These people are certainly what used to be considered "old" but certainly not elderly. As I hit my 80s I didn't mind calling myself an elder. I even toyed for some years with being a crone. Just couldn't get anyone else on board that this was a good thing, however.

So far I've thought maybe Apex...or something along those lines. Pinnacle? 

Survivor? Certainly Thriver. 

Put your thinking caps on and make some good suggestions.

That is, of course, if you are interested in this post-elderly existence!


OK, I missed this date...but there's joy that someone decided to celebrate the older women. Sorry men, there aren't any male crones.

Interesting list without good proof reading...I went back and re-read them all and not one is a "rest." so 
"which one rest describes your life?" didn't work. Then I changed "rest" to "best" and voila!

But I'm more interested in just naming my life stage...the after-old-ness. 
Pre-death?


Thursday, November 12, 2026

Zora the grand-pup!

 


She is really intelligent, and well trained. I'm looking forward to having 5 days taking care of her...playing catch at least twice a day.

So now that AC and Sue have given up their pooch sitting, Ill be on duty. Of course there's also Shiva, the cat!


A family funeral has pulled my son out of town, so I'm staying at his place for a while.




Wednesday, November 11, 2026

A dome idea

 Buckminster Fuller developed and tested his first prototype geodesic domes during his summer sessions at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1948 and 1949. The first dome of 1948 lacked structural integrity and failed to rise, collapsing into a heap that Fuller and his students humorously nicknamed the "Supine Dome.” Fuller returned in the summer of 1949 with a sturdier design using aircraft tubing and internal cables. The photo shown here documents the BMC community after successfully erecting the Autonomous Dwelling Facility prototype, which was strong enough to support weight and paved the way for Fuller’s 1954 geodesic dome patent.

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Hazel Larsen Archer, Construction of the Geodesic Dome, 1949. Gelatin silver print.  Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.



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