babushka's Profile
Groups: Colorado COmmunity
Diaries published: 33 (101 days since last diary on Mon Aug 28, 2023 at 05:55 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 1863 (3 days since last comment on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 11:06 AM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 573
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: School bully picks on farm kid and finds out, 435 comments, 519 recommends
People Following babushka: 12
babushka's Most Frequent Tags:
babushka's Most Recent Diaries:
|
The doorbell rang on a cold windy day in the depths of midwinter covid-19 lockdown in 2021. No one from outside had been to our house, or rung the bell since before the plague began. I peeked through a window. A young man was carrying a large bag of...
by babushka
 33 comments
on Mon Aug 28, 2023 at 05:55 PM PDT
with 18 Recommends
|
|
The Greeley Farmer’s Market is at the old train depot every Saturday morning through the summer. Every time we’ve been there, the line to the bread vendor stretches almost out to the street. Are people waiting to buy sweet rolls, fresh pretzels, or big...
by babushka
18 comments
on Mon Aug 14, 2023 at 05:53 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
|
|
My phone rang on the afternoon of July 4. “I should be calling to say Happy Fourth of July,” said my daughter, “but I can’t, because it’s not.” I heard her crying. She had just received the news that her son, our grandson, was in intensive care in...
by babushka
33 comments
on Mon Aug 07, 2023 at 05:51 PM PDT
with 37 Recommends
|
|
Last year a wild yellow mama kitty used to roam around our back yard with a couple of kittens in tow. We made attempts to catch them, but we might as well have tried to catch the squirrels�in the ...
by babushka
28 comments
on Mon Jul 31, 2023 at 05:53 PM PDT
with 36 Recommends
|
|
Recently, heavy smoke has moved into the eastern US from the fires in Canada. How do you live with the stuff? In Colorado, we deal with smoke every wildfire season. For folks who haven’t experienced it before, here are a few ideas to make life easier...
by babushka
26 comments
on Fri Jun 09, 2023 at 10:02 AM PDT
with 24 Recommends
|
|
SLAVA UKRAINI! A song about War in Ukraine — Artur Lehi, Mar 4, 2022. Video was made in cooperation with the Estonian Defence Forces. English lyrics. A recent AI inquiry told me that my ancestral villages were in Ukraine: Kukkus and Gnadenfeld were...
by babushka
25 comments
on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 05:50 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
|
Recommended by babushka
- Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the place where politics meets up with religion, science, art, nature, and life. Come in, have a cuppa and a cookie (or three!) and join us. Street ...33 comments 28 Recs
- 🥄 The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to "knowledge of the hidden 👁 👁 👁 Occult and Psychical Sciences presents: "Mind Over Matter!" -Thanks Neiman the creator of Tales...113 comments 26 Recs
- I love my “Christmas” sweater. I bought it during a post-holidays sale at the supermarket a few years ago. I love it for what it is, a happy, smiling greeting for everybody who sees and notices it. Now that I wear a mask when I’m out and about, this...4 comments 20 Recs
- No, this is not a marketing ploy. I mean it. The book is still on all the usual channels for a while, but within a few weeks will be gone, I hope. Leaving me with the rights. As the author of six books and publisher of one more, I have found the...17 comments 8 Recs
- The Colorado State Open Thread often poses questions about our square(ish) state —�sometimes, they’re from readers to me, which I attempt to answer. Sometimes they’re from me to the readers, ...14 comments 16 Recs
- From The Washington Post: KYIV — Ukrainian law enforcement officials on Tuesday jailed Oleksandr Dubinsky, a member of parliament who four years ago helped Rudy Giuliani in his failed attempts to dig up dirt on Joe Biden on behalf of then-President...189 comments 741 Recs
- A cartoon by Clay Bennett.21 comments 147 Recs
- Here I’d like to talk about what is probably one of the few unifying themes and beliefs across all of pagandom, that of the Wheel of the Year. Witchcraft as it is today, originated from an agricultural-based society. The seasons of the year reflected...15 comments 25 Recs
- Old Ocean’s gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Thanatopsis WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1817 🌘...207 comments 36 Recs
- Despite all the freak-outs over President Joe Biden's polling, Democrats and the cause of freedom romped this week, and Republicans were left picking up the pieces of their shattered dreams. Frankly, Politico outdid itself with a piece titled,...76 comments 354 Recs
