this'n'that

So after a lot of pinning and unpinning and repinning, the pinkish gauze skirt and I have said our adieus. The two extremes - shorter:

and not so shorter:

and all kinds of fugly in-between - none of them worked on me. By the way, the pinning was made simpler by not measuring with a tape, but by using a 5x8 index card.

And Happy Belated Independence Day -- yes, it took me this long to figure out how to add this YouTube video of the new Fourth of July "song."

A celebration of the First Amendment at its - um - most interesting. Well, chickies, good taste is truly timeless:

So here we are, all descended from people who came to this country or this continent from somewhere else, whether because their habitat disappeared, or because they were fleeing famine, persecution, prosecution, terror...  We are all descended from people who held on to hope, and who knew what to pack.

Hmm, that caveman's luggage looks familiar.

Come to think of it, so do his corduroy pants and quilted vest and duck boots.

Or maybe our forebears didn't pack - maybe the plan was to make do with what they found when they got here.

One last bit of shopping news, I bought a tube of LIME-AND-MINT-FLAVORED TOOTHPASTE. It's made by Crest. SAVE YOUR MONEY, it does not taste like a Mojito. It tastes like the morning after MANY MANY Mojitos.