Give_Me_A_Minute

Strands #967 “Please, be my guest!” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵 💥

Strands #966 “Something to build on” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵 I hope you had a good weekend.

Strands #965 “Re-fresh-ing” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Sometimes I’m not sure I should be proud or just wonder what solving certain puzzles more easily than others says about me.

Wordle 1,953 5/6 >sigh< happy Saturday! Off for a ride ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #1230 🟩🟨🟦🟩 🟨🟦🟩🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Whew!

Strands #964 “None of your beeswax!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 😎🎉

There’s a lot of BS on the interwebs but I’ll be damned - the video abt #vintage garments and stain removal was absolutely correct when she advocated for soaking items 24 hrs/more. Following that advice, I was able to get red crayon out of a cream colored placemat.(Best not ask how that happened)

Ever have a part 2 manuscript that’s just kicking your 🫏? Yeah, that’s where I’m at. #academic 🦋Sky

Strands #963 “Any relation?” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵 😎

So I wanted to change a T-shirt into a V-neck Folded it in 1/2. Measured carefully, chalk lined it & cut Then realized I had obviously cut through the back 😱 Now I have to patch the back & then proceed to Part 2 - the V-neck. (and no, I will not to provide photographic evidence🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️)#GarmentSewing

Strands #962 “On a higher level” 💡🔵💡🔵 🔵🟡💡💡 🔵💡💡🔵 What?!?

Wordle 1,950 6/6 Phew! Is right! ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Done!

Signing up for hlth benefits should and could be easier. 🤬

Wordle 1,949 5/6 Sometimes there’s only one option left. ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,948 3/6 🎉😎🎉 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Strands #960 “It's all Greek to me” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 So tidy! Yellow first and then all blue. #Priorities 

Strands #958 “ Quite the crush” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 😁

Wordle 1,946 4/6 🫤 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

NORTH CAROLINA A&T STUDENTS MARCH TO VOTE AFTER CAMPUS POLLING LOCATION REMOVED Students at North Carolina A&T State University took to the streets in Greensboro on Thursday, marching to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in North Carolina.

Wordle 1,944 4/6 I’ll take this as a win! ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #1222 Happy weekend eve! 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟪🟪🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I’ve come to realize that ABD really means “I completed the course work” which is very different than the literal meaning.

Connections Puzzle #1221 Yay! 🎉 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Strands #955 “Folk 🎉no hints used.

#nursing calling out systemic problems in hlthcare is needed but continuing to dog pile on an individual is a new version of “nurses eating their young”& using influencer status as a bully pulpit for content. You made your point- move on to more deserving targets like ins. companies & private equity

Strands #953 “In a manner of speaking” 💡💡🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵💡 🔵🔵 Ouch!

Connections Puzzle #1219 I would really like to go to Joann fabrics today. 🤦🏻‍♀️Oh that’s right! Corporate overlords fvcked that up for everyone! 🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Connections Puzzle #1218 Whew! That was close! 🟩🟩🟨🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟪 🟪🟨🟨🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Wordle 1,940 X/6 WTF 😡🤷🏻‍♀️ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨

Strands #952 “They don't make 'em like they used to” 💡🔵💡💡 🔵💡💡🔵 💡💡🔵💡 🔵🟡 Today I just said the he!! with it and burned through my hints. The choices seemed random. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I found my lost set of earbuds! I had walked by one of our bookshelves and just set them there. Where they languished for weeks! And I gave up and bought a new set. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Strands #950 “That can't be right” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵💡💡🔵 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Wordle 1,938 4/6 3s are so fleeting  🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #1215 😎 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Strands #949 “A star is born” 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵🔵 Ouch!

Wordle 1,937 6/6 That was close! 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Love these photos of a gansey sweater over at Highland Threads. Such great knitting. A gansey is a type of fisherman sweater with identical front and back sides. Last photo shows one from Flamborough Marine, my favorite contemporary maker for this style. highlandthreads.co.uk/wick-museum

Op-eds from VIP types are tricky for medical journals. You don't often see a president & the WHO head co-authoring a piece in ... the NEJM. But here we have a commentary describing their efforts to coordinate #Hantavirus response & affirming the importance of solidarity and collaboration in health:

Now this 👇🏻is writing! “… a jacket that went from being perfectly tailored to twisted around the body to scrunched open at the front as though the person wearing it had been in a corporate melee & then ran out the door into a wind storm.”❤️#VanessaFriedman #GarmentSewing

Troy Jackson at the debate: “Susan Collins is acting like an arsonist asking for credit when she brings a cup of water to put it out.” 🔥

www.threads.com/share/BANePk...

Wordle 1,935 5/6 Geez!🙄 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #1213 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 😎🎉

Strands #947 “Changing course” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵💡💡🟡 Why did I have to use two hints when I selected that phrase at least one other time?!?

Strands #946 “Oh well, too bad, such a shame ” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🟡 The spanogram was weird.

One thing all New Yorkers can agree on? It’s time to get your flu shot! Go to nyc.gov/healthmap to find all the free locations.

Wordle 1,934 5/6 Oh well… ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩