tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12654452.post6472995417546624994..comments2023-12-23T15:07:59.440-05:00Comments on Vicious Momma: I Can Do It!Rae Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239791074376508016noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12654452.post-17893466467872034262007-05-25T19:02:00.000-04:002007-05-25T19:02:00.000-04:00Hi Joan, thanks for your comment! It's funny that...Hi Joan, thanks for your comment! It's funny that you did because I've recently been wanting a pink hammer and other tools so that the hubby and sons don't steal them anymore. My tools always seem to disappear, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't steal them if they were pink!Rae Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239791074376508016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12654452.post-77057088621116330282007-05-25T18:59:00.000-04:002007-05-25T18:59:00.000-04:00Hi bg! Thanks for stopping by and for that intere...Hi bg! Thanks for stopping by and for that interesting comment. Haven't seen you around the Reference Frame lately. I hope everything is okay. I'm not really a big Rosie the Rivetter fan, but I do appreciate her symbolism. <BR/><BR/>My dad has told me lots of stories about that "time of almost unimaginable violence and sacrifice" and it surely makes me wonder if our citizens of today would be willing to do the things required of people back then. I really can't imagine that rations and "victory gardens" and all of that would be tolerated by all the spoiled rotten suburbanites and urbanites. <BR/><BR/>But then, maybe the Al Gores are trying to relive some of that with their AGW hysteria? That "Greatest Generation" had such real and terrifying monsters to fight, and maybe their children are now trying to "one-up" them by trying to save the planet from themselves. ;-)<BR/><BR/>And maybe it's a Star Wars kind of syndrome too? Al Gore as the evil Emperor and Anti-Christ. ;-) Sorry, imagination's a little active today. Have a nice weekend and don't be a stranger! :-)Rae Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239791074376508016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12654452.post-57713969491955180352007-05-24T13:20:00.000-04:002007-05-24T13:20:00.000-04:00Hi! Came across your blog while surfing and really...Hi! Came across your blog while surfing and really enjoyed it. I'm just learning home repair myself and teach other women. Isn't it empowering to know you did it yourself? Joan Wyatt, www.tomboytools.info/joanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12654452.post-39942846191634847202007-05-23T16:23:00.000-04:002007-05-23T16:23:00.000-04:00Rae, this is a weird post. But, if you ever find y...Rae, this is a weird post. But, if you ever find yourself in the San Francisco area, you might like to spend a few minutes visiting the Rosie the Riveter Memorial. It's in Marina Park in Richmond, California, once the site of the Kaiser shipyards where they built the Liberty ships which helped us win WW2. Richmond is on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, a little north of Oakland and Berkeley.<BR/><BR/>I used to walk through the memorial every day. There's a kind of abstract steel structure meant to resemble the superstructure of a Liberty ship; there are some old photographs; and there are paving stones engraved with some things the women said, stones which make up a symbolic 'ways,' like what they rolled the ships down to get them into the water. At least there WERE these thing as of four years ago; Richmond is a pretty raw place.<BR/><BR/>And at the end of the ways there's a little platform over the water, with a stainless steel plaque that says, "Tell them that without us, without women, there would've been no Spring in 1945."<BR/><BR/>It's a trip to see little children playing in the cool California sunshine among these relics of a time of almost unimaginable violence and sacrifice. Climbing on the structure they're not supposed to climb on. Gives you that feeling of swords into plowshares, though I suppose we're a long way from that...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com