Online Traveling #15: Iowa..

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021Leave a comment

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Description Iowa, a midwestern U.S state, sits between the Missouri and Mississippi of rolling plains and cornfields. Landmarks in the capital, Des Moines, include the gold-domed, 19th-century State Capitol Building, Pappajohn Sculpture Park and Des Moines Art Center, noted for its contemporary collections. The city of Cedar Rapids’ Museum of Art has paintings by native Iowan Grant Wood. – Google {}

I am a little curious about this state. I am NOT a sports person, but I hear people talking about Iowa State and I wonder if they are talking about basketball or football – a college team or a pro team? I don’t think there is a baseball team. (let me ask google that question?)

“Wow,” I am surprised there isn’t any major pro sports team in the state of Iowa. I just learned something new. I did see more videos about sports and fairs. When I first saw the word state fair. I automatically thought of two movies –

State Fair – Yes, I know this movie was out before I was born, but thanks to TCM – Turner Classic Movies. I can enjoy these old time movies. I want to say this movie is about neighbors. The guy comes back from college and takes his not so tom boy neighbor to the state fair. I could be wrong.

Meet Me in St. Louis – I LOVE this movie from the songs to each sister and the dad is so funny. I believe I will watch this again tonight. This will be a nice way to end my stress free weekend.

** For some reason I couldn’t add the pictures to these two movies and I am done trying…. Time to move on…..

{} https://youtu.be/ki2XV_rDHPg IOWA CITY

Iowa City and The University of Iowa/ 4K drone footage Oct 24, 2020

PrimoMedia – Chris Biela Iowa City is located in eastern Iowa. Quick drone tour of downtown and the campus. The Old Capitol Building, the state’s first capitol, now houses a museum of local history. The University of Iowa is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and the second-largest university in the state. All captured with DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone and Edited in Premiere Pro. Music licensed with Artlist

#1 This video was taped in the air. Yes, there were a lot of cool buildings, but I would have liked to see the names of the buildings etc. It is a nice and relaxing video to watch. It may be a year old, but since it was mostly for the view and no info it was okay….

{} https://youtu.be/fiyYKnSiAy4 DUBUQUE

Iowa’s Oldest City: Dubuque, Iowa 4K. Mar 26, 2021

Chris Harden One could make a strong argument for Dubuque being Iowa’s most unique city. What’s undebatable is that Dubuque is the oldest city in Iowa, as it was a city before Iowa was a state. To this day, Dubuque remains to be an attractive place to live and to visit.{}

#2 This video is too long-winded , with good information, and I enjoyed the view. I may have only got through a little over 16 minutes, but it is a good video.

** Side Note – My mind is going back to the book I started reading yesterday and I am having a hard time focusing on this video. Just like this video (which I don’t believe was taped in one day) I am going to go back to my book, with a cup of coffee in hand and come back to the state of Iowa.

{} The Iowa State Fair is an annual state fair held in Des Moines, Iowa in August. It began in 1854 and has been on the Iowa State Fairgrounds since 1886. It is based in the state capital Des Moines, Iowa over 11 days in August. With over a million visitors it is one of the largest and best known state fairs in the United States. En.wikipedia.org {}

{} https://youtu.be/Hatp8DnwePU Splash Art in Urbandale, Iowa Jul 22, 2021

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#3 The pretty picture captured my attention before I could even look at another video. Art around the city not only makes the area beautiful, but will always make someone Smile 🙂

** side note : I went to three other cities in Iowa and didn’t find one that wasn’t sad, too long ago, or anything that caught my attention. I am ready to enjoy the rest of my night with one of my favorite animes. I have already seen this once, maybe twice before, but I Love it. It’s called ‘My Roommate is a cat’.

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My Roommate is a Cat’ and the importance of character arcs – Rogue Shogunate Visit

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I came across this blog site and I am like WOW and I can’t wait to read more… https://rogueshogunate.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/my-roommate-is-a-cat-and-the-importance-of-character-arcs/

I believe I am going to leave Iowa today and call my time there done. My next place to visit online is Kansas. I am hoping for some fun videos. I am sure there are more things to do and see in Iowa, just not enough on video.

Well after a nice day of work, it’s nice to relax with a good anime to watch or something interesting to read. I was thinking about a cup of coffee, but I promised only one a day. Well, I do two, but that is still better than six..

Bye IV Now, LD*

Yes or No?

August 21, 2021Leave a comment

Ever start doing something and you know you are in the right and you keep things moving, because “I am right.” Then you start to slow down and look at what you are doing?

What am I doing?
Why am I doing this?
Do I need to do this?

These three questions got me to stop trying to redo my past work. I wanted to put everything that said, “Online Traveling” under the menu, but since I didn’t know how to do that at the start of this blog and there wasn’t anyone who could help (for free) to set up my page correctly.

It doesn’t matter or does it? I am thinking about adding the rest? YES or NO? I am going to think about this one..

Bye IV Now, LD*

Crochet Mix – Up!

August 21, 2021Leave a comment

I can’t believe I made the same mistake twice. I really should have started over three weeks ago, but for some reason I felt it was right. I thought when you look at a rainbow it would have to be big.

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I know my rainbow blankets are a little different, but that’s what happens when someone who enjoys crochet gets creative blankets.

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I made a rainbow blanket that has pink and white in it. I call it a girl’s rainbow blanket. It was supposed to have been for a baby girl. I do like my blanket to be a little bigger, to allow the blanket to grow with the baby, but this is way too big.

I repeated the same pattern I used before on the girl’s rainbow blanket, but omitting the pink. I did add white in it and this one is my, “boy rainbow blanket”. Then again it could be for both a boy or a girl, because it’s colors are a true rainbow.

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I missed and made it the same size as my first one. I was going to make this one a little smaller, but – I realized it doesn’t look like a baby’s blanket. I can still make it a little bigger than a regular size blanket, but then I was having way too much fun and this happened….

I didn’t realize working with so many different colors was going to be a lot of work, but so much fun. I said I wasn’t going to do that again….

Well that thought didn’t last long. I was wondering how to change colors without tying so many knots? I ran across one of my favorite creative person Ms. Donna Wolfe

{}How to Change Colors in Crochet – 8 Different Ways by Naztazia

Hi I’m Donna Wolfe from Naztazia https://naztazia.com You’ll learn how to change colors with single crochet stitches, double crochet, and more…….{}

I am thinking about redoing the borders, but this is my design of multi colors. Only time will tell..

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A New Anime..

August 18, 2021Leave a comment

I started watching a new anime and of course I forgot its title. Good thing there is google. This is what I typed in, ‘an anime where a young girl solves mystery and stays in a library,’ and this is its answer:

{} Gosick No. Kazuya, a Japanese student in the Saint Marguerite Academy in Sauville, meets a mysterious girl named Victorque atop the school’s library tower.

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I don’t get why she has to stay on the school grounds all the time or that her brother act likes she isn’t there, even though she is helping him, but Victorque accepts it as her faith. I want to say Kazuya was tricked into going to the tower and there he found a friend he didn’t know he was looking for.

She has a mind that will clear up any kind of mystery and loves finding an answer to an unknown question. He seems to always be in an area at the wrong time and by the time he realizes he is in trouble it’s too late.

He helps her not to be bored all the time and she helps him be able to stand on his own and not in the shadow of his brothers.

This is a cool anime. I am enjoying this story as my pastel project gets bigger. The weekend is almost here and I don’t want to spend it in the house. I don’t have a clue as to what I will do or where I will go, but I have two more days to think it out…

BYE IV Now, LD*

Online Traveling 14: Indiana.

August 15, 20212 Comments

I cannot believe it took me three days to come up with a pattern for my next crochet project. I know it was mostly my fault, because I was trying to combine two different patterns together and neither one was having that.

I am doing a basic half double crochet stitch as I look through videos about? Where am I going today? When I checked my list of states and territory of the United States and realized Indiana was or is the 14th state. All I heard was Micheal Jackson voice singing “Going Back to Indiana,” and I am going to have to google to see if that is a song. (I know I am not that old and I should remember these things).

I was right. I just watched a video (I will not add it, because I don’t have any rights to it) and now that I think about it he was from Gary Indiana. Guess where I am going first?

{} Gary City in Indiana Description : Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, 25 miles from downtown Chicago, Illinois. Gary is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Park and borders southern Lake Michigan. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. Wikipedia{}

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#1 This part of Gary Indiana is like a lot of areas where there isn’t enough money to keep the area where life can grow. There may have been a few abandoned buildings from business and homes that showed life was there at one time. I am sure the people who are living here are doing the best they can and maybe someday, someone will come, and do a makeover (not raising money to those who are already living there) to bring life back to a forgotten part of Gary Indiana.

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J5LOVER In this episode of J5Lover I visit the original Jackson family home in Gary, Indiana and meet up with other fans and Youtubers on the 12th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s passing June 25th! {}

#2 I should watch the video again, because I forgot her name. Anyway, I do agree with her. I heard the house where the Jackson family grew up was small, but I am beyond surprised how small.

We all are here, because of our past. One can either learn from it and try to move forward to improve on how we live, the way we act, and be better than what we were yesterday.

Good – Bye Gary Indiana there isn’t much more to see here today, but who knows what a few years will bring.

{} Chesterton, Indiana Town in the U.S. state of Indiana Chesterton is a town in Westchester, Jackson and Liberty townships in Porter Country, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 13,068.. En.wikipedia.org {}

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#3 Another place where there are fun things to do in nature. I may not be the one who would go camping, (unless it is in a log cabin with a few mardon items) but someone may like this idea. I would rather go when there aren’t a lot of people. One cannot think if there is too much going on around them. (at least for me)

{} Zionsville, Indiana Town of Indiana Zionsville is a suburban town located in the extreme southeast area of Boone County, Indiana, United States, northwest of Indianapolis…….The … en.wikipedia.org {}

{} https://youtu.be/3XM-sUP7Q2M Zionsville perc State finals 2021 jpurs99{}

#4 I am not sure why I clicked onto this video, because it had very little information about what it was about. I understood it was a school event (high School or College not sure. Again no info)and I just wanted to see what they were doing. It had a dance routine surrounded by music and it was nice to look at.

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#5 This video showed you places where one can live in a quiet area and still be close to a city for things to do and where you can go shopping. I know I couldn’t live anywhere if I couldn’t go shopping every once in a while..

*** Side Note: I am bored. Let me go to another city and see if there is more to this state..

{} Brownsburg, Indiana Town in Indiana, United States Brownsbur is a town in Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. The population was 21,285 at the 2010 Census, an increase from 14,520 in 2… en.wikipedia.org {}

{} https://youtu.be/0uxnC-lqjcU Taps Across America 2021 – Mike Stone – Brownsburg, Indiana, USA May 31, 2021

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#6 Now this is a NICE side track video. Yes, I am still in Indiana, but it has nothing to do with the state, but more on honoring our Troops. I wish I could do something to say, “Thank You” to everyone who has served and is serving to not only protect their hometown, but others they do not know.

*** Okay, I didn’t see any video that I wanted to look at. I was considering going to another city, but I believe I am done searching. I guess I am more interested in working on my bright pink project then I am hoping to find a new anime to watch while I work on my project.

These are the colors I am working on now. I know I am going to run out of yarn, but at least I will have something to do for a few days. And maybe just maybe I will be able to go to Micheal’s and enjoy a day of yarn shopping. Until next time I hope everyone enjoy some free time with family & friends…

Bye IV, Now LD*

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