The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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As I joked in museum graduate school: "Things don't hurt you, people do."

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Unless, of course they have lead, mercury, or some other nasty in them. We were taught that taxidermy often was treated with arsenic to deter insect infestation.

Z

Lurking.

Do you work in a museum, Zonder? It would be my son-in-law's dream job.

I know he would like to work in our Queensland museum..not exctly sure what he wants to do but it would entail study. He is at present a civil engineer and I know he won't shift. We have talked to him but... he needs to feel secure and does not like risk taking. He doesn't recognise himself as aspie.

Aargh! The eyes!

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Tomorrow I'm going to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit with my two daughters and great grandson. My great grandson, Blaze, is an artist. Six years old and lives for art. First thing in the morning and last thing at night he is working on or thinking about a work of art. He roots through the trash cans at school (he is in kindergarten) for materials such as lunch bags and cardboard, straws, etc., anything he can make into something else. My daughter never knows what she is going to find in his backpack. He makes very neat costumes for my daughter's two little dogs. He makes them out of paper and fabric that he tapes or staples together after first drawing a sketch and then a pattern. Capes, hats, jackets and pants. The school psychologist thinks he has Asperger's and he is being evaluated for it. Duh. I told my daughter that he had it (last year when I learned about Asperger's for the first time) and so does his father (my first grandchild).

It seems Blaze likes to make up stories (as I did when I was a child and still do only now I stay out of trouble for story telling by calling my stories fiction. My great grandson likes to draw the human body (and not so human bodies) and recently asked my daughter if he could see her "boobs". When she told him no, he said "Well how am I supposed to learn about anatomy?" She got him an anatomy book. When he learned about Frida Kahlo and saw some of her paintings in an art book and then heard that she was coming to Philadelphia, he said "I would love to see those paintings in the art museum" so we sent for tickets.

Frida Kahlo - Short Bio

BlessedMom, where are you. I miss you and hope you are okay.

Ok. It's settled. We're going to Yosemite.

Anybody know any place around there that's good to stay (other than in the park proper)?

I've never been to Yosemite or that area, but I did travel around the country for thirty days and we were always very happy with the accommodations at Best Western. Free breakfast, great staff. Always in every place we stopped, Best Western went out of their way to make us happy and comfortable at reasonable rates.