Morning Momentum
I have been working on a piecing project for the last week from the book Bella Bella Quilts. It is much more tedious and complicated than what I normally do. (For the non-quilters that read my blog, piecing a quilt means that you cut up pieces of perfectly good fabric and [...]
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My quilting retreat with the Undercover Gals was great. We had a busy, productive, happy time. We ate alot, sewed non-stop, and slept very little.
Here is what it looks like there:
A cabin. Anyone remember that Girl Scout song “Little Cabin in the Woods”? Yep, we sang it…. arent you glad you [...]
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I will be gone for several days with no computer access, so thought I would leave you this week with a question. Steve and I discussed this earlier today, so we wondered if any of you had any enlightening answers for us.
See this fuzzy caterpillar? (I have no idea what they turn into, [...]
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I have this sky thing going on. I have taken HUNDREDS of photos of the sky in the last year. I am just smitten by our skies. The clouds, no clouds, jet trails, sunsets. Not too many sunrises, I don’t get up early enough!
I thought I would share some from this month. Sept and Oct [...]
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It has been a really warm fall so far. And so dry, that the leaves on the trees are falling off because it is dry, rather than because they are pretty and it got cold and windy.
We got a frost the other day and the leaves are finally changing.
This picture was taken Monday.
And this one [...]
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I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns last nite. I highly recommend that you read it. It is a story of 2 women who come together by circumstance…. 2 women who learn to get along in order to live. 2 women who try to give the children some sense of order and balance to their lives [...]
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I finished But Inside I’m Screaming by Elizabeth Flock last week. I still haven’t decided how much I liked it. It is a story of a young news anchor who is severely depressed and ends up in a mental institution for a time. Having experienced depression in the past, I found that it truly captured [...]
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I have been waiting all week for today’s dinner. I had cleaned up the house a little, cooked dinner, finished a book…… waiting and waiting and waiting. Neil, Yvonne, Elizabeth and William were coming for dinner. They were on their way back to Pittsburgh to Yvonne’s folk’s house and were coming here for dinner and [...]
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This morning Steve came in from feeding and watering cows to tell me to grab the camera and come see what he found.
You really need to click on the pictures to see the incredible texture, transparency and translucency. I havent tried to Google this yet to see what kind of mushroom it is. Let me [...]
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October 3 is always the best day of the year. It is my son’s birthday. I dont know if it is good for him or not, but it always is for me.
This is the day that I remember and re-live the experience (in my mind) of his birth. I am reminded of [...]
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