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be my valentine 2022
I decorated. This is an aloe Vera plant I brought home from Austin. Son Will grows massive aloe Vera plants, so at Christmas I asked to take a small one home. I have great respect for the medicinal value of … Continue reading
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superbowl sunday 2022
Guess who we’re rooting for. I will never be a cake decorator. Obviously. But the urge to make Cincinnati Bengals-themed cupcakes was something I Had To Do. I don’t know why. My sewing room/office smells like a dead mouse. Maybe … Continue reading
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the case of the broken window
Thursday afternoon our propane fireplace was finally fixed. Sound the trumpets. If you remember, it stopped working right after Christmas. It heats 3/4 of the upstairs. We moved down to the basement and waited 25 days for the repairman from … Continue reading
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sewing for spring
The Wild Flower Snowball quilt top is finished, as of yesterday afternoon. Here you see a portion of it. It’s comprised of 120 snowball blocks and ended up approximately 75″ X 90″ in size. I like it. What’s next? Figuring … Continue reading
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keep the faith
Brother George sent this in a recent email and it made my day. Those of us who experienced the 1960’s will especially appreciate this story of a father and son’s experience on the road.
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needle in a sort of haystack
Have you ever lost something and never, ever found it again? I guess that’s the definition of “lost”. Sigh. Yesterday I sat at my desk with my needles, thread and scissors to hand stitch a label onto a quilt I’d … Continue reading
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goodbye, blizzard of 2022
We survived the blizzard with nary a blip in our winter routines. The state was hit pretty hard and we received the predicted 18″–and even more. It was a convenient storm, meaning that everyone was off the roads when it … Continue reading
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the snow bomb cyclone, snow-ageddon, snow-icane has begun
Call it what you will, it’s going to dump a lot of snow on us. Fluffy snow, thank goodness. We rarely have the light, fluffy kind here in New England. It has been snowing for seven hours, but the weatherman … Continue reading
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why people move south
We’re expecting a huge blizzard tonight and into Sunday. Weathermen have been using the phrase “cyclone snow bomb” or some such thing. They are also predicting up to 34″ of snow. I know my Idaho and Montana readers are saying, … Continue reading
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