'Personal' Category
Stitching for Literacy Update
From the Accents, Inc. 2009 Bookmark Challenge collection.
The Monday “What have you done lately?” accountability post, where I announce my Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program promotion goal for the week and fess up on last week’s goal.
Last week, my goal was to finish the pattern layout for our first Stitch N’ Pitch bookmark. [...]Blueberries
I’m calling it nine gallons in the freezer, and I’m calling it quits.
Actually, I decided I was happy with eight gallons and planned to stop there, but blueberry picking is addictive. The in-laws were napping. It’s hard not to look out the windows around here. I swear I could see blue spots on the [...]Excuses
Why has it been so quiet here? Well, I’ll tell you. The unpaid labor arrived. That would be Bob and Thea, Mike’s parents.
We thought this chair was temporary, that we’d ditch it when we found one we liked that went with the house.
We never found one we liked, and this one is small enough [...]A Joke?
Are you kidding me?!
The Bunkers and Webers
I’m going to town twice within a week. That means I can check movies out from the library. Yippee!
Tonight, as we watched an episode from Season 3 of All in the Family, Mike grabbed the remote and paused on this frame:In that instant, before Mike said a word, I blurted, “Your parents have that same [...]
Summer Subplot
I’m spending a lot of time in the yard and garden. A couple of weeks ago, we had some fill and topsoil brought in help transform the yard from an obvious work-in-progress to something more pleasant to look at. Eventually. I hope.
While I allowed the local dirt-bringer and -mover to move some of the [...]Our Next Job
All right, friends, we need your help.
We’ve applied for another caretaking job–in Australia, what Queensland Tourism has dubbed “The Best Job in the World.” You may have heard about it on TV or Yahoo.
It’s a pie-in-the-sky job, to be sure, but mm-mm, don’t you just love a big yummy slice of pie-in-the-sky now [...]Reflections
As far as I know, this is the only mirror currently in camp. I brought it with me. It’s 2.75 x 2.25 inches.
Mike uses it to shave.I use it so I can see how many bars are illuminated on the modem without having to get up out of my chair.
Two bars…we have no connection. [...]Holiday Music Gift
I asked my nephews and niece for a holiday gift this year: I wanted a song, sung by the three of them, preferably in harmony. This is what I got.
I offer it to you, with their permission. Here are The Stones. (Really, I’m not making that up.) Happy Holidays!Holiday Mosaic-Part 4
We had a glue crisis for a while–meaning we didn’t have any–so the project was delayed for about a week. You think twice before “running out for glue” when the glue is 100 miles away. I believed my holiday project was destined to be a summer project, and began to think about sewing shades (still [...]
