So much.

 I’m refraining from the obvious pun.  I joined my first sew-along the other day and can’t wait to get started. On one of my favorite sites – Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing she’s about to undertake leading a group sew of a coat! Not a group sewing one coat, like a quilting bee or anything, [...]

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one more

So far my ‘sewing every day of September’ challenge is paying off.Today I finished the Happy Happy Joy Joy quilt; binding on, label made and sewn on. Done!  I’m so happy with how it turned out. Here is a closeup of the quilting / stitching that I did on the longarm machine.   I freemotioned daisies in the 13" [...]

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fall, fall, stay away.

We have come to the decision that August and September are the perfect months here. The weather has been so nice, and if we get a rainy day, it’s just one. One. Then its nice again. The beaches are back to being mostly empty. The sun has moved back southward and we can see the [...]

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just me and she, and the best pie ever!

This morning Richard left for his annual trip to Bonneville. For the next 8-12 days it will be only Sunny and I.  He’ll be camping out the entire trip this time, unless there’s major rain, in which case he’ll come home early. We’ll be missing him a lot. ( not enough to want to go [...]

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blueberries!

They’re ripening! Blueberry season has begun. Yesterday I went with a friend and picked for just an hour – and got a full can, which is about four pounds. The bushes are loaded, and we found a small area with a lot of ripe ones. But the majority of the farm is still a week or two away, I [...]

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sewin’ & pickin’

Since we got home from Seattle last Tuesday, I have almost managed to sort of accomplish almost a couple of things. You get the point.  I did of course add to the list of ‘projects’ by several; and added and subtracted one thing  – so it feels like I did something. In Seattle Mom and [...]

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maybe its a small town thing.

Last week Richard turned his application in for a passport. ( neither of us have one ) He did have to go to the post office across the river in Warrenton, Oregon to submit it.  Well, exactly one week later it arrived in the mail.   Funny thing is that they told him the standard ’8 weeks’ when [...]

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warning: no election crap here today.

We had a nice visit to Seattle over the weekend. Funny thing about living at the beach – all of the traffic is headed here for the weekends. On the drive both to and from, we passed a gazillion motorhomes, trailers, and such going the opposite direction. No traffic for us! We stopped along the [...]

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