a quick there and back

We are coming into quilt show season. My local guild’s show ‘Quilting at the Beach’ is next weekend, and the big show for my mom’s guild is the same. Our guild will be showing just over one hundred quilts; not a bad showing for our membership of maybe 60 women. The Quilter’s Anonymous show, on [...]

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Spring!

 I know it’s early, but I am sooo anxious for spring to begin. I think everyone and everything around here is in the same frame of mind.  Just two months ago, this was the pot of bulbs on the deck:   and now, the all of the potted bulbs are coming up    In fact, the bulbs [...]

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been awhile……

 Somehow time just disappears, the days go by, and suddenly it’s been a couple of weeks since I posted.  Life with a teenager in the house has been an adjustment. We’ve been working on setting up some routines, and little by little things are getting more comfortable for everyone. It’s good. Grades are better than [...]

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outside, inside

Like everyone else, we’ve been busy outside the past week. There were several days of beautiful weather, with one being really hot – 96 degrees! That ended quickly, thank goodness; I moved from the southern Ca. area to get away from heat like that.  We did get a fair amount accomplished; namely a 30 foot long raised [...]

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where I live

I’ve been somewhat struck by where I live lately. And grateful. ( yes, even in spite of the rain. ) I’ve wanted to live by water as far back as I can remember. I thought when I moved to California that of course that would be my opportunity to be near the beach; but I was [...]

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