birthday week

Sometimes I wish I had a birthday every week. We had a really nice time over the weekend with Ryan and his girlfriend. The weather cleared up and we enjoyed a beautiful day on the beach – a rarity around here this time of year. Saturday night there was crab for dinner and a great surprise [...]

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Seattle bound

 In a little while we’re off to Seattle. We’re going in a day early to go to the Bellevue Botanical gardens Christmas light display. We’ll spend the night at Mom’s, and this way we will be in town tomorrow when Lauri and Aidan leave. It’s been a fun week, and unfortunately I didn’t get any [...]

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spring, please.

We had a great trip into Seattle. The fall colors are so beautiful this year, or maybe it’s just that I don’t remember how things looked last year. Maybe it’s that compared to the sort of seasonless-ness of Southern California, the range of colors ( there is little green there after 9 months with hardly [...]

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Seattle Bound (too)

This morning we head off to Seattle for a few days. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone, especially Ethan who’s visiting for the weekend. We’ll celebrate Mom’s birthday a week early on Sunday, with the whole family gathering at her house. On the way we’ll detour through Tacoma, to pick up an end table that matches the [...]

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almost-home day

Which I suppose is Wednesday to everyone else. It’s a funny thing when you live in the middle of BFE that it sort of becomes stressful? ( not sure if that is the right word) when you come to the city. Each time I notice the difference more and more. One of the biggest things is [...]

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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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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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new bag

A couple of weeks ago ( already!! ) I finally got around to making a new bag. And after two weeks use, I gotta say I love it. The first test was an all day wear at the quilt show just after I made it. Comfortable, and roomy enough to hold everything(but I didn’t take [...]

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pic-palooza

Seattle came and went quickly. Saturday was the dash in, helping Ryan some, and his bbq. Sunday was dinner at Gretchen’s after working on the quilt, which I was able to completely finish. Thank goodness for mom’s quilting machine. A couple of shots before the binding went on:     and a detail of the stitching that shows on the [...]

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done! (almost)

So, the fence project is finally nearing the end. The weather was perfect today ( finally ) and we did everything but complete the last two gates. This will be wonderful once we’re done – to be able to let Sunny out from anywhere and not have to hook her up on the zip line [...]

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