I’m thinking about winter.

I’m all ready to go to Astoria on Monday to do the quilting on the tattoo quilt. The borders are on and the back is together. Here is the progress: which all came out of this: . Today I went across the river to find some sashing fabric for the dresses quilt, but I’m not [...]

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busy

We’ve had unexpectedly nice weather – there was the forecast of thunder and lightning storms, but they evaporated. So, a little more time to get some things done outside. With the onset of shorter days, I decided it was time to  trim a few trees to let in more winter light.  We now have a [...]

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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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weekend, part 2

The house is quiet again. It was a busy couple of days, and we all had a lot of fun. My sister, Debbie, has a wonderful girl living with her for the school year- she is a senior at Snohomish high school - ( though she graduated last year in her home country of France). She [...]

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“sweetie, did you hear something?”

I can only imagine the shock of this happening. That poor baby! This weather has brought so many unusual things, but I think that about tops the list.   With some of the horriffic flooding and the like – I’ve been moved to tears watching all the devastation. For me it’s akin to seeing all of the fires [...]

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summer’s on the way!

 First, I have to get this out:  What the *(^#$@& is the deal with the weather??? Yeah, yeah, the planet is warmingandtheoceansareheatingupanditsabigmess and all that jazz, but, come on already. It’s into June, and we are in the middle of a storm with gale force winds and it’s maybe 50 degrees out.  Even if all [...]

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catching up

 Wow. It’s nearly the end of the week already.  I sometimes wonder about the “beginning” or “end” of the week – is there a difference when you don’t go to work? hmm.  We had a wonderful weekend with the boys and Mom here for a couple days. I couldn’t have asked for a nicer weekend to [...]

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better

 As I was finishing posting yesterday, a little twinge started in my right eye. I felt compelled to end my journal entry quickly, and take a hefty dose of Advil. The Migraine was coming. I went to lay down, cover my head and wait for it to be over. I wish there was a timetable [...]

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the hex is not borken. not yet.

I wonder what I’ve done that has caused the spate of bad….karma??? I was truly hoping it would all be over by the end of the year. But no. To date, in the last couple months:Storm that killedthe TVthe modemthe routerNew modem doesn’t want to sync with router(even though it is listed as being a compatible [...]

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weather switcharoo

Yesterday it was beautiful and sunshiny here, the nicest day we’ve had all week. I took this picture when we went for a short walk on the beach: Today however, is a different story. It was nice when we woke up, but quickly clouded over with a thick grey mat across the sky. Then, we got [...]

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