tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64345508154648356212024-03-14T02:56:46.803-05:00Behind My Picket FenceBehind My Picket FenceBehind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-69359118252055997652013-10-30T20:23:00.001-05:002013-10-30T20:43:05.015-05:00Wish you were here………..<p>A very, very good friend of mine is somewhat of a connoisseur of all things Halloween.  She has also diligently instructed her children and grandchildren in the art of enjoying Halloween.  In other words, they like to have fun!  And, even better, they sometimes take pity on me (whose 11 year old granddaughter lives too far away to enjoy Halloween together), and invite me along.  Pretty sure – like positive – my 2 year old grandson is not ready for this activity.   Last year they went to the haunted house at the old “Insane Asylum” – I did not make that name up.  It was called that.  I understand from Miss D that the experience was well worth the ticket price and said she was thoroughly scared but only peed down her leg a few times and she did not “have the big one” (heart attack).  Sometimes I even question my own sanity for hanging out with this woman!  I think I’ll wear double depends and will make sure the ambulance is on standby.</p> <p>So check out this website,  <a title="http://www.edgehauntedtours.com/" href="http://www.edgehauntedtours.com/"><font color="#ff0000">http://www.edgehauntedtours.com/</font></a> and let me know if you want tickets.  Wish you were here but you may be glad you aren’t!</p> <p> </p> <p>I managed to drag out a few fall decorations which I thought I’d share with you.  I’ve tried Smilebox for the first time and I “think” it works.  It was easier to use than I feared.  Unless of course, I’ve screwed it up and it doesn’t work.  That would explain why it was easy to do.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a677a4e4463794d6a6b3d0d0a&blogview=true" target="_blank"><font color="#ff0000">Click here to open Smile Box</font></a></p> <p>Short & sweet today – Happy Halloween!</p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-27646577565123922142013-10-10T18:02:00.001-05:002013-10-11T18:40:33.267-05:00And now, a word from our sponsor<p>Oh for heavens sake, I don’t have a sponsor.  Who would sponsor me – and for what?  I’m not an athlete and I’m not in AA either as I rarely drink anything stronger than a latte.  Hmm, now I <em>could be</em> a member of CC (Coffee Cravers).  I don’t think there is one but let me think about organizing the first chapter – would you join?  Should we taper off or just quit cold turkey?  Shudder.  Let’s just taper off.  Oh wait.  I don’t think I want to do that either.  I’ll think about the whole thing and get back to you.  In the meantime, why don’t you start without me?</p> <p> </p> <p>Really, I don’t have a sponsor.  But I do have an advertisement.  This is kind of a new thing for me – well actually I did it once before.  It was the same thing really, only different.  <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Winking smile" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Q0la1mdndJI/Ulcxfa11ffI/AAAAAAAAgxQ/yIQMx5xR0_g/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" />    I’m talking about what I “lovingly” call<strong>  “Crap I’ve Made”</strong>.  Since that seems to have a negative connotation, I’ll just say that I will have some of the things I’ve made from wood at a craft (not crap) show.  It will be this upcoming Saturday, October 12th from 9:00 to 2:00 at the Breckenridge Senior Citizens Center.  I really don’t know what to expect as to what other things will be offered from other “artists” such as myself.  teehee.  But I will have 2 partners in this crime.  My sister-in-law, aka, Jean, aka Gracie’s Closet will have all manner of clothes and accessories that fit an American Girl doll or one of a similar size.  Jean has also knit poncho’s and caps for Gracie as well as quite a variety of things for your bitty baby.  Check this out:</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qXPKn8ZT2pc/UlcxgZkRBAI/AAAAAAAAgxY/OFG9QKO05bE/s1600-h/photo%2525201%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="photo 1" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="photo 1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vvqR1g7zzRg/UlcxhAl_tZI/AAAAAAAAgxg/KOmR4MGBNZA/photo%2525201_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="297" height="396" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wFdyQpiBnXY/UlcxiIPeNoI/AAAAAAAAgxo/zV1-7GlhfUQ/s1600-h/photo%2525202%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="photo 2" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="photo 2" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-o7AGhIXIncM/Ulcxi0wJgjI/AAAAAAAAgxw/R_rcpjDCbfw/photo%2525202_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="313" height="419" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NvPWC3QsbBc/UlcxkDENG_I/AAAAAAAAgx4/nUcUCaSgbT0/s1600-h/photo%2525203%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="photo 3" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="photo 3" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-A-d1ouzwnTk/Ulcxk_RsuCI/AAAAAAAAgyA/2yYniKTx2Kc/photo%2525203_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="326" height="436" /></a></p> <p>My other partner, aka Jolene, aka Take Two Mittens has wonderful (can you guess?) mittens!!!!  But no, these are not ordinary mittens.  Jolene has used old sweaters which she then felts and combines with other pieces of wool to make the best pair of mittens you have ever had.  Ever.  Here are a couple of her mittens:</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-_PZusRG4GAU/Ulcxly10m5I/AAAAAAAAgyI/j9OF4N1QzoM/s1600-h/Jolene%252520mittens%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="Jolene mittens" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Jolene mittens" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-6jRbbq9m2Hk/UlcxoZRBjuI/AAAAAAAAgyQ/wZ7U7zEXbtc/Jolene%252520mittens_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="385" height="385" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>And then there’s me.  Not much to say there so I’ll just run a bunch of pictures.  I just wish I could sell bags of sawdust.  I’d make a killing!</p> <p>This is my version of Santa’s sleigh which is shown all decorated up – because this one is mine.  When you buy a sleigh you can decorate it any way you choose.  </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XQgtiXnl7uM/Ulcxp-Ds7II/AAAAAAAAgyY/12gHllcwVVI/s1600-h/DSC03715%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSC03715" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSC03715" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-h3VYMHdFlkw/UlcxqgoTwtI/AAAAAAAAgyg/AmADLhxhkb0/DSC03715_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="444" height="334" /></a></p> <p>                                                                                                                                     </p> <p align="left">                                                                                                                         <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-o5VLkALzmhI/UlcxrSuYZdI/AAAAAAAAgyo/ZXylbdJgdv8/s1600-h/20131009_205410%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_205410" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131009_205410" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-cByZ9R1mW1c/UlcxrxODimI/AAAAAAAAgyw/_tr0OHxWbSI/20131009_205410_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="235" height="414" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-B-fT46t42Pg/UlcxspX-BHI/AAAAAAAAgy4/T8P8tImFK4c/s1600-h/20131009_175732%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_175732" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131009_175732" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ACsC1OTl7EI/UlcxtFLwbDI/AAAAAAAAgy8/WMt9FShxIx8/20131009_175732_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="210" height="370" /></a></p> <p>These next pictures are all trays (or boxes) with slanted sides.  I have 2 sizes, 12 1/2” or 10”.  These are just a couple ideas to get you thinking about the possibilities.</p> <p>        <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--DkTc0F_fH8/UlcxuLTBAnI/AAAAAAAAgzE/5oh4gvIMxg4/s1600-h/20131009_122359%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_122359" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_122359" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Tk1hZSxmRTo/UlcxuuviP6I/AAAAAAAAgzM/E8yFJETTnb4/20131009_122359_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="242" height="427" /></a>                    <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7punptQ0Srg/Ulcxvq2y-AI/AAAAAAAAgzU/gBICdt8spS4/s1600-h/20131009_122859%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_122859" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_122859" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yT0lkTPJY6Y/UlcxwGYqzhI/AAAAAAAAgzc/k4MokGoCKbY/20131009_122859_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="359" height="204" /></a>            <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Nezx_eHtBHE/Ulcxw3aD6kI/AAAAAAAAgzk/IFvCFBiL31c/s1600-h/20131009_211038%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_211038" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_211038" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dg_iUvth-ks/UlcxxU6ZWFI/AAAAAAAAgzs/uNh47e4rEm8/20131009_211038_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="231" height="407" /></a>  </p> <p>These next 2 are the smaller trays:       </p> <p>        <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wGx3hmKURRM/UlcxyPj6E1I/AAAAAAAAgz0/SBr1h0rhg9E/s1600-h/20131009_205748%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_205748" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_205748" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9poYKHc5WX8/UlcxyzLqWmI/AAAAAAAAgz8/0Ukbz1vXUag/20131009_205748_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="467" /></a>                                                                            <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-UN-Jrb1JU8c/Ulcxz4xsTjI/AAAAAAAAg0E/3oJKWv1pFo4/s1600-h/20131009_210045-001%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_210045-001" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_210045-001" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-AKjUQeKND4I/Ulcx0aclUtI/AAAAAAAAg0M/lX1r6cnwfkU/20131009_210045-001_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="265" height="468" /></a>     </p> <p> </p> <p>This one is called a candle box which would traditionally hold – you guessed it – candles.  But what if you put a hand-stitched pumpkin on the front and filled it with fall colors?  Even tho I made several of these, I’ve got to warn you, this is the only one that is decorated.  </p> <p>           <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-CuuCx7h3e0s/Ulcx1GxGQWI/AAAAAAAAg0U/mBrmL-Z0-yo/s1600-h/20131009_175647%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_175647" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131009_175647" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-md06m3C6e8Y/Ulcx19PBK5I/AAAAAAAAg0c/q49qSyqPsOs/20131009_175647_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="539" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>Now think about when you are in the kitchen trying to come up with a good recipe for supper.  And there are a zillion recipes to be found on your iPad.  They (iPads) are not cheap little items so you hate to slap it on the counter while you’re slicing and dicing.  What if you had a breadboard that would stand up and hold  your iPad?  Something like this:</p> <p> </p> <p>                 <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-sGJh1me_FVI/Ulcx22zkQCI/AAAAAAAAg0k/ihtvgBRbgwc/s1600-h/20131009_180220%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_180220" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131009_180220" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6wmizttbvus/Ulcx3XVKIBI/AAAAAAAAg0s/q7I_gp6RI2Y/20131009_180220_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="467" /></a>       </p> <p>It even works for your e-readers and the good old-fashioned paper cookbook.   </p> <p> </p> <p>There are 3 sizes of these risers.  They are used for decorating – sort of like the ideas I’ve shown below.</p> <p>    <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ig0u7-9ISQ4/Ulcx4AHvY4I/AAAAAAAAg00/n-3QfleTTI8/s1600-h/20131009_182125%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_182125" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131009_182125" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-55Y5a_UVt6M/Ulcx4yHxgII/AAAAAAAAg08/_HGEHglvVIk/20131009_182125_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="258" height="456" /></a>                                 </p> <p> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-CZ_bM4nqI6Q/Ulcx5oB4BaI/AAAAAAAAg1E/2XmhvJNL0Xc/s1600-h/20131009_181136%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_181136" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_181136" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-4BEi9cZrhn8/Ulcx6ZFDPZI/AAAAAAAAg1M/Dl0dYImYVEA/20131009_181136_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="219" height="387" /></a>                                                           <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-S71amrHxwOM/Ulcx7PlJqZI/AAAAAAAAg1U/GxpmftLUGQw/s1600-h/20131009_181921%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_181921" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_181921" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_z16pm16AmY/Ulcx701ZMuI/AAAAAAAAg1c/4AfUi5_yCr0/20131009_181921_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="222" height="391" /></a>                                                <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xpRsUummh_I/Ulcx81nN4rI/AAAAAAAAg1o/QqvZ63RbN9s/s1600-h/20131009_182000%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_182000" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20131009_182000" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-03I0tJGXo5Y/Ulcx9TdMHmI/AAAAAAAAg1w/WBhzLBIAzkY/20131009_182000_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="217" height="383" /></a></p> <p>These are colonial style soap holders, which as you can see don’t necessarily have to hold soap.  Whatever.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-4KDTJWjU0tE/Ulcx-vT6jFI/AAAAAAAAg14/CPjKLiWBZok/s1600-h/20131009_202939%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131009_202939" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131009_202939" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-VFJLeORo9sI/Ulcx_ddSCvI/AAAAAAAAg2A/1nUBoYdrfXA/20131009_202939_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="444" height="252" /></a></p> <p>                                                                                               </p> <p>Pumpkin City:</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4l1nw7_EYPw/UlcyAM5ReyI/AAAAAAAAg2I/_L3asRLNPwQ/s1600-h/20131010_080836%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131010_080836" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131010_080836" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-jEy6oNsK-ns/UlcyAsFjwDI/AAAAAAAAg2Q/mSd285F1hgU/20131010_080836_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="328" height="581" /></a>                </p> <p>           <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-_PAHvshJkuM/UlcyB49oxzI/AAAAAAAAg2Y/Wzof7NgkglA/s1600-h/20131010_081755%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20131010_081755" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20131010_081755" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Yi8YBIsvCKI/UlcyCYq9s5I/AAAAAAAAg2g/zM1hgpjo5XM/20131010_081755_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="507" height="287" /></a></p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p>  It was at this point that I got tired of taking pictures.  I want you to know that I have even more <strike> Crap</strike> Crafts to show on Saturday.  I have a bad feeling that this commercial message has gone way over 30 seconds.  I guess you’ll have to just put it on my bill and hope I’m good for it.</p> <p> </p> <p>See you Saturday,</p> <p>Hollyhock Farm</p> <p>aka Ms. Faye                                          </p></blockquote> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-44756189423602196212013-10-03T22:06:00.001-05:002013-10-03T22:14:46.178-05:00Early to bed and early to rise–sometimes<p>So, what time do you get up in the morning?  I have to admit that it’s been a lot of years since I’ve had a “real” job where I needed to rise at a specific time.   As opposed to being the stay at home wife of a farmer.  And truthfully, that job consists of mostly – nothing.  Oh  sure, I used to work in the field during sugarbeet harvest but I’ve resigned, retired, and quit that position after last year’s harvest.  I’ve quit a number of times in the past without the desired result but I must have used my hidden assertive side this time and they believed me.  They hired another truck driver and my brother-in-law took my spot.  Harvest started last night (technically it  was this morning, but it’s so hard to call it morning when it’s really the middle of the night, you know?) at 2 am, and I stayed in bed!  Can you say Happy Dance?   Woo-Hoo!  </p> <p> </p> <p>I don’t know why you are reading this.  I do it every time.  I start out with one thought in mind to mention and before I know it, my fingers have run away from my brain and gone off on a whole other tangent.  What’s with that?  Am I dyslectic, bipolar or just a bit on the strange side?  (please pick option #3)  But getting back to the question of what time do you get up.  I was up before the rooster (again) this morning.  Yep.  5 a.m.  I find that as I get older, I tend to not sleep as late as I used to.  But seriously, 5 a.m?  I knew there was a 4 pm and a 5 pm but 4 or 5 am?  Apparently I didn’t want to miss a second of my birthday.  Not!  Who needs birthdays?  They are so over rated, unless you’re under 20.  After that, a person starts to get nervous about the number and then after that you just want to forget that number and then after that you really do forget the number.  My MIL is in that category.  She always asks, “how old am I"?  I tell her she’s 93 and she says she thought she was at least 100. I would think you’d want to reduce the number not increase it.  </p> <p> </p> <p>It’s been so long since I’ve written so I have a lot of pictures stacked up.  I’ll try to not get too carried away.  One of our sons is an Optometrist here in west central Minnesota.  Last week at the Minnesota Optometric Association convention, he was surprised to receive this award:</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-W_4e7oVrtMw/Uk4v9E4jvbI/AAAAAAAAgw8/pBJUpnqEBtM/s1600-h/20130927_202851.jpg"><img title="20130927_202851" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130927_202851" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-2J5PdTIAXCw/Uk4v9vqx2FI/AAAAAAAAgxE/K1xvm4Qqu_4/20130927_202851_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="345" height="539" /></a></p> <p>This is a huge honor and we are so proud of him.  With or without an award, he’s a great man, husband, father and son.  </p> <p> </p> <p>Now and then we are blessed to babysit our grandson, age 2.  After he’d been doing some gymnastic type moves, he sat nicely in the chair & looked innocent.  Uh, huh.  Innocent.    BTW, lovely chair, isn’t it?  I have 2 of them and they are fairly new – I love the chairs but I also have a farmer & a dog who like to sit in them.  Do you blame me for covering them?</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HaXX_1p44TI/Uk4v-UWrv3I/AAAAAAAAgqY/opSFjZdbkcc/s1600-h/20130830_0831433.jpg"><img title="20130830_083143" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="20130830_083143" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-UOFAdW976TA/Uk4v-8nmqeI/AAAAAAAAgqg/-VspFh3A89w/20130830_083143_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-j5KNgcIv_ME/Uk4v_9uln0I/AAAAAAAAgqo/fPsSJwvARJg/s1600-h/20130830_0831453.jpg"><img title="20130830_083145" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="20130830_083145" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wMJGrKioHvA/Uk4wAcG42CI/AAAAAAAAgqw/Ev3t35YiY2c/20130830_083145_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4nB9KN_fiYE/Uk4wBOIQZEI/AAAAAAAAgq4/SHPrO4B9E_E/s1600-h/20130830_0831503.jpg"><img title="20130830_083150" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="20130830_083150" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-OUcMs9U0HpE/Uk4wBr2QKkI/AAAAAAAAgq8/kBVh34F3Lug/20130830_083150_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-VyoMm_moHgQ/Uk4wCVpp-EI/AAAAAAAAgrI/iLzbMTN5e6Y/s1600-h/20130830_0831563.jpg"><img title="20130830_083156" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="20130830_083156" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FtObYktGOKU/Uk4wCxlD3II/AAAAAAAAgrQ/mpWtKKJH9NY/20130830_083156_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NdxBEYlOGK0/Uk4wD-w94HI/AAAAAAAAgrY/rcR0BMRFLag/s1600-h/20130830_0834066.jpg"><img title="20130830_083406" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130830_083406" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-yUYOofZERfQ/Uk4wEkADeYI/AAAAAAAAgrg/8CkjGdvqFPc/20130830_083406_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" width="323" height="288" /></a></p> <p>When you’re 2 and you eat fresh peaches and cream, this is what happens:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qHVBurpUN3Y/Uk4wFsMekQI/AAAAAAAAgro/nZGPf6WbndQ/s1600-h/20130830_1211135.jpg"><img title="20130830_121113" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130830_121113" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FfdU68TOlgY/Uk4wGAW6LOI/AAAAAAAAgrs/cauvkCf2Hbg/20130830_121113_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" width="368" height="232" /></a></p> <p>There’s that innocent look again!  Ha.</p> <p> </p> <p>Here is where I was going to add a million or so photos of a house tour I went to a couple weeks ago with Ms. Karen, Jolene & Jean.  It  was an 1890’s farmhouse that had been very lovingly and creatively restored and decorated.  I was going to make a smilebox but I discovered that most of my pictures were sideways which would really be viewed best laying down on your side.  Oh, botheration.  I really don’t want to take kthe time to learn how to rotate them without losing so much of the picture.  How’s this?  If you want to see some of the house, amazing wood shop and beautiful garden landscaping, just head on over to Ms. Karen’s blog  <a href="http://yellowfarmhouse.typepad.com/yellow_farmhouse/">My Yellow Farmhouse</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>At our last Threads “meeting”, Lori had these awesome pieces to show.  The little stitchery will be framed and given as a gift.  THEN, take a peek-e-poo at the little quilt.  I can only hope it will be given as a gift – to me of course!  No??????</p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-UfgAbyseAkI/Uk4wHSD8uNI/AAAAAAAAgr0/NCFSejTlbcU/s1600-h/20130912_163545%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130912_163545" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130912_163545" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Z-7eOCRNfLw/Uk4wH2BcQKI/AAAAAAAAgsA/_NxWNX1ous0/20130912_163545_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="296" /></a>                                                                        <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Q0MD9Ho4QbQ/Uk4wJerQGCI/AAAAAAAAgsI/z3ydvFanbF4/s1600-h/20130912_163554%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130912_163554" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130912_163554" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-kG22KylGHQM/Uk4wKDEy7AI/AAAAAAAAgsQ/9aOCiUkt2aE/20130912_163554_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="236" height="287" /></a></p> </blockquote> <p>This little baptismal gown was made by a friend of mine for her granddaughter.  What a lucky little girl!</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-teoQ6SyuvWc/Uk4wK-NYwPI/AAAAAAAAgsY/SOOtpA51dWc/s1600-h/20130917_090446%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130917_090446" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130917_090446" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-VxzKk4yx5IM/Uk4wLUk4N5I/AAAAAAAAgsg/fqThpicuu1M/20130917_090446_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="180" height="354" /></a></p> <p>The Woolies enjoyed a great day at Denise’s newly remodeled lake home.  They made some major changes and additions and it turned out wonderful.  I wish I had better pictures but I have only a snippet here & there.  But maybe it’s enough to be a little teaser.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-k8J7-zTSj-c/Uk4wMdENoXI/AAAAAAAAgso/WLex_1cuSnc/s1600-h/20130926_120841%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_120841" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_120841" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hIROWpw8FSk/Uk4wOIYJTqI/AAAAAAAAgss/nc5L4_ZpALg/20130926_120841_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="421" height="239" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hWNachFiIcY/Uk4wPCG-eAI/AAAAAAAAgs4/PZTpd5ejxSg/s1600-h/20130926_120950%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_120950" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_120950" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-YyW7DW60_x8/Uk4wP4rDQzI/AAAAAAAAgtA/6402Ft3EQmQ/20130926_120950_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="419" height="237" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qjVkBuHqJKg/Uk4wQyo9aWI/AAAAAAAAgtI/fTBHrO7BnVU/s1600-h/20130926_121007%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_121007" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_121007" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2uodcmO3cIQ/Uk4wRdj4stI/AAAAAAAAgtM/lg_GdTyvzm4/20130926_121007_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="420" height="238" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lfSsSSX-1Rc/Uk4wSPZpCKI/AAAAAAAAgtY/MEP-kZGwXs8/s1600-h/20130926_121101%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_121101" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_121101" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8J9stGForNg/Uk4wS8J89tI/AAAAAAAAgtg/Em-gol2mDxg/20130926_121101_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="206" height="364" /></a></p> <p align="center">I want to point out – the coolest silverware I’ve ever seen!</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-bqMe50OOV7M/Uk4wUEUHFxI/AAAAAAAAgto/uBbgtTEqMAg/s1600-h/20130926_123724%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_123724" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_123724" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-J_L8clxn4eQ/Uk4wUsBRouI/AAAAAAAAgtw/0el_YQb1AbI/20130926_123724_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="404" height="229" /></a></p> <p align="center">I guess you can’t tell here, but this tray is mounted on the wall and serves as a frame for this little quilt.  Adorable!</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-gyUHEc4e36U/Uk4wVhelUKI/AAAAAAAAgt4/abeVgPzK79Y/s1600-h/20130926_121000%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_121000" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_121000" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-zM_iCwMc1JA/Uk4wWXqwSmI/AAAAAAAAgt8/FIIpnbakBYA/20130926_121000_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="388" height="220" /></a></p> <p align="center">I’m not sure, but I think Denise’s hubby made this super-simple bench.  I just love it.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--4opmBoP-Jg/Uk4wXEWaTXI/AAAAAAAAguI/D8nE_2PBaCw/s1600-h/20130926_121023%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_121023" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_121023" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TWHAoFDx8cc/Uk4wXreeULI/AAAAAAAAguQ/oCGhRWEk1C4/20130926_121023_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="390" height="221" /></a></p> <p align="left">Just a few more pictures and I’m going to let you go for today………..</p> <p align="left">A little show & tell from Ms. Denise.  Among her many talents is punch needle projects. I love ‘em all!</p> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-zrGiO4WA8yQ/Uk4wZzezYoI/AAAAAAAAguY/hq3arCC9Rdo/s1600-h/20130926_144859%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_144859" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_144859" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-nXCNz0NOccM/Uk4wam9EXjI/AAAAAAAAgug/vlKw1UByJMg/20130926_144859_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="406" height="230" /></a>      <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NU_drDtlp3s/Uk4wc2yrdMI/AAAAAAAAguo/lYyGvUVO8_o/s1600-h/20130926_144904%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_144904" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_144904" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Xt9LfWT55t4/Uk4wdiSwSAI/AAAAAAAAguw/_9HClJ68LzE/20130926_144904_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="398" height="226" /></a></p> <p align="left">     <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tYfrZUyEh9c/Uk4wf4iONBI/AAAAAAAAgu4/9--o2wU6b9Y/s1600-h/20130926_144945%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_144945" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_144945" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6rd68uDUalc/Uk4wgpc3hGI/AAAAAAAAgvA/W82Zymcu3ds/20130926_144945_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="314" height="279" /></a>                <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-62A9tX0ucQg/Uk4wh5PnQGI/AAAAAAAAgvI/KeTD3oWkImY/s1600-h/20130926_145058%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_145058" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130926_145058" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-teZMusECUZo/Uk4wiq_5YoI/AAAAAAAAgvQ/VBsyy2U9YVY/20130926_145058_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="241" height="371" /></a>  I made the little bread board for this one which she told me today she has painted and the old witch has been attached to it and hung on the wall.  I’ll bet it looks great.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left">And from Ms. Karen, a little project she’s working on.   Another winner Karen!</p> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--rOU3lp_vZI/Uk4wjhppaFI/AAAAAAAAgvY/NrzFkj1kugo/s1600-h/20130926_150401%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_150401" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130926_150401" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Jg8qUheMF4w/Uk4wkYn8fYI/AAAAAAAAgvg/bso6NdI3C_E/20130926_150401_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="271" height="478" /></a></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left">I’ve been working in my woodshop to make some crap – oops, I mean lovely works of art for a craft show on Oct. 12th along with Ms. Jean and Ms. Jolene.  Here are just a couple of the things that will be up for sale:</p> <p align="left">An iPad stand:</p> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-mcq6VzbGWXE/Uk4wlENc85I/AAAAAAAAgvo/HjDDeIuhBl0/s1600-h/20130820_213332%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130820_213332" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130820_213332" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-rSQoUIWiqxQ/Uk4wlmMMkhI/AAAAAAAAgvw/AqyX5KdExd8/20130820_213332_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="287" height="506" /></a>                <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-y88EZFpKtV4/Uk4wmReI4MI/AAAAAAAAgv4/wnHBs3gsbUA/s1600-h/20130827_081931%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130827_081931" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130827_081931" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vSGGotBSm10/Uk4wm8f4NBI/AAAAAAAAgwA/KfFTaH7a3AM/20130827_081931_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="282" height="499" /></a></p> <p align="center"></p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p>A couple pumpkins of course   </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--O7PmrZwko4/Uk4wnkK9CNI/AAAAAAAAgwI/nct3o8GIMJk/s1600-h/20130910_215141%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130910_215141" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130910_215141" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-CqaIYqu0qk4/Uk4woEDX0-I/AAAAAAAAgwM/b-hYZhbt1yI/20130910_215141_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="193" /></a>       <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MiuHGhtmRiE/Uk4wpPU8udI/AAAAAAAAgwY/GqezKqoTCRc/s1600-h/20130910_215155%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130910_215155" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130910_215155" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-a1YcduI2Nxk/Uk4wpscq6kI/AAAAAAAAgwg/SjgBThMHAA8/20130910_215155_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="342" height="194" /></a></p> <p>Yes, this is on Denise’s wall but I made similar ones in both black and red.  </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-3PYg-ZrsrGE/Uk4wqi_y8II/AAAAAAAAgwo/RwP5Tbw7ckc/s1600-h/20130926_121000%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130926_121000" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130926_121000" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-nj9FxP2HYQ8/Uk4wrIJaabI/AAAAAAAAgww/c69YziVzg2c/20130926_121000_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="352" height="200" /></a></p> <p>I hope to get some decent pictures of my crap before the big show.</p> <p> </p> <p>Well, this old lady needs to toddle off to bed.  Up early again tomorrow to leave the house by 6:40 to meet Ms. Karen and a couple of her peeps for a little road trip.  Oh, gosh, I hope we have some fun…………………………..don’t worry, we’ll be fine!</p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-16216614719293108432013-08-31T21:58:00.001-05:002013-08-31T21:58:58.512-05:00But I’m too old to have a baby!<p>How many people had to grab their hearts when they read this title?  It could be a scary thing but in my case, not so much.  See, I’d always told my hubby that I wanted a BobCat for doing important and big jobs in the yard.  I mostly said it just to see if I could get a reaction from him but secretly, I would not have turned one down had it shown up on my doorstep.  One day he explained to me that a BobCat would rip up the lawn.  While it is very, very true that I don’t have a beautiful lawn – especially in this dry summer – I would not like to make matters worse.  So I gave up on the BobCat.  I just always felt I would look good in one.  You know?  Then again, I think I’d look great in a snappy little sports car too.  And I’m not getting one of those either.  Sigh. </p> <p> </p> <p>As usual, I’ve gotten a little off the track.   Back to babies.  And yes, I really am too old to have the kind of baby that wakes you up at night and makes you smile the rest of the time.  My new “baby” is green.  Take a lookee-see:</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-330q_C8K4i4/UiKsq6dWhFI/AAAAAAAAglI/yQJHAPzoFwQ/s1600-h/20130627_131921%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130627_131921" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130627_131921" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Pj1Od4sdZ-I/UiKsrhSevgI/AAAAAAAAglQ/tjbMX4Orvwo/20130627_131921_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="469" height="298" /></a></p> <p>I did not realize that John Deere (& others) make little compact utility tractors but as I live and breathe, I have one of my very own.  I think every woman should have all the babies she wants!  You go girls!</p> <p> </p> <p>And just so you know that my baby looks even better with my favorite 2 year old grandson………..</p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hPqvITvWBCU/UiKstcKISsI/AAAAAAAAglY/dlnjVnjlcJA/s1600-h/20130702_100254%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130702_100254" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130702_100254" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wJpgO6-4iAo/UiKst-v-vdI/AAAAAAAAglg/7FgOtdb7v0o/20130702_100254_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="194" height="342" /></a>the very adorable and innocent looking key thief!  </p> </blockquote> <p>Several years ago I decided to organize my gardening life by putting plant labels on everything.  I had these cute little black markers and with a label-maker, they just looked very nice.  Unfortunately, my little doggie Baxter thought they were cute too and he stole them one by one.  Pretty soon I had no clue what was growing in my garden.  So in another attempt at identifiying/organizing, I took pictures of all the day lilies as they were in bloom so that I would know what colors I had and where they are.  These are this year’s day lily blooms:</p> <p>Unnamed of course.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-SGE6UfOwCY4/UiKsvax-0LI/AAAAAAAAglo/VBKaaZ8MHYw/s1600-h/20130722_200744%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_200744" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_200744" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HofQzEFguMs/UiKsvxM7a4I/AAAAAAAAglw/23URL8vM2GA/20130722_200744_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="190" height="334" /></a>                                            <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-W7tjybMZ72I/UiKsw9LL0HI/AAAAAAAAgl4/nr7wvsOXW58/s1600-h/20130722_200922%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_200922" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_200922" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TOeIkogjbn4/UiKsxvq5hoI/AAAAAAAAgmA/-P2WOLSv4rg/20130722_200922_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="188" height="331" /></a> </p> <p align="center">    <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-eRziSNgC1LA/UiKsyWhOdTI/AAAAAAAAgmI/z69jxJf49vU/s1600-h/20130722_200948%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_200948" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_200948" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-rUu-xFV7oss/UiKsyzfXosI/AAAAAAAAgmQ/6gcuJwUocy8/20130722_200948_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="175" height="308" /></a>                                            <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-2ccvfzqpTo8/UiKszpUVv-I/AAAAAAAAgmY/Uk3gwsXPny8/s1600-h/20130722_201431%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_201431" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_201431" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-CLXnpmFPa6k/UiKs1bccfKI/AAAAAAAAgmg/ft7U46-8Evc/20130722_201431_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="173" height="304" /></a>   </p> <p align="center">  <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wEWtNwK3rTk/UiKs2ZCy5hI/AAAAAAAAgmo/tEoVYVI-6xo/s1600-h/20130722_201659%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_201659" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_201659" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-rp7bfbs44M0/UiKs3ElBzMI/AAAAAAAAgmw/uQXYfDCPgNE/20130722_201659_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="183" height="323" /></a>                                            <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-tZVHdBPUVXg/UiKs4Gfe2CI/AAAAAAAAgm4/pGp20ADMb2E/s1600-h/20130722_201749%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_201749" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_201749" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-emtnEyfnzmc/UiKs49sndzI/AAAAAAAAgm8/c7jVVkazhAo/20130722_201749_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="177" height="311" /></a>   </p> <p align="center">  <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ryKDOI2Znjw/UiKs59RTfFI/AAAAAAAAgnI/2tWpULhi0-k/s1600-h/20130722_202108%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_202108" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_202108" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-RK3A4GxMmy8/UiKs6SzPunI/AAAAAAAAgnQ/HA-K2W_SK9k/20130722_202108_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="185" height="325" /></a>                                           <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BZNSfOAO5b8/UiKs7cCsGTI/AAAAAAAAgnY/95NllH7Z4Jw/s1600-h/20130722_202138%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130722_202138" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130722_202138" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-EugacdGYwDM/UiKs7-LXb5I/AAAAAAAAgng/Gn3m174ra6M/20130722_202138_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="180" height="316" /></a>   </p> <p align="center">  <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FLODHHHHDbw/UiKs9LvqBWI/AAAAAAAAgno/24d987JnGYU/s1600-h/20130723_093607%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130723_093607" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130723_093607" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Ol04pQ-_G_Q/UiKs9jq8GmI/AAAAAAAAgnw/RoGK_tG9Tu0/20130723_093607_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="183" height="323" /></a>                                            <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-YmZBLtxuhT0/UiKs-Sk4joI/AAAAAAAAgn4/Kk3riRkiR8I/s1600-h/20130726_155308%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130726_155308" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130726_155308" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-n3xsEIsmbnQ/UiKs_BV6doI/AAAAAAAAgoA/7qLUvXMxfig/20130726_155308_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="181" height="318" /></a> </p> <p align="center">    <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-R3iOshTta7A/UiKs_zhL7AI/AAAAAAAAgoI/iebLBSZYpAY/s1600-h/20130729_202318%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130729_202318" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130729_202318" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-1M0JeR0PEII/UiKtAmocBeI/AAAAAAAAgoQ/i8WCcMFU1Q4/20130729_202318_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="173" height="305" /></a>                                              <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-cwWxeOnb2f0/UiKtBbqZQiI/AAAAAAAAgoY/kXvhKlJUGFI/s1600-h/20130801_171325%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130801_171325" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130801_171325" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sSxxtRU3mQk/UiKtCNkT7xI/AAAAAAAAgoc/gHxlTd7w4Rc/20130801_171325_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="173" height="304" /></a>  </p> <p align="center">   <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-X9sOkR08_FU/UiKtC3q0A3I/AAAAAAAAgoo/3_pyrJDIoDM/s1600-h/20130805_163101%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130805_163101" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130805_163101" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--EXt8aC4JcE/UiKtD-ugyQI/AAAAAAAAgow/dXO-Di1VxpE/20130805_163101_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="180" height="317" /></a>                                            <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2L2U_1uiqUg/UiKtE1d7DLI/AAAAAAAAgo4/JzUvVcqHE3U/s1600-h/20130805_163125%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130805_163125" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130805_163125" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-pIVLyAwpD4E/UiKtF1XLc3I/AAAAAAAAgo8/zLtY0O_m53c/20130805_163125_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="176" height="309" /></a>    </p> <p align="center"> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-CEsHkJFSIIE/UiKtGopD1OI/AAAAAAAAgpI/3RUZeK-CCUI/s1600-h/20130818_081713%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130818_081713" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="20130818_081713" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--1oyIVV4YzY/UiKtHWadZXI/AAAAAAAAgpQ/N8MfMprkyWw/20130818_081713_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="178" height="314" /></a></p> <p> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Aungjai8Lig/UiKtJB9bTEI/AAAAAAAAgpY/ARH69S5-z3Q/s1600-h/20130711_080716%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130711_080716" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130711_080716" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-xRNqeNaZS1Y/UiKtJ3pjcCI/AAAAAAAAgpg/BKgMUoRIQZ0/20130711_080716_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="274" height="457" /></a></p> <p>This is my favorite clematis at the back of the house.  It’s just a blooming fool I tell ya.  I confess I had to crop off the bottom of this picture.  I noticed there was a gi-normous weed right in front that looked suspiciously like a Canadian Thistle.  (no offense Canada friends, but I do not like “your” thistles)  <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Winking smile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-sBpRBN1OK6s/UiKtK8mWZII/AAAAAAAAgpo/gHh6enAhzrw/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" /></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ViZ_q9Q1c-c/UiKtMyDvb_I/AAAAAAAAgpw/ohBvMhnbcE4/s1600-h/20130711_081050%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130711_081050" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130711_081050" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-w2KRyNaGc3g/UiKtNtGqNqI/AAAAAAAAgp4/qSSmEip_boY/20130711_081050_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="456" height="258" /></a></p> <p>And lastly, this bad quality photo of one of my fav’s – old fashioned hollyhocks.</p> <p> </p> <p>That’s it for today.  Here’s hoping you get all the babies you want in whatever form you want them.  Maybe I should think a little more about a “baby” car.  Like a convertible maybe.  Hmmm.</p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-57597614946442787632013-06-30T09:02:00.001-05:002013-06-30T14:25:14.855-05:00I Love/Hate Technology<p><font size="4">  <font face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>   I really have a love/hate relationship between myself and my electronics.  Everything always sounds so simple – until I try to do it and discover it won’t do one of the steps I need to finish.  Or some such thing.  For instance.  My last cell phone was the Motorola Droid 3.  <u><font color="#0000ff">Had a little problem tho</font></u>.  Within the 1st year, the darn thing died – just turned belly-up and worked no more.  One of the best parts of that whole deal was that I was at the Verizon store telling “the man” what was happening so he took it and was trying a few things when it totally gave up the ghost!  Ha.  Can you believe it?  That’s practically opposite of when you wait & wait to go to the Dr. for a problem and when you walk in the Dr’s office, the symptoms are gone.  But in this case I could say – here’s a phone having issues and then it died in his arms, er, hands.    I did try real hard to get them to let me upgrade to a different phone – I’d pay the difference in price, extend my contract, whatever they wanted,  but no dice.  </strong></font></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>     Too late now to make this long story short, so the upshot was that they sent me a new phone free of charge.  “New phone” is kinda misleading tho because they don’t actually send you a “new” phone.  It’s a re-conditioned phone.   The same Droid 3 that I didn’t want.  Of course I was justified in my skepticism – the darn thing worked about 9 months before doing lots of weird stuff, like not always receiving calls and other “minor” problems.  At that point all I could do was wait impatiently for my contract to expire so I could get a new phone.  </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>     Listen, my Momma didn’t raise no dummy so I did a lot of internet research on cell phones.  I didn’t want to be caught again with my pants down &  a phone that was known for problems.  Lo & behold, if I could stand to wait an extra 2 weeks beyond my contract, I would be able to get the brand-spanking-new Samsung Galaxy S4.  It kinda sounds like a rocket ship with that name but actually every review I could find had nothing but the highest praise.  In fact it was the only phone to earn 5 stars from all reviewers.  The next closest phones in rankings (including the iphone) were at 4 1/2 stars.  No brainer.  This is the phone for me.  <font color="#ff0000"><u>I love technology</u></font> and like to be on the cutting edge.  (uh-huh).  Honestly, swear to God, it is an amazing phone in every way.  I’m totally in love with it.   <u><font color="#0000ff">Had a little problem tho.</font></u>  After 2 weeks of ownership, it wouldn’t turn on.  Off to Verizon for some advice.  A little of this and a little of that and it was discovered that a new battery would get us up and running.  Whoo-who!  Verizon would send me a new battery and I’d return my bad battery to them.</strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>   <u><font color="#0000ff">Had a little problem tho</font></u>.  Over the weekend the darn thing wouldn’t turn on.  Hello?  Back to the Verizon store.  The manager is a real sweet gal and we’re getting to be good buds.  While she’s calling Verizon headquarters, we’re looking at each other’s pictures – she has a really cute niece & nephew who are in the bathtub with some pink foaming stuff on their heads.  I need to track some of that stuff down for my grandson.  <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Smile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Ll91fF4l9kY/UdA59YHN6xI/AAAAAAAAgNU/0pxVTdXTvyo/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" />  I’m thinking it would be fun to play with outside.  Do you know it is called?   <u>Anyway</u>, headquarters said there must be something wrong with the phone itself even tho there have so far been <u>no reports</u> of any issues.   They sent a new phone over-night.  Yeah!  When I opened it, the packaging said “this may be a re-conditioned phone”.  SERIOUSLY?  But my new best friend Kyla, the Verizon store manager assured me that it is in fact a new phone. She moved all data, etc. and it’s been working just fine.  <font color="#ff0000"><u>I love technology. </u></font> </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>     Anyway, this phone does not do medical exams – yet, but it does some cool stuff.   Like follow eye movements to scroll down a page.  (you know how tired your finger gets from scrolling!)  It will read air-hand gestures instead of touching the screen.  Hopefully, it doesn’t read that one hand gesture (the naughty one).  And it takes amazing pictures.  Now if I could just figure out how to move them from my phone to my computer.  Sigh.  Could someone come over here and help me? <font color="#ff0000"><u> I hate technology</u></font>.</strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>So there you have it.  And I had no idea I was going to write an essay on cell phones when I sat down here.  </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">We’ve had a lot of rain this past month which has been very discouraging to my gardening soul.  But, “wooden” you know, <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Smile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Ll91fF4l9kY/UdA59YHN6xI/AAAAAAAAgNU/0pxVTdXTvyo/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" />, I have a wood shop to fall back on as a way to pass the time and keep my mind off eating.  It’s important to get out of the house if you are dieting…..  So, after that long essay, <font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>I am hoping I can bring up a few photos that might be of interest.  </strong></font></font></strong></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font> </p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Just to prove that not everything ends up as sawdust----I made this flag on beadboard and added two beadboard stars.</strong></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-irXJhmZcw90/UdA5-dK3jJI/AAAAAAAAgU8/Wtixzhlp3z8/s1600-h/DSC037083.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-irXJhmZcw90/UdA5-dK3jJI/AAAAAAAAgVE/W259a0ERfRU/s1600-h/DSC0370811.jpg"><img title="DSC03708" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSC03708" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Awd1Vjq7LxU/UdA6AbCLB4I/AAAAAAAAgNs/q84_W6LqwmM/DSC03708%25255B1%25255D_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="378" height="284" /></a></a></a></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>This is where I put it, along with the ladder I made last year.</strong></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LQyVDGVKWJ8/UdA6BEJ7McI/AAAAAAAAgVM/GQ_KuwX3FlI/s1600-h/DSC037103.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LQyVDGVKWJ8/UdA6BEJ7McI/AAAAAAAAgVU/LqrmpD-ShHQ/s1600-h/DSC0371011.jpg"><img title="DSC03710" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSC03710" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LluKZrYXzrs/UdA6DFjAEZI/AAAAAAAAgOE/tR49ogOcVeY/DSC03710%25255B1%25255D_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="321" height="427" /></a></a></a></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>This is the stacked flag set made with 2x4’s.  I added a flag pole on the side and tied jute and some red ribbon.  (it needs a ball on top of the pole but I couldn’t find anything to use.)  I’m thinking the flag pole doesn’t add anything.  What do you think?</strong></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6nRYe_TmFW0/UdA6EI4zlhI/AAAAAAAAgVc/M2-Q9rK64g8/s1600-h/DSC037133.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6nRYe_TmFW0/UdA6EI4zlhI/AAAAAAAAgVk/sxq6yvwizHk/s1600-h/DSC037134.jpg"><img title="DSC03713" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSC03713" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-lnG1YZ4A7Fc/UdA6GmYreBI/AAAAAAAAgOc/OpNEeqPx4_Y/DSC03713_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="328" height="247" /></a></a></a></a></strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>With flag pole</strong></font></p> <p> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IFtnFGG4Pw4/UdA6HnWoZBI/AAAAAAAAgVs/74xpkuCAeLc/s1600-h/DSC037143.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IFtnFGG4Pw4/UdA6HnWoZBI/AAAAAAAAgV0/mGl8NW-_uio/s1600-h/DSC037145.jpg"><img title="DSC03714" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSC03714" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-cjiHW9kyOiM/UdA6KJ5bwUI/AAAAAAAAgO0/EeypaLd6oy8/DSC03714_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="341" height="256" /></a></a></a></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>     Without </strong></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IFtnFGG4Pw4/UdA6HnWoZBI/AAAAAAAAgV0/mGl8NW-_uio/s1600-h/DSC037145.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>This is where I put it.</strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong> </strong></font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LOJf_gxtpY8/UdA6LDn6_4I/AAAAAAAAgV8/_3yHDKL1otU/s1600-h/DSC037063.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LOJf_gxtpY8/UdA6LDn6_4I/AAAAAAAAgWE/vXvbEqjcoQ4/s1600-h/DSC0370611.jpg"><img title="DSC03706" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSC03706" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rRIZOcpIehw/UdA6NZmhyfI/AAAAAAAAgPM/cEYitaDtc1E/DSC03706%25255B1%25255D_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="331" height="250" /></a></a></a></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Don’t ask me why I made 3 of these because I only want one.  There’s just no explaining my thought processes.  I wonder how well they will sell in December at the Old Crow Mercantile? </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>This shelf, tables & stool are some of the things that will be at the Old Crow Mercantile.  These are currently unpainted because I think it’s just annoying to get out the paint & brushes for one or 2 projects and then have to clean everything to put away.  I’ll do a painting week later. </strong></font></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pRVFTaOrHgg/UdA6OBKh7PI/AAAAAAAAgPU/QuIYWjuawtY/s1600-h/20130609_143831%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130609_143831" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130609_143831" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-KnuZei-VqXc/UdA6OfRNqUI/AAAAAAAAgPc/A0C6Ooi4IJI/20130609_143831_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="505" height="206" /></a>                        </p> <p>    <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fXkdz8A2IIw/UdA6PJDfkaI/AAAAAAAAgPk/7Cpk7isDRKQ/s1600-h/20130609_144123%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="20130609_144123" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="20130609_144123" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-NvxBsWa8oD4/UdA6PhBHsHI/AAAAAAAAgPs/bjeVYysL1Yc/20130609_144123_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="270" height="410" /></a>      <font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">  <strong>By the way, I left the broom in the picture as proof that I do sweep the shop now & then.  Even if it doesn’t look like it here.  </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>       </strong></font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ujvhn7Q6cwM/UdA6Q-RcqoI/AAAAAAAAgP0/e-oZNJjmr4w/s1600-h/DSC03658%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong><img title="DSC03658" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSC03658" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-e9YkydQqvhU/UdA6RVnyzPI/AAAAAAAAgP8/dFFfURy1CB8/DSC03658_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="356" height="268" /></strong></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong> </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Then I moved on to birdhouses.  These are my own and not to sell.  Not all were made this week but I did make them all.  Including the white what-cha-deely that I put the mustard house on.  The old porch post came to me via Mrs. Yellow Farmhouse.  </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>    </strong></font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-OqiE5wOapu4/UdA6SNyS36I/AAAAAAAAgQE/4K3_uvCB640/s1600-h/20130616_211415%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong><img title="20130616_211415" style="border-left-width: 0px; 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My name is Baxter and I am 5 years old. I’m pretty lucky too because I remember my first year as a puppy, there were a lot of days when I didn’t think they’d let me live to see my first birthday. And here I am at 5! For my birthday I got a big old rawhide bone to chew. I made my Dad hold it for me ‘cuz he likes to spoil me that way. And I like to let him.<br />
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Riding in the tractor is my 2nd favorite thing. I have my own buddy seat so I can be watchful</div>
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Sometimes while we’re “working” in the tractor, I just get bored with the whole thing and need to have a little nap. I just hope Dad’s not napping too. That auto-steer can be a dangerous thing if we both get sleepy.</div>
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Speaking of dogs, I’ve a birth announcement. Our son Aaron just got himself a new young’un. His name is Mack.<br />
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Enough with the foolishness, I need to catch up with the rest of the pictures from our Tour of Tables event. There were a total of 14 tables and I’ve got to say that this year was the tops. There were so many outstanding tables. So many creative ideas. I’m not going to narrate these, so just go ahead a scroll through….<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Ck4HJiGVfWU/UaVyhTscBcI/AAAAAAAAekE/qKrVjpk6lOU/s1600-h/DSC03631%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC03631" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-xwj4J0_8ekI/UaVyho_jsVI/AAAAAAAAekM/nx3j4mqzmV8/DSC03631_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC03631" width="244" /></a> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7bWV1-AwJN0/UaVykbaEWxI/AAAAAAAAekU/72nbQHOjzWg/s1600-h/DSC03634%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC03634" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-n329h679nSE/UaVyk3nQyHI/AAAAAAAAekc/e6qhB9u4ETs/DSC03634_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC03634" width="184" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ylAk_m9XLaY/UaVymB653II/AAAAAAAAekk/7kGEtHWfVdY/s1600-h/DSC03635%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC03635" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-eWo4ue_ei0g/UaVymv3i_AI/AAAAAAAAeks/WFigmcfoMX0/DSC03635_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC03635" width="244" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-sNflpo-g0RE/UaVyoLGSV3I/AAAAAAAAek0/2GwCc9i-0VE/s1600-h/DSC03641%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC03641" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BZhIvw4LLqw/UaVyo9VRkOI/AAAAAAAAek8/Ps3mveTOyWo/DSC03641_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC03641" width="244" /></a><br />
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Illinois – where John Deere tractors are born:<br />
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Arizona was the birthplace of the Red Hat Society:<br />
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Delaware was the first state:<br />
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Washington state is the apple state:<br />
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My table (which you saw in the last post) was New Jersey, the garden state:<br />
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OK, here’s a short story for you about grandson #1. Actually, he is the only grandson but he’s definitely a keeper. One day when he was here for a play day, he was his usual busy self investigating anything and everything. Here’s a clue about investigating – he’s 20 months old. ‘Nuff said. The following pictures are real – the story is pure fiction.<br />
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“#1, I can’t believe what a naughty boy you’ve been. I’m afraid you will have to take a time-out to sit in the dog crate.”<br />
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“But Nana, I didn’t mean it, I’ll be good. Just don’t make me sit in the dog crate”. Can you see the tears on his poor little face?<br />
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“Ha, tricked you Nana!! This is so much fun!”<br />
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“Let’s do it again!” <br />
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Isn’t he a great # 1? <br />
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The Threads met a week ago and we had a great experience and took a tour of the famous (to us) Kirkbride Building. It was built 1888 by the state of MN and it was called the State Insane Asylum. I kid you not. They had as many as 2,000 patients there at one time. It is now sitting empty. Our town is trying desperately to find a buyer who will restore the building and turn it into something wonderful. It is truly one of the most beautiful buildings and grounds that you can imagine. I’ll see if I can grab a picture of it to insert here. At any rate, if you are interested, I believe the selling price is………………..$1.00. <br />
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This part of the building is called the central tower. I wanted to find a picture of the grand staircase because it is awesome and has been much photographed. The picture below shows the tower in the center of the rest of the complex. Those wings on either side were all attached – it was all one building. As you can see, it is huge. There are also a number of supporting buildings. There will be many, many unhappy people if we can’t find a way to save this beautiful complex from the wrecking ball. So sad. <br />
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We (the Threads) had lunch at the local pub – Mabel Murphy’s and a few productive members brought a little show & tell. <br />
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<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qine66CIPsI/UaV0ShjigHI/AAAAAAAAe0E/j93Dk03FspE/s1600-h/2013-05-10_12-36-00_284%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img alt="2013-05-10_12-36-00_284" border="0" height="275" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_vKCJM_Oj7Q/UaV0TLYyZlI/AAAAAAAAe0M/SgZ5_9tBvWk/2013-05-10_12-36-00_284_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="2013-05-10_12-36-00_284" width="243" /></a> Lori’s quilt #3. So sorry about my bad photography.<br />
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<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Scx888S7nm4/UaV0UYUDbtI/AAAAAAAAe0U/7WdArDjt-7Y/s1600-h/2013-05-10_13-06-35_133%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="2013-05-10_13-06-35_133" border="0" height="207" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-eeRf-awZVyw/UaV0VKIMNBI/AAAAAAAAe0c/xPTSGHIcXQc/2013-05-10_13-06-35_133_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="2013-05-10_13-06-35_133" width="365" /></a> Karen’s quilt made for her great-niece.<br />
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Well, that’s all she wrote. My computer fingers are tired and so am I – it’s time for this old gal to say goodnight.<br />
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Ms. FayeBehind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-24570559103444462982013-04-16T22:36:00.001-05:002013-04-16T22:36:54.929-05:00On the road again……<p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Spring has been a huge disappointment to me so far. I’ve been waiting and waiting to get some dirt under my fingernails. I’ve done some spring cleaning and – ta da! - there’s the dirt under my fingernails I’ve been wanting. I feel I’ve been blessed.  A-huh, right. </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">The refrain I keep hearing is getting very old “I’m so sick of winter”.  We got another 6 inches yesterday and we haven’t melted all the winter snow yet.  “They” are talking snow again – tomorrow I think.  I know we’re not alone in the whole “winter situation” so what do you say we get a petition started to #1, find out who “they” are and then, #2, line ‘em all up and throw snowballs at ‘em!  I also saw someone had built a snowman and then stuck knives in him but that’s so violent and really, why take our anger out on the poor snowman when we’re really fed up with Mother Nature AND Old Man Winter?  We need to take action!</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">So I was thinking – while twirling around the old dustcloth – which is not a good idea, by the way. Then you have to wait for the dust to settle and start all over.  I wish I still had children at home so I’d have some free slave labor.  Oh, wait, that didn’t work back then either.  As the Little Red Hen would say, “well, I’ll just do it myself”!  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Nothing too exciting in my spring decorating but I moved some small pieces around:</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-G0Xbp9LKiE0/UW4Xz2z0n6I/AAAAAAAAebc/dNaHeDmslQo/s1600-h/DSC03431-001%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03431-001" border="0" alt="DSC03431-001" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9qCZui0c0l4/UW4X0Tcri_I/AAAAAAAAebk/g35h4Q1BlIQ/DSC03431-001_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="453" height="374" /></a></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">There was a reason for the major “clean everything in the house except the dog”.  I hosted Loose Threads in March and about 10 days later it was the Woolies turn.  Apparently, it’s been a busy and unproductive month as there was very little show & tell. </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Ms. Denise is making 4, 30’s print quilts for the little girl’s room at the lake. Not all of them are finished but she’s getting close.</font></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-xL6W0KPkE-E/UW4X18anMkI/AAAAAAAAebs/AKye0fczcJY/s1600-h/DSC03449%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03449" border="0" alt="DSC03449" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-JOGvaszVvQE/UW4X2iv5T5I/AAAAAAAAeb0/IgPxz5tvpNA/DSC03449_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="346" height="260" /></a></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-o-eRRd_XqEw/UW4X3VKeVMI/AAAAAAAAeb8/fU2JazBEifo/s1600-h/DSC03447%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03447" border="0" alt="DSC03447" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-wKm65PJjD1M/UW4X4OvG7wI/AAAAAAAAecE/feuknl42e5U/DSC03447_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="321" height="242" /></a>    <img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03448" border="0" alt="DSC03448" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0Y4npFZjSCc/UW4X4QTIXBI/AAAAAAAAecM/Cu6FsqnIzpw/DSC03448_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="326" height="246" /></font><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">This little wool project is Ms. Jean’s.  The background stays the same but there are different seasonal scenes she can use interchangeably on the background.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">The 1st weekend in April brought the annual “Garden Day” that is put on by the Master Gardeners in our area.  I realize it’s not an extremely creative name but I assure you it’s an outstanding event.  It’s the largest of it’s kind in the state of Minnesota.  Attendance was lower than some years but there were a wonderful 550 attendees with over 45 speakers/teachers.  Plus we feed them very well all day long.  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Only one week later was the Tour of Tables fundraiser.  This is one of those things where I can let my creative juices flow.  So much fun – and so much work.  Our theme this year was – See the USA.  Each table was to choose a state to use as inspiration for decorating.  We started last fall with Save the Date cards:</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TYySDo-n9S4/UW4YAUCRkwI/AAAAAAAAecU/CpXk4msAN-Q/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hni57Jt6eEo/UW4YC_xM2sI/AAAAAAAAecc/tag1QXHV5BM/image_thumb%25255B6%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="405" height="405" /></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Since we were traveling the USA, I thought our raffle quilt should be a patriotic one.  The Loose Threads got together for a sewing day to make a “stash” quilt from my design.  How did we do?</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-83sI3r1Wr9A/UW4YD7pxQrI/AAAAAAAAeck/x7UKWs91ii8/s1600-h/DSC03446%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03446" border="0" alt="DSC03446" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-G2X4BsX7vPQ/UW4YEi5HkCI/AAAAAAAAecs/UspJcYQCgxQ/DSC03446_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="361" height="377" /></a></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">We ended up over-flowing this suitcase and moved to a larger one later:</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tcnzZgTPIl0/UW4YFm3j7BI/AAAAAAAAec0/4NV7z1pxRJY/s1600-h/DSC03636%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03636" border="0" alt="DSC03636" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-aaqORIg3QTk/UW4YGPbVRhI/AAAAAAAAec8/Jpt_jCI6WC4/DSC03636_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="255" height="339" /></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Ticket to attend:  </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-AlnmzA7_3cQ/UW4YHTr5zgI/AAAAAAAAedE/4r9uSZlIBWw/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1Ry-SLEtfqI/UW4YIi_VDQI/AAAAAAAAedM/VxX32kfcJGY/image_thumb%25255B5%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="408" height="208" /></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Our programs were 8 1/2 x 28” and folded so they opened like a map.   We packed their lunches for their road trip in boxes.  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-f1dNk50yZdc/UW4YJ5CRKDI/AAAAAAAAedU/KQfvmoNXE-8/s1600-h/DSC03652%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03652" border="0" alt="DSC03652" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Scoa0arquas/UW4YKfMb8nI/AAAAAAAAedc/fhUurGRb13Y/DSC03652_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="353" height="266" /></a>Their suitcase menu was:  Pedal to the Metal Chicken Salad, served on a Hub Cap.  (My first suggestion was road kill chicken but I was voted down.  Huh.)  Miles to Go fruit salad; red light, green light broccoli salad and Cadillac kettle chips.  Each table hostess served a dessert at he</font><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">r table that matched her theme.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">We also have waiters every year who generously go along with our crazy ideas.  This year they wore police uniforms and were called “traffic enforcers”.  They actually brought our box lunches to us and kept our water & coffee filled.  Great guys!  </font><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">So, ok.  My state was New Jersey.  Why?  It’s the garden state!  An obvious choice for me:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6klvzxwlzrs/UW4YL1fdXxI/AAAAAAAAedk/JsbDAMRtJ74/s1600-h/DSC03599%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03599" border="0" alt="DSC03599" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EM1SQ8hyO2E/UW4YMYonpEI/AAAAAAAAeds/br7LmMvLKNs/DSC03599_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="431" height="324" /></a></p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-bRqKnEl4n44/UW4YOGfVZJI/AAAAAAAAed0/d9aERNKC-jk/s1600-h/DSC03600%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; 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border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03602" border="0" alt="DSC03602" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-X65neiJpn7g/UW4YS51OibI/AAAAAAAAeec/xgxaZEIhR7k/DSC03602_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="436" height="328" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-YMW2gKYwYDw/UW4YTmJwrPI/AAAAAAAAeek/z6XsB5IO56A/s1600-h/DSC03603%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03603" border="0" alt="DSC03603" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-YJou20F8ttU/UW4YUYZqpAI/AAAAAAAAees/CfsKhlfvV28/DSC03603_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="372" height="494" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-M9CcCZbXvJY/UW4YVyBFWCI/AAAAAAAAee0/9ia-dMzaXPk/s1600-h/DSC03604%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03604" border="0" alt="DSC03604" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LELWUpGXfPE/UW4YWcNTpOI/AAAAAAAAee8/LTM9_HiwXrM/DSC03604_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="362" height="482" /></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">You might notice the paper bags on each plate.  Those were my table favors.  Each lunch bag had a vintage seed packet picture and inside was some homemade Gardener’s Hand Soap and a little chocolate treats in burlap:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-847KZD4lung/UW4YXc3R26I/AAAAAAAAefE/1w2JVeOev9s/s1600-h/DSC03528%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-847KZD4lung/UW4YXc3R26I/AAAAAAAAefM/4MRc-iDUrgg/s1600-h/DSC03528%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; 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border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03612" border="0" alt="DSC03612" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-a1l5mGhJKIY/UW4YyJtiXTI/AAAAAAAAehw/4gN7NeOl220/DSC03612_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="503" height="378" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">I know it’s always fun to see tablescapes but I think I’ll mosey on down the road and hit the rest of the states next time.  Hopefully real soon.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BiB4OTe__Qs/UW4YzLCDCZI/AAAAAAAAeh4/_GzKKB1Va2w/s1600-h/DSC03628%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BiB4OTe__Qs/UW4YzLCDCZI/AAAAAAAAeiA/UKmrML1T8ys/s1600-h/DSC03628%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03628" border="0" alt="DSC03628" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-C8ZS6UbZHl8/UW4Y1ZbyOpI/AAAAAAAAeiE/qz0GUJlyGzc/DSC03628_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="257" height="341" /></a></font></a><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">My slightly skewed highway.  Is a job with the Highway Dept. in my future?????</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans">Ms. Faye</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Sans"></font></p> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p><font face="Book Antiqua"></font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-57186111339095377992013-03-19T17:28:00.001-05:002013-03-19T17:36:54.161-05:00SPRING! not.<p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Spring has sprung, no grass has riz, I wonder where the flowers is?</strong></font></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-gDLAnPZ6ROQ/UUjmNKCqdGI/AAAAAAAAeXw/JnQBMyIvIDg/s1600-h/DSC03476%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03476" border="0" alt="DSC03476" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-SMa4K0eHdvY/UUjmNj5fD2I/AAAAAAAAeX4/xn9F3ag5Nig/DSC03476_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="463" height="348" /></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>View from my front door, looking at my shop.  That I can’t get to.</strong></font></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mh6fjBQlq2w/UUjmO4K6tRI/AAAAAAAAeYA/FkGQIuJ_b4I/s1600-h/DSC03462%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03462" border="0" alt="DSC03462" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-q3WJKlN1zG0/UUjmPBp08pI/AAAAAAAAeYI/Vpd6pb-wxNI/DSC03462_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="423" height="318" /></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>My flower garden…….to the leftt of the tree, you can barely see the top of a fence post.  You can’t see any of the fence by the bird feeders.  We also have no trouble reaching the bird feeders 18” off the ground.  </strong></font></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-QeqhUi28O-0/UUjmQP74lfI/AAAAAAAAeYQ/jwErBfTr0sI/s1600-h/DSC03465%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03465" border="0" alt="DSC03465" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8Q_fOyRGdKg/UUjmQpSm0NI/AAAAAAAAeYY/_3cZVQJNO_4/DSC03465_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="467" height="351" /></a><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Everybody has to eat!</font></strong></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Looks to me like spring might be a little late this year.  And before you say it, I know that winter has gotten long for a lot of folks.  This is my blog tho and I have the right to feel sorry for myself if I want to.  I should be outside getting dirt under my fingernails.  Instead I’m shoveling snow.  Well, I suppose I would shovel but my husband does ……so I watch and cheer him on.  I am a good wife.  </strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>A couple of storms ago, my Mr. and Mr. “almost perfect” doggie, Baxter had to walk from our house to the farm shop to get the tractor with the snowblower.  I actually did watch and had to hold my breath – the snow was thigh-high and you can only imagine how hard it is to walk in that.  He would take a step or two, lose his balance, try to stabilize, take a rest and try again.  Mr. Baxter was jumping straight up in the air in order to get thru the snow.  I’ll tell you, they were both exhausted by the time they hit the shop.  Watching from the house I started to worry that he would fall and not get up – what would I do?  I wouldn’t be able to get to him.  I could call 911 but they can’t get through blocked roads & farm yards full of snow either.  I never did come up with a good solution but thank God I didn’t need to.</strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Seeing as winter is getting long and boring, I decided to take a couple weeks out of my busy (?) schedule to clean my house.  Oh my.  Who was in here to make a deposit of all that dust & pet hair?  And who was in here and scattered things hither & yon so that I had put things back in their places?  Why do ceiling fans collect dust?  And the tops of window casings?  And curtains? And kitchen cupboards?  Really?  I have to clean everything?  Well, there’s a waste of time, I’m telling you.  But I bit the bullet and got ‘er done.  In that process I felt it was time to put away winter greens and snowmen.  Then I took a look outside – I guess it’s still winter but gosh darn it, I need some spring colors.  Here’s some of the stuff that landed here & there.</strong></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-OT8p4x4xGc8/UUjmRrp3VHI/AAAAAAAAeYg/98YvV11UeBs/s1600-h/DSC03431%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03431" border="0" alt="DSC03431" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qIRfzZZmBqw/UUjmR_xD9CI/AAAAAAAAeYo/8ne9CzwwH_4/DSC03431_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="529" height="398" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-D_AyyfOsK8I/UUjmS-Nsd-I/AAAAAAAAeYw/l-7bHvFZRkc/s1600-h/DSC03433%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; 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border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03436" border="0" alt="DSC03436" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LEReblVdq9U/UUjmWeGiV4I/AAAAAAAAeZc/2d7do_tp-PU/DSC03436_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="334" height="444" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wHmhzI6X3q8/UUjmXN0_x0I/AAAAAAAAeZk/_KR5H2V66R8/s1600-h/DSC03439%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03439" border="0" alt="DSC03439" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-EIv3WoGjnF0/UUjmXnbvYTI/AAAAAAAAeZs/ebBaY_vU-HM/DSC03439_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="344" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wKmTeMVm-zE/UUjmYWrY0AI/AAAAAAAAeZ0/tgZJ77OT8wI/s1600-h/DSC03440%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03440" border="0" alt="DSC03440" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xKq4rvLjY2M/UUjmY9tsNzI/AAAAAAAAeZ8/ovUp0F3ULJc/DSC03440_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="290" height="386" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LHlTjbvuI1g/UUjmZy2E95I/AAAAAAAAeaE/z-O9sXOngag/s1600-h/DSC03441%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03441" border="0" alt="DSC03441" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-zevhNFLXIXc/UUjmac5tlMI/AAAAAAAAeaM/ixThvjAUNXA/DSC03441_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="447" height="336" /></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong></strong></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>I suppose that stuff will get dusty now too.  Can’t catch a break.</strong></font></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Now just because I haven’t written for a while, I’m thinking I should throw in a couple great show & tell pictures.  I’ve been real bad and haven’t always taken my camera.  Bad Faye.  I will do better, I promise.  All the gals I hang out with have too much talent for me not to share with y’all.</font></strong></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uhMo0V0MLkA/UUjmbQSyMSI/AAAAAAAAeaU/MycENQwyv-A/s1600-h/DSC03447%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03447" border="0" alt="DSC03447" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-mIs-ESQ4s0g/UUjmb7t_4GI/AAAAAAAAeac/o9HK22f5aWg/DSC03447_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="404" height="304" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-FIIt8F6HE0o/UUjmc0ObumI/AAAAAAAAeak/aZXOEaIK6PU/s1600-h/DSC03448%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03448" border="0" alt="DSC03448" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-bnZWpqpFlDw/UUjmdTkoDAI/AAAAAAAAeas/VJVuKGAWwxM/DSC03448_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="412" height="310" /></a></p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>These are seasonal wool scenes that Jean mounts on the crazy patch piece</strong>.</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7p0uC6r1ZeE/UUjmeD4K9BI/AAAAAAAAea0/pg3ogvd0Yiw/s1600-h/DSC03450%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03450" border="0" alt="DSC03450" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HeQMeTRQidM/UUjmetKKWAI/AAAAAAAAea8/28ecwbjr5QA/DSC03450_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="332" height="442" /></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Twin size 30’s quilt.  Now you only have to make 3 more Ms. Denise.  Yikes.</strong></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>Oh, remember how I was whining about all the snow?  Well, how would you like these 2 he-men to come shovel? </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-G9eJU_6QE4U/UUjmfZp_SrI/AAAAAAAAebE/Y_uyfwtNZmw/s1600-h/Carhartt%252520Boys-001%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Carhartt Boys-001" border="0" alt="Carhartt Boys-001" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iCa5R20DOWQ/UUjmfknJEgI/AAAAAAAAebM/vLTrCG_R2rE/Carhartt%252520Boys-001_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="231" height="420" /></a></p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><strong>My son & grandson</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I remember one of the first posts I wrote told about how excited I was to be having a good hair day.  I want you to know that it happened again the other day.  Per usual when that happens – and obviously, it can be several years between – I was at home all day and no one came to the door.  WHY?  It’s such a waste not to be able to share my gloriousness with the world.  Or at least with some hunky guy.  (sorry Mr. Picket Fence).  </font></strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I also used to talk about “my Joe”.  You know, a baseball player for the Twins.  He’s a cutey-patootey and real handy with a baseball too.  Apparently, I have been dropped like a hot potato as he got married this winter and NOW I find out he & his new Mrs. are going to have twins!  If I wasn’t so dis-heartened about losing “my Joe”, I’d say how cool is that?  A MN Twins player having Twins?  Sign ‘em up!</font></strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Ms. Faye</font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></strong></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-66083493344604659012012-12-14T22:24:00.001-06:002012-12-14T22:24:29.898-06:00Spelling Test<p>What day is it?  OMG, I started a quilt on Monday and finished it last night.  Yeah Me!!    One lap quilt for Christmas – check.  Now on to quilt #2.  Like I said – what day is it?  Should I have started these sooner?  Duh.  I can spell p.r.o.c.r.a.s.t.i.n.a.t.i.o.n.  Can you?  So anyway, I was sewing away on my project and my hubs said I think I’ll pick up a pizza for supper.  Why, I asked sweetly, did you think I wasn’t going to cook?  He said, no, I was afraid you were!  Oh, the comedy is stacking up deep here.  But I gotta admit, my plan was working well on how to get out of cooking.  My mama didn’t raise no dummy.</p> <p>So, here’s quilt #1.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-iN4uqBSKqrQ/UMv6-sE0ecI/AAAAAAAAeSc/rEYzvrkNqvA/s1600-h/DSC03348%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03348" border="0" alt="DSC03348" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-aASDTbKdboo/UMv6_X48oLI/AAAAAAAAeSk/sXOKkuIvo0Q/DSC03348_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="310" height="378" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>For quilt #2, I sent away for a jelly roll used in a quilt I saw in a picture.  Well guess what?  The fabric doesn’t look like I thought it would and I’m disappointed.  Went to the local quilt shop to pick up a few pieces to add to this to make it better.  I didn’t find much.  So, I was disappointed again.  I wanted a few reds – not fire engine red, not orange-red or pink-red or brown-red or purple-red.  Just a “nice” red.  Is that too much to ask?  I also wanted some blacks that had some interest and even a few quite plain blacks.  Disappointed some more.    I guess it’s like shopping for anything when you know exactly what you want and you’re sure you will find it, then search all over town and come up empty.   </p> <p> </p> <p>I really enjoy Christmas decorating but it’s a total disaster for a couple days while I’m tossing things around.  Here’s a couple pictures to show where stuff landed:</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-N1Wza68Am58/UMv7AU9z4qI/AAAAAAAAeSs/_hqOM_aGT6A/s1600-h/DSC03350%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03350" border="0" alt="DSC03350" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-J6pyxC6oEKU/UMv7BZ4pE8I/AAAAAAAAeS0/t8BDfxCF4kY/DSC03350_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="319" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-OL9ypmdRv6s/UMv7DPsiFOI/AAAAAAAAeS8/2UgL65mhblE/s1600-h/DSC03352%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03352" border="0" alt="DSC03352" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-u8kOLIgXLCU/UMv7N9nOh7I/AAAAAAAAeTI/qSf5xJXEwIM/DSC03352_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="297" height="224" /></a></p> <p>So, it’s late, I’ve been gone all day and didn’t feel like taking more pictures.  Especially wouldn’t want to disturb my Mr. while he’s watching the “big game”.   HOWEVER, I was at Mrs. Farmhouse’s today for our Christmas gathering of the Bent Needles.  Only 6 of us today but you’d never know it by the noise level.  We do have ourselves a good time.  I asked if it was ok if I just walked around and took pictures and she that would be fine but not in her bedroom since Mr. Farmhouse was taking a shower.  Oops.  But I did mention that my readers are a little quirky (otherwise why would they be reading this?) and they’d probably enjoy a racy photo.  Permission was denied.  So I made do with a few shots of her outstanding (green with envy here) Christmas decorating.   If you also read Ms. Karen’s blog, just close your eyes now and head on over to see her photo’s at  <a title="http://yellowfarmhouse.typepad.com/yellow_farmhouse/" href="http://yellowfarmhouse.typepad.com/yellow_farmhouse/">yellowfarmhouse.typepad.com</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IepLpVndeG4/UMv7POQnLRI/AAAAAAAAeTQ/C_LO66Qrbb8/s1600-h/DSC03335%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03335" border="0" alt="DSC03335" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-szMSmkq_Veg/UMv7PjpXwFI/AAAAAAAAeTY/GhVM-lnxWgY/DSC03335_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="316" height="238" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NFUA_P5Gj-A/UMv7QvkNmhI/AAAAAAAAeTg/SqRFwkRNlqQ/s1600-h/DSC03332%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03332" border="0" alt="DSC03332" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6AZIdwZVyjU/UMv7RXR6UCI/AAAAAAAAeTo/IX0ar_8Cth8/DSC03332_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="316" height="238" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SwKHHK0D0mM/UMv7SoZ_zHI/AAAAAAAAeTw/PKiVhOI7VnQ/s1600-h/DSC03333%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03333" border="0" alt="DSC03333" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8VlfqWa_zHw/UMv7TLIvANI/AAAAAAAAeT4/JouEWashExA/DSC03333_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="246" height="327" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Qmny_us8dg0/UMv7UKT2HtI/AAAAAAAAeUA/nEnE_Vurj-w/s1600-h/DSC03338%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03338" border="0" alt="DSC03338" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-FXrsEwDUpyk/UMv7Uw1wmRI/AAAAAAAAeUI/YyAysE3mvTA/DSC03338_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="319" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4q0fz0D1k64/UMv7WIbmAnI/AAAAAAAAeUQ/zWVivzqHrj0/s1600-h/DSC03336%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03336" border="0" alt="DSC03336" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-B5NrWotGIc8/UMv7XsJEQ1I/AAAAAAAAeUY/-w6BeTNuiFY/DSC03336_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="306" height="230" /></a></p> <p>There’s a lot more to see at the Yellow Farmhouse but like I said, head on over to Mrs. Farmhouse’s blog and check it out.  She has a wonderful talent.</p> <p> </p> <p>We had a couple items for show & tell today as well and all were made beautifully by Ms. Dawn:</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-u6MIZn_N44w/UMv7Yp1iGjI/AAAAAAAAeUg/59qK9iQ-QrA/s1600-h/DSC03342%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03342" border="0" alt="DSC03342" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TOPc3Ur2LQA/UMv7ZuSXzoI/AAAAAAAAeUo/hD94zh7OZLM/DSC03342_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="287" height="292" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--Ekcjc-DTfo/UMv7aYcovOI/AAAAAAAAeUw/F0cVcOcRa_w/s1600-h/DSC03343%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03343" border="0" alt="DSC03343" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ihOlNk8t5xk/UMv7a6bO1SI/AAAAAAAAeU4/oJZUWuapGq8/DSC03343_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="288" height="86" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-IgGQa-3_YPM/UMv7cbsfy8I/AAAAAAAAeVA/8Wu6eWB0OHE/s1600-h/DSC03344%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03344" border="0" alt="DSC03344" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-303byB_SwIc/UMv7dOLvoaI/AAAAAAAAeVI/uucswc0pFdg/DSC03344_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="272" height="277" /></a></p> <p>Saving the best for last.  I promised to have a drawing to win this little snowguy:</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-uWFNRiA5sRw/UMv7eF7dGHI/AAAAAAAAeVQ/_cd1R3A3oyY/s1600-h/DSC03302%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03302" border="0" alt="DSC03302" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-o113IOSCIIw/UMv7fFpL0GI/AAAAAAAAeVY/SwZoilEsuHU/DSC03302_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="289" height="218" /></a></p> <p>I asked Hubs to pick a number between 1 and 15.  He came up with number 9.  Donna you win this little guy and I will send it off to you when I get your address.  Find me at <a href="mailto:kempfarm@agwireless.net">kempfarm@agwireless.net</a></p> <p> </p> <p>That’s all for today girls.  I think I will go look at some cookbooks and scare my husband.  teeheehee</p> <p> </p> <p>Ms. Faye</p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-39528401499348945712012-12-06T22:48:00.001-06:002012-12-06T22:54:09.621-06:00Give Away–from me to you<p align="left">I say to myself – why don’t you just close down this blog, you haven’t written since last July.  Then I say to myself, but I had so much fun and met so many great people, I don’t want to close it down.  So I flipped a coin.  Win or lose I guess I’m keeping the blog – if there is still anyone out there who reads it.  I did kinda fall into the Pinterest trap – it’s so addictive and I’ve found there are so many blogs in the world that look so professional and have a gazillion readers and great tips & ideas.  But like Popeye says, I yam what I yam!</p> <p>Jack of all trades & Master of None?  Not me by golly.  As of Tuesday night, I am not an intern any more, I am a…….</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-3GxawPicJQM/UMF0a2d7DdI/AAAAAAAAeLE/dWl30C7PtrM/s1600-h/DSC03321%25255B22%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03321" border="0" alt="DSC03321" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-m_k5iZAbW3c/UMF0bj9yEII/AAAAAAAAeLM/vgw3qqoCOH0/DSC03321_thumb%25255B22%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /></a>    Certified Master Gardener in the state of Minnesota</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left">Yessirree Bobby – after a year of study & volunteerism, that high quality plastic name badge is mine, all mine!  Not only did I get my official name badge, I was given my very own copy of the 2013 U of M Gardening Calendar</p> <blockquote> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-bskc8v2c4kw/UMF0dJ62dEI/AAAAAAAAeLU/p4Fsr1_4NnU/s1600-h/DSC03322%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03322" border="0" alt="DSC03322" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Q8jSmkaDs4s/UMF0eAjScuI/AAAAAAAAeLc/853_MlYLf78/DSC03322_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="260" height="195" /></a>    Truly this is a great calendar full of beautiful pictures, tips & information about plants.  It also comes with a booklet about Hardy plants for Minnesota and what new varieties are being developed.  And isn’t that June calendar page beautiful?   <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8kYrLh2gRfk/UMF0fix1O4I/AAAAAAAAeLk/OpntycwvTek/s1600-h/DSC03323%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03323" border="0" alt="DSC03323" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-1rCtdLLVx2Y/UMF0gel-ugI/AAAAAAAAeLs/KQwhrPAZA_A/DSC03323_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="267" height="200" /></a></p> </blockquote> <p align="left">Anyone can order this calendar through the U of M gardening site  <a title="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/efans/ygnews/" href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/efans/ygnews/">http://blog.lib.umn.edu/efans/ygnews/</a>  altho if you’re from Texas or Alabama or Oregon or pretty much any other state it might not be especially helpful for your area.    Still, what can it hurt, right?</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> How about a little eye candy from last summer?  I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves……………..</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-AGGwuCXC57s/UMF0hZTsItI/AAAAAAAAeL0/V01mWN-cJ3M/s1600-h/DSC03230%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03230" border="0" alt="DSC03230" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-bKp6cMFkf_k/UMF0iPfwe4I/AAAAAAAAeL8/Y6JD249nSWk/DSC03230_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="223" height="244" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TMq1GGEkelo/UMF0jcdoT6I/AAAAAAAAeME/1Lpc2j0ttCU/s1600-h/DSC03231%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03231" border="0" alt="DSC03231" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-yJAP8wg3_3o/UMF0kFnn5yI/AAAAAAAAeMM/6aQkrSqvS_s/DSC03231_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="201" height="244" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ccHN9YwUYWU/UMF0mThfXII/AAAAAAAAeMU/U9LQVEuvnxg/s1600-h/DSC03232%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; 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border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03201" border="0" alt="DSC03201" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-IbGTuoklaPY/UMF0-vA1CXI/AAAAAAAAeO8/I3bI6ub3aVE/DSC03201_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-i7tT03DIfIs/UMF1AXFUr6I/AAAAAAAAePE/H_YSg1rAR60/s1600-h/DSC03205%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03205" border="0" alt="DSC03205" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-d1dnzbndvB0/UMF1BCqiVDI/AAAAAAAAePM/JEzQQC7C650/DSC03205_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7NiieBD-UBo/UMF1DBwNYAI/AAAAAAAAePU/-j8GtMTgTxk/s1600-h/DSC03206%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03206" border="0" alt="DSC03206" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2Ki6IMSLiRk/UMF1DzsWEoI/AAAAAAAAePc/4CNve0YhE_E/DSC03206_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HKPFyrwkGks/UMF1Feso0DI/AAAAAAAAePk/qReACZ_P2ho/s1600-h/DSC03210%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03210" border="0" alt="DSC03210" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-u35BQyowLN0/UMF1GAEm3PI/AAAAAAAAePs/NUKM5Xoti2k/DSC03210_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>I’ve been so busy since July that I really don’t know how to catch up.  We did a couple major (for us) DIY house projects.  I’ll show & tell them another time.   With a dry summer there was a lot of time spent watering flowers.  Then harvest.  Then sugarbeet harvest is when the fun really begins as I also work in the field.  <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sadsmile" alt="Sad smile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-vf-bjAPYgd8/UMF1GnBkICI/AAAAAAAAeP0/OWT2NJ9rfBE/wlEmoticon-sadsmile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" /> But this is my last year for that.  I gave them 51 weeks notice to find a replacement.  I mean it this time!  Then I was hard at work in my woodshop making sawdust and other crap for the Old Crow Mercantile – which we just wrapped up on Saturday.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Fb7ROZU4z64/UMF1HUDD36I/AAAAAAAAeP8/6WqzfBFkFzI/s1600-h/Old%252520Crow%252520Ad%252520for%252520Facebook%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="Old Crow Ad for Facebook" border="0" alt="Old Crow Ad for Facebook" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-QOPF5vvi_uE/UMF1IOf_s8I/AAAAAAAAeQE/HrkGSlOdf7k/Old%252520Crow%252520Ad%252520for%252520Facebook_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="378" height="255" /></a></p> <p>There were 6 of us old crows who are good friends and also like to make the world a better place – or just like to make stuff!  Besides, my philosophy is that if I am busy “making stuff”, then I don’t need to be “making” the bed or “making” dinner or “making” the house spiffy.  You get my drift.  It’s a win-win for me.  (poor Mr. Picket Fence!)</p> <p> </p> <p>So, on the to give-away drawing I am having to say “welcome back”.  I made a whole flock of these for the Old Crow dealey and I have only a couple left.  </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-a_o0kG9NsFs/UMF1JrPAEMI/AAAAAAAAeQM/5s2U2FxHzpY/s1600-h/DSC03285%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03285" border="0" alt="DSC03285" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-E2NNyFB6fv8/UMF1KY34nxI/AAAAAAAAeQU/S7CE8BmTnVE/DSC03285_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="358" height="270" /></a></p> <p>If you leave a comment anytime before next Friday, the 14th, you will be entered in the drawing to win one of these snowguys.  More next time about the Old Crow whatcha-ma-dealey thing.  It was great and I discovered I have some gol-darn talented friends.  I’m so glad I get to hang out with them.</p> <p> </p> <p>Good Luck my friends!</p> <p>Ms. Faye  </p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-51748643028430007712012-07-23T12:26:00.001-05:002012-07-23T12:26:28.990-05:00A big Thank You!<p>Good morning boys & girls – Just a really short note to add to yesterday’s story.  In the course of my (never stretch the truth – <strong><u>much</u></strong>) story, IF I made our local fire department appear in a negative light, it was unintentional.  I have a great amount of respect for them.  Many of the firemen come from several miles away and they drop whatever they are doing to help someone out.  They offer their time and they operate on a shoe-string budget.  Also, we as farmers know as well as anyone how equipment or machinery breaks down at the worst possible moment.  I sincerely thank everyone who came to help us out.</p> <p>The only thing that was questionable about the whole event – was ME.  I shouldn’t have to look up the phone number for 911.  Perhaps I’ll write it on my hand from now on.</p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-37131908088512293952012-07-22T14:23:00.001-05:002012-07-22T15:11:48.740-05:00A Day on the FarmParental Advisory: due to the recent wildfires in Colorado, I would advice those folks not to read this. Also, I am not responsible for any psychological problems associated herein.<br />
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The fire is out and there was minimal damage so I’m going to go ahead and tell the story of yesterday's events <u>in my own words. **</u><br />
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It was a dark and stormy night. No, no, no. That was how Snoopy always started his books. Actually it was a sunny and hot day on the farm, situated about ½ way between the Red River of the North and Eden, but still in God’s country. (in case you wanted to look us up on the map). Wheat harvest is in full swing, the combines are spewing clouds of grey dust that look like smoke but it’s just another hot & dusty day making allergy sufferers suffer. Ask me how I know….. But we’re filling those trucks. Yeah! A good wheat harvest means baby gets a new pair of shoes. And except for the dog, I am the youngest in the house so that means shoes for me! Yippee Skippee.<br />
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My Mr.’s job (along with his trustee sidekick Baxter) is to unload the trucks into the bins and then he & I (& Baxter of course) drive around looking for more trucks to unload and also drop off the empty ones. Hubs had just finished unloading a truck and came in for a cold Coke when he got a call from one of the guys in the field. The other guy’s combine had a teensy-weensy little fire from a smokin’ belt or burned out bearing or something which he put out immediately, well pretty immediately, because truthfully? We are the kind of people who are very safety conscious, read & follow all the instructions from the government and hold regular “safety meetings” *(see footnote for explanation) and had a fire extinguisher in the combine. OK, there may have been a touch of luck involved in being prepared for a fire but this is my story and I’m telling it my way. (see above**). As a bonus to actually having the fire extinguisher, our driver knew where it was and knew how to use it! And so he did.<br />
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Like I said, hubs was in the house grabbing a coke and I was on the computer doing farm work (on Pinterest <img alt="Smile" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SlFRziXU8fk/UAxTDUjaOWI/AAAAAAAAeI4/c3c27k30gJM/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none;" />) My hubs is a very calm & laid back kind of guy. The kind that would only run if the house was on fire. You know? So he came running into the office and said the field is on fire! Call the fire department! Now this is where it starts getting really good. I reached for the phone book while saying “I don’t know their number”. Oh God. Did I say that? OK, I said, why don’t I just dial in 911? Ta da! It is hard to stay ahead of this cookie I’m telling you. OK, the switch on the genius button may have pointed to off – but only for a second there. I swear. I am the go-to gal in any emergency. Just lock up the chocolate afterwards.<br />
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I was explaining to the nice lady at the 911 place (and she was great) while we jumped into the pickup to head out to the scene of the <strike>crime</strike> fire. Upon our arrival at the field I called my 911 friend back to give her more information – and she said – huh? I don’t know anything about this. Hold on. She switched me to a man (you don’t know how badly I want to change my story here and say the man didn’t know anything but the woman fixed it. But again, <u>I’m nothing if not truthful</u>.)<br />
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What happened was that the road alongside our fire-y field is actually the county line so that the west ½ of the road is our county and the east ½ of the road is the neighbor county. Turns out I was now talking to the neighbor county and asked him to switch me back to my county. So the first ones on the scene was the sheriff’s dept. (our county) and we were visiting, another sheriff person came and we were visiting some more. Hmmm, wonder where the fire department is. Sheriff says, we’ll page them again. We visited some more, checked on the downed combine & decided to drive a ½ mile into the field where the fire was. Hubby said “did you know if you were talking to a man or a woman deputy”? “It was a guy I said. Wasn’t it?” NO, he said. “she was wearing a wedding ring”. “Well, duh. Men wear wedding rings too.” “NO, he said, she had a diamond in her rings like you have.” I’ll swear on a stack of bibles here but if her rings were like mine, I have no idea how he could see there was a diamond there. I’m just sayin’.<br />
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Anyway, a half-mile into the field there is a large grove of trees and the fire was in the wheat of course but mostly in the trees & brush. Our village fire department has now arrived. Praise the Lord and bless the little children. Now I know you think I say whatever comes out of my mouth without thinking but there are actually things I could say here that I’m NOT going to say. This is a very small village with an all-volunteer fire department. I will say that the fire & rescue truck showed up first but really, there was no one to rescue but they apparently had a small water tank. Then the pumper truck arrived and headed out to the fire – all guns blazing. But there was a teensy-weensy little issue with the pump on the pumper truck. It wouldn’t start. Damn.<strike> Shit</strike> ah, stuff happens. So they called in another town’s fire department from 20 miles away. (You cannot believe how glad I was that it wasn’t my house burning.) They arrived quickly with 4 trucks and all the personnel in full fire-fighter gear. Just like you see on the television set. They jumped out of their trucks, with a job for everyone and everyone doing it. They put the wheat fire out first – hey, there’s a good idea, but some fire was still inside the trees. Can’t get a truck in there but the guys were carrying hoses in. Then a plane flies over about 3 times and dropped – something. I later asked one of the firemen where the plane came from. He said he didn’t know – he was in the grove and didn’t know the plane was there until it was right above him dropping a load of water. Scared the **** out of him. It was a crop-spraying plane and we still don’t know who it was. How about that?<br />
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Just another day on the farm. (yawn)<br />
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Seriously, there was not much damage done to our wheat, the combine didn’t burn and is repairable and the driver was shaken, not stirred – or hurt. It was a potentially bad situation that had a very happy ending.<br />
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*Afore-mentioned safety meetings consist of a bunch of farmers who gather in one guy’s shop to discuss safety issues (?). While drinking cold adult beverages. Also, we always have a farm safety director during harvest but it is strictly an honorary title and is meaningless because even if he knew what he was talking about, no one would listen.<br />
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I have no pictures of the “excitement “ but I’ll throw in a couple pics that are laying around, ok? If it’s not ok, don’t look at ‘em.<br />
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I guess I’ll show my container flowers:<br />
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Ms. FayeBehind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-12181534495320455642012-06-05T11:27:00.000-05:002012-06-05T14:58:54.180-05:00A promise is a promise–or is it?<p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">If you <u>make a promise</u> to someone but later don’t even remember you made the promise – are you obligated to <u>keep the promise</u>?  Well I didn’t think so either.  My sweetie pie says that when I started this blog he made me promise to never write about him.  I REALLY don’t remember that promise.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">So.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">The other day I was folding clothes in our new laundry area (hmmmm, I should post pictures of that).  As I was saying, I was folding clothes on the counter which is in front of a window.  My sweetie pie was helping – translate that to mean he was standing there watching me fold clothes.  It was a rare moment of bonding and conversation (oh, boy).  I paused for a sip of coffee – he reached up to the curtain valance and said “something new”?  Dang, that coffee came flying out of my mouth before I could stop it.  You have to picture this in your mind ‘cuz I sure don’t have a photo of me hopping around choking and laughing until there were tears.  When I calmed down enough to talk I told him that those curtains have been there well over 10 years.  I know that for sure because I put them up when I painted the room and I remember our youngest son helping me paint the ceiling – he’ll be 30 this fall.  HELLO?  Yikes, does that scare ya or what?  Do y’all have sweeties that are somewhat --- oblivious?  I surely hope I don’t have the only one.  Of course it works to my advantage sometimes too.  Like when I do buy something new, he has no clue if it’s new or been there 10 years.  (you gotta take your victories where you can)</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I downloaded some pictures from my camera tonight and realized that I have a lot of sharing to do.  It’s been a busy month for Faye but I’m hoping I can just coast for a while now.  Loose Threads met at my house in May and it was extra special because it was the first time our friend Carole had been able to join us after a nasty-bad car accident while they were in Georgia in March.  She’s had surgery and more to come.  Carole’s currently wheelchair bound but it was such a joy to have her here!  We even managed to enjoy much of the afternoon outside on the deck.  Ms. Lori was the only one with show & tell this time but oh, my, she did it up well!  Let me show you ----</font></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hKR44ARsmJk/T84zDGpCToI/AAAAAAAAeF0/b7_rCiDC2e8/s1600-h/SB_1707494809%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; 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border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="SB_1707494812" border="0" alt="SB_1707494812" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7prWl-iDRls/T84zHzCRsxI/AAAAAAAAeGs/5tc13a-1QZI/SB_1707494812_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="371" height="279" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Believe it or not, this little cutie was also made by Ms. Lori.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Notice a difference in style?????</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TJM5DIeoEf0/T84zIwapjEI/AAAAAAAAeG0/88OY9nJWloc/s1600-h/SB_1707494814%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="SB_1707494814" border="0" alt="SB_1707494814" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-QkHNbRC5u_U/T84zJKuiMzI/AAAAAAAAeG8/rjucCfK9Gf4/SB_1707494814_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="326" height="246" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">A week after Loose Threads, I hosted Woolies at my house.  Again, it was slim pickin’s on the show & tell but here’s what I’ve got:</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">A little bit of cuteness from Ms. Karen:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-uG1jOkaLtno/T84zKLeDmYI/AAAAAAAAeHE/3DvgCp60VOs/s1600-h/DSC03017%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03017" border="0" alt="DSC03017" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-kEtuQlZ-s1E/T84zKtsseHI/AAAAAAAAeHM/8u2QVQTeapw/DSC03017_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="194" height="258" /></font></a><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">which she’s sending off to the quilter.  I just love it and asked her to make me up a kit.  I’ll keep waiting I guess.  Probably have to wait a long time.  Well, hey.  If it’s easier for you Karen to just give me the darn thing……………………..</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Moving on to the ONLY OTHER SHOW & TELL (sheesh, we are seriously lacking in motivation here) – Ms. Jolene brought out her garage sale find.  Can you imagine putting this on a garage sale?  Seriously.  It was in pristine condition, no stains, no worn spots.  What a deal for Ms. supershopper.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-0YR6f9ZVfEQ/T84zLU5ZCZI/AAAAAAAAeHU/jXZkiOckRYc/s1600-h/DSC03018%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC03018" border="0" alt="DSC03018" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-s3IdmfP7NLA/T84zLwuID5I/AAAAAAAAeHc/KHsfDk2_C5o/DSC03018_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="281" height="308" /></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">We were short 2 people at Woolies – 1 was sick and 1 was visiting someone sick.  We had to carry on without them and moved the party to my garage.  HUH?  I know, your garage is probably your favorite place to entertain too.  Am I right?  Well, not mine.  Besides, it was 90 degrees that day.  Hot weather just makes me – hot.  Well, I was on a mission to teach the girls how to make hypertufa pots for planting in.  It’s made with cement, peat moss, and perlite and turns into a sorta stone-like looking pot – or trough – or birdbath.  One of the girls started calling it “tofu” and we all like that shorter name, so if you hear me mention tofu, we’re not eating it.  K?  So 5 adult women ( “adult” is used loosly here) are in my hot garage, slinging wet cement.  All we needed was my dog to be in there too jumping around.  He wasn’t there, bless his heart and we managed to get everything hosed down & put away without my precious Baxter(bless his heart).  I don’t have pictures to share as my hards were dirty but I wonder if I didn’t see the National Enquirer lurking about snapping a few shots?</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I need to go make dinner now for “he who makes up nonsense promises” so I think I’ll just post this puppy and call it a day.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Hugs, </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Faye</font> </p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-87612004666816848422012-05-30T21:54:00.001-05:002012-05-30T21:56:28.483-05:00Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-18550407239082048322012-04-25T13:16:00.001-05:002012-04-25T13:46:07.225-05:00Tables & Tales <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">In my last post I wrote about the Tour of Tables I was involved with.  Now that I’ve had time to look through and sort out pictures I thought you might like to see some tables.  They were so awesome this year.  Wonderful job everyone!</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">This Dr. Seuss table was my favorite:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-iIGIgKLJpto/T5g9nZyRoRI/AAAAAAAAd6M/JYJO7xvEoLY/s1600-h/DSC02893%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; 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border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02906" border="0" alt="DSC02906" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/---aW2rjOs8Q/T5hGZRc6s8I/AAAAAAAAeFI/yss7gJIGbbc/DSC02906_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-kJFXds9UdBI/T5hGaM_-ydI/AAAAAAAAeFQ/_g45GajAEbc/s1600-h/DSC02911%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02911" border="0" alt="DSC02911" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-cdrPmEfiITE/T5hGalMqigI/AAAAAAAAeFY/fZLzXZQrrYI/DSC02911_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p align="right"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LluQfEQBbrw/T5hGbBOsduI/AAAAAAAAeFg/Q_KR2PwZhW4/s1600-h/DSC02912%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02912" border="0" alt="DSC02912" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wWUzBLxqd_k/T5hGbhmBZJI/AAAAAAAAeFo/l8SUNJ3YRp8/DSC02912_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">We’ve used children’s books as table themes for the past 2 years.  I have a couple ideas percolating in my brain for next year but I’d really like to tap into your creativeness.  What ideas do you have for our event’s theme?</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">What a wonderful, glorious day it was yesterday. Not only was it “Woolies” day, but it was sunny, warm and a gentle breeze and NO BUGS! I keep pinching myself because after all, it is only April. In Minnesota. A little early in the year for an afternoon on the deck.  It seems that Ms. Jean always orders & receives perfect weather when we’re at her house.  Does that mean we go to her house every month?  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">I think and I think and then I even think some more trying to remember all the funny stuff that comes out of a Woolie gathering. It’s hard for Faye. </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">Let’s see, there was the story about driving to a granddaughter’s baptism with her mother, mother-in-law and young daughter (like 30 years young.) Oh, wait, I can’t tell that one. Honestly, it was HILARIOUS! Don’t worry, I laughed enough for you too.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">And husband stories are always good – and generally universal. There’s the self-confident husband with the muscles and manly swagger. Sadly, said husband would appreciate an appropriately awe-struck reaction from his wife. Can you spell f.a.k.e. response? I think all women should be given a cheat-sheet along with the marriage license that explains about faking – in whatever form is needed. ahem. When I started writing this blog, my hubs made me promise to never mention him. Which is fine, except now I can’t tell you THAT story. Bummer. </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">Oh, what was that story someone told about lubrication? No.o.o.o.o, it didn’t have anything to do with husbands. Sheesh. Gutters – out of!! Ms. Jo has a niece (daughter, cousin, aquaintance, whatever) that didn’t want to eat a plain sandwich. It needs “lubrication”. Like mayonaise or mustard. Gotcha.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">Here’s one I can repeat. Ms. Penny had a great story about kids. Seems her young granddaughter caught a small tap on the bottom the other day. You know how that works – it’s just a method to get their attention, not to hurt them – at all. So Penny filled us in on her philosophy when her boys were little and did something for which she had to get their attention with a tap on the bottom. They would say why does Tommy-Johnny-Timmy get to do that and I can’t? Here’s the good part – she would say “because I love you too much to let you turn out rotten”! Would that all kids were loved that much.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">Here’s a little show & tell from today - </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-1I_j-ySCUvY/T5g-C3412-I/AAAAAAAAd_M/81wbT6RSVhE/s1600-h/DSC02971%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02971" border="0" alt="DSC02971" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-E79-fCqRa8Y/T5g-DVMuk2I/AAAAAAAAd_U/0aoyGPw9jZk/DSC02971_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">Ms. Jean showed us a couple bowls she’d turned using burls. My photography leaves a lot to be desired but this 1st picture is taken from above looking straight down at it. It has some very awesome figurations & splits.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-dIgTGc9iMRU/T5g-Ec7jM1I/AAAAAAAAd_c/xlwQFmfFc3Q/s1600-h/DSC02972%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02972" border="0" alt="DSC02972" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EUz05BgBVIA/T5g-EsOY22I/AAAAAAAAd_k/h2yfj56dwUk/DSC02972_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">This one is a shallow bowl that has the bark on the outside edges. Both were SO BEAUTIFUL!</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-j7KvF2BqPDo/T5g-GlQY9rI/AAAAAAAAd_s/R51UUvtLM9g/s1600-h/DSC02973%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02973" border="0" alt="DSC02973" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-XgkfBLaQzXo/T5g-HEfVR-I/AAAAAAAAd_0/wPAIEWuODKE/DSC02973_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">More from Ms. Jean – here are 2 of the latest outfits for her American Girl doll. Actually, the vest & mini-skirt one</font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hkXx3xLtlvM/T5g_ZM4Z-FI/AAAAAAAAd_8/ovYA2aHvPhI/s1600-h/DSC02974%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02974" border="0" alt="DSC02974" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-H280nquKl2A/T5g_ZvKwZwI/AAAAAAAAeAE/fJNzAHqNXg4/DSC02974_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"> now belongs to me as a gift for my Olivia. Shhhh.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">Don’t tell her.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6SJTxlcIvEo/T5g_agxC7wI/AAAAAAAAeAM/_tuLFmWfDDM/s1600-h/DSC02975%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02975" border="0" alt="DSC02975" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pING_YeHBOU/T5g_bHUFmJI/AAAAAAAAeAU/YvCVrQISnsI/DSC02975_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">Next up is Ms. Karen showing 2 wool blocks that are part of a BOM from Primitive Gatherings. I fell in love with them.</font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HBjc3ykS0iM/T5g_bua6EWI/AAAAAAAAeAc/NOKpSTLKs-c/s1600-h/DSC02976%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02976" border="0" alt="DSC02976" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-UNKhCDZXp_Y/T5g_cEiXdMI/AAAAAAAAeAk/ZZbRf5f2Y7s/DSC02976_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="234" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">I REALLY want to order this series. I have a little trouble convincing myself that I would complete it. I must stop “collecting”.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">And the one thing that always happens at Woolies. Lunch. A recipe I found on Pinterest for lemon bars. Light and refreshing for Spring and best of all – no calories! Hopefully.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-cWzOMjsULpU/T5g_c-y1zcI/AAAAAAAAeAs/gpAXf5VCaXg/s1600-h/DSC02969%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02969" border="0" alt="DSC02969" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fIFgxqKkxNs/T5g_ddOOWmI/AAAAAAAAeA0/HPL7jnayXhM/DSC02969_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="323" height="249" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">I need to get outside now and play in the dirt.  It’ll be our last really nice day for a while so I don’t want to waste it.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"> </font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-2010925174290614092012-04-15T20:06:00.001-05:002012-04-15T20:13:54.062-05:00Somewhere, over the rainbow…<p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">What can I possibly say about why I haven’t written for so long?  Let’s see:</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><u>1.  I was doing homework.</u></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Et5THQr5GOM/T4twHxbau5I/AAAAAAAAdzw/ZxyqczPL1ok/s1600-h/DSC02968%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02968" border="0" alt="DSC02968" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-r2-ZN4Z5DL4/T4twIW95CAI/AAAAAAAAdz4/DJAZN5EGlms/DSC02968_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I’ve been taking on-line courses since January in Horticulture from the U of MN in order to become a master gardener.  It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.  I didn’t realize it was going to be SO MUCH-this picture is just the book.  The real work is done on-line.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Rp6hkzOwXTE/T4twJD288FI/AAAAAAAAd0A/lcz8sua143U/s1600-h/DSC02965%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Rp6hkzOwXTE/T4twJD288FI/AAAAAAAAd0A/lcz8sua143U/s1600-h/DSC02965%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02965" border="0" alt="DSC02965" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-qgPrLym3azQ/T4twKPX41RI/AAAAAAAAd0I/vI529hyuukE/DSC02965_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">My favorite section:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-R6tngawT1eA/T4twK7thn0I/AAAAAAAAd0Q/yjqnxV3-8Gw/s1600-h/DSC02967%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02967" border="0" alt="DSC02967" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-2V2b6ED33IE/T4twLbedRoI/AAAAAAAAd0Y/hPrRxdDVtiU/DSC02967_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">My least favorite section:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SzhcqY3JCLw/T4twLw4qd2I/AAAAAAAAd0g/w2HZvbTNWXI/s1600-h/DSC02966%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02966" border="0" alt="DSC02966" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-93chN_IJRIQ/T4twMUmcJkI/AAAAAAAAd0o/Sp76jIMWDp0/DSC02966_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I confided to another master gardener that I was very nervous about answering questions because, well, I won’t know the answer.  He told me that I only need to know one answer – “I don’t know the answer to that but I’ll look it up and get back to you”.  Good advice I think. </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><u>2.  My dog ate my homework.</u></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BxTvH6P4Dns/T4twNWSPijI/AAAAAAAAd5E/83FybkhCYTU/s1600-h/PICT0539%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BxTvH6P4Dns/T4twNWSPijI/AAAAAAAAd5I/DacjatdfmUk/s1600-h/PICT0539%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="PICT0539" border="0" alt="PICT0539" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-IF3YROVV9do/T4twPUzMjaI/AAAAAAAAd08/nbWmGiPmX6o/PICT0539_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="184" height="244" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">OK, that is old news – it happened a long time ago and I’m sure Baxter didn’t mean to eat my newly finished pillow.  He’s almost perfect now……</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><u>3.  I was busy babysitting</u>.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MGT0ZN4FRio/T4twPz4IMTI/AAAAAAAAd5M/mrsjCbYNxXM/s1600-h/%2525232%252520Henry%252520March%2525202012%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MGT0ZN4FRio/T4twPz4IMTI/AAAAAAAAd5Q/__OXVFNp748/s1600-h/%2525232%252520Henry%252520March%2525202012%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="#2 Henry March 2012" border="0" alt="#2 Henry March 2012" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TVPV_6VntD0/T4twRsznk7I/AAAAAAAAd1Q/AfTthcxPFlE/%2525232%252520Henry%252520March%2525202012_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="277" height="191" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">What can I say?  Wouldn’t you?</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><u>4.  I was involved with Garden Day</u>.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8b5u-N2Qnww/T4twSFeu0MI/AAAAAAAAd1Y/epPOY3zcN6o/s1600-h/DSC02831%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02831" border="0" alt="DSC02831" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-pXk2hn_oRO8/T4twStPWk-I/AAAAAAAAd1g/d7j94B-Pet4/DSC02831_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="284" height="124" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I’m still a master gardener “intern”, but I have to help with the annual Garden Day.  It’s a big deal here.  42 speakers, 90+ class offerings.  Trying to pick the 5 classes you want the most is a challenge.  We served lunch to somewhere between 600 to 700 that day.  Flower pots held Honey popovers filled with chicken salad – they were so good.  And the cake pops for dessert were equally yummy.  These are just a few of the lunches being prepared.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-kYVBS5LtrfQ/T4twTV8uQGI/AAAAAAAAd5U/cEO5ssW69Kk/s1600-h/DSC02828%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-kYVBS5LtrfQ/T4twTV8uQGI/AAAAAAAAd5Y/QcO-DBsKPA4/s1600-h/DSC02828%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02828" border="0" alt="DSC02828" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-skCB7U1yA7A/T4twVuQS_NI/AAAAAAAAd10/OVswe3XwKlc/DSC02828_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="319" height="246" /></a></font></a><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><u>5.  I was on a Tour</u> --- of Tables as a fundraiser for an organization that provides services to people that help them stay in their own homes.  Our theme this year was the Wizard of Oz:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-LZezhCmH_9w/T4twWJuGFVI/AAAAAAAAd18/o7Swlki0fgI/s1600-h/Wizard%252520of%252520Oz%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Wizard of Oz" border="0" alt="Wizard of Oz" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-HnedecSnWOg/T4twWtQ0UwI/AAAAAAAAd2E/y07m8eN5VtY/Wizard%252520of%252520Oz_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="160" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I designed the booklet as well as the tickets which were also bookmarks - </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9BkjLPgoscI/T4twXBSaiWI/AAAAAAAAd5c/hb4s0esjVTw/s1600-h/TOT%252520bookmark%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9BkjLPgoscI/T4twXBSaiWI/AAAAAAAAd5g/Oo1Wulo2daY/s1600-h/TOT%252520bookmark%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="TOT bookmark" border="0" alt="TOT bookmark" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3ZirN3pYv88/T4twZKu1vII/AAAAAAAAd2Y/L4qLiTSPhjI/TOT%252520bookmark_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="220" height="423" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Each table was decorated with a kid’s book as it’s theme.  Our menu included:</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Auntie Em’s famous Chicken Salad with Kansas Croissants, Emerald City Salad and over the rainbow fruit.   Each table hostess provided their dessert to match her theme.</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Some events might have a kids menu that would include a corn dog, chips, fruit, knox blocks and a drink.  At our event, kids’ meals were:  Toto on a Stick, Munchkin Munchies, Rainbow Fruit, Wicked Witch Wigglers and Lollipop Punch.  They also got a bottle of Glinda the Witch’s bubbles.</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">There were 14 tables.  I took pictures of 13 tables – say what?  And guess whose table was the one I didn’t get a picture of?  Yuppers – Jean & I did a Wizard of Oz table but I have no picture to prove it.  Jean dressed her American Girl doll as Dorothy – even had the ruby slippers and Toto in a little basket.  Our dessert was cupcakes:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-wbXpLgX83lM/T4twaFGlrzI/AAAAAAAAd2g/WH12gM9lqqs/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--FGiySDCRuk/T4twa1Fu_LI/AAAAAAAAd2o/kThlzp7hcBE/image_thumb.png?imgmax=800" width="183" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> I made the raffle quilt:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XC40mBzrM-o/T4twbwzMOEI/AAAAAAAAd5k/flgHS24TuPM/s1600-h/DSC02928%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XC40mBzrM-o/T4twbwzMOEI/AAAAAAAAd5o/Q_1tX2lFctc/s1600-h/DSC02928%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02928" border="0" alt="DSC02928" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-QSXBRUJPDK4/T4twdnllqKI/AAAAAAAAd28/Uf6JDg63Eg8/DSC02928_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="300" height="302" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Our waiters were The Scarecrow, The Tin Man, The Lion, Glinda the Witch and of course Dorothy.  </font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7xklu335DXY/T4tweWO5oCI/AAAAAAAAd5s/matIW9LJ0PU/s1600-h/DSC02961%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7xklu335DXY/T4tweWO5oCI/AAAAAAAAd5w/LL0BqaKfomU/s1600-h/DSC02961%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02961" border="0" alt="DSC02961" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-PAln43UJ5ww/T4twf__V7fI/AAAAAAAAd3Q/Ze0teVlEFKc/DSC02961_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="429" height="179" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Dorothy had to work extra hard because of course she had to sing her trademark song – Somewhere Over etc, etc. </font></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-gtbDaLkhAgw/T4twgWGYgsI/AAAAAAAAd50/6T8ldQLge_8/s1600-h/DSC02956%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-gtbDaLkhAgw/T4twgWGYgsI/AAAAAAAAd54/fU3eK1QC8Ec/s1600-h/DSC02956%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02956" border="0" alt="DSC02956" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CVmCkE9Dj4k/T4twiS0M3FI/AAAAAAAAd3k/Uf_EPjtIXDk/DSC02956_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="333" height="222" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Let’s say that you were just now arriving.  You’d have to start on the Lollipop Lane:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8uHpNdtgCDs/T4twjHr1SGI/AAAAAAAAd3s/6XO5C3iYobI/s1600-h/DSC02923%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02923" border="0" alt="DSC02923" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-qBd8_ut-Asw/T4twjua2zDI/AAAAAAAAd30/iMvELyLCukE/DSC02923_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="413" height="318" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Then follow the Yellow Brick Road:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-nMOCdiBYJPM/T4twkWpi3vI/AAAAAAAAd38/lPz7ZBkiB9U/s1600-h/DSC02924%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02924" border="0" alt="DSC02924" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wbxvsX3Mhuw/T4twlA9m7WI/AAAAAAAAd4E/-YBznMTQTAc/DSC02924_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="402" height="309" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">then under the Rainbow on your way to see the Wizard in the Land of Oz.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xy-RP9e4MSA/T4twl1qh4MI/AAAAAAAAd58/AHpGPv_zqgc/s1600-h/DSC02918%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xy-RP9e4MSA/T4twl1qh4MI/AAAAAAAAd6A/ECN06iYk_Xg/s1600-h/DSC02918%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02918" border="0" alt="DSC02918" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-EF99ZKWNLSA/T4twnm4iL9I/AAAAAAAAd4Y/-_u-Lk-qRgU/DSC02918_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="384" height="295" /></a></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-z__sOiQj6pU/T4twofBk9FI/AAAAAAAAd6E/0D39iVn2xeg/s1600-h/DSC02864%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-z__sOiQj6pU/T4twofBk9FI/AAAAAAAAd6I/ggqCjO0aMeU/s1600-h/DSC02864%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02864" border="0" alt="DSC02864" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wbW6MGURZf4/T4twqUs-A4I/AAAAAAAAd4s/sWMfkvAxthk/DSC02864_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="392" height="301" /></a></font></a></font></a><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-dD8sWsJQi-k/T4twq_htDcI/AAAAAAAAd40/7dKupGZjdmI/s1600-h/DSC02865%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02865" border="0" alt="DSC02865" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XOuLcY-5eFg/T4twrBCgWgI/AAAAAAAAd48/Keirr5OkD9E/DSC02865_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="238" height="361" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC">The little sign on his arm says:  “well what would you do with a brain if you had one?”  Gosh, that is so profound.  Don’t you think?</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> </p> <p><font size="5" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-4343602630345979252011-09-23T10:15:00.001-05:002011-09-23T10:30:00.974-05:00It’s all in the definition<p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">I’m beginning to fear for my sanity.  But when you try to pin it down, sanity is a really tough word to define.  Everyone’s definition might be different.  For instance, I work in the field during sugarbeet harvest and some might say, “what?  are you nuts?”.  I understand that.  My husband, however, would think I was crazy NOT to work in the field.  See what I mean?  Definition.</font></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">On the other hand, when the opportunity arose to join an applique’ group, I did.  My husband said, “what?  are you nuts?”  I understand that too.  Definition.  </font></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">OK, I understand that I probably don’t need another group to join that will have some expectations of me.  Still, who wouldn’t want to join a group called “The Bent Needles?”  (I’m still saving “Twisted Sisters” for the right group.)  I have done very little hand applique’ in my life so this group will give me a good nudge in that direction.  Plus part of the group are very accomplished at applique’ so maybe if I sit next to them, some of their knowledge & skill will magically flow over to me.  I won’t know unless I try.  I just hope no one notices me trying to suck knowledge/skill out of them.  <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" alt="Smile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-haqQBamNve4/TnyiH1pAJtI/AAAAAAAAdw4/gvbGxxRrj7c/wlEmoticon-smile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" /></font></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">I missed the first meeting but joined them Weds.  Frankly, I thought I’d be off the hook for dragging out my needle – bent or otherwise – because there was so much talking to get out of the way.  We did finally settle down and got busy.  Here are a few pictures of the show & tell:</font></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">This group of blocks are all from the talented and prolific hands of JV:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SF5t4wLRCcU/TnyiJjd2VgI/AAAAAAAAdw8/gjsWDKVCFyQ/s1600-h/DSC02381%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02381" border="0" alt="DSC02381" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-J1hA-mrJ_xI/TnyiKTbbJyI/AAAAAAAAdxA/N-MABb2H1Vo/DSC02381_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="366" height="282" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-VeQVRKv_XO0/TnyiMToVpCI/AAAAAAAAdxE/rSj2EbFNQo0/s1600-h/DSC02382%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02382" border="0" alt="DSC02382" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6KjunzCXlTo/TnyiNdU_dfI/AAAAAAAAdxI/x4CHDcWJzQQ/DSC02382_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="367" height="282" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8PUqk-pErhk/TnyiPQM39bI/AAAAAAAAdxM/PIaD6BDe11U/s1600-h/DSC02383%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02383" border="0" alt="DSC02383" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-WRlOeZstnFk/TnyiP5KNmJI/AAAAAAAAdxQ/r7a-uTQnAXI/DSC02383_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="368" height="287" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-YbsA8WAVAM8/TnyiSGufaZI/AAAAAAAAdxU/K_ctEnncZC0/s1600-h/DSC02384%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02384" border="0" alt="DSC02384" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TPuFc3Ptj9A/TnyiSi-b0cI/AAAAAAAAdxY/-ZvCtTjpFig/DSC02384_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="369" height="284" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-yoDf8-WkoOo/TnyiU8T3i0I/AAAAAAAAdxc/o1s8MSNHxnI/s1600-h/DSC02385%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02385" border="0" alt="DSC02385" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-I9ONcx16Pb4/TnyiVkA2spI/AAAAAAAAdxg/5FSW1nRkvEY/DSC02385_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="371" height="285" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">JM (who is “trying” to teach a few of us) is working on this beauty:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--wZFBgUuyV4/TnyiX1eIESI/AAAAAAAAdxk/ewIHAREt_K0/s1600-h/DSC02388%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02388" border="0" alt="DSC02388" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-N47wBLKjgE4/TnyiYiV4FFI/AAAAAAAAdxo/af3hQh9Si-8/DSC02388_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="376" height="289" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">A couple more are in the works from LL and Mrs. Farmhouse (Ms. Karen):</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-PJCm_21Cc6k/TnyibIDfY4I/AAAAAAAAdxs/huwl1S4D6vQ/s1600-h/DSC02386%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02386" border="0" alt="DSC02386" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-m698qBjOMik/Tnyib-fqDKI/AAAAAAAAdxw/Pq8Qg5oA8xE/DSC02386_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="383" height="295" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-r_k4XvWlUo4/TnyievhaTxI/AAAAAAAAdx0/vXALb2-p87c/s1600-h/DSC02387%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02387" border="0" alt="DSC02387" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-MX1zdV6mFgU/TnyifLekKdI/AAAAAAAAdx4/lUvL792BXCw/DSC02387_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="385" height="296" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">Me?  I took out an old UFO from many years ago and that I don’t particularly like any more.  It will make good practice before tackling something I love.  I have big dreams of all the lovely things I will make with applique’.</font></p> <p><font size="6" face="Freestyle Script">What?  Am I nuts?</font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-27183847155945957592011-09-19T22:17:00.000-05:002011-09-19T22:18:34.121-05:00Sing along with me -<h6><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting">Oh, Lord it’s hard to be humble……….when you’re perfect in ev-er-ey way.  I just hate to look in the mirror, I get better looking each day.  </font></h6> <h6><font size="3"><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal"><font size="5">To know me is to love me, I must be one hell of a man(‘s best friend).  Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble.  I’m doing the best that I can</font>.” </font></font></font></h6> <h6><font size="3"><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal">----------  Barked by Baxter  </font></font></font><font size="3" face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal">& plagiarized  from a Mac Davis song</font></font></h6> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-30NnBPmIvxc/TngD-Lc8A-I/AAAAAAAAdwg/sMxQh89adbA/s1600-h/DSC00039-14.jpg"><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-30NnBPmIvxc/TngD-Lc8A-I/AAAAAAAAdwk/4lOtjiPZrLg/s1600-h/DSC00039-1%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9JcI0B29dJE/TngEBljnVxI/AAAAAAAAdrc/vNkXHXaAWYU/DSC00039-1_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="259" height="211" /></a></a></a></p> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">I’ve told you so many times that our Brittany, Baxter is almost perfect but that he still had a couple “issues”.  Were the issues big or were they small?  It all depends on how you look at them.  Regardless, the “issues” have apparently gone away.  We picked him up from the kennel</font></font></h6> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ZM1e6LjCRMU/TngEDEuL28I/AAAAAAAAdrg/HUzi9Y6pDyQ/s1600-h/dsc023723.jpg"><font size="4" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02372" border="0" alt="dsc02372" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-N4K-vg457ao/TngED8jH5PI/AAAAAAAAdrk/8nCnS_6KNzU/dsc02372_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="164" height="244" /></font></a></p> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">after we’d spent a few days out of town and we were on cloud 9 after reading Baxter’s “report card”.  </font></font></h6> <h6 align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2emF5ppJlo4/TngEFRuiFvI/AAAAAAAAdro/eMXI91yLtH4/s1600-h/dsc023733.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02373" border="0" alt="dsc02373" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DTA-w09U-jk/TngEFz9QcfI/AAAAAAAAdrs/s3Lrqzrn7J4/dsc02373_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="240" /></font></a></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">I am so excited, so filled with pride, so bursting with the news.  Our Baxter is on the Honor Roll!!  Truly.  Check it out------</font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-AKpZo4NFy1o/TngEIXfRZkI/AAAAAAAAdrw/BjYkESvz-aA/s1600-h/dsc023806.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="display: inline" title="dsc02380" alt="dsc02380" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-tBjoWJ48emY/TngEJvd-MHI/AAAAAAAAdr0/ByZ0olPv57w/dsc02380_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="434" height="341" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font size="5"><font style="font-weight: normal">As any proud parent would do, we began calling our “other children” – you know, the ones who have 2 legs and big mouths?  They sort of deflated our spirits when they pointed out that of course the kennel will give him a good report card.  They want him to come back, don’t they?  I’m a little bummed about it now but I know in my heart that he </font><u><font style="font-weight: normal">could be</font></u><font style="font-weight: normal"> an honor dog.  Even if no one else thinks so.  It isn’t easy being a parent.</font></font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Whoa, Nellie, did I say we went out of town?  Goodness.  When my husband brought that subject up, I felt the earth wobble on it’s axis.  I didn’t ask when or where, I just packed my bags and hitched the horse to the wagon.  Off to the Amana Colonies in Iowa.  It’s probably an 8 or 9 hour drive and we had a great time chatting while driving along.  After about the first half an hour, we ran out of chit-chat and we drove the rest of the way in silence.  So then the radio gets turned up.  That’s fine if it’s tuned to “my” station but generally the driver gets to pick the music and when we’re together, my sweetie is usually driving.  Driving me nuts.  Hate his choice of music and when it gets so bad that even he can’t stand it, he tunes in to Fox News.  Have you ever noticed that when they run out of real news, they bring in a panel of experts to debate meaningless issues?  And every member on the panel tries to talk louder than everyone else so you have 6 people shouting at each other.  After a little of that, I turn it back to the yuk, ick music that I hate.  </font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">I’m going to have to move this along because I have one of the world’s best kept secrets to share with you.  We went to the Amana Colonies in Iowa which were settled by German immigrants looking for religious freedom.  They arrived in Iowa in 1855.  There’s a lot of very interesting history about the Amana’s but I’m not wearing my teacher hat – you’ll have to Google it yourself.  (you’ll be glad you did).    </font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Anyhoo - while in the Amana Colonies we discovered the best place in the world to stay.  Even tho we NEVER go ANYWHERE, I do know enough to recognize an A #1, 4-star hotel when I see one.  The hotel is Zuber’s Hotel in Homestead, Iowa.  Don’t let the name “hotel” fool you.  This is a home away from home.  Only better because I don’t have to make the bed, clean bathrooms or make breakfast!  Aren’t ya lovin’ it?  Sorry I didn’t get an outside shot, but the building dates back to the 1850’s.  It’s been restored & remodeled by (my new best friend) Yana Cutler and her wonderful husband (altho I didn’t meet him), David.  I’m gonna just start tossing in some pictures I took of various rooms & suites.  And hallways, & gathering rooms and entries.  Pretty much everywhere.  Except the outside.  Sorry.  </font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">We stayed in the:</font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pvpBwXNTtG0/TngEKnLrPZI/AAAAAAAAdwo/ClgXNRCg13w/s1600-h/dsc023285.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pvpBwXNTtG0/TngEKnLrPZI/AAAAAAAAdws/QfMGqnROYYM/s1600-h/dsc02328.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="Whitetail Suite" border="0" alt="Whitetail Suite" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-n7MSqFroEvM/TngEMmuhjCI/AAAAAAAAdsA/r_xbjZ53lg4/dsc02328_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="285" height="250" /></a></a></a></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-kDjQZYwDTb8/TngEOaqBZeI/AAAAAAAAdsE/YrZ9ltSO2jE/s1600-h/dsc023034.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02303" border="0" alt="dsc02303" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-83DjA_jwsfo/TngEO802tuI/AAAAAAAAdsI/HVd71M7bGFs/dsc02303_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="282" height="217" /></font></a><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"> </font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-r9g5uCX8SoE/TngEQ0_CjOI/AAAAAAAAdsM/NBGzvnJ-pns/s1600-h/dsc023044.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02304" border="0" alt="dsc02304" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-elGwTPofT40/TngERSYte1I/AAAAAAAAdsQ/oGKDgqHs6Tc/dsc02304_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="280" height="216" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-gD7IH8D-sSQ/TngETr_3ZFI/AAAAAAAAdsU/GnKkTpNUOiw/s1600-h/dsc023274.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02327" border="0" alt="dsc02327" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-iwTyxy_5F_U/TngEUZqqBDI/AAAAAAAAdsY/c5hLBB9xtqk/dsc02327_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="284" height="219" /></font></a></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">The attention to details was amazing - </font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-zBZakSaENaY/TngEWlTnhjI/AAAAAAAAdsc/avtXZ9rWs9U/s1600-h/dsc0231611.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02316" border="0" alt="dsc02316" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-yVEtf64WQ3w/TngEXf5K5LI/AAAAAAAAdsg/WB22zOvnAes/dsc02316_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" width="221" height="199" /></font></a></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-lTIWabPXlCc/TngEZPMWT7I/AAAAAAAAdsk/cfOO4fOSb-4/s1600-h/dsc023226.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02322" border="0" alt="dsc02322" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-McaF6sh9b84/TngEZl7hV0I/AAAAAAAAdso/KKyGRrUDnXY/dsc02322_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="174" height="142" /></font></a></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">   </font></font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-J6qC3JeiSVA/TngEa2RJMOI/AAAAAAAAdss/sA_1OTRjVRM/s1600-h/dsc023208.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02320" border="0" alt="dsc02320" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-joUB8QsRMS0/TngEbqDJaUI/AAAAAAAAdsw/fmvQz-j1pX0/dsc02320_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="273" height="237" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3gqVxBRuoo4/TngEcsjH02I/AAAAAAAAds0/st3W-b6f8VM/s1600-h/dsc023238.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02323" border="0" alt="dsc02323" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Xs7q0nMMG9E/TngEdJxf2MI/AAAAAAAAds4/svcLPCsZId4/dsc02323_thumb16.jpg?imgmax=800" width="110" height="183" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mVMMDFXWwfE/TngEeh4-XiI/AAAAAAAAds8/Pd5cmQS2m_Q/s1600-h/dsc023247.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02324" border="0" alt="dsc02324" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-e_QqZ83tjiE/TngEfAjEZrI/AAAAAAAAdtA/dp5TMRWYWoQ/dsc02324_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="214" height="191" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NlroyvY4V1Y/TngEhExSOxI/AAAAAAAAdtE/dVy7cKZcSOg/s1600-h/dsc023177.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02317" border="0" alt="dsc02317" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-oiTsC5XzD6s/TngEhnDwECI/AAAAAAAAdtI/W3cQNLY4_VM/dsc02317_thumb4.jpg?imgmax=800" width="186" height="158" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mAJQ4qd0ZzI/TngEi5hpmcI/AAAAAAAAdtM/8Jb7_lJoCKw/s1600-h/dsc0232513.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02325" border="0" alt="dsc02325" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QpbCDpGvR8s/TngEjsH90nI/AAAAAAAAdtQ/-qNclhTzn8k/dsc02325_thumb10.jpg?imgmax=800" width="188" height="145" /></font></a></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ftxAHjw5JLc/TngEl1ubiNI/AAAAAAAAdtU/AF1p3ffutd4/s1600-h/dsc0231929.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02319" border="0" alt="dsc02319" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-yiv0-xMZJZY/TngEmqsUntI/AAAAAAAAdtY/EmV21ti3yWQ/dsc02319_thumb20.jpg?imgmax=800" width="359" height="284" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Here are a couple other rooms ---</font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-3Amh3iImw48/TngEn5vDBtI/AAAAAAAAdtc/IePK9YVvVOQ/s1600-h/dsc02329%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02329" border="0" alt="dsc02329" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SgYCjeOtDfg/TngEoruNZUI/AAAAAAAAdtg/K2w-91DMOl4/dsc02329_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-zcgxlIo9LH8/TngEpVTET5I/AAAAAAAAdtk/sFo8Yy8ThQ8/s1600-h/dsc02330%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02330" border="0" alt="dsc02330" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XCXFL8DefOc/TngEpzjQU5I/AAAAAAAAdto/FGrf5OzpKQk/dsc02330_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="217" height="273" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-qbMzTzEsLT8/TngErGND60I/AAAAAAAAdww/i01pG7IQCig/s1600-h/dsc02334%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font></a> <h6><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-qbMzTzEsLT8/TngErGND60I/AAAAAAAAdw0/zSeW4lcFs4Y/s1600-h/dsc02334%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02334" border="0" alt="dsc02334" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Ld9oF-oluEs/TngEs0zBr0I/AAAAAAAAdt0/npbnV4rQCZI/dsc02334_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="191" height="245" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">    </font></font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EWDEgZEA2N8/TngEtx9bKZI/AAAAAAAAdt4/RToIC8gl6zo/s1600-h/dsc02331%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Bill Zuber, Major Leaguer" border="0" alt="Bill Zuber" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-YqWFnsUJUjU/TngEuaIS1AI/AAAAAAAAdt8/i1XpUEr2MDY/dsc02331_thumb%25255B12%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="281" height="290" /></font></a><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Bill Zuber, Major League Ball Player, former owner of Zuber’s Hotel.  </font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Then there was the golf themed room:</font></font></h6> <h6 align="right"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-b55FJ3ewu5c/TngEv-7fa0I/AAAAAAAAduA/kHcJiAMKLRo/s1600-h/dsc02358%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02358" border="0" alt="dsc02358" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-N2Vr5vbzhMQ/TngEws6z51I/AAAAAAAAduE/ij8bpBIhUMA/dsc02358_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">   </font></font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-5cVXu_QmPu8/TngEyIe8r0I/AAAAAAAAduI/nKPY_e64HB8/s1600-h/dsc02359%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02359" border="0" alt="dsc02359" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vT0hVgN3nSQ/TngEynaW5jI/AAAAAAAAduM/MI0rxeoldD4/dsc02359_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eXch6TmhXfI/TngE0Rur1wI/AAAAAAAAduQ/ng_efYtDqn0/s1600-h/dsc02360%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02360" border="0" alt="dsc02360" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_O4JGf3kpws/TngE0xLxNaI/AAAAAAAAduU/8WoqUM6RONc/dsc02360_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-fFnML6lwb2I/TngE19tdhTI/AAAAAAAAduY/i5VUqX3glUs/s1600-h/dsc02361%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02361" border="0" alt="dsc02361" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Fk9PmHPE0EI/TngE2dVQqcI/AAAAAAAAduc/ufqdtlUx1vY/dsc02361_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="184" height="244" /></font></a></h6> <font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting">   </font> <h6 align="right"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6IUuUvEeUG8/TngE3OUvh0I/AAAAAAAAdug/hm6XH-NW2E0/s1600-h/dsc02362%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02362" border="0" alt="dsc02362" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wiTmpvl13MM/TngE3iDQzdI/AAAAAAAAduk/fcXjsKPHw8I/dsc02362_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="178" height="211" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"></font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"></font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"></font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"></font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">I have a ton more room pictures but frankly, if you’ve seen one lovely, outstanding room you’ve seen them all.  No, wait, that saying should be if you’ve seen one football game, you’ve seen them all.  Nothing lovely or outstanding about football.  And that’s the gospel truth according to Ms. Faye.  </font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">So my idea is to show a few public areas such as entry, hallways and sitting areas:</font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vvH4EBBWv4s/TngE5NWM-7I/AAAAAAAAduo/N4nX1rWtYWE/s1600-h/dsc02332%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02332" border="0" alt="dsc02332" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-fMUlGQKJwYE/TngE62P1m0I/AAAAAAAAdus/IOTmi4L9Abw/dsc02332_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9OxwMM8vPsk/TngE8lEagFI/AAAAAAAAduw/nUWrAbw7x5E/s1600-h/dsc02335%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02335" border="0" alt="dsc02335" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-511IR8-mI9g/TngE9GXhd5I/AAAAAAAAdu0/Z6c8FvQxL1Y/dsc02335_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-k55xIde02uo/TngE-SpN53I/AAAAAAAAdu4/uTiadAmXLs4/s1600-h/dsc02336%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02336" border="0" alt="dsc02336" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qv4jjX9_I6k/TngE-xBrXHI/AAAAAAAAdu8/7Na1cBBesLo/dsc02336_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-OvXTFbTlqz8/TngFAp1hrjI/AAAAAAAAdvA/Y91E-zPlhrE/s1600-h/dsc02345%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02345" border="0" alt="dsc02345" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-viT3ZZkYojU/TngFBRmeJxI/AAAAAAAAdvE/_Tm2-yNmeSk/dsc02345_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vxbY4gihR7c/TngFDH8yR-I/AAAAAAAAdvI/aO9thHjBVaY/s1600-h/dsc02346%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02346" border="0" alt="dsc02346" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8h_bnoz-g7Q/TngFDgHMUTI/AAAAAAAAdvM/8ORVGCGSTjM/dsc02346_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-AmThCgkeY2o/TngFFrWeseI/AAAAAAAAdvQ/Uve9hBIp59E/s1600-h/dsc02363%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02363" border="0" alt="dsc02363" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ygthQPksQ_8/TngFGM-DYcI/AAAAAAAAdvU/w8k5BpZhORI/dsc02363_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-SeAcFTtubXs/TngFHfM5rII/AAAAAAAAdvY/o1ue4TdE6_A/s1600-h/dsc02371%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02371" border="0" alt="dsc02371" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-YjTmApsmSCg/TngFHz5-j5I/AAAAAAAAdvc/IkRNdc9mOhk/dsc02371_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="164" /></font></a></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">This might be a good place to ask – do you think I loved, loved, loved this place?  When we left, I was crying and my Mr. was just a-tugging on my arm and my little heels were digging into the carpet.  It was ugly.  </font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Not so ugly was the Wood Shed which is a gathering room and breakfast area.  </font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ivegferef-M/TngFJUpDhsI/AAAAAAAAdvg/mqBAMqGc8gc/s1600-h/dsc02340%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02340" border="0" alt="dsc02340" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-9hLz-zI5f98/TngFJ4hAboI/AAAAAAAAdvk/YpBIMIqgeFY/dsc02340_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="327" height="252" /></font></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-DR2yiWx_PMo/TngFL9zSFQI/AAAAAAAAdvo/y7oWyVwTfzs/s1600-h/dsc02341%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02341" border="0" alt="dsc02341" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6MpR3aGVxqk/TngFMmn0hEI/AAAAAAAAdvs/p-aiR-9jZck/dsc02341_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="309" height="238" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CJCyGQAWVYk/TngFOpQquQI/AAAAAAAAdvw/mq3095wzo3s/s1600-h/dsc02342%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02342" border="0" alt="dsc02342" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-gIFqswlRkVk/TngFPVgSZUI/AAAAAAAAdv0/gGkQcz9F5e0/dsc02342_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="308" height="237" /></font></a></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">You know how you might be at a Super 8 (not to pick on any particular hotel, I’m just sayin’, could be any chain) and they have a continental breakfast for you in the a.m.?  Like cereal in a box or even worse, one of those big plastic containers where you push the lever at the bottom and cereal comes flowing out into your bowl?  Not that I know this first-hand, I’ve just heard people talkin’.  You might also get some day-old sweet rolls too.  Yum!</font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">So, my new best friend Yana also serves a continental breakfast just like that.  Only different - a LOT different.  Maybe the coffee is similar.  How about a nice, warm egg bake, hot oatmeal with cranberries, 3 kinds of fruit, rhubarb preserves (from Amana) and a yummy – & I’m talking serious yummy – loaf of cinnamon bread still warm from the oven.  Oh, mama.  I might have helped myself to TWO slices of that.  (You don’t need to mention that to Yana, ok? )</font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"> </font></font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4P91IQtQuO0/TngFRoO2BaI/AAAAAAAAdv4/DYDqSA82VfE/s1600-h/dsc02337%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; 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Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-56WMCjo8yC4/TngFVSMEkjI/AAAAAAAAdwI/WCXxkh_RAQo/s1600-h/dsc02343%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02343" border="0" alt="dsc02343" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-OxPMqzr1Uh8/TngFWKNYHnI/AAAAAAAAdwM/A9bkNRmFPgI/dsc02343_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="195" height="266" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">  This is Yana, our lovely hostess (owner).  Shown next to her is RC, a wonderful man to visit with and a great sense of humor.  RC’s great-great (I think it was 2 greats) Grandfather was an original settler of Amana.  </font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">If you’ve read all of this un-paid commercial message, you deserve a star on your chart.  If you didn’t read it all, well, you just won’t know that you could have had a nice star for your chart on the fridge.</font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">I missed Loose Threads last week due to our “big adventure” but I did sew a couple blocks ahead of time that we were all going to sew as a group.  It’s called Friendship Chain and measures 4 1/4” finished.  I think there were 31 pieces but if you want to count pieces I could get you another star.</font></font></h6> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9kTIYEd82g4/TngFYiTvSaI/AAAAAAAAdwQ/Z48a_7vkBsM/s1600-h/dsc02282%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02282" border="0" alt="dsc02282" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9TsjWHHDjXE/TngFZkf0ZKI/AAAAAAAAdwU/dPNxvC98Wjk/dsc02282_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="241" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Front of Block</font></font></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-a3LYU1eh76E/TngFcKMNIYI/AAAAAAAAdwY/PO4_D_mhgsg/s1600-h/dsc02284%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Arabic Typesetting"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="dsc02284" border="0" alt="dsc02284" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LCQpzNVIif0/TngFc_HrOoI/AAAAAAAAdwc/gtfMahJJ0-s/dsc02284_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="239" /></font></a></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Back of Block</font></font></h6> <font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font><font face="Arabic Typesetting"></font> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"></font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5"></font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Yes, it took more than 10 minutes to sew.  And no, I’m not making a queen size quilt of those blocks.</font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">I could show you some garden pics but maybe next time.  This is getting SO LONG!  Hopefully I will have some interesting pics from a new group that’s interested in doing appliqué – we’ll be called the Bent Needles.  Lordy, Lordy.  Who came up with that one?  I think it should be Bent Needles and Twisted Sisters.  But what do I know?  I do know that a winter retreat in Iowa is looking VERY attractive.  Are you listening – Loose Threads – Woolies – The Sisterhood aka WooPees – and The Bent Needles??  I’ve heard that Iowa in March is lovely……………….</font></font></h6> <h6><font face="Arabic Typesetting"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="5">Ms. Faye</font></font></h6> <font face="Freestyle Script"></font> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-42724612306244550222011-07-31T22:02:00.001-05:002011-07-31T22:08:24.097-05:00Kind, thoughtful and loving..<p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Every time I post I tell myself that now I’m going to post more often and keep them short & sweet.  (like me)  Hmmm.  Not working out.  I tell myself other stuff too.  Like I’m going to stop eating things that are not healthy.  I love that one!  In fact, I tell myself that one nearly every day – especially when I try to button my pants.  <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-cryingface" alt="Crying face" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_HIYAQATx50/TjYXI5OAGVI/AAAAAAAAdqA/xaMxnuBHzn4/wlEmoticon-cryingface%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" /></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Lots been happenin’ here girls.  Oh, ya, in my last post I told you how my great-niece was going to win the Little Miss county fair pageant.  Turns out that I was just a tiny tish off as she was the first runner up.  You’re a doll Miss R and we’re proud of you.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">After having to skip the June gathering, The Woolies met last week at JM’s beautiful lake retreat.  It was a beautiful day that was a tad on the cool side which was heaven to us as we’d had some of the worst weather possible.  We’d had a stretch of days that were in the 90’s.  Not so bad, right?  Well, add to that the horrible humidity of around 90% and you have a sauna.  The weather man called it sub-tropical.  Yikes.  My glasses fogged up when I went out.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Ok, I got side tracked.  Back to Woolies.  I’ll skip the parts that Karen over at </font><a href="http://yellowfarmhouse.typepad.com"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">My Yellow Farmhouse</font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> wrote about.  Mostly we’re just popping our buttons over the fact that a member of our group has a </font><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><font size="5" face="Arial">big accomplishment</font> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">(sorry girls, but you gotta admit that the rest of us are deficient in the achievement category.  Oh, wait, I guess that’s just me/deficient/achievement.  Dang.  Carry on Woolie Girls)</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">OK, Kari Carr, Big Achievement.  Her book was released July 11th.  Check it out:</font></p> <p><a href="http://newleafstitches.com"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Zb15ql-WIRY/TjYXJiOWy2I/AAAAAAAAdqE/5wjWxczcyxk/image%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="244" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">You can find out more about Kari’s book at </font><a href="http://newleafstitches.com"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">New Leaf Stitches</font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">.  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">So, long story short (not) we wanted to help Kari in writing her next book.  We presented her with “A Survival Kit for Authors”:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-E3fZGBfyPJY/TjYXKS9-6XI/AAAAAAAAdqI/nUykFLINSC0/s1600-h/DSC02185%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02185" border="0" alt="DSC02185" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-WEslPgdlq4c/TjYXLUDdpAI/AAAAAAAAdqM/nIRA_sn8v9w/DSC02185_thumb%25255B15%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="144" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">First of all, I apologize for, #1 poor picture quality as it’s hard to stabilize a camera when you’re laughing, and #2 for the disgustingly wrapped package which happened because it was late the night before that I did this and my patience will only go so far.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">To get the ball rolling so to speak, was the “Bad Idea File”</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-VFk04r2l94g/TjYXL1SNmvI/AAAAAAAAdqQ/nHHXe3vbS-0/s1600-h/DSC02186%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02186" border="0" alt="DSC02186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2mGvINMWiQQ/TjYXMT78pEI/AAAAAAAAdqU/WpmsW-OSkss/DSC02186_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="177" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">The file was actually the largest item in her kit.  Hmmmm.  Think about it.  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">But just in case Kari were to have a big idea, she should have the proper pen to record it:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8WQyqN1mOYA/TjYXNSSPx8I/AAAAAAAAdqY/9CAEor1pNGA/s1600-h/DSC02188%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02188" border="0" alt="DSC02188" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Lp9yGgrHFwo/TjYXNzikMzI/AAAAAAAAdqc/KdxztmUH7EY/DSC02188_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="239" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">As we all know, good ideas are hard to come by but a person should have a notebook around just in case of a “big idea”</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-x5qI9yGI834/TjYXPAsNgAI/AAAAAAAAdqg/4S0tdEvcaas/s1600-h/DSC02195%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02195" border="0" alt="DSC02195" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-j4sO_CP7xuQ/TjYXPgn9HDI/AAAAAAAAdqk/aEMvBV2kdJc/DSC02195_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="208" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Again, you might want to think about the fact that the Bad Idea File is so large while the Big Idea Book is so small…………..get it?</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">However we know it’s possible that Kari might not be sure it’s a great idea and would not want to use her big idea pen.  Then she should really have a pencil handy……</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qphfqz4poFY/TjYXQsptOgI/AAAAAAAAdqo/MrQBJqc_s1o/s1600-h/DSC02189%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02189" border="0" alt="DSC02189" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XOe9yFkN8fM/TjYXRyf2KwI/AAAAAAAAdqs/v11eFq-gVws/DSC02189_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="209" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">or even 20 pencils and a sharpener and a box of erasers.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">You know what they say about writers – you have to write when your muse is hot.  That could even be late, late at night.  When a person is sleepy, tired.  And in need of:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-5JlZhOPYmJE/TjYXSliRbnI/AAAAAAAAdqw/gZIPoz4PjCk/s1600-h/DSC02192%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02192" border="0" alt="DSC02192" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-RFDXXaUEvyI/TjYXTPejBYI/AAAAAAAAdq0/9ofQ9IR7C6Y/DSC02192_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="175" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">COFFEE!  (I’d like to remind you at this point that I did warn you and apologized in advance for these poorly done pictures.  It was hard for Faye.)</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">If the coffee isn’t doing the trick, we thoughtfully tucked in a bottle of high-powered energy drink.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-xD63LdcTv7Q/TjYXT2zIwOI/AAAAAAAAdq4/vXRzjPqaQww/s1600-h/DSC02194%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02194" border="0" alt="DSC02194" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ldAVDEfHNzY/TjYXUk0Qr3I/AAAAAAAAdq8/Wuhbl7t5WrI/DSC02194_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="184" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">That started us off on the topic of “have you ever tried this stuff”?  None of us have and after much discussion, it was decided that due to our ages and without an ambulance standing by, it is probably best that we leave that experience to others.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">We’re still being helpful here – & I know I mentioned something about age – we tucked in a pair of cheaters -  </font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EwkYkTM73fQ/TjYXVHr4B-I/AAAAAAAAdrA/eybBgCwxew8/s1600-h/DSC02197%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02197" border="0" alt="DSC02197" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-bi6PMunuBt8/TjYXVi8pfrI/AAAAAAAAdrE/elF5sGcJ8MI/DSC02197_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="207" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">which were supposed to be hilariously funny ‘cuz I got them at the dollar store.  But danged if they weren’t cute on Kari!  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">While at the aforementioned dollar store, this little item just jumped into my cart:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-eIBWTcPAtLg/TjYXXBf_XqI/AAAAAAAAdrI/1vOUybJw7XQ/s1600-h/DSC02198%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02198" border="0" alt="DSC02198" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8ZcGtcLpYEY/TjYXXnMd6AI/AAAAAAAAdrM/rPGMoCIoxJI/DSC02198_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="173" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Can you see it?  It’s a gi-normous eraser that says “for BIG mistakes”.  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">After all this stuff, we felt there was only one more thing she might need:</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">unfortunately, I didn’t get a picture of it but it was another notebook.  This one was the “Big Book of Woolie Wisdom”.   The pages were sadly all blank……………(think about it)</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Yes, it’s true, we are a kind & loving group………even tho that’s not an exact quote from our Ms. Kari.  I’m a little afraid tho.  You know what they say about pay-back.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">After all the silliness, we broke down and gave her a nice pen – altho smaller than the one above – for her to use at book signings.  AND, even better, Kari still liked us enough to sign a book for each of us!  Thank you girlfriend!</font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-73258421030218898742011-07-15T19:28:00.001-05:002011-07-15T19:28:06.523-05:00Queen for a Day<p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Did you ever know anyone that you thought should be “queen for a day”?  Do you remember that show?  As I recall it (& this is my story), it was someone down on her luck and when she won, it was things like a new washer or refrigerator.  Useful stuff.  Stuff that would make her life better.  But, “useful” is such an ugly word.  It’s only “useful” if you actually “use” it.  Do you see where this is going?  So I’m wondering how “useful” is my vacuum cleaner or my dust cloth or my window-washing tool?  Or my stove.  Especially my stove.  See what I mean?  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">My idea of “useful” would be a sewing machine, a good tank steam iron, garden tools, a Gator (little 4-wheel drive thingey) for hauling compost, etc. around the yard.  Oh, and one of the most “useful” things on my list would be my rocking chair.  You know, for rocking baby Henry.  Did I say I wasn’t going to mention Henry ever again?  Did you believe that?  Goodness.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">So, tell me. What’s on your “useful” list? </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I got side tracked there on the Queen for a Day thing.  I really had it in my mind to talk about being a princess.  No.  Not Catherine the Great across the pond in merry old England.  Not that she isn’t great.  But I know a better princess.  Well, she isn’t a princess yet, but if she doesn’t become one, I’ll suspect someone of bribing a judge.  My granddaughter, the Divine Miss O is the most beautiful girl in the land, but running a close 2nd is my niece’s little girl who will be in the princess pageant this weekend at our county fair.  I know she’ll win.  She’s a shoe-in!  There’s really no reason for other little sweetpeas to enter.  I really, really, really want to put a picture of her here, but I worry about putting a little girl’s picture on the internet.  There are a lot of sick people out there altho I can’t imagine why some sick-o would be reading this.  He’d be awfully bored and terribly out-numbered by all the wonderful people who do read this.  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">You must be “royally” sick of this topic by now so maybe I’ll just throw in a few snapshots of my & God’s gardening efforts.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tXY_7nwcRLk/TiDapl99jGI/AAAAAAAAdpI/TF6vMRFw0Ek/s1600-h/DSC02102%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02102" border="0" alt="DSC02102" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WAjUX11ne5U/TiDaqsqTBZI/AAAAAAAAdpM/KZp9oTSdUXk/DSC02102_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="274" height="364" /></font></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-85-wmlYFDds/TiDasuxyJYI/AAAAAAAAdpQ/0mnAGdgjEv8/s1600-h/DSC02104%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02104" border="0" alt="DSC02104" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UoRM8Rlr0-M/TiDatnlm45I/AAAAAAAAdpU/h5z-ErZS5f0/DSC02104_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="332" height="264" /></font></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WwSAfAfcMqA/TiDavFZ5TXI/AAAAAAAAdpY/YSdVRfx7ztI/s1600-h/DSC02111%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02111" border="0" alt="DSC02111" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-w5RCqV3Pmx0/TiDav69h7vI/AAAAAAAAdpc/upT7oQitjxA/DSC02111_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="258" height="343" /></font></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-OCYIct34KGo/TiDaxC0voJI/AAAAAAAAdpg/ddvpHODWpSQ/s1600-h/DSC02115%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02115" border="0" alt="DSC02115" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1lajpL7WdSE/TiDaxzR-7zI/AAAAAAAAdpk/PPtpevrN4Zo/DSC02115_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="319" height="249" /></font></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CMH4T3Q6BWY/TiDa0KigdjI/AAAAAAAAdpo/Qn1s3zLc2s4/s1600-h/DSC02117%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02117" border="0" alt="DSC02117" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rIcQyb8YuKU/TiDa10cDgXI/AAAAAAAAdps/ccQ7KtVelSc/DSC02117_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="319" height="249" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Gardening is a wonderful hobby and I can hardly make myself stay indoors on a nice day.  But it’s not all sun-shiney, tip-toeing thru the tulips.  There are things about it that I hate.  For instance, I HATE IT when we have an early morning thunderstorm and it leaves the yard looking like this the rest of today.  Hope it’s gone tomorrow.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EDHFzvWqwak/TiDa3rcAluI/AAAAAAAAdpw/XzgrEjTBYxc/s1600-h/DSC02134%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02134" border="0" alt="DSC02134" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-0Ny1vo1Xh1U/TiDbFMlkhtI/AAAAAAAAdp0/79D7GRSv9qU/DSC02134_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="382" height="298" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Hope I’m still here tomorrow and hope you are too.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Wet hugs,</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Faye</font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-31471467551877654322011-07-07T22:06:00.001-05:002011-07-07T22:09:25.894-05:00Playing 1st Base & Batting 4th…<p align="left"><font face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">If you’re a regular reader of mine you might recall that in many of my previous posts I focused (obsessed) on my favorite baseball player, Joe Mauer. (Minnesota Twins). But then I decided that if I couldn’t adopt Joe, I should switch to another player. I’ve had several in the line-up but none of them worked out either. Apparently they are all satisfied with the parents they already have.  (I just want good tickets to the game!!)  Whatever. Their loss, I’m sure.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">I’m very excited about the perfect solution to my heartbreak----------------our very own, brand-spanking-new GRANDSON!!!</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-xnPYRkL7ntw/ThZ0Ei3ZakI/AAAAAAAAdoo/5H9gm_WPDzQ/s1600-h/279600_10150232145796173_580216172_7593597_6226775_o%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="279600_10150232145796173_580216172_7593597_6226775_o" border="0" alt="279600_10150232145796173_580216172_7593597_6226775_o" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-u8RGaNd25MM/ThZ0FW9UUsI/AAAAAAAAdos/Hv8E818xigw/279600_10150232145796173_580216172_7593597_6226775_o_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="301" height="232" /></a></font></p> <p><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">We are so excited to welcome our little Henry to our family.   Doesn’t it look like he’s saying I want my Nana???</font></p> <p><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">You know how it is when there is that invisible line in the sand?  That you know you shouldn’t cross?  Well, I crossed it.  I knew my son was not a fan of having “stuff” in the window of his clinic.  So I snuck in – not in the dead of night but I needed the staff to let me in when he wasn’t there.  </font></p> <p><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">I knew he’d be there the following Monday, so I was planning my funeral for Wednesday (you know, after he killed me for messing with his window).  It all turned out fine.  In fact, here’s what I did:</font></p> <p><font face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Ogj3rWytI18/ThZ0Hd_GEwI/AAAAAAAAdow/QwRPVmGFAaA/s1600-h/279912_10150236139766173_580216172_7642733_1261232_o%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="279912_10150236139766173_580216172_7642733_1261232_o" border="0" alt="279912_10150236139766173_580216172_7642733_1261232_o" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-DxTmeE2-TMI/ThZ0INRiH4I/AAAAAAAAdo0/DSYo5CYgKsU/279912_10150236139766173_580216172_7642733_1261232_o_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="302" height="232" /></a></font></p> <p><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">That’s my handsome son in the window holding Henry.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-sUPE0fqouz4/ThZ0J3BBFBI/AAAAAAAAdo4/wUv-u2SuZBY/s1600-h/265450_10150236139721173_580216172_7642732_1169913_o%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="265450_10150236139721173_580216172_7642732_1169913_o" border="0" alt="265450_10150236139721173_580216172_7642732_1169913_o" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7UmGbhPshJs/ThZ0KgBWcHI/AAAAAAAAdo8/nKRNAnJecAw/265450_10150236139721173_580216172_7642732_1169913_o_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="295" height="227" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2bF0p-8r0X0/ThZ0MEBUxNI/AAAAAAAAdpA/sMheE-S7D1k/s1600-h/DSC02064-1%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC02064-1" border="0" alt="DSC02064-1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-5uMM5KavEnY/ThZ0NCI3CXI/AAAAAAAAdpE/-ycORqrGdms/DSC02064-1_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="292" height="225" /></a></p> <p><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">OK, I KNOW I’ve bored you to tears.  I’m a new grandma – I’m entitled.  I will never mention Henry again.  Hardly ever.  Sometimes.  Well, probably a lot.  Get over it.</font></p> <p><font face="Bradley Hand ITC">Nana Faye</font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-11544568367418848632011-02-17T20:59:00.001-06:002011-02-17T21:02:53.564-06:00What’s Up with That?<blockquote> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I’ve always found it very enjoyable to sit down and write a post for my blog.   From that statement you might then ask the question:  why don’t you write more often???  You might also ask, which came first, the chicken or the egg??  Well, boys & girls, the answer is simple and the same for each question – I DON’T KNOW!!!!  Of course you also have to realize that there is very little in my life worth writing about.  Altho now that I think about it, most of my posts are about nothing at all.  Obviously, this will never be turned into an autobiographical book.  Or any kind of book.  Oh, geez, ya, I’d really LOVE to write a book.  I sat down with pen in hand one day to begin.  I was like Snoopy sitting on top of his doghouse typing out – “it was a dark & stormy night.”  After that I was stuck.  I couldn’t think of a darn thing and gave it up as a lost cause.  If you want to send me a story idea………I could add at least a paragraph to it!</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Now that I’ve explained my long absence……ahem, we’ll move right along.  :)</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Let me begin by sharing our winter house project.  Known affectionately (or not) as the “shower from hell”.  Pardon my language.  Our bathroom had a bathtub with a shower.  It had tile surrounding it.  Some tiles began to come loose – and then more & more.  The cause was a handicap bar we’d installed when I was recovering from “the incident”.  Long story short, we needed to re-do.  As all good projects go we decided to make  it all BETTER.  Are you loving it so far?  Me too.  Since we don’t use the tub, we might as well remove it and it will become a nice, large shower.  YEAH!  </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I’ll skip thru a whole bunch of really interesting stuff here that would bore you (huh?).  We got out our tool belts and hammers, screwdrivers, hand saws, power saws, chop saws, drills, sanders, squares, tape measures, and well, nearly every tool we own.  We do this because whenever we tackle a building project we call in “Close Enough Construction”.  That’s us.  In addition to that we run to town at least once a day until project completion for something we don’t have.  Can anyone relate?  So once the dust has settled, it looks like this:</font></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gUUmTI5I/AAAAAAAAafc/i709522afQw/s1600-h/DSC01905%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01905" border="0" alt="DSC01905" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gVA_BcuI/AAAAAAAAafg/2lMwm6GzjAk/DSC01905_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="212" height="278" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Left side:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gVty-D-I/AAAAAAAAafk/4K_skLHch0k/s1600-h/DSC01903%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01903" border="0" alt="DSC01903" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gWDxsoxI/AAAAAAAAafo/A1hpi4tnBok/DSC01903_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="219" height="287" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Right side:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gWh8T4yI/AAAAAAAAafs/98mp8gStyMo/s1600-h/DSC01904%5B4%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01904" border="0" alt="DSC01904" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gXAJJWCI/AAAAAAAAafw/ld2kbxMZCTw/DSC01904_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="190" height="247" /></font></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gXk9YGCI/AAAAAAAAaf0/llFBcp4gDSM/s1600-h/DSC01907%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01907" border="0" alt="DSC01907" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gYEdTXQI/AAAAAAAAaf4/dg5g71ivTYI/DSC01907_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="184" height="244" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">One of the sad/funny things about it is in the instructions it says that this can be completed in a weekend.  HA!  Someone should call the better business bureau for false advertising.  Well, it’s done and we love it!  If I host a “shower open-house”, do you think it’s ok to ask people to bring their own towel?</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Last Saturday was our monthly Prairie Women’s Sewing Circle group, sponsored by </font><a href="http://www.farmhousewoolens.com/"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Farmhouse Woolens</font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">.  Per usual, a good time was had by all.  I cannot imagine a group of ladies who would be more fun to work with.  It’s sorta like having a 2-year old around and if there’s a moment of silence, you get real nervous.  I am not saying they act like 2-year olds!  Sheesh.  But there are no moments of silence!  Here’s what they made last month:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gY8_RQ8I/AAAAAAAAaf8/bWAXjVWUuvY/s1600-h/Sewing%20Circle%201%5B4%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="Sewing Circle 1" border="0" alt="Sewing Circle 1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gZa5kZoI/AAAAAAAAagA/dmHIBBNZf2k/Sewing%20Circle%201_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="338" height="260" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> They are the sweetest little table runners called Seneca Falls.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Oh – Oh – Oh.  Miracles do happen.  I got something for Valentines day:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gafQrhvI/AAAAAAAAagE/TbI1fmq-vaU/s1600-h/DSC01885%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01885" border="0" alt="DSC01885" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gashye5I/AAAAAAAAagI/unOQYJFgC6c/DSC01885_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Wasn’t that nice?  I gave him a card.  Yes, I talking about my husband!  </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">OK, what else?  I belong to an organization that provides services to help mainly senior citizens stay in their homes instead of needing assisted living or a nursing home.  It’s a great organization and well worth supporting.  They’ve had an annual Tour of Tables event for their main fundraiser for a number of years.  This year we are using Alice in Wonderland as our theme and have asked each table hostess to decorate to represent a children’s book or nursery rhyme.  </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I had to go to eBay but I found vintage-looking Alice in Wonderland fabric --- </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gbbpG89I/AAAAAAAAagM/FvAz4tyh8R4/s1600-h/ByKtCiCWkKGrHqVikEw5e91ndBMQoCLtE8Q_3%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="ByKtCiCWkKGrHqVikEw5e91ndBMQoCLtE8Q_3" border="0" alt="ByKtCiCWkKGrHqVikEw5e91ndBMQoCLtE8Q_3" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gb2k__6I/AAAAAAAAagQ/JGBOmR7CdmU/ByKtCiCWkKGrHqVikEw5e91ndBMQoCLtE8Q_3_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="259" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">So I ordered a yard.  Then I wondered what to do with it.  Here’s what I did:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gcgaGDFI/AAAAAAAAagU/08bouueqlfQ/s1600-h/DSC01889%5B4%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01889" border="0" alt="DSC01889" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gdbQ00GI/AAAAAAAAagY/VgUuiuZhJOM/DSC01889_thumb%5B7%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="345" height="383" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">    I really need to tell you that the quilt is straight & square.  It looks like it’s curved at the top but it’s just the way I pinned it to the wall.  Honest.  It really is straight.  I promise.  Really.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gecfG8NI/AAAAAAAAagc/YVDQh2dsQC0/s1600-h/DSC01894%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01894" border="0" alt="DSC01894" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gfIgiVEI/AAAAAAAAagg/LNCZMgqGbG0/DSC01894_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="358" height="272" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gfrIGCsI/AAAAAAAAagk/4SIZUVhoS1k/s1600-h/DSC01895%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01895" border="0" alt="DSC01895" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3ggJD6jbI/AAAAAAAAago/H0WOszLE8QQ/DSC01895_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="272" height="358" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3ghq6dKMI/AAAAAAAAags/Zrq2JOmLGqU/s1600-h/DSC01898%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01898" border="0" alt="DSC01898" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3giXzsYHI/AAAAAAAAagw/siB3Ybp8X14/DSC01898_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="365" height="278" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">And, of course, minkee on the back so it’s snuggly soft for baby.  I also had a couple motif leftovers so will sew up a simple pillow to go with it using the green border fabric and minkee. </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gi8O-TCI/AAAAAAAAag0/R7YK51d5K-E/s1600-h/DSC01899%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01899" border="0" alt="DSC01899" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TV3gjv5jGrI/AAAAAAAAag4/USY2YPxsf_o/DSC01899_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="347" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> We’ll announce the raffle winner on April 9th at the Tour of Tables.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I missed going to Loose Threads this week but I’m hoping to be able to share pictures with you (if someone shares with me) as I know there was some good show & tell.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I do have a full-time job now so I may have less time than ever to write.  </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC">What?  I need to clarify full-time?  Ya, ya, ok then.  I work 1 day a week.  But that’s a LOT, don’t you think?  My lovely and talented boss is none other than Kari Carr – <a href="http://www.newleafstitches.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=70" target="_blank">New Leaf Stitches</a>.  You can check out her patterns & notions on her website.  I’m trying very hard to be on my very best behavior while I’m at work.  It’s hard to be Faye.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-59183983069687008462011-01-12T21:37:00.001-06:002011-01-12T22:04:26.775-06:00Bad Hair Day<p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Apparently my husband has been using MY computer.  I only know this because he must have been reading the local newspaper on-line and every section he read opened a new window.  So I was going through closing windows and discovered he’d read the page that shows who has been arrested and thrown in the clink.  (Small town.  Big news.  You know.)  So I’m trying to think of a reason why he would be interested.  Was he afraid he’d see himself there?  Well that’s a big NO, unless you can be arrested because you haven’t kept up with the times and don’t know how to fire up a computer.  It wouldn’t be to check on the children because ours are obviously above average (grin) as well as kind to small animals.  Well, they are!</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">So I’m scrolling down the page and the more I see, the more frightened I’m getting.  Had there been children in the room, I’d have covered their eyes.  I didn’t even have to read the charges against some of them.  They deserved to be arrested for their bad hair.  Seriously, if I know someone is pointing a camera at me, I at least TRY to fluff my hair a little.  Don’t you?  Some of the “clients” look sad or mad or sleepy or, or, or, drunk!  Yes, indeed.  Some of them even look startled.  Like they are surprised to be there?  But the best picture of all was a young man with a mile-wide smile (not smirk) on his face.  I mean even his eyes look happy.  It’s like he just won the lottery or something, and frankly, if you’re in jail I don’t think lottery is what I’d be thinking.  But I really am happy that he’s happy.  It’s always good to have a positive attitude, don’t you think?    </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Well then.  Onward and upward.  Let’s see.  I dedicate this first set of pictures to all my friends who feel deprived because they don’t have all that beautiful snow to look at.  I’ve heard of such places such as Texas, Florida, Australia and many, many more who have bleak, snow-less yet sun-filled winters.  Enjoy!  But you’d better not be laughing!  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y4-Gvv_I/AAAAAAAAZeA/vQxpKpg4CfI/s1600-h/DSC018142.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01814" border="0" alt="DSC01814" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y5tlE8BI/AAAAAAAAZeE/-xDOzHL2Q8w/DSC01814_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="370" height="285" /></a></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I needed a path to the birdfeeders so my Mr. is making me one with the walk-behind snow blower.  Isn’t that a nice, clean trail?    </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y6RzsLLI/AAAAAAAAZeI/UVLIbQ4tLQI/s1600-h/DSC018172.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01817" border="0" alt="DSC01817" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y7NhZs5I/AAAAAAAAZeM/sLTBpg3q9cg/DSC01817_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="297" height="386" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y7gpWwqI/AAAAAAAAZeQ/oBmCImyvpF0/s1600-h/DSC018212.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01821" border="0" alt="DSC01821" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y8b-60BI/AAAAAAAAZeU/Wg3gIhdbOvI/DSC01821_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="358" height="276" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">You might notice that he’s pushing down on the handles so the front end goes up to reach the snow.  It didn’t work, the snow was too deep for the snow blower.  He did later go in with the tractor & blower and made a path.  Which is not to say that I can feed the birds without getting my boots full of snow. </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y9Ee33kI/AAAAAAAAZeY/8XMcFfUcAsI/s1600-h/DSC018272.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01827" border="0" alt="DSC01827" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y90wahXI/AAAAAAAAZec/3OxmBNN-lRA/DSC01827_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="359" height="277" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">If you park at my DIL’s clinic in town (or anywhere else in town), you might see the above as you park…….</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">or you might see the below from my living room window……</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS52EwvN5hI/AAAAAAAAZgU/fEN466TQLEU/s1600-h/DSC01823%5B8%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01823" border="0" alt="DSC01823" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS52FivFnpI/AAAAAAAAZgY/aMh7_EyoRtw/DSC01823_thumb%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="348" height="269" /></a> </p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Let me repeat myself.  If I hear any of you laughing at our snow pictures, I’m going to truck it on over to your yard!  Don’t think I won’t.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">The next couple pictures are <font size="5">Crap I’ve Made:</font></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y-WOKrsI/AAAAAAAAZeg/Yk57IbGYqII/s1600-h/DSC018243.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01824" border="0" alt="DSC01824" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5y_KawutI/AAAAAAAAZek/_-fpOFlK9_g/DSC01824_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" width="212" height="282" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">A cedar wood birdhouse with a side handle for cleaning and a pile of pillows – wool of course! </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zAXHXvAI/AAAAAAAAZeo/1bbnl_o3w4Y/s1600-h/DSC018263.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01826" border="0" alt="DSC01826" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zA-87skI/AAAAAAAAZes/xFQxrtTIUCo/DSC01826_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" width="363" height="211" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Now it’s Prairie Woman’s Sewing Circle…the first quilt is called at Mama’s Knee by Ms. Gail, Ms. Joan and Ms. Denise (smaller of course) </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zB0CjOMI/AAAAAAAAZew/t0lYpprYXCE/s1600-h/DSC018291.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Gail Brennen" border="0" alt="Gail Brennen" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zCWioxNI/AAAAAAAAZe0/A34aHJQ1lEw/DSC01829_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="230" height="246" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zEAaa4qI/AAAAAAAAZe4/3pxixsmUguk/s1600-h/DSC018342.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01834" border="0" alt="DSC01834" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zE3SXtSI/AAAAAAAAZe8/UjOLrBCFJ_U/DSC01834_thumb4.jpg?imgmax=800" width="246" height="192" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zFn9nYNI/AAAAAAAAZfA/0Bat18YDMgM/s1600-h/DSC018354.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01835" border="0" alt="DSC01835" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zGRfQTRI/AAAAAAAAZfE/71bvsDyUe78/DSC01835_thumb9.jpg?imgmax=800" width="260" height="226" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Dueling Quilters (below)</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zHjTg9II/AAAAAAAAZfI/I20vJg1ByHI/s1600-h/DSC018402.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01840" border="0" alt="DSC01840" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zISo8XLI/AAAAAAAAZfM/XlB7sISxgfY/DSC01840_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="284" height="217" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">You know, Ms. Gail & Ms. Denise are normally very reserved in their demeanor.  I just happened to catch them when they were both talking at the same time.  It’s probably never happened before.  And the sun probably rises in the west!  I’m just sayin’. </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zKDkJ0XI/AAAAAAAAZfQ/_Du7VMKYRUc/s1600-h/DSC018412.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01841" border="0" alt="DSC01841" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zLHfJm_I/AAAAAAAAZfU/0KF9koJ3grU/DSC01841_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="304" height="232" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Isn’t this a great quilt?  Mary Ellen whipped this up one evening.  I would think it would take longer than that to make.  Maybe it was one month.  Oh, heck, I don’t know how long it took.  I do know that it was a stunner.   </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zMP9bT0I/AAAAAAAAZfY/_O83pGKK93U/s1600-h/DSC018421.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01842" border="0" alt="DSC01842" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zNG49T-I/AAAAAAAAZfc/uKsTusRlSQ8/DSC01842_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="319" height="243" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Speaking of stunners, Ms. Joan showed this awesome little number.  For as much as she heckles the teacher in class, perhaps this would make a nice gift to the teacher as a show of genuine, heartfelt appreciation?  Think about it Joan.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Moving on to Loose Threads.  This month we decided to make a Cancer quilt.  Quilts don’t get cancer but people do and if a quilt that we’ve made will help someone fighting cancer feel the love & prayers we sewed into the quilt, we’ll be very, very happy.  This quilt already has a home waiting for it so it’s ready to go to the quilter. </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zO2FDXvI/AAAAAAAAZfg/eQQczWeKXyo/s1600-h/DSC018431.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="DSC01843" border="0" alt="DSC01843" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zPgZ8scI/AAAAAAAAZfk/ChyIbJm1sXA/DSC01843_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="295" height="225" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Work, work, work.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">These are 4 of the 8 suspects making the quilt.  Pretty good for a one day effort.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zRBlIlPI/AAAAAAAAZfo/KIZLpV0GsVA/s1600-h/CIMG44403.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="CIMG4440" border="0" alt="CIMG4440" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zRwVGikI/AAAAAAAAZfs/KbAzTNRO8uU/CIMG4440_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="309" height="235" /></a> </p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">A little Show & Tell – Denise’s T Blocks,</font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zS-TnbGI/AAAAAAAAZfw/8zv2EgLK51s/s1600-h/CIMG44303.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="CIMG4430" border="0" alt="CIMG4430" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zTgPGD1I/AAAAAAAAZf0/IUOEn14Hahs/CIMG4430_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="182" height="242" /></a> <font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">2 of the 5 pair of slippers Jean made before Christmas.  These are for a mother & daughter.</font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zVTDk8eI/AAAAAAAAZf4/iZkRSb_SfZI/s1600-h/DSC018452.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01845" border="0" alt="DSC01845" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zWHpWTAI/AAAAAAAAZf8/-cir-Hit9EY/DSC01845_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="242" height="182" /></font></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zXU7jJYI/AAAAAAAAZgA/XYHG4P1liq8/s1600-h/DSC018462.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="DSC01846" border="0" alt="DSC01846" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TS5zYMjvSCI/AAAAAAAAZgE/sBtTW3pMnf0/DSC01846_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="242" height="226" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Jean had previously knit some cute little kids caps so she is trying her hand at miniaturizing it to fit an American Girl doll.  Dang cute!</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">I suppose I’d better go out to the garage and polish the shovels.  It’s supposed to snow again tomorrow & the next day also.  Then for fun, the stupid weatherman said we may enjoy minus 30 degree weather for a bit.  Someone should take out a contract on the weatherman.  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC">WHOA!  STOP!  DO NOT CONTACT THE FBI, THE CIA OR THE ELCA.  THAT WAS NOT A THREAT AGAINST THE WEATHERMAN.  IT WAS A JOKE.  SHEESH!</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Bradley Hand ITC"></font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-61826060662851703242010-12-24T10:30:00.001-06:002010-12-24T10:58:06.281-06:00Blessings only come to those who notice……………<p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Isn’t that a wonderful thought?  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Do you know how hard it is to come up with something profound to say?  Especially when one is not particularly known for profound statements?  But even I have to say that “blessings only come to those who notice” is a good one.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">But how did I come up with it?  Good question.  One day (ok there have been more than one of those days, but I’m not admitting it here), I grabbed a “cup of Joe” – an old-fashioned expression for coffee that my mother used.  Even I am not old enough to have personally used “cup of Joe” but it somehow popped into my brain.  Things popping into brains, hmmmm, that could be another story.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Well, back to “blessings”.  Sipping my cup of Joe, not doing housework, bookwork or really any work, I put my thinking cap on and I thought.  And I thought.  Then I thought some more.  Nothing was really happening in the thinking up profound statements part of my brain.  So I did what I always do when I’m stumped.  I grabbed a piece of chocolate.  I’m partial to Dove dark chocolate so I opened one of those suckers up, popped the little piece of heaven into my waiting mouth.  Ummm, I can taste it now.  Wait a sec.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">OK, anyway, I’m still thinking while drinking coffee and salivating over a piece of chocolate when I notice that I still have the candy wrapper in my hand.  Well, dang.  The Dove people have done it again because this one said “blessings only come to those who notice”!!!!  Ta Da!!  There you have it – my very own profound statement.  So for now and forever after when you think of blessings you will also think of chocolate – sorry about that.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">But even better is the fact that when you think (meaning eat) chocolate, you will always think of your blessings.  You’re welcome.  </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">(Kinda makes you wonder tho what’s happening in my brain that I can take a candy wrapper and turn it into a thousand word essay.)</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I was reading someone’s blog the other day that mentioned she’d like to see snow for Christmas.  Be careful what you wish for girl.  It seems we get some snow a couple times a week and while it’s beautiful when the world is covered in glistening white, it is not a happy, gleeful, awe-struck feeling you get when you have to go out in it or shovel it.  Then it’s just a pain in the patooty.  Here’s last night’s offering:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKcQN1siI/AAAAAAAAZB8/KOKLo08URMA/s1600-h/DSC01805%5B2%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKcQN1siI/AAAAAAAAZEY/3qfeuGV6Pos/s1600-h/DSC01805%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01805" border="0" alt="DSC01805" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKcxWFkXI/AAAAAAAAZEc/TOGzz4KbKMg/DSC01805_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="352" height="268" /></a></font></a><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">That’s a bench in front of the tree.  Care to sit?</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTQx9_gkGI/AAAAAAAAZEI/UU57UE-VjV8/s1600-h/DSC01807%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01807" border="0" alt="DSC01807" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTQybMxn_I/AAAAAAAAZEM/bP5oqG_Xa_0/DSC01807_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTQzPOCfZI/AAAAAAAAZEQ/qF28NPUA8ho/s1600-h/DSC01787%5B6%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01787" border="0" alt="DSC01787" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTQzkdwTkI/AAAAAAAAZEU/YVRZx7m9o-U/DSC01787_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="361" height="275" /></a> </p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Still want snow?  Come & get it.  Free.  I might even pay you.</font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I thought I’d show a few pictures of my Christmas decorating attempts.  Don’t try this at home, you can do better!</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKfrEzFTI/AAAAAAAAZCU/QEs44F1cRWI/s1600-h/DSC01754%5B3%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01754" border="0" alt="DSC01754" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKf2tle9I/AAAAAAAAZCY/bAwIFgFQ42Q/DSC01754_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="239" height="314" /></font></a><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKgZGgb1I/AAAAAAAAZCc/utIlCeQ_Ob8/s1600-h/DSC01774%5B3%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01774" border="0" alt="DSC01774" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKhI_S13I/AAAAAAAAZCg/8_3W5cjJDq0/DSC01774_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="230" height="302" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKhjASsbI/AAAAAAAAZCk/z96jrgnYRTY/s1600-h/DSC01775%5B3%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01775" border="0" alt="DSC01775" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKjanAEEI/AAAAAAAAZCo/ZN9Zz5y6TMc/DSC01775_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="226" height="297" /></font></a><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKkMRpFsI/AAAAAAAAZCs/PlHc0682bZ8/s1600-h/DSC01761%5B6%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01761" border="0" alt="DSC01761" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKks6m3OI/AAAAAAAAZCw/ouBkzjPeBj8/DSC01761_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="311" height="237" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><a 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src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKm8HDHAI/AAAAAAAAZDA/vmuFJW29tMY/DSC01764_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKnSXZeII/AAAAAAAAZDE/FZrIrSsCu38/s1600-h/DSC01767%5B3%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01767" border="0" alt="DSC01767" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKntjwMTI/AAAAAAAAZDI/gGXu3wTrpk4/DSC01767_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="322" height="245" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKoME0qnI/AAAAAAAAZDM/VJfzwoRvCTk/s1600-h/DSC01770%5B3%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; 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src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKsGmjpAI/AAAAAAAAZDo/n4DxOhj8QVc/DSC01778_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="322" height="245" /></font></a><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKssttBOI/AAAAAAAAZDs/MHTh9zx-M40/s1600-h/DSC01781%5B3%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01781" border="0" alt="DSC01781" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKtE5DF2I/AAAAAAAAZD0/Qs8JNlShPqU/DSC01781_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="316" height="241" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKuJMwFKI/AAAAAAAAZD4/NNvRQpHIgFw/s1600-h/DSC01784%5B3%5D.jpg"><font color="#341473" size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01784" border="0" alt="DSC01784" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKuqu_woI/AAAAAAAAZD8/2gDr9hPYeFE/DSC01784_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="294" height="224" /></font></a><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="DSC01783" border="0" alt="DSC01783" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKvGIr7pI/AAAAAAAAZEA/8jWolYMYKzs/DSC01783_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="249" height="327" /></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Merry Christmas with hugs to all my friends – both old and new!</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TRTKvrGHgmI/AAAAAAAAZEE/sHAK-hi6GXA/s1600-h/DSC01783%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></a></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="5" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434550815464835621.post-3274207518795869162010-11-01T17:11:00.000-05:002010-12-08T21:25:44.376-06:00Promises, promises<p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I would love to say that I just stepped outside my door today and snapped this picture.  Minnesota just doesn’t work that way.  It was taken on Halloween.  No tricks involved. </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLjLXTCNI/AAAAAAAAYow/lc1kokmqXiY/s1600-h/DSC01641%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01641" border="0" alt="DSC01641" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLkbXgqZI/AAAAAAAAYo0/7JRjQv22CKo/DSC01641_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="259" height="340" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> Aren’t the colors yummy?  Now continue on to the next picture which is a closer version of the same tree taken today.  The colors are gone – honestly I didn’t make it black & white, it really is that color.  But isn’t it pretty anyway?  Love the hoar frost when it sits heavy on the trees.  Apparently, the birdies are loving it too.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLm_rhv6I/AAAAAAAAYo4/i5eTwMNeeiU/s1600-h/DSC01788%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01788" border="0" alt="DSC01788" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLpUikMaI/AAAAAAAAYo8/DKIj6QZQBIY/DSC01788_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="386" height="294" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLsIMkAJI/AAAAAAAAYpA/vWbpK47fSDI/s1600-h/DSC01697%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01697" border="0" alt="DSC01697" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLtFBa_vI/AAAAAAAAYpE/xmzN_vZDf0o/DSC01697_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLvMhR2kI/AAAAAAAAYpI/48o_GMUfpVY/s1600-h/DSC01698%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="DSC01698" border="0" alt="DSC01698" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLwjXdQrI/AAAAAAAAYpM/Q-CIcljkdq4/DSC01698_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">How’s this for another before & after?  Only one month apart.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">How long ago was it that I promised you a really, totally, yummy recipe?  No need to answer that – I know it has been a long time.  There is only one catch to it – it uses 2 products from the Tastefully Simple company. My daughter who is a senior consultant with this company lives in Denver.  Which, as you all know, is NOT next door to Minnesota.  I don’t think.  Anyway, since she couldn’t bake me a cake for my birthday, she sent me the cake mix and caramel sauce and the recipe.  I know you could get a caramel sauce somewhere else (but I know people who, when asked what they put this caramel sauce on, reply <u>“a spoon”.</u>  It’s that good.)  The pound cake mix might be pretty exclusive to them, I don’t know.  Luckily, I have connections…………..which I could share if you beg.  Here ‘tis:</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><u>Absolutely Almond Toffee Pound Cake</u></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">*Absolutely Almond Pound Cake Mix</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">*1 cup water</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">*3/4 cup melted butter</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Prepare cake as directed on pkg. with water & butter.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Stir in:</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">*3/4 cup toffee bits</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Spray 9x9 pan with cooking spray</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Arrange:</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">*3/4 cup whole pecans on bottom of pan</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Pour batter over pecans.  Bake at 325 for 45-50 min.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">When cool, serve with:</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">*Creamy Caramel Sauce  </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">I would have liked to show a photo but it was gone too fast for me to snap a pic.  (caramel lovers in the family, don’t ya know).  I’m telling you – your taste buds will be doing the happy dance with this cake on your lips.  I did say lips – not hips – didn’t I? </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Speaking of hips, some of the folk at my house needed to rest theirs after our Thanksgiving feast.  How many homes across America that day had people & dogs on couches with football on the TV?   </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLyRL-JxI/AAAAAAAAYpQ/-1C-XHGma0A/s1600-h/DSC01699%5B7%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC01699" border="0" alt="DSC01699" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBLzOB0_eI/AAAAAAAAYpU/Xs_LVYghRyw/DSC01699_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">And really, football?  If I had known the person/fiend/psycho who invented the game, I would have said “go back to the drawing board honey, ‘cuz this game isn’t going to catch on”.  And the “outfits”?  Whoa, momma.  Those are strange.  Remember when Linda Evans was on TV?  On “Dallas” I think.  Anyway, she started that whole fad of padded shoulders so that we’d look smaller in the hips in comparison.  Hasn’t anyone told the football fashion people that that style is so last year?  And their little outfits are kinda shiny looking polyester.  Who wears polyester?  By choice?  And knee-high socks? No, wait, they’re wearing TIGHTS!  OMG, I used to wear tights when I was a little girl and had to wear a dress when it was cold out.   And what’s the deal with tucking a towel in your waistband?  When the Indians wore that it was called a breechclout.  I suppose there’s a purpose but I’m not sure I want to know what it is.  It could be kinky.  And I’m not even going to bring up what those helmets do to their hair.  There’s a reason there are no women playing professional football.  I’m just sayin’.  Maybe I’ll start a grassroots anti-football-on-holidays movement.  We could substitute a good quilting program or a fun gardening show.  Let’s think about it, ok?</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">My real motivation to write today was because I want a friend, MJ, to see some of these pictures.  The Loose Threads were at my house yesterday but MJ is on some sort of 2-week vacation at the Mayo Clinic.  Next time you feel the need to “get away from it all”, I’m suggesting you think warm, sunny & tropical.  Whatever your excuse, everyone missed you MJ.  So here are some of the happenings:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBL1jHSiLI/AAAAAAAAYpY/-J0kjBmp2i8/s1600-h/DSC01730%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="DSC01730" border="0" alt="DSC01730" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBL247nA8I/AAAAAAAAYpc/oQ1lLfFLeto/DSC01730_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="306" height="233" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">A little light brunch – Swiss & ham crepes, Waldorf fruit salad, cinnamon streusel coffee cake and sunny sunshine OJ.  I suppose we could have eaten more but we needed to save ourselves for afternoon coffee.  Seriously.  Lori brought little individual cheesecakes.  Wow, were they good.  A few Christmas goodies needed to be sampled too.  So much to do, so little time.</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Our mini- T blocks we worked on last month at Denise’s.. Lori’s 4-square and Karen’s done in Christmas red & white.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBL5SOrcqI/AAAAAAAAYpg/iLjv4VBgwII/s1600-h/DSC01726%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01726" border="0" alt="DSC01726" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBL6WoE84I/AAAAAAAAYpk/B8PNUI1N22Q/DSC01726_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">   </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBL9Y_h5fI/AAAAAAAAYpo/0aDebrT0tDY/s1600-h/DSC01728%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01728" border="0" alt="DSC01728" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBL-ZZztvI/AAAAAAAAYps/OSqTA2232yw/DSC01728_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">These next 4 were from the month before that.  Same block – all different.  The black bordered one is Connie’s and next to it is Judy’s.  The bottom 2 are mine.  </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMADIJxCI/AAAAAAAAYpw/VQMIF33hGiU/s1600-h/DSC01742%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01742" border="0" alt="DSC01742" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMA1WRcFI/AAAAAAAAYp0/5xbPARRgAEs/DSC01742_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Judy was busily working on some American Girl doll clothes for her granddaughter.  She will be thrilled!  </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMCTFlS3I/AAAAAAAAYp4/MPXm1-CxMTo/s1600-h/DSC01731%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01731" border="0" alt="DSC01731" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMDY3SjjI/AAAAAAAAYp8/xVftHYUTRUM/DSC01731_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">A new knitted hat from Jean:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMEKHXpiI/AAAAAAAAYqA/Er0SzEntYAg/s1600-h/DSC01734%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01734" border="0" alt="DSC01734" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBME3jI7fI/AAAAAAAAYqE/QgF2lKgz4yA/DSC01734_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="230" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Carole finished one that has been waiting in the wings – for about 5 years.  I totally understand and it IS a great quilt! </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMF3EFEWI/AAAAAAAAYqI/vnH2sM2xgWQ/s1600-h/DSC01736%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01736" border="0" alt="DSC01736" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMGUcNjBI/AAAAAAAAYqM/odeGa-1McsI/DSC01736_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Karen made these table toppers from the same pattern (</font><a href="http://www.newleafstitches.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=70" target="_blank"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">New Leaf Stitches</font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">).</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMH7-oSVI/AAAAAAAAYqQ/tWSSvX0jJ-c/s1600-h/DSC01737%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01737" border="0" alt="DSC01737" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMIgM3YnI/AAAAAAAAYqU/JvoTyX8h6V8/DSC01737_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMJvwzWVI/AAAAAAAAYqY/z6v4znu4-cI/s1600-h/DSC01738%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01738" border="0" alt="DSC01738" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMKhVnLBI/AAAAAAAAYqc/d0C-UDbj7-8/DSC01738_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">She also made this angel wallhanging from a Buggy Barn pattern in Batiks!  </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMMrFHj-I/AAAAAAAAYqg/uB9EkZSB_Po/s1600-h/DSC01740%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="DSC01740" border="0" alt="DSC01740" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_KlgUqs7niGA/TQBMNoMBpgI/AAAAAAAAYqk/dGYk1rqreQA/DSC01740_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC">Pictures really are worth a 1,000 words so I’m just gonna let these pictures speak to you while I sign off………</font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC"> </font></p> Behind My Picket Fencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048808548820364165noreply@blogger.com7