Milestones
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Well it is 'Breakfast at Wimbledon'. I really can't believe that I have been watching tennis at Wimbledon for 51 years. When I was 12 years old my father was transferred to England (RAF Brize Norton) in the Costwolds. That summer I discovered tenn...
BBQ Overload
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Today one of my PBS stations has been airing a BBQ marathon. Wow, I am ready to run out and buy a kettle barbeque, some bricquets and wood chips and cook away. Then I get real and think about what would I do with all that food. Living by my self c...
Gratitude
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One of the people that our shop relies on the do finishing work recently did a wonderful job on finishing a baby outfit that is being made as a gift. She is an awesome knitter and always worries about charging too much. On this particular outfit s...
Felting
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Well I learned that what is passing for 'felting' in the knitting world is sort of kind of not "real" felting. Years ago I took a class to learn how to felt as a part of the workshops that we had to take each year to participate in the Renaissance...
Hot & Dusty
posted 4 months ago and has 0 comments
Today I spent some time in Lorraine & Gordan's Woodland Iris Garden. They had lots of bloom; but, it seemed like it happened all at once. Lots of stalks had almost every flower in bloom at once. Makes for a pretty garden; but, not how irises a...
Virtual Friends
posted 4 months ago, updated 25 minutes later and has 0 comments
This photo was posted by Slipslidin on the Hawaiian Music Group a couple of months ago. It is a picture of the reconstructed temple that at one time held the bones of 23 chiefs of Hawaii.
Silpslidin used to live in Hawaii on the big island. While...
Silpslidin used to live in Hawaii on the big island. While...
Sad -- Happy
posted 4 months ago, updated 4 minutes later and has 0 comments
On Sunday, I spent a long time signing up of AT&T high speed internet so that I could watch the Merrie Monarch this week. For the first time in I don't know how long, I didn't do a screen print of the confirmation number for my order. After al...
Learning
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I think that any day that you learn something is a good day. Today I found a site where you can make your own 'glitter tag'. I think that this is a good thing.
Amazing Artists
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This weekend the Glendale Quilt Guild held its annual quilt show. It is one of the best quilt shows in Southern California. There were over 200 quilts ranging from very large (bigger than a king size bed quilt) to very small (about 6" by 9").
On...
On...
Book Finished
posted 5 months ago and has 0 comments
I am normally a fast reader. Sue Grafton's latest book took forever to read. I have tried to figure out why it took so long. The whole book was very disturbing. Perhaps because I am now at a time in my life where what happened to one of the charac...
