But it isn’t as bad as it looks! This is going to be our yummy dinner. We love chicken & dumplings. Seems like everyone has their own favorite recipe. The ones we like are the ones my grandma used to make. They’re thin and chewy and I could eat [...]

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I have the quilt done and everything ready so have no fear . . we will have a November project. I hope to be able to take the pix outside but the rain has been relentless for the past two days. Yes, we’ve had gorgeous weather for the past 2 weeks and I [...]

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Who’d thunk I could write a whole blog entry about feet?
The foot pedal on the left is the old foot pedal to the Bernina 1230. It no longer works (although DH is sure he can fix it - I threatened to do great bodily harm if he touched it before [...]

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I’ve actually had lots of socks in my lifetime but this is the first one I’ve ever knitted. I’m so proud of it! Can’t wait to make a second one so I can wear them.
Does it look halfway right?
The lady at the knitting shop not too far from me told me that I would never [...]

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For those who have been reading my blog for a while, you’ll remember my son’s driving record. He didn’t get driving privileges til he was almost 18 because of a deal we made about him making A’s and B’s. He graduated and we told him when he got a job, he could drive. [...]

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It’s time to sell the little house in town and before I can even think about showing it, I have to make it look like a home instead of a messy, messy sewing room. I bit the bullet today and packed the entire stash. Except for a few pieces of fabric I kept [...]

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Some questions for you:
1. Is it helping you accomplish more?
2. Are you actually using the one hour instructions?
3. Do you want to continue with one hour instructions or do you want me to just submit a pattern each month and do it at your own speed?
I have a wonderful pattern for November [...]

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Seems like I think of a million things to blog about when I can’t stop and write and then when it’s time to write, I have nothing to say. That happen to anyone else?
Speck got really sick over the weekend. Friday evening, he kept wanting to go outside . . every 10 minutes [...]

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I said I wouldn’t do this but I think this new blogger makes it almost impossible for return addresses to show up when I receive your comments by e-mail so I’m going to start responding to comments in posts. Maybe at the end of each new post, I’ll respond to previous comments.
Leah asked: [...]

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Do you have an emergency plan for your family? I just turned the TV on and saw people in long lines in Hawaii trying to get into a grocery store. Everyone has their own circumstances and many will say they don’t have the money or the space to store food/water for an emergency [...]

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