December 2009

The Day After

December 26, 2009

OK . . who’s shopping today? You know who’s not going shopping. Yesterday after the snow shovel was retrieved, our day was normal. I made a rib roast for lunch. Started out just rubbing it with olive oil, salt and pepper. Stuck it in the smoker. Turned it on just a bit over 225° and [...]

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You Thought We Had Problems Yesterday

December 25, 2009

Oh, how beautiful! A white Christmas! There’s lots of snow . . maybe 8″. And, the temp is about 12° and it feels like -6°. But . . there’s a slight problem. The snow shovel . . it’s in the storage building that we rent . . about a mile from home. We have an [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2009

One job I wouldn’t want on this cold, snowy night is Santa’s job! He’s going to have one frigid night but I suppose if you live at the North Pole, what’s a little sub zero weather, huh? Seriously . . I wish you all a wonderful Christmas or whatever holiday you happen to celebrate. For [...]

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Quiet Christmas Eve

December 24, 2009

That’s what I thought. We’d celebrate a nice, quiet Christmas Eve. We’re supposed to get snow starting about 4 and then all night . . maybe up to 6″. No company . . just us for Christmas. First thing that happened, Vince took his shower and came out in a rage because Chad had used [...]

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Electric Files to Download

December 23, 2009

Over on my sidebar, down under “Free Patterns and Projects”, near the bottom of that section, you’ll see “Electric Quilt Files to Download”. You do need EQ6 to open the files. For some designs, I offer patterns, for some I offer the project to download. During the coming months I plan to do many quilts [...]

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Communicating with My Man

December 23, 2009

A few weeks ago, maybe before Thanksgiving, we drove up to a butcher out in the middle of nowhere . . really . . and bought a cured, smoked turkey. It was so good and we had decided to get another one for Christmas. Last week I had called the butcher to be sure he [...]

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