Great giveaway and it made me think…

First, I need to apologize for not posting to my blog…life just gets in the way of my fingers. And sometimes it is a choice of reading all the really interesting blogs I have bookmarked or writing. Since I am more a verbal person the choice is easy for me I would rather here what you [...]

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Sh-h-h, I am back

Sh-h-h-h, I am trying to stage a blog come back. You know what I learned about complaining…it can get worse. I thought May was the pits but June was no bed of roses either and now July started off with a bang.
Remember our house guests? My second son, Hugh and his wife Anne, who were [...]

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May $?!*

I cannot begin to tell you all how happy I am that this month is finally almost over! It has been a very busy month and has had its extreme highs and also its extreme lows.
We had three of the next generation graduate this month: Blair graduated 8th grade, Valedictorian; Michael Kelly graduated High School [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and I want to wish all Mother’s a Happy Day. May you spend it, doing just what you like to do best. I envy all of you who will have time to stitch, I might get to put a stitch or two in tomorrow evening if I am lucky.
We are celebrating [...]

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It’s May!

Before everyone thinks I have dropped out of blogging I thought I should explain.
It is May!
Unlike Camelot, where everyone frolics in the meadow singing:
“Tra la! It’s May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev’ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It’s here!
That shocking time of year…”
 Blissful is not a word I would use to describe this month; [...]

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Dawns bright and sparkly

This morning dawned bright and sparkly; there is really nothing more beautiful than a pretty snow. I know there are parts of the Midwest, especially central Kansas, that are really suffering from this snow. I hope they get relief very soon and have all found a place to be safe and warm. I think all our [...]

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March snow

  
 
 
 
I really don’t know why snow surprises me…I have seen snow into April. In fact the very first house we bought, we moved in March 27 or 28th and it snowed April 1…April Fool. We had a window in out kitchen that you could see the back yard and so DH and I built [...]

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My enabling friend Karen

Karen and I go back a few years, we worked in the same needlepoint store. Karen is one of those people you love to know, You can mull around ideas, you can bounce ideas off her, you can give her a problem and she comes up with two or three ideas/solutions and I have never known [...]

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St Patrick’s Day

 
Today is St. Patrick’s day and it is definitely my day. I remember when I was a small girl in school, we had to fill out a census card that told out ethnic backgrounds and percentages. My dad set down and figured it up; I was  56% Scottish and 38% Irish with a 1.5 % each [...]

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Angel for Super Bowl

This is what I will be stitching today.

Last week I asked Anne Stradal, ABS Designs, LLC  http://thecapestitcher.blogspot.com/   to paint a canvas for me for my longest (don’t like to say oldest…because age wise she is not the oldest) friend , Carol. We have known each other since 8th grade (we did not have Junior High) Her [...]

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