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Taking a Little Blogging Break
I am going to be taking a little break from blogging until the last week of September. When I return I hope to get back to my usual quilty and bookish content. Things have been rather hectic in my personal life these past months, with many family responsibilities vying for my time. With luck, things…
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Siderailed By Fabric Related Injury
As I told you all last week, I spent my free time this weekend sorting out my sewing space. That was such a great dialog we had in the comments. It seems a disorganized sewing area is something a lot of you struggle with as well. My organization included hauling a lot of heavy tubs…
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Cataracts
I've been blessed with pretty good eyesight during my life. I need readers to magnify the print when I am reading, but my distance vision has always been all right. In the past few years, I have experienced a gradual worsening of my vision. I walk three or four days a week with a friend. …
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A Quarantine Story
I hope you all had a nice weekend. Our weather turned cold and rainy, so I spent a lot of time inside reading my books. I zoomed through a couple of them, so at the end of the month, I should have a decent number to review for you. My husband had a hankering for…
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Books to Read During Lockdown
We are pretty much under lockdown here, and I imagine your situation may be similar. We are only going out for the most essential reasons and otherwise staying in the house trying to occupy ourselves with anything to pass the time. In an effort to provide some sort of distraction (however small), I am going…
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Chat from the Sick Room
Well, this has sure been a wasted week. I came down with the flu on Sunday night and have spent the week in bed, each day with a new horror of a symptom. Laryngitis on Monday, faucet nose on Tuesday, fever and chills on Wednesday, and a ruptured eardrum on Thursday. I took myself to…
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80% Whole 30
I got some interesting comments about the Whole 30 program. Thanks to all of you who took the time to share your experience. The program is rather militant, that is for sure. If you so much as put a teaspoon of milk in your morning coffee or step on the scale to see how you…
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Second Hand Clothes, A Finish
I am so pleased with this quilt. Every single bit of it, I love. The pattern is Second Hand Clothes by Bonnie Blue/Red Crinoline, and the fabrics mostly Kim Diehl designs over the past year or two. There is a vibrancy to the quilt that makes my eye dance over its surface. There is liveliness,…
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Things Change
Well, we finally had to do it. Grandpa is now a resident of a memory care facility not too far away from us. We kept him in his own home as long as we could, employing a live in caregiver, a couple of day time care givers, visiting nurses and other therapists. I had him…
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Got To Change My Ways
Well. I had my annual physical this past week and just got the results of my blood work. Let's just say I've had a bit of a wake up call. Cut back on the carbs, eat more fresh fruits and veggies, consider exercise more than a theory, and maybe take a multi purpose vitamin. I've…