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Good morning, my friends. Enjoy October while it lasts. After tomorrow, you won't see it again for a whole year. And are you ready for Halloween? As I've said before, Halloween is kind of a non-event around here. In 21 years in our house, we've never had a single trick-or-treater. We quit buying "just in case" candy quite a long time ago, and we gave up on carving pumpkins before that. It was fun when the kids were little. I used to make their costumes. If they remember nothing else about me when I'm gone, I ...

Good morning, my friends. Enjoy October while it lasts. After tomorrow, you won't see it again for a whole year. And are you ready for Halloween? As I've said before, Halloween is kind of a non-event around here. In 21 years in our house, we've never had a single trick-or-treater. We quit buying "just in case" candy quite a long time ago, and we gave up on carving pumpkins before that. It was fun when the kids were little. I used to make their costumes. If they remember nothing else about me when I'm gone, I ...

Wow in this 12th of 54 blocks I think this one has had the most pieces so far –70 pieces in this 10.5 inch block.  I worked on this block off and on all day – not a one hour block this time.  This one is called Bilby On the wall with the others – […]

Yesterday was another nice day a bit of handwork done, finished an audio book by Karin Slaughter called “The Good Daughter” which was not in either series that she writes but a stand alone that I had never read before.  I guess I had overlooked her stand alone books and just read the two series.  […]

Good morning, my friends. Happily, my vaccine malaise has passed, and my usual energy level has returned. I still felt a little dragged out for most of the morning yesterday, but I felt good enough to get back to sewing yesterday afternoon. I managed to get Jericho Walls halfway sewn together when I ran out of fabric.

When I quit for the day, I had it this far. Just three rows ...

Good morning, my friends. Happily, my vaccine malaise has passed, and my usual energy level has returned. I still felt a little dragged out for most of the morning yesterday, but I felt good enough to get back to sewing yesterday afternoon. I managed to get Jericho Walls halfway sewn together when I ran out of fabric.

When I quit for the day, I had it this far. Just three rows ...

Block number 9 of NYB has begun, with that is getting the fabric picked out.  When I started this quilt I went though all my boxes and picked out most of the batiks and treated, pressed and folded storing them into plastic project boxes the only place I could think to put them for now.  […]

Good morning, my friends. We have a full day to prepare for our vaccines. We've both marked a sick day on our calendar for tomorrow. Our appointments aren't until 5:00 p.m., and so there's plenty of time to get some things done today in preparation for huddling under quilts tomorrow. Also, we have a box of Lipton Noodle Soup. It's our go-to sick person dinner. We make it just like the box says, but drop an egg in at the end and swirl it around with a fork. It makes the perfect meal when ...

Good morning, my friends. We have a full day to prepare for our vaccines. We've both marked a sick day on our calendar for tomorrow. Our appointments aren't until 5:00 p.m., and so there's plenty of time to get some things done today in preparation for huddling under quilts tomorrow. Also, we have a box of Lipton Noodle Soup. It's our go-to sick person dinner. We make it just like the box says, but drop an egg in at the end and swirl it around with a fork. It makes the perfect meal when ...

Good morning, my friends. This is the second of two days of writing fast and stitching slow. I got my hair cut yesterday, and I'm getting a pedicure today. As I said earlier, I want to look my best when we get our flu and COVID vaccines tomorrow. Besides, our vaccines are scheduled late in the day, and so we're eating out afterward. If I'm going on a vaccine date with my main squeeze, it's important to look good. Wouldn't you agree?

Despite flying out of the house at the ungodly hour of 9:15 ...

Good morning, my friends. This is the second of two days of writing fast and stitching slow. I got my hair cut yesterday, and I'm getting a pedicure today. As I said earlier, I want to look my best when we get our flu and COVID vaccines tomorrow. Besides, our vaccines are scheduled late in the day, and so we're eating out afterward. If I'm going on a vaccine date with my main squeeze, it's important to look good. Wouldn't you agree?

Despite flying out of the house at the ungodly hour of 9:15 ...

Cool October nights are bringing the garden season to a close. While I still have some tomatoes on the vine, and more still green, they are mostly done. I harvested these, and I’ll pull up the plants when the first frost occurs.

There is still one squash left on the vine, and it finally appears to be ripening into a golden-tan color.

We are finally seeing a bit of color on some trees.

Because the black cherry tomatoes were unusual and flavorful, I saved some of those seeds for next year. See my method on my previous post Saving ...

Finally after about 4 or 5 days I got block 7 Honeyeater done!  Most of this block didn’t cause problems it was the skinny dark strips that did me in – for some reason I kept turning things backwards or something.  I am not dyslexic but sometimes when I need to reverse things in sewing […]

Yes no progress what progress there was got ripped out and a new template and pieces will be made – I screwed it up and kept ripping and ripping – I will really look it over before I get going – so here it still is at this point – day before photo as I’m […]

It feels so nice being out of the heat of summer and these nice days back to wearing jeans and t-shirts sometimes a light sweatshirt to start – I know before you know it we all will be complaining of the winter cold and not being able to do things outside – it is a […]

Y’all are going to get tired of following along with the New York Beauty but right now I am on a roll and will keep going.  I was surprised I got this one done yesterday but after getting exhausted from yard work I came in and sat –a good part of the afternoon in front […]

Good morning, my friends. We're approaching what passes for normal here. We're unpacked, showered, straightened, laundered, and mostly put away as of this morning. Within the next week or so, I need to get out and do some yard clean-up. The weeds partied hard while we were gone. The vegetable garden is weeded over and fallen down. We'd hoped for some corn upon our return, but found it old and tough. Oh well. The tomatoes came through, though. There were two slicers awaiting our harvesting hands:

Yesterday, I harvested the ripest of the sauce tomatoes. There are ...

Good morning, my friends. We're approaching what passes for normal here. We're unpacked, showered, straightened, laundered, and mostly put away as of this morning. Within the next week or so, I need to get out and do some yard clean-up. The weeds partied hard while we were gone. The vegetable garden is weeded over and fallen down. We'd hoped for some corn upon our return, but found it old and tough. Oh well. The tomatoes came through, though. There were two slicers awaiting our harvesting hands:

Yesterday, I harvested the ripest of the sauce tomatoes. There are ...