Friday, January 30/Saturday, January 31 [NZ time is 19 hours ahead of central time, so a day was lost in transit].
The most challenging part of the trip came at the beginning. I got to ORD in plenty of time and the ...
read moreOur Tuesdays girls had our yearly Christmas outing today. This time we headed west and went to Palmerston North, which is about 1 hour 40 mins from here. It's a bit longer these days because the gorge that you used to drive through has been closed for the last 18 months or so due to major slips. The cost of repairing it was too major and a new road is going to be developed. Unfortunately, it's going to take about another 6 years before that is completed!! We are way down on the list of priorities. This is ...
read moreWay back in September 2011, I visited my online quilting friend in small town Kansas - Parsons to be exact. It was a very special time for me and I so enjoyed meeting Barbara and her daughter Jackie. Because of Parsons geographical position, it was easy to visit four states within a couple of hours - it sits near the crossroads of Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Such fun!
While I was there, Barbara asked me to give a talk to her local guild, then it became a few of the little outlying guilds until we ended up with 70 plus people ...
