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March
8th.....Below is last week's letter...my brain is still in
vacation-mode today--so I'll aim to write tomorrow!!
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Hello All, and Happy New Month!
March hasn't exactly roared in like a Lion, though we did get a wee bit
of snow last night, now turning to slush. {Lion Cub maybe...or Year-old
Lion...but it was all very half-hearted.} (KNOCK ON WOOD, lest my
teasing end us in a Nor' Easter by mid day!) It's been a very odd winter
indeed, with unlikely areas getting all the snow, while we have stayed
relatively dry. Me, I like the snow--not that I DO anything with it. I
just expect it to be there. :o)
Today I am off to the "Grand
Re-Opening" of our local grocery Store. I know--you can barely stand the
excitement, right? The town is all abuzz with this ! (You can tell you
are from a Small Town IF...yeah! It's one of THOSE situations!) The
local grocery store is our meeting place, the spot where you see friends
old and new, and stop to chat. All this past year our small store has
been doing renovations and expansion, which is finally done, so today we
celebrate! My daughter Kris works there, and I am friends with many of
the employees, so am most excited to see them have their Day in the Sun,
after all their hard work :o) Life is Good!
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Gosh...the cat is so
adorable sitting here beside me this morning! He's lying on the
radiator cover, with Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced
Quilt Patterns as his pillow. Definitely a Quilt Cat :o) |
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I trudged up the stairs several
times this week and worked on the quilt! Go Marcia! :o) I finally
had it sewn into four groups of four rows each, then one group of eight
and two groups of four, then I started finding "boo-boos"...spots where
I had like colors too close together. Bound to happen in a scrap quilt I
guess. Those errors just did NOT show to me until I had it sewn
together----Murphy's Law? Yesterday I did all the correcting of those
little slips, as I knew once I had discovered them , that would be ALL I
would see when I looked at the quilt, you know? Quite fun, taking the
blocks out of the middle of big sections of quilt, re-piecing, then
setting them back in. LOL! Next I sewed together the last two rows
of four...and sewed them along the WRONG edge...ACK!...so took that
apart and quit while I was ahead! Sometimes, I just have to walk away!
Hopefully I'll get it all sewn together today and can start the borders!
One wonderful thing...perhaps a
part of aging, or maybe of being ill for so long, and having to change
my priorities, I no longer care much if I have to take something out and
start over. Stitching and un-stitching are all an equal part of the
process, and I've learned to love the process as much as the end result.
The Turtle gets to enjoy the scenery longer :o) Lord I remember how
frustrated I used to get when I made mistakes though! I used to allow it
to almost destroy the joy altogether as I would get so impatient with
myself. Silly Marcia....Trix are for Turtles...not rabbits! LOL!
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Here's Meghann's
Depression
quilt!...Her very FIRST patchwork quilt! SUPER job
Meghann! |
This coming Thursday Kristen, new
BF Troy and I are heading down to daughter Kate's for the weekend! Troy
has to "meet the family", and I am most anxious to see how Willie and
Boston are doing! I swear, you turn your back on the little ones for
even a month and they have changed so dramatically! It is going to be SO
fun !
Hope You do something fun this week too!
Marcia :o)
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a
shoe full of slush." Doug Larson
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