Quilting Basics

I just about finished reading "The Persian Pickle Club" - Sandra Dallas. Quilting is the central theme and so this book sheds light on how women gather around a quilt and share and care as they work on it together. It is not always fine and dandy, they share their ups and downs, sorrows and …

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Raising a toast to Team New Zealand

I love a good game of cricket. Today was the final game of the 2019 World Cup at Lord's, between New Zealand and England. Both teams tied at 241 runs and it was decided that they would enter a super over to decide the winner. Both teams scored 15 runs in the super over and …

H2O+CO2=A Sinkhole

Limestone is soluble rock. When exposed to water for extended periods of time, it dissolves. Boy O Boy, when limestone dissolves it really can dissolve so deep that it can reach the underground water. Such a formation is called a sinkhole aka Cenote. On a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula our tour guide walked us …

Comfort Zone

Gramps grew up in times when there was no vaccination for polio. He was a child afflicted with polio in one leg and walked with a limp. He and his 'friends' walked to and from school everyday. Some kids were unkind, and threw him into a dry well sometimes, just for fun, and they would …

Sun and Earth – True Love

My mother kept a perfect home. Everything had a place and there was a place for everything. The TV perched on top of a TV stand and we gathered around it in the living room on weekends to watch shows with neighbors. Our neighbors were nice people. We were the only family with TV, hence …

et tu Brute

I love museums and visited one recently. It took me back in time when ladies used to carry water in wooden buckets. The exhibit was interactive and we could try lifting the 20 lb bucket to get a sense of how hard women worked, back in those days. I stood in line and was amused …

Emotions r us

I know my neighbors by their dog's names for example - Buster's mom or Ruff's dad. On a recent afternoon, I heard from Neighbor X that Neighbor Y's malti poo was ripped apart by a Pit bull. The malti poo was in the emergency room getting treated for trauma and other things. Luckily the maltipoo …

My Favorite Quotes

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain He who walks in another's tracks, leaves no footprints. -Joan Brannon True Love is standing by each other's side on good days and even closer on bad days. - anon