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This is not going to sound possible, but I assure you, it is. My husband passed away on the 4th. On the 9th I went to the post office and on the way home I was involved in a horrible 4 car accident and my car was totaled. I've been to the ER, two days later my regular doctor who discovered my...

I very seldom post since I sold my farm and mini horses. I just wanted to let everyone know my husband passed away on July 4. I'd like to think all those fireworks that went off that evening were for him. I'd like to say he went quietly but that was not the case. He suffered this last month...

I don't post these days since we sold our farm, but I do have a tidbit of excitement to announce. I am a quilter. I quilt to give me something to do. I can stay home and watch over hubs and quilt. Well, a local museum (The Kentucky Museum), on the campus of WKU in Bowling Green was having...

So, my daughter is a special education teacher at a high school.  She has...oh...maybe 25 kids in her caseload every year.  This year she decided, as a way to encourage her kids, she wanted to start a "smartie pants" thing.  She asked me to make her fabric pants.  When the kids do something...

So, I'm scrolling thru Yahoo, reading the headlines when I come across an interesting article.  Apparently, a zoo in Cairo painted two donkeys with stripes and attempted to pass them off as zebras.  Um......like with those ears, no one would notice?  Geez

Well, this is what I am working on now.  I actually misread the instructions.  I thought it said it was comprised of 20 blocks.  That didn't seem too bad.  So I'm hand piecing up a storm and I realize....wait, that's not right.  This isn't anywhere near being large enough.  Turns out, they...

This past weekend was the Hart County Fair.  They have a large quilt show.  I didn't have a bed sized quilt to enter this year because I had shipped the only bed sized quilt to my daughter in Texas and she refused to ship it back so I could show it.  Oh well, I really don't care because she's in...

Things here could be better, actually.  But, I am tired of living with such uncertainty.  I felt that I needed answers to some questions, if for no other reason than to put some of my fears to rest.  So, keeping that in mind, I have scheduled an appointment with an attorney who specializes in...

I've said this before, but I quilt just to keep me from going insane.  I have decided that maybe I should enter some in local shows.  So I had entered three in a show in Red Boiling Springs, TN (a darling little town about 45 minutes from here).  Not to toot my own horn, but TOOT, TOOT, TOOT. ...

As time progresses, my husband gets a little fuzzier on how to do thingsotoo much for him to do.  In fact, he just really shuffles around without speaking while I pick up all his dirty clothes,  you know, the ones that were too dirty to put into the washing machine but are perfectly ok to leave...

You all know I've been struggling with some depression issues because of my husband being ill. I decided I needed to get out of the house a little, get away from the issue so I joined a quilt guild and a homemakers group thru the local extension office. Now granted, all these ladies are quite...

For some time now, I've known there was a raccoon close by. If I left my bird feeders out overnight, he would empty them all for me. And he has actually stolen several suet feeders. They were no where to be found in the morning. No big deal...I just bring everything in at night. BUT, the...

Once upon a time, many years ago, I used to sew clothes for my daughters. Once they got big, they wanted dresses with "tags" on them like everyone else, so I switched to quilting. I haven't used my sewing machine for anything other than quilts for...well....more years than I will readily admit...

Since the cold weather is upon us, and I refuse to go outside (except to go to Joann's), I have been busy sitting at my machine. I have decided to try to use up my scraps. So far, it's not really working that well as my stash supply doesn't seem to have gone down and my last four quilts have...

OK, I've decided to stop being pitiful (at least for the time being) and start doing something. At my last quilt guild meeting they issued us a challenge. We all started with one yard of batik fabric. Then we snipped, ripped, dropped and passed it. I'd better explain. LOL We made a little...

I'm not on here often these days, but I do check the back porch from time to time to see what everyone is up to. Things here are pretty quiet. Hubby is not very verbal anymore. I had to take his computer in to the computer guru the other day because he said it was acting up. Took him 5...

Well, since I have a ton-o-time on my hands, I decided to hand piece and hand quilt a little lap quilt. Unfortunately, it didn't take me nearly as long as I would have liked. LOL I didn't really like it, at all, until I attached the scrappy binding and then all of a sudden, POOF, I liked it...

I entered three of my quilts in the county fair this weekend and I walked away with three blue ribbons. **doing the happy dance** I had them in three categories: baby quilt (the little cream one hanging on the pipe), hand quilted (the queen sized whole cloth that is on the table) and hand...

My family doctor is here for only two years during her residency. She will be leaving Kentucky next month to go to Tennessee to do her specialized training. I wanted her to have something to remember Kentucky (and me) so I made her this little lap quilt. I presented it to her this afternoon...

So, yesterday afternoon I put out my feeders for the birds. We've been having some heavy rain and I don't leave them out when it's raining as the seed just gets all moldy. I have this one feeder that looks like an old timey lantern and it holds about 8 cups of sun flower seeds. I hung it out...