Double g - er

Okay, so shortening Tigger’s name to indicate my stress level today is a little silly, but just ask my kids. The closest I ever come to an actual swear word is “darn it all to heckles.” lol. I rushed this morning, skipped breakfast, in an effort to get all of my errands [...]

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Good for her.

I would like to bring some attention to this wonderful woman who will be earning her undergraduate degree in May. Nola Ochs is 95 years old, and just wanted to learn more, so she went to school. What a wonderful story she tells in this article…my favorite quote is, “Our main crop is [...]

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Wow, Now That Was Unexpected.

I checked by blog stats this afternoon (yes, it is an obsession of mine, and a rather unfounded one, seeing as my usual most hits per day were about 2 and my stats say I had 143 hits today. Whoa! And most of them are clicked in from this site: where she [...]

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A New Scrapbook Page and a Sketch for You

Here is a page that I did tonight about my dad. I won a shutterfly book at a chat at Scrapbook Bytes on Valentine’s Day. I was going to use it to make a book of Benjamin’s first year, but then, two days later, my dad passed away suddenly. So I decided [...]

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Pictures of Quilt Blocks and Fruit on Bikes

And now, onto the Fruits on bikes. Both F2 and F4 learned how to ride a two wheeler without training wheels last week. Now they are cruising around the yard with no problems. F4 was first, and F2 decided to give it a try when he saw that she had mastered it.

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Wonderful Day of Sewing

My mom and I had a great time sewing today. We are doing a quilt block swap at the t2chk forum and we finished all twelve blocks today. I’ll post some pictures tomorrow of our blocks. They are 12 inch nine-patches; mine are in a mustard yellow with small berry and purple [...]

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I’m in a carnival!

A TJED (Thomas Jefferson Education) carnival. Hopefully, I won’t be seen as the clown. Lol. I think. Anyway, here’s the carnival address…enjoy the submissions! TJED Blog Carnival

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Another post at the lit. blog

It’s part two of the Laddie essay. Enjoy, and please comment if you have something to say.

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We bought a house!

It is a gorgeous, giant house on 8 acres. We’ve been working on the details for about two months and it finally closed on Monday. There is so much work to do. Over 2/3 of the house isn’t finished (which is why we could afford it, lol) and we are going to [...]

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I actually posted at my Literature Blog

Go check out part one of my essay about the book Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter! The link is in my Blogroll sidebar…just click on the image. And please, if you have a comment to make, have read the book and have anything to add to what I’ve said so far, please feel [...]

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