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| Camping vests keep short haired dogs warm during cold winter Days. |
Maulie B best trick is laying on her back and getting belly rubs.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Maulie B best trick is laying on her back and getting belly rubs.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
What are your favorite Memories of Thanksgiving?
I think mine are the happy times in the kitchen carving up
the turkey and picking at the marshmallows on top of the yams. The sound of my mothers voice telling us to leave the food alone. My father with his usual stories at the dinner table and his sage advise to us all. My dad was quite the character!My brother Steve always wanting no celery in the macaroni salad. I think it was just the normal banter of family that overall is the happy memory! The sounds throughout the house of noisy brothers.
Tomorrow I am off to my daughter and son in law home for a Happy Day of family.
My dog Maulie is traveling with us.Maulie is quite the car fly. It will be a nice day of turkey and stories with me continuing where my dad left off and Steve sadly also isn’t around for the macaroni salad but he is with us in spirit.
Thanksgiving and holidays change as we grow older but the memories are always there at these special times of the year to remind us how lucky we were to have our loved ones in our lives and to appreciate the family we still have.
Hopefully Maulie will behave with Megan’s dogs and not be a Diva !
As for Turkeys I once plucked a wild turkey and prepared it for Dinner with a girlfriend. What an experience . That was the best Turkey it tasted nutty. I even had the Turkey feathers in a enamel pot in the garage for years! So hug your family eat your turkey and be blessed with all that you have.
I think mine are the happy times in the kitchen carving up
the turkey and picking at the marshmallows on top of the yams. The sound of my mothers voice telling us to leave the food alone. My father with his usual stories at the dinner table and his sage advise to us all. My dad was quite the character!My brother Steve always wanting no celery in the macaroni salad. I think it was just the normal banter of family that overall is the happy memory! The sounds throughout the house of noisy brothers.
Tomorrow I am off to my daughter and son in law home for a Happy Day of family.
My dog Maulie is traveling with us.Maulie is quite the car fly. It will be a nice day of turkey and stories with me continuing where my dad left off and Steve sadly also isn’t around for the macaroni salad but he is with us in spirit.
Thanksgiving and holidays change as we grow older but the memories are always there at these special times of the year to remind us how lucky we were to have our loved ones in our lives and to appreciate the family we still have.
Hopefully Maulie will behave with Megan’s dogs and not be a Diva !
As for Turkeys I once plucked a wild turkey and prepared it for Dinner with a girlfriend. What an experience . That was the best Turkey it tasted nutty. I even had the Turkey feathers in a enamel pot in the garage for years! So hug your family eat your turkey and be blessed with all that you have.
Monday, November 22, 2010
To Grandmothers house we go,
Maulie is a tired girl that needs a bath before Thanksgiving
Taking a snooze and a big yawn! I stuck this old blanket on the floor for her so she could enjoy the space heater.
Yawn!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
So this last Sunday my husband and I celebrated our 35th Wedding Anniversary. One of the things on our bucket list
was to visit the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. We woke up early and drove up to L.A. It took a couple hours to drive to Los Angeles but it was well worth it. We were lucky the traffic wasn't too bad. This is a wonderful Art Museum full of
The middle of L.A.
is in the left side of
the picture. This is a really
clear picture. L.A. is usually
filled with more smog. Santa
Ana winds cleared up the sky.
I wish I had taken more pictures
but I was busy looking at paintings.
This is a picture of walking thru the door of the Getty .There were a few people looking about not knowing which way to go. A good idea a volunteer suggested is to watch The Getty’s orientation film. My husband and I listened to the orientation movie about the different buildings that house the paintings and other forms of Art which took about 10 minutes. Then we were off to look at the Masterpieces! The Tapestries, Stained glass , Sculptures were beautiful!. Most people were using their cell phones to take pictures.
My husband Jack’s hobby is woodworking which he does really well! I am so lucky to have a husband that works with his hands. I would rather have a hand made item them a store bought gift any day of the week. I was really touched with his gift Of a lathed pen with a sunflower design. It took little pieces of wood to make this pen. I really do appreciate my gift. Maybe another woman would want a piece of jewelry but for me give me a piece of wood Art!
Little Bee
The End!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Creating your story in Quilts
Crazy Quilts come in all shapes and sizes!
I have been taking a class called Wool Crazy with Jo Ann Mullaly who just finished her second book called Crazy at Home. The Wool Crazy Quilt has been so much fun and I have really made it my own. Jo Ann has wonderful designs and yet here and there I added my own personal touch. I put an Elephant in the corner that reminded me of my brother . I added a little red truck that reminded me of my Dad driving to Julian. The purple pig reminds me of my neighbors kids 4 h project of raising a pig for the Del Mar fair. Crazy quilts have been done in cotton, silks, polyester, wool, numerous fibers. I liked the simple use of my left over wool from my rug hooking. I have a long way to learning all my stitches but I am happy to plug along on this project. There are four parts to this quilt . I am not following the pattern exactly but basically moving things around and Jo Ann watches all of us add our personal touches to her pattern. That’s what my Crazy Quilt is Crazy slices of my life.
More close ups of my Crazy Quilt in progress
Jo Ann Mullaly was busy teaching her many doll, Wool crazy classes at Country Loft . Once a month I attended one of her many classes. Jo Ann would give us a copy of the newest part to our Crazy Quilt. Eventually she told her classes she was making it into a book. So Wool Crazy was published and her second book just got published recently. If you look at the Wool Crazy book you will see how I really went on my own little path of Crazy Quilting. That's what life is starting out with everybody and then taking your own twists and turns. This is a link to Jo Anns blog. You can see how different my Crazy Quilt is to the original that is wonderful. http://woolcrazy-jam.blogspot.com/
Linda and her Crazy Quilt
Linda has done a great job with her stitches!
I told Linda about this class called Wool Crazy
and told her how much fun I was having.
Linda explained that she was kind of allergic
to wool and would like to join but she wanted
to do it in cotton. I was surprised and just said
the class is called Wool Crazy!! So as I talked
to Jo Ann one day, that Linda would like to
take the class but do it in cotton Jo Ann
laughed and said there are several people in class
who are using cotton. Boy it's amazing how much
we can be oblivious to what's across the table.
who are using cotton. Boy it's amazing how much
we can be oblivious to what's across the table.
Linda has been doing her quilt for a short time but her stitches her appliqué and her Crazy Quilt says volumes about her Crazy Quilt Life.
Linda's Crazy Quilt in progress
I love the Birds!
more pictures to come when she finishes it.
Alice
Alice and her Crazy Quilt
My mother in law will be turning 94 first of the year.
Alice was a very busy person and her Crazy quilt is
an example of using what fabric she had. I think this
is from the 1970 time of quilting.
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| I was happy to see these Iris bloom for the first time! |
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Summers Past Farms and a hot November Day!
Art is everywhere in a garden!
Well I woke up on Friday and realized I had not posted anything this week. It’s been so much fun talking about places and things I am doing that I was sad that I had nothing to show for the week. So I called up my girlfriend Linda and said “Do you want to meet at Summers Past Farms for some iced tea? Meet you at 12! I made sure Maulie had water and left Morris my big Orange cat as a babysitter with Maulie and off I went.
Summers Past Farms is a great place to visit and have iced tea and coffee and shop.
I love it !!!
Marshall and Sheryl Lozier and their family have built a great place to relax, pick up some
garden plants at any time of the year. Sometimes you need a quick relaxing place to go,
on a hot day in Flynn Springs this was for me. They have numerous classes at Summers Past Farms
from making a Fairy Garden to making a bar of Soap.They were even in Country living
magazine one year! It’s a family run Nursery,Country shop, Soap shop. I had bought someTithonia seeds last year and I had great big bush of Orange Flowers. I felt like Martha Stewart.Well maybe not quite like Martha but growing seeds is harder then it looks.
I usually over kill them with kindness or forget I planted them.
I bought some Tithonia seeds and Linda and I browsed around the gardens.
There were a group of little toddlers out in their grass field. Marshall explained to me
a group of parents met on line and all arrived for a play date at summers Past Farm.
It was so cute seeing the little kids playing and the parents having a good time.
It was relaxing little break in the day .There is host of fun events to participate in
The different seasons of the year. When I looked up at their building I could see
they were starting to put their Christmas lights up.It's hard to believe were in
November when it is still like summer.
Here is a peek!
This is the nursery part of Summers Past Farms
Well I woke up on Friday and realized I had not posted anything this week. It’s been so much fun talking about places and things I am doing that I was sad that I had nothing to show for the week. So I called up my girlfriend Linda and said “Do you want to meet at Summers Past Farms for some iced tea? Meet you at 12! I made sure Maulie had water and left Morris my big Orange cat as a babysitter with Maulie and off I went.
Summers Past Farms is a great place to visit and have iced tea and coffee and shop.
I love it !!!
Marshall and Sheryl Lozier and their family have built a great place to relax, pick up some
garden plants at any time of the year. Sometimes you need a quick relaxing place to go,
on a hot day in Flynn Springs this was for me. They have numerous classes at Summers Past Farms
from making a Fairy Garden to making a bar of Soap.They were even in Country living
magazine one year! It’s a family run Nursery,Country shop, Soap shop. I had bought someTithonia seeds last year and I had great big bush of Orange Flowers. I felt like Martha Stewart.Well maybe not quite like Martha but growing seeds is harder then it looks.
I usually over kill them with kindness or forget I planted them.
I bought some Tithonia seeds and Linda and I browsed around the gardens.
There were a group of little toddlers out in their grass field. Marshall explained to me
a group of parents met on line and all arrived for a play date at summers Past Farm.
It was so cute seeing the little kids playing and the parents having a good time.
It was relaxing little break in the day .There is host of fun events to participate in
The different seasons of the year. When I looked up at their building I could see
they were starting to put their Christmas lights up.It's hard to believe were in
November when it is still like summer.
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| Birdhouse |
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| This is a log from one of the fires we had in San Diego County . I love that Marshall used a piece of a tree burned up in the fires in the Laguna Mountains. What a great entrance to the home. |
This is the nursery part of Summers Past Farms
Water on a hot day in November.
Climbing Roses
Well I hoped you enjoyed looking at a soothing garden and
if your ever in Flynn Springs check their Farm out.Here is a link
The end.
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