Is this for real???

Neither one of us could decide what we wanted for very late lunch today... so that means we ordered Chinese.

On this Memorial Day Weekend I got this fortune in my cookie...

"You'll accomplish much later if you have a little fun this weekend"

Don't you just love fate :)

So Sad

Breaks my heart....

I've been so bad :(

Well, I am just making a public acknowledgment that I've been doing a terrible job at keeping up with my blog postings. Now you would think that since I am retired I could do a better job of this... I guess, all this time on my hands has caused me to become a worthless slug...

So as a charter member of the slug society I am going to try to catch you up on current events.

In order to make this somewhat logical my next few posts will be in order below this one.... there are 5 new posts below this one... so just keep clicking "older posts" to view the posting from today... (confusing, yes....)

They will be the good, the bad, and the ugly...

So here we go...
K

June 22, 1923 to April 6, 2010

What can you say about someone that has impacted your life at multiple layers?
Nothing except that I am a better person for having known her.

For a couple of us in the Atlanta Chapter of Old Lacers Betty was the driving force in how we spend our leisure time...she taught us to make bobbin lace, and knit.

Betty shared her life as a young lady growing up in Britain before and during World War II. Our hearts were touched by her family stories. There was nothing more enjoyable than spending time with Betty and sharing a good laugh and seeing her eyes sparkle.

I had the privilege of demonstrating lace making at various events around Georgia with her; north to Big Canoe, East to Augusta, south to Westville, and West to Powers Crossroads Arts and Craft Fair. We had a great time traveling down country roads.

She was a huge part of our lives and has a lingering impact still...
We catch ourselves wanting to share ideas, patterns, and events.
We drive by old haunts where we get flashes of the shared good times....
Starbucks....
craft stores...
skeins of yarn...

Miss you, Betty
K

Block of the Month from Red Hen

you know by now that I don't do well keeping deadlines... how did I ever get all those IEP's done somewhat on time. Crunch time....

With the encouragement of friend, Mari-Lynn, I agreed to participate in one of our local quilt shops' block of the month for this year. We've done 4 so far and they look pretty good. And like Mari-Lynn says, we are refining our quilting skills and techniques.
K

Buddy Blocks

Over the last year I've been participating in my evening guild's Buddy Block project... I've not been as good about keeping photo records of our exchanges...

However, here are some of the ones I've received plus a red, white and blue one that I sent last months buddy....
K

House Hunting in Rochell GA

Here is another installment in the "house hunting" series. This building is in a small rural farm town that I pass through coming and going to Mom Caldwell's house.

If you had unlimited money to fix it up what would it become????

House Hunting in the Pitts

Looking at these pictures of downtown Pitts GA you'd think that something was really happening here. Nothing was going on nor did it appear like anything had been going on for years.... so why did everything look so bright and shiny??? Maybe a movie back drop??? Or some one just thought it was time for a face lift????