As you may have heard, the Midwestern US is in the throes of some winter weather. Yuck. So far we are getting sleet and our east windows are already coated with ice. The timing couldn't be worse -- this weekend is Holiday Happenings -- our little town's Christmas-kickoff-festival. Merchants and ... VIEW POST
If you don’t like the weather….
It's often a joke about Iowa weather (or other places I'm told) that if you don't like the weather, you should just wait 5 minutes. This evening: it was literally true. We went from an absolute downpour 1 minute to a blue, blue sky the next minute. It happened while we were eating supper -- and ... VIEW POST
Credit where credit is due
I alluded to this in a previous post, but based on some of the comments I've received, I want to clarify that I cannot take credit for the look of the feathered star quilt that I am working on. The fabric choices and the bulk of the piecing that is already complete was all done by my friend, the ... VIEW POST
Sunday report
I've been trying post an update with some pictures, but my connection isn't good enough tonight to upload pictures. Text will have to do. Quite frankly, I'm extremely lucky to have any kind of Internet connection at all. In fact, electricity itself is a rare commodity at the ... VIEW POST
Ice
Mark took this picture a short while ago. The icicles are hanging off the bottom of the bay window in my studio. There is about a 1/4 of an inch on the sidewalks, and trees are groaning under the weight of even thicker ice. Power has been up and down all day. It's been up for ... VIEW POST
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