Archive | December, 2008

Holiday Music–Just a Bit Late

29. December 2008

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Holiday Spirits,by Straight No Chaser I usually don’t rattle on about my musical selections, for the simple reason that most of what I listen to isn’t likely to appeal to the majority of you. Okay, so that’s a pretty broad assumption, but aside from the fact that this is not a music review [...]

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A Picture of Christmas

25. December 2008

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We spent Christmas morning opening eating enjoying smiling napping wishing wondering believing From our family to you and yours, Merry Christmas!

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Taking a Breath

20. December 2008

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The manuscript for The Book is D.O.N.E. Done! I finished writing and drawing diagrams and editing photos today. I do still have to complete three of the quilts (they have been started, but my editor said that it would help them if I finished up the manuscript so that they could get [...]

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He Lives, He Purrs, He Plays

16. December 2008

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Warning: If you’re squeamish at all, you might want to skip this first bit, and come back in two or three paragraphs. At one week post-op, Shadow looks as if he’ll survive the whole ordeal. It was not an easy week mind you. Aside from the “normal” recovery issues like meds three times [...]

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Shadow: 5 of 9 left to go

9. December 2008

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Poor Shadow is really not the lucky cat, I tell you. Or I’m not the lucky owner, or something. Or maybe it’s that we both really ARE lucky, since he may have survived yet another life-threatening crisis. It seems we’re doing this far to often though, and he’s burning up those nine [...]

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When is an Inch not 1″?

8. December 2008

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Have you ever compared the markings on your rulers to the markings on your cutting mat to see if they are the same? Can you even imagine that they wouldn’t be? Are the markings on your rulers really accurate? Is that inch really 1″? It never occurred to me that the markings [...]

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