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Articles in September 2008

• Pitiful

  Posted: 18 September 2008 at 3:47 p.m.

  Pitiful (pit-ih-full) adj. 1. Inspiring or deserving pity. 

  These are my dogs. They are pitiful.

  

  

  They are also a menace to the gardening industry. As you can see for yourself, Augie took out the potted geraniums on the way down the steps.

  Toby is a conehead because he was neutered last week. He has 5 days left with his cone. He has become quite an expert at getting a good running start and bashing straight into your shin with the hard edge of the cone. This has not made him very popular around here. If you stand in the street outside our house, mostly what you will hear is "Ouch! Toby! Knock it off!" and some other words that maybe I should not type here.

  Augie has a hotspot on his cheek which he won't stop scratching, and since I do not relish the thought of blood on the furniture,  I had to go dig up his cone. As I type this, he is sitting about 3 feet away, glaring at me. It's not hard to tell what he is thinking. It makes the things we say to Toby seem tame by comparison.

  It occurred to me as ...

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• Let's Make Quilts. Lots of Them.

  Posted: 17 September 2008 at 2:24 p.m.

  Back in June, I posted this on an online machine quilting list I belong to. I have had such tremendous feedback that I thought it would be a good idea to post it here, in order to give a whole new group of quilters the opportunity to participate in a worthwhile cause. I hope that, if you're reading this, you will find the time in your busy schedule to take part in this project. Trust me. It's *SO* worth it.

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  Okay, everybody always says "Oh, I love it when you post those long
  story-posts to the list! You should post more!" Well, be careful what
  you ask for, because you just might get it. <grin> Here's another
  one of my long lectures, only this one isn't funny. Go get some
  coffee.
  
  I laid awake for a long time last night, thinking about this, and
  since misery loves company, I am going to give you something to lay
  awake and think about. :-)
  
  For those of you who don't know her,  Alycia Carmin is
  deeply involved with Quilts of Valor. She pieces them herself, she
  quilts tops that others have pieced, she teaches the kids in her ...

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• Wow. I Am Very Smrt.

  Posted: 5 September 2008 at 5:42 p.m.
  The good news; Jenna is beginning to recover from her bout with mono. 

  The bad news; Jenna is starting to get just a teensy bit bored, and has taken to dressing somewhat oddly. What is a person supposed to do with a girl as goofy as this one?

  

   Let me preface the following by saying that it wasn’t my fault. I know I said I was going to make a pretty pink and green and white quilt, but as I’m sure you know, sometimes things can get ever so slightly out of hand at the quilt shop. After all, if they hadn’t placed the whole line of Moda ‘Merry and Bright’ and Marcus Brothers ‘Snowflakes Welcome’ right by the front door, I’d have stayed on track and would be in the middle of making myself a nice, girly quilt right now. But, noooo. I saw the holiday fabrics, and that was the end of me. The chartreuse green and red plaid was what grabbed me first, quickly followed by the candy cane-like red and green diagonal stripe. And once I had those two, the rest just sort of fell into place, and I was lost. So ...

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