The fiber show was okay. We ran into some friends and talked for a long time, so that was fun! Not much in the way of roving. I did get some really nice Ashland Bay Merino and Silk mixes, but the dealer was anything but nice. Met up with Pat Bullen, though, and Mom and I ended up driving to her place on Monday. I get most of my roving from her, so it was a good time to stock up. I always love going there! Big rolls of wool everywhere --- and in tons of colors. Well, better get to dinner. More later.
The weather here over the past two weeks has been great. Some rain and thunder storms, but the days in between have all been perfect. Dad and I have gotten a lot done in the garden and the yard. Today was overcast in the morning, so I took advantage of it to go out back and weed the Iris bed. We moved it down behind the shed last year, and I've been working at weeding it on and off. Well, with all of the rain that we've had in the last several days the weeds had really grown! So, I took my trusty hand tool, gloves and two bags of mulch down there . . . and here is the finished patch: When it comes to inside pursuits (of the fun kind!), I've been getting a chance to work on my Prince George scrapbook. Thanks to friends around the globe, I have quite a fun collection of magazines and clippings from the Royal Tour to put into the scrapbook. Not to mention that I was able to get a lot of clippings on eBay that includes the covers and articles for every "People" and "US Weekly" magazine that George has been on since his birth (missed one in the photo). There are magazines from England, Australia and the Spanish "Hola" from Miami! When Mom and I walked into the grocery store the other day there was a Collector's Edition US magazine for "Prince George's First Year". Had to get that, so you'll see it in the center. Photos of finished pages to come . . . but I think that I have a bunch of fun evenings ahead of me! Aside from scrapbooking (which has actually been on a back seat this week), Elizabeth and I have just been having a blast playing Carcassonne. I know that I mentioned that in a previous blog post, but I can't remember when. We had gotten the game in January from the little game store that comes into the mall at Christmas time. It was the last one left and on half price, so we figured that we'd try it. Well, we just got around to opening it a couple of weeks ago --- and we LOVE it! We've played it almost every evening. After looking it up online, we found that it has quite a number of expansion packs. That worked great, especially as I had Christmas money burning a whole in my pocket. So, we found a lot online of most of the expansions, and it arrived this week! The two of us finally got a chance to play some of them last night and had tons of fun. On Saturday, Mom and the two of us went out to the flea market at the fair grounds and the fiber show. Got some fun stuff at the flea market, particularly, a British Women's Land Army pin from WWII! Wow! I've been keen on the WLA for years, so it was really fun to find a pin. And it is in really nice condition.
The fiber show was okay. We ran into some friends and talked for a long time, so that was fun! Not much in the way of roving. I did get some really nice Ashland Bay Merino and Silk mixes, but the dealer was anything but nice. Met up with Pat Bullen, though, and Mom and I ended up driving to her place on Monday. I get most of my roving from her, so it was a good time to stock up. I always love going there! Big rolls of wool everywhere --- and in tons of colors. Well, better get to dinner. More later.
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My "favorite" member of the Clapham Sect. Not very much is known about him, but what is preserved keeps a beautiful memory alive of an exemplary Christian man. William Wilberforce Quote:
May I look to Him for wisdom and strength and the power of persuasion, and may I surrender myself to Him as to the event with perfect submission, and ascribe to Him all the praise if I succeed, and if I fail say from the heart thy will be done. For you Jesus Christ came into the world. For you he lived and showed God’s love. For you he suffered the darkness of Calvary and cried at the last, ‘It is accomplished.’ For you he triumphed over death and rose to new life. For you he reigns at God’s right hand. All this he did for you, though you do not know it yet.
Where there is one, there is a majority of one; and when the rights of the majority take away from the rights of the one, then the many will themselves suffer.
~Henry David Thoreau~ I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. You see, that's where I belong. That's home. That's why I came back, because you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.
~ Bilbo Baggins ~ FAVORITE BOOKS & FILMS
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell) Genesis of a Legacy (K. Ham) Prisoner of Zenda (Hope) Scaramouche (Sabatini) Amazing Grace (2007) Bertie & Elizabeth (2002) Farmer's Daughter (1947) Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) Secondhand Lions (2003) Sweethearts (1938) SCARAMOUCHE QUOTES
He was born with a gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad. The future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Man never changes. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON
KING GEORGE VI "His conduct on the Throne may well be a model & a guide to constitutional sovereigns throughout the world today & also in future generations." "For 15 years George VI was King. Never at any moment in all the perplexities at home & abroad, in public or in private, did he fail in his duties." |