5 Kernels of Thanks

from the weekly newsletter from United Families Utah that I thought was wonderful:

"After the first Thanksgiving in 1621, there were seasons when the pilgrims had to ration their food.  Legend has it that during the "starving time" of 1623 the pilgrims' daily ration was reduced to five kernels of parched corn per person. Two hundred years later, at the Founders Day banquet of 1820, five kernels of parched corn were placed on each empty plate before the meal, to symbolize the pilgrims' hardships.
Many families continue this tradition today, by placing five kernels of corn on each dinner plate before the Thanksgiving meal. Traditionally, the five kernels of corn represent the blessings of Autumn: beauty, love, family, friendship, and freedom in America."

First Snow of the Season

I had to scoop a path to the grass and a little spot for Peppy to go because she wouldn't step outside this morning.  I will be getting the tractor out after church for sure.

2 quilts done

first is the christmas challenge for QG
next is a baby quilt made for the neice of one of your Dad's cousins- front and back

Back Home - Again

everything went well.  Back on steroids for a week, anticipating all the fun side effects.   Doc fixed my big neck bellybutton.  Tiny area held together with steri strips. look forward to seeing the outcome.
This morning before heading to SL I finished a baby quilt top for a niece of Dad's cousin .  Long story but baby is grandchild of a recently deceased cousin so cousin's sister is hosting baby shower.  did that make sense?  Maybe I should wait til tomorrow to post, post-anesthesia.

2007 done

Hey, I'm getting there slowly but surely. 2008 starting today.

One Down

Took all day but I got it quilted and bound.

Now to the scrapbooking.

3 Word Journal

What It’s About
A really cool idea. Wish I had started this system 40 years ago. Would make for an easy indexing system and if done online, the words would be tags. It also makes you think of the focus of your story telling.
The Word Cloud gadget on the left side of the main page is pretty cool. 

fabulous special I watched tonight

BYUtv - Celebration Of Family History

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Thanksgivng Message

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Aw, Nuts!

Late freeze this year prevented all but 1 almond from developing.  Last year we had a small bowl-ful. If the gopher didn't eat too many roots this summer, maybe I'll get some next year.
The big pile of retaining blocks in front of the almond tree was a project I was hoping to have the strength and time for this summer.  I had neither.
On the left is my new plum tree.  The gopher was all around it too.  (keeping my fingers crossed for it)
In between you can see a mass of what looks like it could be weeds.  That is actually my little bush cherry.  It really did well, considering it was a tiny twig this spring.













 Next in my list of 2010 additions is my fig tree.  I am so proud of it.  It was so very very late getting started that I had Dad write the company for a refund.  I now need to send them the money back.  Look at how well it did.  It too was just a stick with a few roots when it came this spring.












Here is the walnut tree on Oct. 30th.  It looks all lop-sided and floppy.  One branch on the right side grew so log that I cut it back but then a bud on the stump grew just as long as the part I cut off. And one branch heading toward the fence was flopping to the ground so I had to prop it up with the hose minder.
I did have 3 hazelnut bushes behind the walnut but realized they would soon be in permanent shade so I moved them to the front yard last week.  I really hope they make it because they are so beautiful in the fall, even tho I doubt I will ever get a nut from them.

And this photo I just had to share, taken November 1st.  It is about to explode with blossoms again.  Last time it bloomed was for my birthday in April.  This "cactus" was my grandma's and was given to me by my mom who could kill an air fern. I would love to be able to move it to a more visible location but it loves this back bedroom for the low indirect light and cool temp.  I think of my grandma every time it blooms.  Thank you Grandma.

On Saturday, 10-30, I cleaned out the garden and cut back the raspberries, then we hauled one load of refuse to the dump. One more load to go - mainly yard weeds and tumbleweeds from the south desert that blew in during our last storm.
You can see that Dad finally got the deck boards all down.  Yea! One more item to tick off of our decade-plan.

``How did it get so late so soon?

  It's night before it's afternoon.

  December is here before it's June.

  My goodness how the time has flewn.

  How did it get so late so soon?''

                                                                                                 -Dr. Seuss

Tickles My Fancy

Ain't Misbehavin'
 This is the music I had on my very first blog site back in 2002 or 3 when I was big into card making.  That was all the site was really about then.  It wasn't too long before the blog site host (or whatever they are called) decided to charge $$ to keep it so I quit.  Also back then you could lift music quite easily.  I just recently rediscovered the original midi on a redesigned site and am able to link to it.  I would like to learn how to add a midi gadget or jukebox or something but for now, I just wanted to add this along with a few pictures of old cards of mine - for old time's sake.
Remember these, Katie?

 The beach grass stamp is a favorite. I also forgot how much of a creative outlet scenic stamping was.

I had forgotten about the Peanuts stamps I collected.  Love them.

saying on vellum over trees on stamped card

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