Leap day

February can’t go away soon enough for me. I have high hopes for March.
School was delayed 2 hours this morning, but that was it. We are over 20 days of no school/early out/delayed start due to weather. Crazy.
Sun is shining today: but it is windy, which means that there is probably [...]

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Hey! Guess What!?!

It’s snowing!
Can you believe it?
We’ve hardly gotten any snow………….
in the last day, so I guess we were due for some more.  The weather guy CLAIMS we’ll only get 1-3 inches.   But!  It is blowing again and visibility is poor. Again.  No parent-teacher conferences tonight!
I’m ridiculously behind on paperwork, so I’m working on that today.  [...]

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What about the weather?

Can you all believe that I made it through all of yesterday without once referring to the weather?
I know!  Neither can I!
I was trying to give all of you a break, plus:  there wasn’t actually much to tell.  School was delayed 2 hours, the roads were still pretty bad in the morning, but the sun [...]

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As promised, quilt content

My assistants were helping me while I was trying to take some photographs.
They were fighting over this bone.

I showed a little bit of this quilting the other day, you got a glimpse of how close I had come to running out of thread.
I’m only showing the back, because the front is busy enough that the [...]

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Photoshop class

I wanted to remind my blog visitors that have expressed an interest in learning how to use Photoshop for digital scrapbooking about a class opportunity. Jessica Sprague (the instructor I took my class from last month) is getting ready to teach a beginner’s class starting next week. Registration is only guaranteed to be open [...]

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At least the sun is shining

The dogs have found the best spot in the house, don’t you think?

For those of you counting along at home, that would make 10 9 days this school year. They were only at school for 2 hours yesterday, but I’m pretty sure they get to count that as a full day.
(Edited later.  I thought [...]

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Snow

Mark came home early and spent several hours chipping ice out of our gutters so that the water could run through the gutter, rather than down behind the siding and inside the house.  I think the water has stopped coming in the basement, not the least because the rain has turned into snow.
Great big globby [...]

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Western Salad Dressing

Wait!  Some of you have never heard of Western Salad Dressing?
Yum.  It’s a nice sweet dressing that I’m sure is really bad for you.
Here’s what Wish-Bone’s website says about it:
Try a savory twist on traditional French dressings. Try Wish-Bone® Western® Original Dressing. This rich and creamy French dressing is bursting with a savory blend of [...]

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In which Suzanne writes really bad poetry

I wrote this yesterday, but never got around to posting it. The prompt was to write a cinquain about food, each of the 5 lines following a specified structure.
(As an aside, I’d never heard of a cinquain until last year, when the boys started writing them at school. Apparently there are a variety [...]

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More cheerful fabric

I had to deliver a quilt today, and while I was at it, I had the chance to visit a quilt store.  I have this hair-brained idea that I’m going to make a Blooming Nine Patch quilt to enter into MQS this year.
I brought home a bunch of fabric:

I think we picked out every little [...]

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