Yesterday Dick and I finally made the trip to Indiana to visit with my sister and her family. The drive is not so bad in the summer with longer daylight hours, and thankfully Dick went with me to share the driving which helps also. It was good to see everyone---my niece and her 6 year old daughter who moved to South Bend from Virginia and whom ( Read more... )

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Well mate-eeze....if Captain Jack was my capt'n, I'd run off to sea this very minute!!! David's family invited me to go see Pirates of the Carribbean, (No. 3)End of the Worldm last night. It was opening day for the movie and the three grandkids have been waiting for this for several months! They had a count down until yesterday, and a near melt ( Read more... )

We are still using just our laptop for email and other computer functions....because we are still waiting for Dell to respond adequately to our need to get our Dell desktop unfrozen. I have no regard for Dell or their foreign outsourced techies at this point in time. Dick has talked with three different foreign techies.....two from India and one ( Read more... )

Donna asked for pictures of the fabric bowls I made to send to Africa.
Nothing fancy, just fabric bowls. They are reversible and very easy to make.

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Here is a link and more info on the Lost Boys of Sudan that vocalist sent to me. (Thanks vocalist ( Read more... )

Here is a post that I don't think I have written about before. (Excuse me if I have already done so.) It regards quilting and The Lost Boys of Sudan. It all started really with the meeting of my friend who lives in Africa. We met on the Delta Queen trip I took several years ago, and she has been sending me little scraps of fabric from the floor ( Read more... )

Well, I am having a mix of residual excitement and being tired! I was glued to the TV for much of the afternoon, especially intrigued by Jimmy Carter's eulogy in which he shared the close relationship the two men and their mutual accomplishments, as well as honoring Ford's legacy to him from the White House. About 2/3's of the way through ( Read more... )

I should just leave the entry until all this funeral stuff is all done! Our beloved Fred Meijer is there walking with his walker. His grandson is a cadet at one of the military academies and escorted Betty (I think it was her) yesterday at the museum. (Fred is special to us as you may know by now.) I am moved always watching the removal of the ( Read more... )