Today is not only Leap Day, but it is a Fifth Wednesday, an event celebrated by many-several of my friends in Hrafnar and therefore a day to celebrate many neat things.

1. This is very nifty and awesome! Hadron Collider Quilts

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Viking women were buried with their swords and shields ...Yeah, they are only just now getting around to typing the bones by analyzing them, rather than assuming by the grave-goods... Still! Very neat! (Found by way of
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This is awesome: A xylophone in a Japanese forest (Found by way of
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1. This fellow sounds like he could be the original Cory Raines: Copperbadge's Review of Where the Money Was - Memoirs of a Bank Robber by Willie Sutton.

2. I have Dreamwidth codes! Ask with an edress I can send it to & they are yours. Or you can email me at jtifft at gmail dot com.

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I have signed up for Purimfest. /o\ I shall be fascinated to see what I might match on.

Made bread today, did an hour on the treadmill while reading an old favorite from childhood: Noel Streatfeild's "Children on the Top Floor". Got some sewing done, including finishing the next two Sisters quilt squares.
( January and February Sisters blocks )

I am doing a block of the month quilt called 'Sisters' through Bella Quiltworks. Here are the squares for November and December:

( Sixteen-Patch and Bearclaw )

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