I wanted milk.....

The grocery store ran out of milk on Wednesday.

Weather conditions kept the truck from coming, it was stuck in Nebraska.

We ran out of milk at home sometime Friday morning.....

Word on the street was that the truck would be coming late Friday

and it was true!!

Early this morning (Saturday) I was able to buy 2 gallons of milk!!!

While out and about, I took some pictures of the banks TIME and TEMP!

Karen and I plan a trip to the quilt shop in Forest City....

we decided to wait until the afternoon to go.

It might be a little warmer.

scrapbooking

It wasn't all fun and games outside today....
There was work to do inside too.
I gathered up this years
Christmas cards....
and started......


cutting
them up...... A couple of them were left whole,
to hold the newsletters that came with them....
and one my Mom sent had to be about
50 years old.
She said it came out of her mom and dad's house.
Poor card was just sitting in a box...
waiting to be discovered
and stuck in my scrapbook!

I haven't sent out cards in years
every year I say I will....
and then
I don't get it done.



When I finished these 3 pages, I discovered a few more cards....
So, I am not quite done.

I have saved the cards and pictures from the last several years.
They are even organized, each year held together with a rubber band.
Maybe I will actually get them done....
it is kind of fun cutting them up and making everything fit on the pages.

the day after the storm.....

This poem was in my email today.....It seemed like a perfect time to use it!!!

snow again....

There is no school today.

All the roads around us are "no travel recommened" or just plain "closed".

My mini Carolina Christmas (32 x32) is ready to show....

I just quilted on the diagonal, about 1 1/2 inches apart. I had a few spots of puckering...but that disappeared when I washed it and then tossed it in the dryer. Now the whole back is puckery.

oh so pretty....http://quiltville.com/carolinachristmas.shtml/....even if it is a much smaller version of this....

I decided not to add any borders...

the batting I found for it was just the right size...

....and this seemed like a very good reason to call it done.

and so my borderless quilt is finished and ready to send to Virginia....

what they REALLY want is a bedsize quilt....

someday....

someday...

playing in the cold Saturday morning...

We had a bird visiting our suet feeder.

We didn't know what it was....only that it was

black and white and had red on the back of it's head.

The one book we have.....

didn't have anything that looked like our visitor.

So we wondered and watched it come to eat.

When tractor joe was over at this mom and dads, they went through a different book.

and there it was...

finally we have a name....

Downy Woodpecker!!!!!!

We had to bring the big guys truck in for repairs.

Before we left we "played" with the cold.

We tossed super hot water into the air

It would vaporize into a cloud,

very little of it ever reached the

ground.

I blew some bubbles too. They turned a frosty color and would float down....then roll along the top of the snow. That fun lasted until the wand froze up and it was time to leave with the truck.

I grabbed a picture of the thermometer in the car. dang it was cold.

My mini Carolina Christmas is getting washed and will be in the dryer shortly

so it will get that crinkly look....and hide some of my wonky machine quilting.

I know, I am surprised too .....at how quickly I finished the binding.

nasty cold

I just want everyone to see how cold it is.....

and will be today!

.....but that record is nothing.....

while taking the big guy down to work, they had 30 below on the car's thermometer!!

One last Christmas celebration today with tractor joe's family. I started putting away Christmas stuff this morning.

12-27-09 (last Sunday)