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King Tut….Funky Tut

| January 16, 2011

Yesterday we went to see the Discover Channel’s King Tutankhamen exhibit. When Tut mania first hit the US, I didn’t see the exhibit but had a number of friends who did and either enjoyed it or were rather creeped out by it. I enjoyed Egyptology and the like but was a little too young to […]

An Artist Speaks (The Myth of 15%)

| January 14, 2011

This has to do with patterns and this myth that seems to have surfaced in sewing circles along with knitting and quilting groups, that if you change the pattern X% (Honestly I have heard everything from 15% to 55%) then you have created a new pattern and therefore don’t have to recognize the original pattern […]

This is going to take a while

| January 13, 2011

(This is going to take a whole lot of whiles) The snow is going to be with us for a while. The sun is out (yea!) but the temperature is low with a wind chill in the single digits (boo!). But this time most of our neighbors have dug out their sidewalks with the exception […]

A lot of snow and pretty cold is where we are

| January 12, 2011

They are saying 8 to 12 but larger amounts locally. Locally we got 18 to 24 inches which we shoveled out to clear the sidewalk, steps, and walkway. Peter did the lion share by dealing with the snow mess that the plows left at the end of our driveway. It is a good day to […]

It must be because I can see my grass

| January 11, 2011

That we have dire warnings of the next snowfall that might bury us for a day or so. Predictions have been all over the map from about 2 inches (which is my bet) to 2 feet (no thank you). Whatever it is, it is going to hit tonight and we will see where we are […]