GREAT ARTICLE
Check out my post on the other board about an article in a travel magazine about my guild. You travelers need to start thinking about the NC Symposium we are sponsoring in '12.
Jane in the new snow in the mountains.
New Year
Inspired by a few posts here, I sorted out and tidied up my sewing room on New Year's Day. Bulldozed is more like it, but I digress..... The flotsam and jetsam from my Christmas gift projects needed to be dealt with before anything could be done. Now it is much better, and I've begun adjusting a pattern for a white shirt that I've been needing to make myself for a while.
The floods in Queensland, Australia are horrible. Do we have any BBers there? The news has carried a lot of photos here and the enormity and devastation of it all is unfathomable. One TV news report said it covers an area the size of Texas.
Rosey P - The reviews on "True Grit" have been very good. Thank you for your opinion, as I trust real people opinions more than I trust critics. I hope to see it, either at cinema or once it hits cable TV.
I hope everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. DH and I stayed home on NYE, as usual. We cooked a nice meal and pretended we were in a high end restaurant. ;-) Afterward we watched "When Harry Met Sally" (one of our favorites) and called it a night by 10 p.m. We are such wild people. LOL
(((Hugs to everyone)))
MOOD ELEVATOR
While I was in the dumps and posted my last note, shortly thereafter, I invited some neighbors to come eat the fresh trout I'd purchased recently. Then, faced with a table covered with some of my perpetual mess I popped a serious pain pill and cleared the mess away, swept off the floor of the stuff that the dogs have dragged in and went out in the sun with them (not in that order). The Christmas stuff is repacked and my mood has improved considerably. The sun and temperatures over 50F made a huge difference.
I am now in a state of mind to wish you all the very best for the coming year. I will hit both the gym and quilt room this week along with dog walks. Hmm sounds ambitious so I'd better get off the computer and get moving.
Jane
All the best
in 2011......for one and all......I managed to find some cards that are appropriate to send out for the new year while we were away and did not get them out yet....! how late is too late I wonder ? maybe be best to save them for next year...and just send some pixs out to a few scattered relatives...
after a few days of grandson cuddling and playing we were glad to get home....the weather held up for great driving conditions and I even managed a quick trip into a quilt store that was open on the way home......what more could u ask....
Our new years eve consisted of supper with two sons and some inlaws and then we came home early and DH called it end of the day as well as the year.....I got some sewing done and the quiet time allowed me to work on deciphering the how to's of knitting two socks at the same time on two circular needles.....definetely not something to do with little ones around.....yesterday DH went overnite with DS#1 to maybe try some skidooing....and they have been joined by the other two sons this morning.....and it is bitterly cold with the windchill making it -24 Celsius.......not for me.......i will have to venture out in a bit to buy some thread and check on the mother in law's house ...they are returning today or tomorrow and the heat should be turned up......or they will be a while getting the house back to a people comfortable level.....
Hope this finds everyone safe and warm (or cool if u are a lucky one having summer!) and my wish for all is that the new year brings something that you find joy in and makes you smile each day.....
Heather
ROSE BOWL PARADE
Rats! I missed it. As you can imagine the appearance of WCU band in the parade was a huge deal in Cullowhee and Sylva. I hadn't check the time and forgot about it. The music school and musical theater programs at Western are outstanding and provide a lot of very affordable entertainment for the community. In the past few years the director of the marching band received some high award from a national organization of college and university band directors.
I've been able to get down and, more surprising, up the driveway after having it plowed out on Wednesday by the very skilled man who maintains the road. There was quite a bit of ice remaining but the plow job allowed it to melt quickly when it warmed up on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday. Yesterday I even managed to deliver small gifts to two of my neighbors. Very dark and rainy today with temp in mid 50s. Sunny and reasonably warm predicted for the coming week which I need badly.
Still quite a bit of foot pain which is a disappointment to me. I keep putting off quilting till I clean up the mess but I never get the mess cleaned up. The mess would be easy were it not for the pain.
That's my whine for 2011. Sorry about the downer. So many others have far greater problems. Writing this has been cathartic for me. Thanks you Eric for giving us a place for an occasional whine.
Jane
Rose Bowl parade
Jane-I guess you know that the Western N.C. marching band was in the Rose Bowl parade this morning. They looked good!
Paula Deen as the grand marshall looked good too.
Can you say "Butter"?
Sara in Fla. where it was 75 today.
New year Wishes
to all , health and happiness and lots of quilting. All my kittens apart from one have gone to their new homes and the one left is a special needs kitten, he they think , has been thrown against a wall and has water on the brain. he will be OK but he needs lots of TLC. At the moment he walks sideways, how anyone could do this makes me want t0 cause mayhem and i am determined to get him working like a kitten should. The girls who looked after him before his "accident"say he was the most gorgeous kitty . Will keep you posted and even if I can work out how will post a photo. I had a very quiet new year all my kids were away and I decided to go to bed early, silly me,I lay there waiting for the fireworks so got up anyway. My computer is working so well so I went to Africam.com and I was watching elephants live on the computer. I alway's wanted to go to Africa on a photo safari and this is going to be the nearest way I can see all the elephants etc.The weather seems to be improving in the USA so keep warm and drive safely, except for poor Jane I suppose she is still snowed in.Hugs to all, Bee in NZ.
