Halloween in february!!!

LeeAnna, my longtime friend and part of our "bitchery" group, made a halloween quilt (10?) years ago and I expressed an interest in one for me. Gave her fabrics and drove her crazy. Lo, these many years later, what should appear on my doorstep but. . . a manifestation. My totally unreasonable request for a king-size quilt produced an incredible work of art!!!! I am so excited. The kitty face with green button eyes, candy corn and the skeleton are amazing.

First pic shows process and the next the finished front. Will send to Kyra in Austin to do the quilting. Wheeeee. So much fun.
THANK YOU, SISTER LEEANNA!!! I LOVE YOU. The pic appears right-side up in my view. . .guess the spirits are having their fun!

2/25/08

This is not my photo, but was trying out the new mac.
I am at the Apple store getting my new laptop set up. The new operating system is going to make working on the blog easier because it will give me easier access to my photos. The new keyboard however will take some getting used to!!! Computer still has 2+ hours to finish the transfer so I can't access it yet, but since I was here, I will try to catch up with written stuff and add photos later. Jonathan has been in denver for a workshop and I have been home sick. I have a bit of a voice today, last night none and the day before. . . ifffy. So things have basically been pretty quiet.

Cindy came friday night for girls night in and went out saturday looking for houses. Nothing is ever easy. Snag on selling their house and she is missing Mike.

Dock getting cleaned and sealed tomorrow and wednesday. Life is good.

Wind finally settled down and water is smooth for a change.

3 weeks away from the computer. . .

janet, miss you already, left your coffee cup on the table until way past dinner. . .in case you might come back for more. . .your gladiolas were beautiful, thanks. . .


exciting 3 weeks. jannie has been here and we have been exploring. (in no particular order of events) went to see the "full monty" at hudson dinner theater with rock and bren, better than the movie, easier to understand the dialog and lots of cute butts. food was good as was the company



tried out waverunners, jannie and I went by ourselves one day and just puttered around the canals. . .water was pretty choppy and it was my first time to drive one in the last 20 yrs! Rock and Bren came down and we had a picture perfect day, water was glassy, not too hot or cold, so we scooted out from pass-a-grille pass out along the beaches, past ft. desoto park all the way to egmont key then the skyway was looming in the distance so we actually went under and around the bridge.



went to see the "jersey boys" at the performing arts center. was the story of frankie valli and the 4 seasons. music was delightful and had side balcony seats that were chairs instead of theater seats, much more flexible arrangement.

superbowl party (with superbowl sundaes!), Got some great dolphin videos that weekend (thanks jake, yours were terrific). party was great fun and lots of food, jannie set up a board and we all picked squares, jake and lindsay were the big winners. got to see long missed friends!


the floating dock went in, have been looking at them since Christmas time, Quite a procedure to get them from truck to water and it was a windy day. Cliff and helper used a water jet to dig hole to sink 4-21'steel poles to anchor it. Now we can sit and stick our feet in the water or swim without having to get in on the channel side. Easy to launch kayaks or sit with a book!








but the biggest news is probably that the tampa house is sold!!!!!


new owner excited about moving in. may put in french doors to replace the awful sliders!




started my 1 on 1 apple training, learning lots, go once a week. . .finally figured out how to get the video from the new camera past iphoto (it's an mpeg and had to change to dv with downloaded software called VLC player) to work on my movie software.

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