The house (and offices downstairs) looks like a bomb blew up in it -- piles everywhere. I've been trying to get ready for four gigs in a row...totally insane. But (she says, giggling hysterically) at least it will be fun!
First in the batch is the Cheyenne Heritage Quilters annual show..."Recycling Tradition" this year. I love scrap quilts, and you just know they're going to be front and center, with this theme. I'll be there -- and the show's open -- from Thursday-Saturday this week. I still have a few appraisal spots open, if you're interested...but not many. I'll also be doing at least one, maybe two free talks on "Spotting a Prizewinning Quilt." Come on over!
Stuff on the Way to Other Stuff:
*Hot, Hot Hot. It has been so muggy here, with no breeze, that even the computer is balking. The keys stick badly enough that I have trouble typing in passwords, and any text or numbers written have to be triple-checked for typos. (This English major feels like a moron if she misspells anything. Yes, I had to retype some of this post, as well.) At least the tomatoes are getting their jollies out of it.
*Update on the Basement Caper: We just got a letter from the insurance company, saying once again that they were washing their hands of us and our trashed-out basement. Little does the adjuster know that our lawyer's letter should have crossed with this one in the mail...
*Reusable Grocery Bags -- the creepy truth. The Britain Daily Mail, one of Great Britain's newspapers, did a study, and found that half of the bags tested positive for e coli. (Wash your bags regularly, people!) Another study suggests that some of the bags coming from China show unsafe levels of lead. Perhaps disposable bags are the better choice, especially when you can use them so many different ways.
*Don't forget about my Hanky Panky giveaway! Leave a comment here, subscribe, or post it on your blog, and link it -- and you may have won your own copy of Hanky Panky. Ends Sunday.
*Seven Things Marie Antoinette never was -- or did. (For one thing, she wasn't French!)
*NASCAR points leader Kyle Busch loses his license for speeding. Going 128 mph in a 45 mph zone. In a bright yellow Lexus. What a doofus. ("I think you'll be different in the future," said the sentencing judge. "I sure will, Your Honor," replied Busch.)
*Writers' Famous Last Words: everybody from Mark Twain to Jane Austen.
*The fighting continues in Libya. "While opposition fighters claimed they had most of Tripoli under control, a defiant Gadhafi in hiding vowed in a recorded statement to fight on 'until victory or martyrdom.'" (Note words "in hiding.")
And life goes on.
First in the batch is the Cheyenne Heritage Quilters annual show..."Recycling Tradition" this year. I love scrap quilts, and you just know they're going to be front and center, with this theme. I'll be there -- and the show's open -- from Thursday-Saturday this week. I still have a few appraisal spots open, if you're interested...but not many. I'll also be doing at least one, maybe two free talks on "Spotting a Prizewinning Quilt." Come on over!
Stuff on the Way to Other Stuff:
*Hot, Hot Hot. It has been so muggy here, with no breeze, that even the computer is balking. The keys stick badly enough that I have trouble typing in passwords, and any text or numbers written have to be triple-checked for typos. (This English major feels like a moron if she misspells anything. Yes, I had to retype some of this post, as well.) At least the tomatoes are getting their jollies out of it.
*Update on the Basement Caper: We just got a letter from the insurance company, saying once again that they were washing their hands of us and our trashed-out basement. Little does the adjuster know that our lawyer's letter should have crossed with this one in the mail...
*Reusable Grocery Bags -- the creepy truth. The Britain Daily Mail, one of Great Britain's newspapers, did a study, and found that half of the bags tested positive for e coli. (Wash your bags regularly, people!) Another study suggests that some of the bags coming from China show unsafe levels of lead. Perhaps disposable bags are the better choice, especially when you can use them so many different ways.
*Don't forget about my Hanky Panky giveaway! Leave a comment here, subscribe, or post it on your blog, and link it -- and you may have won your own copy of Hanky Panky. Ends Sunday.
*Seven Things Marie Antoinette never was -- or did. (For one thing, she wasn't French!)
*NASCAR points leader Kyle Busch loses his license for speeding. Going 128 mph in a 45 mph zone. In a bright yellow Lexus. What a doofus. ("I think you'll be different in the future," said the sentencing judge. "I sure will, Your Honor," replied Busch.)
*Writers' Famous Last Words: everybody from Mark Twain to Jane Austen.
*The fighting continues in Libya. "While opposition fighters claimed they had most of Tripoli under control, a defiant Gadhafi in hiding vowed in a recorded statement to fight on 'until victory or martyrdom.'" (Note words "in hiding.")
And life goes on.
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