Minnesota

A friend of mine sent me this picture.  I was amazed.  I am trying to figure out how many people it took to load this and I wonder what the car looks like after it is removed.  I am not sure that a car has the strength to hold that load.  It is interesting what people do.  I am sure I would not try this.  What about you???

thankless

The month of December I decided to do a random act of kindness everyday until Christmas Day.   Most of them went well but several of the days didn't.  It still is a mystery to me how when kindness is shown to another person and I am saying going out of ones way type of kindness, that kindness is not returned.  In fact they expect more from a person.  Not even a simple thank you is extended.  It is very difficult to function in this world where ungratefulness is the main theme.

quarter

Football and the Blonde
Of all the blonde jokes, this one has to be the best -- because it makes football make sense!

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench.

After the game, he asked her how she liked it.

"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."

Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was... 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!"

Homemakers Valentine Party

Monday night I attended my homemakers Valentine Party.  We serve a potluck dinner and the spouses were invited.  We do an exchange of gifts with our secret pal.  I got a makeup pouch, pink striped socks, a bag of chocolates and a Wilton pan that you can make heart cookies on sticks.  I'll have to find the sticks, I think Wal*mart and Ben Franklin both sell them.  How much fun will that be making bouquets of cookies.  The food was delicious and we all had a great time.   We planned our Easter craft which will be bunnies made from tuna cans.  I'll do a story next month on that so you can see our bunnies.

embroidery

I offered to help out a fellow quilter.  She is making a quilt for her son's up coming wedding. She needed embroidery done on two of the blocks.  Now my machine is a small one  and it limited in what can be done the blocks actually turned out quite well.  I was worried but I surely didn't need to be.  I really felt that she was a perfectionist like many quilter are and that I would not be able to deliver to the standard that she held.  I sent her the pictures and she text back that she loved them.  I came close to trading my machine on a bigger one, but now I know that it would be a waste off money and I would not use it enough.  My old brother is good enough. 

TRUTH

 Just read something that I can't get out of my head and wanted to share. So the setting is right after 9-11 and the main character says " I just wish life was more like my books.. Main characters never die in books." Her friend says....... "Everyone is a main character to someone. They might be just another person to you and I, but to someone they are everything." Everyone is a main character to someone.....

WDP

Now I am at the third meeting that I had at the church on Wednesday.  First was quilting, second was the over 80's party planning meeting and now it is the world Day of Prayer planning meeting.  We will be studying Egypt.  All the church come together to plan this event and it is First Lutherans turn to host it.  My friend and I are the coordinators only because the gals that were to do it both due to circumstances with drew from the job.  We will be having a snack afterward.  Of course coffee and food goes with everything we do at the church.  WDP is going to be March 7th at the church.  Since I have moved back I have gone to it each year.  It is a great day especially when you realize that all over the world there are women in pray with the same thoughts as yours.  How powerful is that.

planning meeting

Recently we held the planning meeting for the celebration at our church for the over 80 ladies.  We are doing a Spring Fling and will play bingo for our program.  Three circles plan it and my circle is in charge of the food.  The ladies really look forward to our party.  During the party we also acknowledge those ladies that have passed this year.   All in all we have a great time. 

League

Recently  I decided to join the Headwaters Quilting Guild.  I met my classmate's  wife there and was very warmly accepted into the fold.  Four years ago I had tried to join the other guild in Bemidji, but did not have the same experience.  We had dinner as it was combination Valentine and Christmas dinner.  It was great.  We are engaged in making a quilt for the Senior Center as a money maker.  The senior center is financially in trouble.   They have been cut funds from the state and may not make it another year in operation. That would be a shame. 

This is during show and tell and is a T-shirt quilt

Things are not what they appear to be

Fantastic true story A woman was flying from Seattle to San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way. The flight att...endant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes... Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind... A man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her guide dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight... He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, "Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour, would you like to get off and stretch your legs?" The blind lady said, "No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs." All the people in the gate area came to a complete stand still when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a guide dog for the blind! Even worse, the pilot was wearing sunglasses! People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines! Two tips for the day… 1. Things are not always as they appear and 2. A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Confirmation quilts

Our quilting group at church has the job of making 11 quilts for the teens that are being confirmed on April 27, 2014.  The committee decided to make all the quilts the same and make no distinction between sexes.  The are black with a gray print and a plain gray block.  When they are finished they will be spectacular.  The ladies that tie them will decided on the accent color -- red, white or black thread color.  It is a group project. 

sunrise

This is one of the reasons that we chose to live in this cold country.  The spectacular beauty that can surprise us on a daily basis.  This picture is looking out my front picture window.  The picture does not do it justice, but is it a beautiful representation.  I think all of us can see beauty around us if we would just take the time to look.

wolf

The day before I left for Jamestown for Christmas I decided that my wolf fur hood trim needed brushing.  I got it in 1973 and have had it on various coats.  I brushed it and then the next day I set out for Jamestown.  On the way I could feel that I was in the throws of a major allergy attack.  I waited until I got to Jamestown before I took a benadyrl tablet to bring my histamine count down.  Can't take those and expect to drive.  I told my son I just can for the life of me decide why I am having an attack.  The pill took affect and I was feeling great.  When I got home I was hanging up my jacket and saw my other coat and it clicked.  I am highly allergic to dog dander so the 40 year old wolf hide had set off the attack.

BEC

I had a high pitched buzzing noise coming from my furnace room.  I was not sure if it came from my electric furnace or my propane furnace or from the converter that changes them back and forth when I am rippled.  I called BEC and a technician came out very quickly as they thought it was probably a dangerous situation.  We come to find out that on my electric furnace I have a sensor that will emit a high pitched tone when the furnace is overheating and the walls and the rest of the ducting can not cool off.  The problem was due to the filter as it was  restricting air  hence it could not cool down.  The sensor would send the alarm and shut off the furnace.  He pulled the filter and showed me that it actually fixed the problem.  He told me to go buy a less restrictive filter.  So off  I went after knitting and found the task troubling.  First,  I looked at construction of the filters offered.  Then I looked at price.  I finally chose by price.  I found filter that cost 2 dollars for four filters.  I knew I had come across the least restrictive filters.  All is working well.    

dinner

Recently, I gave a sewing machine to my nephew girlfriend's third grader.  I told them that it came with lessons.  This week I was invited for dinner and to give lessons after we ate.  We had a half an hour lesson on threading the top threads, the bobbin, presser foot lifting and the hand wheel. The she told me she had been breaking needles and right away I knew that she was hold the fabric back to control it.  So the first thing I had her do was to run fabric through the machine with no thread.  She saw how the machine will actually took fed the fabric through.  Then I had her add her hands to direct the fabric and she caught on to that fast.  We then sew 16 block together that I had left over from a rag quilt.   When she was done I told her I would clip it for her while she took a shower and to scrub good but hurry back.  I was done with the clipping when she came down stairs.  Her mother washed it and then put it in the dryer to make the edges rag.  Here is the posting on Face book from her mother.

  Thank you so much for coming over for dinner and a lesson tonight! (Her daughter) is all snuggled up with her new "quilt" I am not sure she will share it with her doll after all she is so excited and proud of it.