The Frayed Edges, January 2007
First…Happy Birthday, Daddy! If he were alive, today would have been his 108th birthday! Yes, my dear old dad (who was 58, almost 59 when I was born!) was born on this day in 1899. He wanted to live to be 101, so he could say he lived in three centuries. He almost made it, and lasted until he was 96. Many happy returns, Dadddio-o-o-o-o-o!
The morning started out wonderfully: a light dusting of snow, from-scratch blueberry muffins, and Kathy the first to arrive, so I had her and hubby dear witness my signature on the contract with AQS (here’s me grinning like an idiot!)
Kate and Hannah arrived shortly after than, just as the phone rang with Deborah calling from Dallas! Deborah…we need you…we all forgot to take pictures of the food! At least I managed this photo:
(sorry my friends about the photo….obviously I should have said “smile!” first instead of catching you all in the middle of something…. and the other photo I took was worse!….that’s Kate on the left, Kathy in the center and Hannah on the right.) I gave a mini-quilting lesson on machine quilting today, smooshing a day’s worth of tips and tricks and such into about 2 hours. Eeeek but FUN!
Lunch was salad, potato-turkey kielbasa soup and kate’s incredible apple-walnut cake with Applejack Brandy sauce…YUMMMMM! But the best part came late in the day: after way too long on the market, there is an offer coming in on Hannah’s house (which is gorgeous, in a nice quiet location, woodsy but sunny lot, and did I say gorgeous?)…at long last. So please beam good thoughts (and high numbers) towards Bowdoinham, Maine!
I have nearly finished The Tree and the The Wall quilts, so will try to post by Wednesday…need to take decent pics, which means getting out the tripod! Stay tuned.
And to all who have written, and many of whom blogger sent to me as “no reply”, with congrats on the book…THANK YOU! Your encouragement is incredible…I might even sell twenty copies! Won’t be out for eons (think late 2008 / 2009), and I need to work, so will sign off for now.
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 am
It might be a long pregnancy, but we all eagerly look forward to the birth of your book, sweetie! Congrats again, I admire your courage in taking on such a big project.