Had a lovely afternoon with Mrs. Burns and her father, attending a production of Quilters at the Ghent Playhouse. I see looking at this description that the play opened on Broadway in 1985 and received six Tony nominations. The Ghent production was probably a little smaller, but enthusiastically done by the cast of women, backed up by a small ensemble.

After, as we were leaving, two of the actresses walked by me. I thanked the first for a quite enjoyable time. The second one thanked ME for smiling widely the whole time – apparently she was quite encouraged. Hey, what’s not to like when you roll a whole group of songs, a bunch of women and a good heap of quilting lore into a couple of hours?

Then I treated myself to a dinner at a local “Super Buffet” which is mostly Chinese food with a lot of seafood (which I don’t eat) and a goodly array of nice simple desserts – mostly good fresh fruit (strawberries melons, bananas, cookies and the like. Since Gail had returned some quilting books I’d loaned her, I reacquinted myself with a Ruth McDowell book over dinner and hot tea. Got to feel virtuous too since my dinner was mostly veggies and fruits. OK, a few wings, a dumpling, some hot and sour soup and a couple of macaroons too.

Here’s a stray thought – there are dreadlocks and then there is just plain ol’ messy, matted hair. And let me tell you… if it’s not dreadlocks – it’s UGLY.

Short day at work, stopped by my folks to drop off Dad’s birthday present and to say hi. And to do a little computer troubleshooting. It had just started snowing when I left work at 4, came down steadily while I was at Borders and kept snowing. It’s still snowing. Beautiful light fluffy snow. A welcome part of winter.

The coming home of course was slower than normal but that’s ok.

Stranger than fiction – utterly true. There are more than a handful of people who aren’t getting it that Apple computers are DIFFERENT than windoze-running boxes. Hellllllooooooooooooo. Think DIFFERENT! LOL – we don’t do Windoze unless it’s via Virtual PC. And please don’t ask me anymore about putting OS 10 on your Compaq.

On a good note – I’ve started cutting strips of fabric to think about this new quilt. I’m here en route to get my extension cord from the kitchen so I can **gasp** iron fabric.

On a bad note – there’s absolutely zero worth watching on TV. Oh wait – maybe that’s a good thing.