Getting Ready to Quilt

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

I’ve been listening to Walden in the car. It’s pretty good for commutes. It’s not, it turns out, great for quilting to. Last night I ended up finishing a good chunk of quilting to Paul Simon. I had the epiphany that there are few tunes I’ll reach over and hit ‘play again’ in the universe but one of them is definitely “The Only Living Boy in New York“. Who knows how this stuff happens.

In other news, if you order something that comes via UPS and you’ve signed up for myUPS, you can throw a little money at them to deliver it as UPS rather than turning it over to the post office. It says it probably saves you a day or two and they only charge you IF they do that. So I had a couple packages sent from Amazon with free shipping and for $3.50 I got them a day early. I was excited and yet felt virtuous. There’s an app for that (the myUPS thing, not the virtuous thing…)

Besides a copy of Mary Oliver’s Rules for the Dance, there was this:

which I’m busily getting ready to put on my iPhone…

Earlier today, in a world that exists within this one:

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#bobbincount 6 and morning view

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

I stabbed myself with a pin after the bobbin finished and I’d un-stitched enough to put the thread ends through. Managed not to bleed on anything though, yeah me!

This morning, this was worth a second look, as the hostas start to take over and the day lilies begin their time of blooming.

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#bobbincount 5

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

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Reality Check

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

If you think this is true, you should pause for a reality check.

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The Fight Against Evil

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

never ending.

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. – J.R.R. Tolkien

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