Welcome to November

Temps in the 20’s last night, after waves of dark grey clouds that looked the sort that would just drop a foot of “possible flurries” at your doorstep. The wind blew last night which would have “moderated” the temperature, but the moon was beaming in clear skies, a key to “radiational cooling”. Bottom line: cold and clear night, bright and cold day today.

Yesterday my main event was making lasagna. Not a hard thing, it entails using a lot of pans. One big one for the noodles. A big bowl for the cheese filling. A big skillet to change the marinara into bolognese.

One of those dishes that takes some planning, takes a little bit of time but is easier than you’d think given the to-do list for making it. And of course, the pay off is up there in food-for-the-gods range, am I right?

On a quilty note, I did pull out some fabric and mush them around on my ironing board last night. I had small squares from my huge pile of two inch squares. I had some larger squares remaindered from the last quilt. I had some two inch strips that are stored as future squares. And yes, I do often cut strips of new fabric right away for adding to the pile of small squares. I had some uncut fabric.

I think it was looking pretty good. Needs more grey and greyish browns. Maybe some blacks.

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Two-fer and how’d we get here?

Sorry – I’m counting yesterday’s two posts as two days. Took about that long to get them published!

My day was spent wondering how I became chief-mediator/diplomat. Who knows? Sure shocks the heck out of me! Who knows?

I enjoyed my after-day-job time. I could have gone to a dance, but I chose not to. Instead, I went grocery shopping. I know what you’re thinking, but trust me on this: it was quite OK.

Shopping around 6:30-7pm on a Friday is one of the great discoveries I’ve made in my life. Not too many people around because most of them are home having dinner or something. Most likely they’ve done produce stocking to recover from the “rush”. Cashier people are not jigging from one foot to another waiting for their shift to end.

All good.

Came home, passing the truck that tried to pull over to the passing lane each time I tried to pass… but he finally gave up. And he did not then ride my bumper. Probably figured I would call the police, which I would have!

Came home to a quiet cold night with a big bright moon. Did a couple things inside before retrieving the groceries and put it all away. Played with the geek stuff for a bit and sort of recovered from my total brain freeze of the night before.

Crawled into a nice warm bed with a new book and magazine and conked off to sleep shortly thereafter.

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The Whole Megillah

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Turn of the season

Winter comes to Brainard

I wanted to note that today I woke up to SNOW! wet and slushy but still, the white stuff. Winter has arrived.

That is all.

PS, I know the full transition to this site is going to take a little while, but if you’re looking for new photos and posts, please bookmark this page rather than the original…. blogger is just not cooperating re posting.

PPS: I think I promised photos of my recent fabric purchase. Camera came back (and so do photos to this here blog…) and here you go:

New fabric for new quilt

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Happy moving to new site day!

Well tonight I took a deep breath and moved my whole “old” blogger blog here.  Oh my.  Anything like that is a little scary, but it went pretty smoothly after reading about what could go wrong.  I did back up, but of course I lost my blogger settings.  That won’t be hard to recreate if needed.  I’ll have to figure out how to truncate the archives a bit – people give me a look when I say I’ve been blogging since 2001….  If you wander around in my past, know that it will take awhile for me to go through and straighten out titles (right now they are rather strange and numeric) and any weirded out links, images etc.

But you know, there’s a plan, and this is a small part of it. So here we go on a new adventure!

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