I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

That is gorgeous!

I was too late getting to Shoppers to take a pic, but here is the one posted on the Wellspring Niagara website.  Wish I had a close-up of the actual quilting -- it's so intricate and lovely.  The quilters meet every Thursday a.m. at our local library and "do their thing"!

Linda - really, really beautiful. 

Ok, we in MA are still mourning the Red Sox.  But happy Barbara has a good season in front of her. The calamatous ( is that a word?) way it ended for "our" team, does bring back thoughts of "The Curse of the Bambino."  But ''''shudders, shudders'''' that couldn't happen again.  Remember they are the Jimmy Fund too....even if you don't like them as a "team" - they do, do good things ;-)

RAIN.  more RAIN,  RAIN.  Did I mention we've gotten a great deal of RAIN lately?????

See?  All it takes is a close look at a beautiful quilt like the one Linda showed us, and I'm deciding my next pasttime will be quilting.  Sure, it will.  Last year it was knitting squares for the Community Afghan project.  I now have 3 bins of nice acrylic yarn, dozens of knitting needles, and ... no squares yet.

Maybe once I retire, I'll have time for such things.  (Yeah, I know.  I'm already retired.  What was that, about motivation?)  My dh and I joke with each other:  "Maybe once we retire, we'll be able to travel to Alaska again"; or, "Maybe once we retire, we'll have time to make bird houses"; etc.  Then we laugh.

All I know is that I'd better live a long, healthy life; 'cause I have too many things to do!

otter

Oh Blue, what a greatday. I need to get apples and pumpkins and make this place look like fall. I grew gourds, so don't need any of those. It is glorious out now but not that warm.

Blue - hurray for good health and a good feeling - I so know what you mean (albeit differently). It is wonderful. May this last forever. I have been feeling very good (as in healthy) lately too.

Sunflowers,

I have a dear friend who is a diehard Red Sox fan. I had to take her out for a "pastoral care" dinner Thursday night. She's recovering slowly!!

Athena,

I see from the prayer thread)  that we something in common (or had). I am a wild and crazy Episcopalian. Who else would have a job as a hospital chaplain and a cursing, left leaning bartender!!!

ETA Maybe I should learn to type!

Cheryl, that is SO SO SO sweet of you to do for your friend - Pastoral Care needed statewide here!

(((((OTTER)))))) - boy did you make me laugh!  It was as if a voice in my head was talking to me. Wool, buckets full, some so moth eaten, I had to put it in the garden for bird nests.  The next year, sure enough, when the wind blew bird's nests out of the trees, there were bits&bobs of my wool.

Needlepoint, started sweaters, sculpey, paper making, papier mache supplies, and I live in a very VERY small cabin, smaller, I would think than Thoreau managed to survive in.  BOOKS, did anyone mention books still to be read?  A dear friend, referred to getting a book, as  like "buying an option to read it later."  Makes great sense to me.  I habitually write the date I buy a book in the inside cover, right now I"m reading one I bought in a used book store, 9/20/02.  As it was written in 1865 ( Penguin edition, 1988) I feel I'm not that late reading it

So, Otter, we're gonna have to live long, LONG, LONG lives to get it all done.  That's my plan, an I'm stickin' to it.

Athena, thinking of you, and HOW MUCH BETTER you are going to feel after the office procedure.  My doc was SO angry with me I hadn't been in to see her sooner - all I can remember, is being in the middle of Kathmandu, Nepal ( vacation) trying to explain to pharmacist ( chemist?) wee little street vendor/stall, what I needed.  ( Tampax) - funny now, NOT THEN.  Saw the doc as soon as I got back to London, and she YELLS at me - laughed with me when I described that most recent "problem"  but when she "looked" she said NO WONDER....sometimes I wish life were easier.   BTW, resolution to problem, not translatable, and little hotel must have wondered why I need so many towels, and washed them myself.

DId I mention RAIN.  I know, I know, but it's only supposed to last for 3 more days, and then we might get snow.  Have to remember to get my cross country skis, and snowshoes out of the basement.

Happy dreams everyone - tho, I guess SusieQ is just waking up?  With so many of us on the A Team, we could probably talk anytime of the day/night?

on Sunday????

it's 9:15pm Saturday  in western MA 

Yes, it's Sunday

Just finished doing that application for the better job at work. I might log in to work and send it so I can't change my mind over night.

Sue

Sent it - can't take it back now

Sleep well

sue

Good luck!

Thanks girls - I won't be upset if I don't get it - I really would prefer to keep doing 100% programming, but given the current outsourcing thing going on, I had to try. We will still do new projects in-house, but there's not much funding available at the moment. We should find out tomorrow what projects are in the pipeline. I keep hoping they will do a claims system for our big insurance co in NZ - I'll jump at that one.