Stinson Mountain in the Winter
I have hiked Stinson Mountain twice. But neither had the clear view of today. With the last few snowstorms, the mountain is a winter wonderland. The trees are laden with snow. The sky was a bright clear blue. Last spring, I hiked it with some of my family. This is the same view in the […]
Year in Pictures
Blog-tember Wednesday, Sept. 28: The top five pictures that illustrate your year so far. How do you narrow down all those pictures? I’ll try. Our one and only snowmobile ride ended with a visit to the emergency room and surgery for Tom. A broken clavicle and 3 broken ribs. He’s was back to his old […]
Mom’s Hermit Recipe
Blog-tember Friday, Sept. 23: A family recipe (if grandma allows, of course!). Every Christmas my mom would make cranberry nut bread and hermits. I was never fond of the cranberry nut bread, but I love hermits. The recipe was once published in the church cookbook. The traditional way to make hermits was to roll out […]
Ice Cream Memories
Blog-tember Wednesday, Sept. 21: If you were a flavor of ice cream, which flavor would you be? Why? When I read this, I thought, “I never made it to Benson’s Ice Cream in West Boxford this year.” Growing up, my family often went to Benson’s for a treat. It’s the only place I know that has […]
This Summer’s Favorites
Blog-tember Saturday, Sept. 3: Now that summer’s at an end, share a list of favorites from the season! For this post I thought I would use mostly pictures. I hope you enjoy. Looking back at my pictures you would think I spend all of my time on the mountains. While I try to get out […]
Auntie Barbara’s Sweet Peas
Last fall, while the cousins were cleaning out my aunts house, I dug up some of the sweet pea roots she had growing on the side of her house. She was moving. Sweet pea’s are my birth flower and I wanted an everlasting memory of my aunt. It was late fall. It was a last […]
Justin’s Door Blanket/Quilt
My nephew Justin lives in Minnesota. Where it can be very cold. The door at his home is metal and not well insulated. He tried all the various products for sealing the door. But it’s still cold. He remembered when he was in college in Utah, another place it gets cold, he had hung a […]
Where’s the Squirrel
I love my dogs but sometimes they are just plain goofy. Once the squirrels come out for the season, they go from tree to tree chasing them. They will sit for hours under the trees watching and waiting for the squirrels to come down. My next door neighbor once wondered if they get stiff necks. […]
Ellen’s Quilt is Finished
I finally finish Ellen’s quilt. I had a tough time with it though. At first the design I wanted to do in the green sashing did not look that great. Though Tom didn’t think it was all that bad. But need less to say, I had to rip it all out. I was trying to […]
Working on Ellen’s Quilt
Yeah I know. It was supposed to be a Christmas present. Between not having time and not really sure how I wanted to quilt it, I have been procrastinating on it. I have been keeping up with customer quilts. Just not my own. I spent most of this past week at the Machine Quilters Expo […]