Between the Covers: Quilting or Reading

Quilt from church class

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Lunch today with Grandma at TealRidge

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Black eyed peas and bar b q chicken topped off with peach pie~~and then a nap while Gary did his "honey dos".

Our temporary home since 09/09/2008

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Our kitchen is an antique in itself.

Entryway

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The new extension now forms a wall in the entryway.

Pantry remains about the same

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The blank area behind the yellow ladder is where I will put our white Hoosier cabinet/buffet. We will be painting this area yellow, also.

That's the puppy flap you see, which leads into an outside service closet. The closet is empty for their convenience and there is an additional puppy flap leading outside.

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views from the kitchen mess

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What a mess we have--

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Chad painting on New Year's Day

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New Year's Eve pre party

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Paula Kay
Bob and Barbara
Bill and Donna
came over for an early dinner to usher out the old year and welcome 2009. What fun to be with good friends on New Year's Eve.

Here's to the new year!

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My Life List for 2009:

1.Read more

2.Better budgeting

3.Getting organized

4.Fight the frump

5.Going green

6.Drink more water

7.Me time

8.Give back

9.Take time and share more photos

10.Keep a cleaner home

11.Connect with my family

12.Pursue and learn new things

13.Cook and bake more

14.Spend more quality time with family

15.Go outside my comfort zone

More color!

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More progress on kitchen remodeling

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If we can keep the trim carpenter and the painter separated, we may be able to see this through. Ask me in July or so!

Chad is checking the amount of glazing I want.

No quilting in Kansas City??

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With horrendous hours with American Airlines, I completed no quilt tops in the nine years in Kansas City. I still can't believe that. Did accomplish some rug hooking and cross stitch; but that's about it. How sad!

Maypole by April Cornell

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All three of my new projects are Moda's Maypole. For the sake of our home's color scheme, I've got to back to the pastels. These bright colors just stole my heart.

Cheri Saffote--may have another favorite!

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Worth a try~~

I adore Piece O' Cake's Completely Dotty

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Finally quilted and ready to bind

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We moved from Salt Lake City in 1999. All three of these quilts were made while we lived in that city. I thought it was about time to have them quilted. I've given up on trying to hand quilt all of the quilt tops I have. There are at least two more SLC quilt tops still at the quilters. Now to get these three bound. I love all of them.

Tuesday's beginning on Completely Dotty by Piece O Cake

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Block One of Leanne's House

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Kitchen Drama Continues

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kitchen remodeling October 13, 2008

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October 13, 2008

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As we begin, September 15, 2008

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September 15, 2008

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Books and Lists

As both an avid reader and a natural list maker, I was intrigued by this list that I found on Gil's blog. Here's my results:

The guidelines:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Highlight the ones you still want to read but just have not had a chance yet.
5) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 or less and force books upon them.

1. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwell
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

50. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowing
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

98. Watership Down - Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

2008-09-11T21:22:00.000-05:00

What Kathi Means

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life.
You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip.
People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.
You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home.
You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.
Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.
Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.