Monday, February 21, 2011

Life with Snow Cones: a 4-in-1 journal quilt

   When it rains it pours; and in Boston this year, when it snowed, it kept snowing! However, we kept moving and the roads were clear, though tight. Driving at night, one found landmarks obscured by snow cone after snow cone. These snow cones did make a great roof atop bushes for all those sparrows outside my door.
    It seemed, as I have said before, we were all a little bit off-kilter. Our lives were a little off-center and there were probably more journal quilts I could have made on events, but I will summarize to these four:
1) I lost my iPad...thought it was at the mall after an Apple lesson;  but the next morn found it on the snowed-in passenger side of the car, 2) In the middle of all the snowfall, the trusty Toro snowblower died after 25 loyal years; but we found one of the last snowblowers in Boston at Home Depot by another name. 3) I had to have some skin surgery that "didn't get it all" and went back in for another cut and stitch. 4) Too much sun meant I need to have more surgery on the lower and upper lids of the right eye; and this was postponed, when I was ready to go, at the last minute. All a bit discombobulating :*)
     Since a journal quilt captures a "significant" or memorable event in a week, you can see I have been negligent not to get these made faster. Another event yesterday was that after I dropped my iPad in a case in a padded purse at my One to One lesson at the Apple store, and it was dented, Apple replaced it. I love Apple. Let's loop that story in with the upper left iPad symbol,

6 comments:

  1. Busy week. Wow! Great about the IPad. I have my fingers crossed for Mother's Day or my B'day. You make me even surer.(Even if my son does work for Microsoft.)

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  2. Love your synopsis of life for you all these past few weeks. So glad Apple replaced your "injured" iPad. Glad you've got the new snow blower with either snow or rain in your forecast. And, I do so hope that the surgery will get rid of all of the "bad," and just leave the beautiful "you."

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  3. What a great way you have captured four events in one posting! As usual, our clever and creative Linda pulls it off. I've not made a journal quilt since October, which ought to make me feel guilty, but it doesn't! Probably because I have been prolific with my larger quilts. When I get all of these out of my system, maybe I'll be inspired to go back to jurnal quilting.

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  4. Don't you love the way I spelled "journal" above? Wouldn't you think a former English teacher would proof her comments a bit better?

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  5. The writing in this blog even surpasses the journal QUILT, though the simplicity of the quilt and the story IT tells amaze me. Your first paragraph is a snow ( SHOW ) stopper!If the journals don't get made in sequence, the ideas get told in sequence anyway. FANTASTIC !

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  6. I am intrigued by your journal quilt and everyone's clever comments. All that snow wasn't excitment enough, so you had to lose your iPad. I also hope that 'they' are going to 'slice' all the offending cells away once and for all. Hurrah for the magic of modern medicine. We'll all add your prayers to boot.

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