This month the Tuesday quilt group met at Olga’s and she had a few quilts thrown over the railing like a medieval castle… Her house is comfy and fun…here’s something I spied… Linda and Kathleen had shared a piece of fabric in the mystery quilt challenge, and this was the reveal…here’s Linda’s version (front and […]
We went to Minto Park today and reminded ourselves what we were doing out there in 2012… getting ready for a wedding… and two years later we have a new guy to hang out with… and though it was HOT today, it was nothing like August 4, 2012, when it was 104…phew!
Right after our AMAZING group left, we began another lively and fun week. R’s sister, husband and daughter arrived and after a Florence tour (George was with us in Florence in the 1990’s, Fanny with us in 2011…all new to Jennifer) the five of us took the train to Terantola, where we picked up our […]
January. The month of new beginnings, of hopeful restarts, of resolutions…and of cleaning the closet. Have to. Every January. This year I bought a nifty bamboo shelf for the “shoe problem” and assembled it all by myself with no directions (well, VERY sketchy directions, anyway.) I saw such a thing in a magazine…though MUCH more […]
There is nothing more numbing than a long narrative of what somebody else has been doing…sort of like an over-long Christmas letter…but images, well, always good for some of us. So, images only, this is what my week has held…
Hooray! Sidney Roger Hull joined us on November 16th, 2013…born in Portland, Oregon. His life will not be chronicled here…(his parents would like him to become a media star in his own good time…) But…this is the point where his young life intersects with ours…delightfully. He’s a beautiful boy, now just a week old. […]
A varied sort of day today…art/babies/friends/family…picked up my Madras show work from Coralee and got to see the piece she bought, installed…”Tron”…looking good… Downtown to catch Sue-Del McCulloch and Katy McFadden talk about their work on view at Waterstone Gallery… but I couldn’t get past Katy’s beautiful and expressive hands… Or Alexander’s cautious flirtation… A […]
A couple of weeks ago we visited my cousin Don who lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and his mom, my Auntie Pat. I couldn’t remember visiting Kenosha as a kid, though we often drove from the Chicago suburbs to Wisconsin on one of my Dad’s “drive-abouts”. Well during our visit this month, the history of Kenosha […]
We took a little drive last week with Z & A back to Wallace, Idaho, for a bit of the “HULL back story” . Z made the route which we did ALL on non-freeway roads and we made a big, interesting circle. Basically other people’s vacations are pretty boring, I know, but here are just […]
I have been very lucky, in many ways…but today I’m thinking about fathers…my own Howard Decker…(here we were in 1946) Roger’s father Piatt Hull (here they are in about 1944) R’s lovely grandfather H.J. Hull…here with Piatt in St Marie’s, Idaho about 1915… my wonderful Uncle John Zurmuehlen…here with me, but father to Don a […]
On The Way 