First of all - isn’t the new layout tres coolio? Many thanks to my web-guru type daughter!!! If you need a new do for the site? She’s your gal. Thanks, Lessa. I appreciate you.
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It’s update time for the Share a Square Bag Project, folks! We are on our way to completing Shelly’s dream of giving an afghan to each Camp Sanguinity camper this summer. To go along with the bags we’d like to send a bag to hold each tag - each square holds a tag telling the name of the crafter who made it - once the child has taken them off the afghan.

Yellow Rose and I are working to gather up 70 bags each. THANK YOU to those who have responded so far! You all are awesome.

The bags in the picture are some that Shelly sent me to decorate. Each is different - I bought some craft beads and sewed them to the bags with gold ribbon. Not bad for a gal whose real talent lies in talking - and knitting - and sometimes both at the same time. ha ha ha.

Meanwhile, our Alaska weather has toned down its attitude a bit. We are still in “almost” spring mode, but at least there has been no snow for a week. Yay! The temps are still a tad chilly, but I opened the bedroom window last night to get some fresh air in the room. Felt so good!

Hoping for a lovely weekend next week. Hubby and I are driving to Homer Saturday morning to see two of the grandkiddos swim in their last meet for the year. Then he and I are going to bunk out at an Inn to celebrate our 39th (!!!!) anniversary. The big plan for the night is a couple’s side by side massage.

**I** will love it. He’s not so sure as he’s never had one before, but I think he will approve as well.

Posted: May 4th, 2008 under Moose Nuggets.
Comments: 2

What better picture to show the true meaning of a SouthCentral Alaska Spring for the Thursday Challenge than:

We got out the mower and it was just waiting and ready to begin on the “lawn” when Alaska threw out one more spring snowstorm.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhlaska!

Posted: May 1st, 2008 under Alaska.
Comments: 1

Anyone who has been reading here all winter long knows that I have been helping with Shelly’s Share a Square project. It’s not the first “charity” project I’ve been involved in, but it is the one that has pulled at my heart the strongest and longest.

I still feel that way.

So, I thought I’d post over on ravelry about the project to try to get people to help with the bags.

I should have read the RULZ first - the ones that say something about you being a spammer or a self-server if you post on more than one board about something.

Sigh!

The second post was deleted - with a bulletin that told me why - and I was happy about that. I certainly don’t like to break the rules, you know.

But this evening I received a pointed message from the person in charge of one of the groups to which I posted - she told me she deleted the message beCAUSE . . . of the RULZ about being considered a spammer, and “self-serving”.

Um, gee thanks. I’ll try not to break any more rulz, folks.

In the meantime - I hope that my faithful friends who read here will trust me when I say I am NOT doing this for me - okay?

And, thanks for all that you’ve done to help with the project.

I appreciate EACH of YOU!!!!

Posted: April 30th, 2008 under asides.
Comments: 3

. . . of you, my friends - calling all of you.

You can help me fulfill a dream. Shelly’s dream.

Several months ago I heard about this woman in Denton, TX who had a dream to gift EVERY (140!) child who would attend Camp Sanguinity this summer with a granny square afghan. Each afghan would require 48 squares 6 inches in size. Each square would then be edged with black and sewn into an afghan which would then be edged in black.

Share a Square was born!

Shelly gave over (at least) one room in her home to house the resultant afghans until this summer.

Shelly’s dream was fulfilled by people like each of you who stop by to read this blog. THANK YOU! She has received (more than) enough squares to make the 140 afghans and, I believe all are now in the hands of a willing volunteer who is putting them together. She is posting pictures of the finished (and returned) afghans on her blog.

Shelly’s dream grew and took a turn . . . and the Bag Project was born. Texas Rose and I would each try to raise 70 bags to go along with the afghans to hold the tags after the children took them off.

This is a quick update on that project. Thanks to Miyo in Tokyo and Kat in Los Angeles, I now have 9 finished bags.

In addition, Shelly sent me some bags that were donated and I hope to get them decorated up this weekend. I bought some really colorful beads - now I just have to get busy and get them attached.

But, I am a long way from 70 bags, my friends. So I am calling on all of you to help.

If, however, you are not able to help with bags - and you missed the opportunity to make 6 inch squares - there is ONE LAST DREAM of Shelly’s that you could help fulfill:

Her dream: to pay the way for ALL 140 kids to attend Camp Sanguinity for FREE! It will cost $150 per child to go to camp. Your $5 or $10 would go a long way to seeing that dream come true. Please! and, Thank you!

Posted: April 30th, 2008 under inspiration.
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changing from winter studded tires to summer treads: $75

repairing tire flattened by nail in between tire store and office (!!!) $20

looking outside to see this the next morning:

PRICELESS!

You just gotta love it when Alaska has a sense of humor.

took a swipe off the car with the handy dandy broom and then got this picture:

to show you the depth - looks like about 3 1/4 inches - or just over.

Yep - we had put away the snow blower and had gotten out the lawn mower - bwahahahahaha!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhlaska! You gotta love it!

Posted: April 26th, 2008 under Alaska, Moose Nuggets.
Comments: 1