Author: agilejack

Purple and green are fabulous together! There. Now you know.

Look at how incredible this little peek of green is among all this gorgeous purple.

Gah! It almost gives me chills, it’s so good!

Apparently, I enjoyed working with these fabrics. Even though my machine was giving me fits tonight as I put the final touches on this bag.

And I broke THREE needles tonight alone! All because I forgot to either change a foot or set my needle back to the center location. I should have quit earlier, but I didn’t stop until I finished this bag.

I just love those curves! And, of course, all these colors and pops of the unexpected are really wonderful.

Here’s the other side of the bag..

And all that sparkling white. I love how it brightens up this relatively dark collection of fabrics.

Here’s some detail photos, just because I love the details.

The Australian Aboriginal fabrics I ordered a few days ago arrived today. It’s a lot of blue, but it’s really gorgeous! I just love a day when I know some fabric will be arriving!

And that means I can start working on the panels for my second blue and orange bag tomorrow. I made the curved blocks earlier this week.

That will be my weekend project along with a few items on my list of things to do to get ready for company.

I was looking at my strawberries this afternoon and they’ve been going crazy the last few days. I’m optimistic that I will have a good crop this year.

Last year was my first year of growing strawberries. I had a few berries but not much of a crop. I’m told that I should have a much better crop this year. The plants are ever-bearing so I’m hoping I get a few months worth. Now I just need keep the birds away!

I’ll sign off tonight with this photo of my sunny afternoon. It was so gorgeous and the sun felt fabulous!

I stepped away from my desk right at 5:00 today after a jam packed day. I grabbed a quick dinner of some home made soup I took out of my freezer yesterday. We were out for our walk by 6:30 and it was a gorgeous evening.

I can’t tell you how much I love being able to do our entire evening walk in daylight. I just love watching more and more evening light appear this time of year.

When I got home I hunkered down in my sewing room and put that second purple and green panel together. And I managed to get both panels sandwiched and quilted.

Here’s a look at both panels quilted and ready to assemble.

Definitely a different feel from the blue and orange bag. But I really like this one too.

I decided to take just a few minutes and get the bag constructed. It only takes me about 15 minutes to make the handles and get the outer bag sewn together.

It seems silly to not just finish it up before I wrap it up for the night.

Here’s the other side of the bag.

And just because I love all the detail…

These boys thought that extra few minutes to finish that outer bag was too much to ask of them.

Rico looks eight feet tall in that photo!

Oh, and I heard from Trudy tonight and asked her how that tiny lamb is doing. She told me that she found a pet home for her and she’s settling in with her new friend… a Shetland sheep. And the cutest thing… they named her Petal! How sweet is that?

She’s still very tiny. But I just love her new jacket! I’m so happy she is doing well that she’s ready to go to her new home!

I felt a little fresher tonight so I pulled out that curved template I made earlier this week and started cutting. I narrowed down the fabrics I had selected to five… three KFC fabrics and two Aboriginal designs.

That’s a very different looking set of fabrics than the orange and blue. There’s not as much contrast, so even though the panels will be essentially the same, the bag will look very different.

I managed to get all five blocks sewn tonight. Here’s four of them.

Definitely less contrast than the blue and orange. And the thing I see the most are the sections of the green jumble. That’s because it contrasts with pretty much every other fabric I’m using and it almost reads as a solid in this grouping.

Someone commented on my Instagram post the other night that my blocks are all so nice and regular. And I replied that they are actually pretty wonky when they are all sewn together. I just press and steam the hell out of them and then square them up. Here’s the first one I made tonight.

It’s almost embarrassing to post that photo! It’s so wonky — but less wonky than some of the curved blocks I’ve made recently. But once squared up, it looks really good. And the beauty of how I’m using this is that there’s no need for precision as none of the seams have to match anything else.

Here’s a block I like better. It has more contrast and you can see all the curves really well. If you’re going to bother with sewing all these curves, you should at least get to SEE them!

This one will be on the front of the bag. Here’s all the blocks that will be on the front of the bag. I haven’t finished that panel yet.

It won’t take me long to finish that up tomorrow night. Here’s the one panel that I finished tonight.

That green jumble is strong. I’m glad I cut up that block that had the jumble as the large corner piece. It needed to be tamed! And isn’t it amazing how many different shades of purple there are… all in this one bag!!!

Bender was playing with a felted wool dog toy today as I worked. And when I looked down a few minutes later, he had fallen asleep with the toy around his neck.

And then I realized that he was much more stuck!

How in the world did he manage to pull that off?

I had a webinar this morning… the kind where you really only get to listen, but you don’t really get to participate. So I took my laptop back to my sewing room and sewed the curvy blocks that I cut out last night. It was just enough time to finish all four blocks.

These will be made into another bag, but I’m feeling a little inspired to make something bigger with these blocks. Maybe a wall hanging for my sewing room.

I had enough time during my webinar to look at the template I made last night for the curvy blocks. I did a little drawing on it to represent the actual pieces once they are cut

To make these curved pieces fit together, after you cut one curved piece you need to cut off 1/2 inch of the remaining pile of fabric on the bottom and left side of the template. If you didn’t do this, your block would be more triangle shaped.

Cutting off these edges not only makes your block more square, but it makes each piece fit the one before it. If you didn’t cut 1/2 inch off of each side after cutting a curved piece, it would be impossible to make the pieces fit together.

Since I really like this template and will cut it to pieces soon, I decided to trace another one so I’d have it on hand when I need to recreate another one after the current one wears out.

Denise commented on last nights blog post and suggested some templates that would save me all this frustration. But the funny thing is that I don’t find this process frustrating. I really enjoy it! I think figuring out how to make something like this is really fun and challenging in a good way. It’s like doing engineering or geometry without having any actual education or skills to back it up. It’s very freeing to me and very rewarding when I actually figure it out. Even if it is just an 8 inch quilt block!

I was going to make these blocks into a couple of bag panels tonight, but I realized that I don’t have enough fabric! And I don’t have the variety of blue Aboriginal fabrics I want for this project. So I went online and bought a few pieces and I’ll set these blocks aside for a few days until that new fabric arrives to replenish my depleted stash. I always feel happy when I know new fabric is on its way to me.

So instead of sitting here and just waiting for fabric to arrive, I put together a few KFC and Aboriginal fabrics to do a bag similar to the blue and orange one. Here’s a couple of options I put together that include Aboriginal designs and a couple of Brandon Mably’s designs and Philip Jacobs’ coleus in lavender.

I prefer the second one, and here’s why. The two fabrics I added do a couple of things for me. First, they have more white in them and offer more sparkle. That sparkle is one of the things I really like about that blue and orange bag. This second group also adds a few pops of color that the first set doesn’t have. Those little pops of color are really powerful in a group of fabrics.

I’ll look at these a few more times before I start cutting. I will likely start working with these fabrics tomorrow night.

It rained most of the day today but we got out and took a walk mid afternoon. It was raining but not bad. If you live in Portland and are afraid to walk in the rain, you’re not going to get much walking done. There’s a saying here: there’s no such thing as bad weather. Just inappropriate clothing.

And here’s something terribly exciting! Early on in the pandemic I thought my microwave was going out so I ordered one from Costco and had it delivered. And than my old one decided that it was not yet ready to die.

Well, it died a couple days ago. So I pulled that new one out of the box today and got it set up.

It did a beautiful job of heating my dinner this evening.

And I have tulips. More tulips than I’ve ever had here and in more colors. The funny thing is that when I first bought this house I had one red tulip. And now, in my 13th spring, I have a bunch of tulips in with my daffodils. Red. Yellow. Purple. Orange. And this gorgeous pair of pink ones.

Those blooms are nearly the size of my hand! Isn’t it interesting that I have more of them and in more colors and haven’t planted one bulb. it’s a puzzle.

Another rainy day coming up tomorrow. Looks like we’ll have another damp walk.

It rained pretty much all day today. I did take a half hour to get myself and my boys outside for a walk this afternoon and we were all soaked to the skin by the time we got home. But, by God, we got out and moved our bodies!

I had a dog agility class in Hopewell, OR, this evening, so had to be on the road by six. I didn’t get home until almost 10 pm. It takes a full hour to drive down there without traffic. But Rico and I had a blast in class. Bender appreciated that he got to run in the field and stretch his legs. The skies had cleared before we left and it was a lovely drive.

I did spend a little time in my sewing room when we got home… playing with the idea of making a freezer paper template for making curved blocks like in the bag I finished last night. So I cut a couple 10 1/4 inch squares of freezer paper, gathered all my tools, and started playing.

And what did I learn after all that? The plate method that I used the other night worked the best!

So I cut some 10 inch squares of more blue and orange fabric to test out this template.

Then I stacked them up and ironed the freezer paper to the top of the stack. (If you’ve never used freezer paper, it has a thin coating of wax on one side and you can press it to fabric to hold it in place. It pulls off really easily, leaving nothing behind.) And using the plate on top of the fabric (to hold it all in place as I cut), I cut the pieces.

The beauty of the freezer paper template is that I’ll be able to use it again. You can press and pull them many times.

Here’s four sets of cut pieces I ended up with.

I did manage to get the one closest to the iron sewn.

It’s better, but I still don’t love it. The little piece in the lower left is too straight and it could be bigger. By the time it’s finished, there won’t be much left. The larger corner piece is odd too… there’s nothing left of it on the right side. But that could actually be a cool feature. I’ll have to see how it works up once finished.

So this template will work fine for this set of blocks, but I think I’m going to be back at the drawing board to make another one that I like better.

OK… I JUST HAD A BRAINSTORM AS I WAS DAYDREAMING MID TYPING… I might try making these curved pieces using different sized round things… a cup, saucer, plate, and my stainless steel bowl. I think that might give me the effect I want. And now I can’t wait to try it!!! I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow night!

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I couldn’t stand it. I had to try it out, so I grabbed some plates and bowls, and headed for my sewing room.

And after one failed attempt and a few adjustments, I did it! I came up with a template that is what I want. I won’t know for sure until I cut it and sew a couple blocks, but this is looking really good!

… and now I can relax!

I also remembered a small project that I did this weekend that is making things a lot easier in my sewing room. I bought some Command Hooks, stuck them to the side of a file cabinet in my sewing room, and hung most of my square quilting rulers where they are easy and quick to find and easy and quick to put away.

These hooks are supposed to be able to hold several pounds, so they can easily hold two quilting rulers.

I’m a big fan of tricks that make me more efficient.

After a very productive and busy weekend I finally hit my sewing room this evening after our walk and finished up my blue and orange KFC and Aboriginal fabric Frankenbag. And I just love it!

I just love how the Kaffe and Brandon designs work so well with the Aboriginal fabrics. I’m going to have to do more of combining these fabrics!

Here’s some detail of this bag.

Oh man! I just love that Kaffe paisley jungle for the lining. It’s a huge print and works really well in a big piece of fabric. It’s one of my most favorite designs of Kaffe’s.

I love the way the top of the bag looked with all these clips on it!

Now I need to give some thought to what I’m going to make next. Since I will have my new bed soon, I might dig out my Jewel Frames blocks and start sewing those rows together.

I had my sheep herding lesson yesterday and Trudy brought along that tiny little lamb that I met last weekend. She is still tiny but she’s doing so well!

Look at her adorable little jacket… made from a washcloth. This picture of her following Trudy shows how terribly tiny she is.

Though she is tiny, she is mighty. Get a load of how enthusiastically she’s eating now!

I was so happy to see her again… and to see her doing so well was just wonderful. I’ve been so worried about her.

I’ve been chunking away at my to-do list and I got a lot done this weekend.

Friday morning I had the garage door service man come for a repair, but ended up getting a brand new opener installed. Then in the afternoon I got my COVID booster shot. Then I cleaned out my utility room and folded and put away a huge pile of clean laundry.

Saturday we had our sheep herding lesson, then we took a nice field run to stretch our legs. When I got home I got the dogs settled in and headed out and bought a new mattress and box springs. Then I cleaned my master bathroom. After our evening walk I decided to unbox my new bed, and it was such a huge pain in the ass. Remember this huge box in my guest room?

Well I ripped that monster open and started taking out sooo many pieces! But everything was tied together with really thick nylon ties. I had to rip that box to pieces with my bare hands, reach down in with some kitchen shears, cut away what I could, and remove it piece by piece. And here’s my new bed all ready to be assembled!

I really like the bed, but man I had a mess to clean up when I finally got it all out of that box. Cardboard, Styrofoam, plastic and busted up nylon ties all over the place! But I’m excited to be moving from a double bed to a queen bed. I feel so grown up!

Today I took the boys for a walk after breakfast then got busy. I cleaned the hall bathroom and cleaned my bedroom from head to foot. I even moved all the furniture and vacuumed… even vacuumed the cobwebs and dust off my walls and ceilings. One of the things I’ve wanted to do is remove a great big wire dog crate from my bedroom. Rico spends a good deal of time sleeping in that crate. He was a little confused tonight when I showed him that it’s gone.

I hope he doesn’t think he needs to sleep on the bed with us! But it will be worth it because it feels really good to have that crate out of there!

While I had the vacuum out I just went ahead and did the entire house. I finished it all up by cleaning out my fridge.

I have to say that I do not love house keeping. But I get a really good feeling when my fridge is clean!

I treated myself to an Easter dinner of rockfish tacos from a local restaurant. Yum! They were so good.

And tonight, I’m sore! Every part of my body hurts! I can tell I really put in a lot of work this weekend! I’ve had a couple Advil PMs in anticipation of a good night’s sleep.

I have a few Frankenbags from blog readers to share with you tonight. This first one was made by Kathy Robertson. I just love all those deep jewel tone fabrics. Kathy said a friend of hers gave her a bunch of those batik fabrics. What a great friend!

This next bag is from Kellie Maurer Smith. I love her fabric combo, and that wavy vertical quilting is fantastic! Kellie used fabrics left over from a jacket and skirt she made. Very nicely done!

This next Frankenbag comes from Linda Klysner. I just love all that saturate blue. And teh graphic black and white… well, you know how I feel about that! I really like the spotted batik she used for the lining. And her crumb piecing with all that blue is really pretty.

Up next is this bag made by Rebecca Caisse. That fish panel is so cute, and Rebecca’s pieced fish on the other side are such a perfect touch! And look… it’s orange and blue! I’m on a bit of an orange and blue kick the last few days!

Finally tonight is this bag made by @quilty.girl on Instagram. I just LOVE this bag. I love how her simple piecing really lets these fun designs shine! I just love that big leaf on the front! The fun batiks were given to her by her aunt. Here’s another bag that’s giving me all kinds of ideas! Now I’m going to have to look through my batiks for some fun fabric combos.

Thanks to everyone who sent in photos!

First, a quick update on my bag progress. It was pouring rain after dinner, so I hit my sewing room and worked on my lining, pockets and zipper placket for my blue and orange bag before our walk.

I got the lining pieces cut and fused, finished the slip pocket, got the zipper pocket opening made, and got the pieces for the zipper placket made.

And I just love how the opening for the zipper pocket turned out.

I’ll probably get the remainder of this assembled tomorrow evening and might even finish the bag. I’ll have to see how much enthusiasm I’ll be able to muster at the end of the week.

And now the exciting thing I did today. I GOT A TATTOO!!!!!

I’ve never had a tattoo before. But I’ve been thinking about getting this one for a few years now. And a former co worker of mine made all the arrangements with a tattoo artist that has done several tattoos for her. I never would have done this on my own!

Here’s a close up.

That paw print belonged to Forrest. It was made the day I held him in my arms for the last time as he slipped from this world.

He was my first Jack Russell terrier. He is the dog to which all other dogs will be compared, and none will measure up. He was cute and feisty, and he was a pain in the ass. But I loved him like I will never love another dog.

I put more effort into training that dog than I put into my college degree. And he won three championships in two different agility competition venues.

I always referred to him as my Magnificent Beast. All my friends referred to him as the Magnificent Beast… and they still do. This just feels so perfect.

I was amazed at how little getting the tattoo hurt. I’ve heard they can be quite painful. The tattoo artist said people who have an easy and painless first tattoo usually go on to get more tattoos. I’m not sure that’s true, but I actually have a very small tattoo idea running around my head.

I have company coming in June. My brothers and sisters in law will be visiting and then we’ll go together to Seattle to visit some cousins and my mom’s only remaining sister there. So I’m getting busy getting my house in order for company. I’ve made a huge list of things I need to get done before they arrive.

I have someone coming tomorrow to repair my garage door opener. I’m getting my second COVID booster shot tomorrow, I have a plumber scheduled to come next week. And Bender is going in for a blood test next week. Tonight I cleaned out my utility room and folded a huge pile of clean laundry in my guest room.

I’ve been wanting to buy a new bed and mattress set for a while now and I finally bought the bed a few months ago. It’s been sitting in my guest room in a huge box since then, waiting for the new mattress set.

It’s a huge box and it takes up a lot of room. I’m tired of it. I plan to purchase a new mattress and box springs this weekend. And when I do, I will set it all up in my bedroom and will finally finish this quilt…

It’s all ready to finish but I want to make it fit my new bed. I will make the borders as big as they need to be to get the drop I need.

I also bought a new shower curtain and new towels for my guest bathroom a couple months ago. I’ll get that all switched out after my plumber comes next week to fix the toilet in my utility room, reset the one in my guest bath, and install a new one in my bath. It’s a toilet-palooza at my house!

Company is always a good spur to get stuff done that you’ve been putting off. And I’ve been putting off a lot of stuff during the pandemic! I’ll just keep chunking away at this list over the next few weeks.

I just realized that I haven’t given a Bender update in a while. Well, Saturday will be seven weeks since his last seizure, which is really good! It looks like the increase dose of potassium bromide is doing the trick. He’s still a little wobbly, but not as wobbly as he was a few weeks ago. It’s nice to see him adjusting. And it’s really nice to be seven weeks without a seizure! I’m hoping for another long streak!

We had a really broad mix of weather today… rain, sun, wind, and some hail. And my new yard maintenance guy came for the first time and I’m really happy with the job he did. I have a big yard… a full half acre with the house situated toward the front of the lot. So I have a lot of grass! It’s a lot to take care of. I stopped trying to do it all myself a few years ago and it was the best decision I ever made! It leaves me more time to be creative.

This photo was taken during a late afternoon hale storm.

I had a full day of meetings today, but even with the weather I managed to get my two walks in. It was so beautiful during our evening walk. The skies had partially cleared and the sun came out. Spectacular and so fresh!

It was raining after dinner so I hit my sewing room and quilted one of the panels for the blue and orange bag I started last night. I just love how quilting transforms these panels!

After our walk I quilted the second panel, made the handles and got the body of the bag constructed.

Here’s the other side of the bag. I actually prefer the first side because the orange corners of the curvy block define the block more. This one kind of blends in with the borders. I could have just put a thin orange border around that block to define it.

Here’s a few detailed photos of this bag. I really like the curved and cut blocks. Even the bottom of the bag is interesting. I’m just loving this fabric combo!

It was fairly early when I got this done, so I decided to look at some fabrics and choose a lining for this bag. I didn’t look very far or very long. For me, there’s only one choice for the lining.

It just has to be Kaffe’s Paisley Jungle in tangerine. It’s one of my favorite Kaffe designs. I use it a lot and have a pretty good quantity in my stash so I don’t get nervous when I use some.

Here’s a look at how it will work with the blue Aboriginal fabric pockets.

Good grief! It’s so gorgeous!!!

I received a package today from Wanda at the Exuberant Color blog. She generously sent me some “ugly” batiks that she thought I could use for the quilt sandwiches of my bags. She also included a little bag of prettiness, two KFC fabrics, because she didn’t want the package to be all ugly!

I will definitely put those batiks to good use, and those KFC fabrics are out of print and I don’t have any of either one of them. I’ll use them for something special.

If you’re not familiar with Wanda’s blog, you should definitely check it out. Wanda has provided a lot of inspiration to me over the years. I think I’ve been following her blog for at least five or six years. It’s one of the few blogs that I habitually check every day.

My friend Trudy sent me a photo tonight of that tiny lamb that I was holding on Saturday. Here she is with a yearling ewe and it’s lamb that was born yesterday.

This photo is a really good illustration of just how little that lamb is! But she’s standing and able to nurse, and this first time mother is letting her nurse, with a little encouragement! The lamb is still staying in the house at night and Trudy said that when the lamb hears her voice she screams to be fed! I think she thinks Trudy is her mom!

And Trudy’s old dog Jill has taken over tending the lamb who is in that crate. Jill’s mothering instincts are definitely kicking in and she wants that lamb to love and keep warm.

Here’s Jill getting her fill of that baby.

It makes me happy to see that tiny lamb doing so well.

Trudy still has a few ewes that may be pregnant. But it’s likely that she won’t be seeing any more lambs this year. She has 97 lambs!

I’m taking a good portion of tomorrow off work to do something pretty unusual. I will share more about it tomorrow. I hope I don’t regret it…

I can’t tell you how happy I am to have that drab bag off my sewing table. And tonight I surrounded myself with more color as I continued working with the blue and orange Aboriginal and KFC fabrics. And I feel better!

After making the first curvy block the other night, I made three more tonight and started planning a design for a couple of bag panels. Here’s what I came up with.

I used the full block on the left side, then cut a block in half and stacked it up, one piece on top of the other, for the right side.

I just love the combination of blue and orange! And I love the combination of Aboriginal and KFC fabrics. They really work nicely together. And I love orange. Orange gets a really bad rap. But it’s a really spectacular color!

My shepherd’s crook is orange!

Here’s the other panel for this bag.

And both panels together so you can see the difference.

I managed to get both panels completed and sandwiched.

I will probably get them quilted tomorrow night. One more bag after this and I’ll be done with that ugly batik on the back!

Here’s a close up of one of the panels so you can enjoy all the gorgeousness!

So yummy!!! Everyone should start loving orange!

And as much as I enjoyed my time in my sewing room tonight, Bender did not feel the same.

I’m editing this post to add:

My friend Trudy just posted an album of photos of her lambing season on her Facebook page. You can enjoy lots of photos of ewes and lambs here (and my new boyfriend Isaac!). I hope her privacy settings will allow you to see the photos.

I had a sheep herding webinar today at noon, so I got up and took Bender and Rico for a nice walk after breakfast. When we got home I took my computer into my sewing room, logged onto the webinar, and got to work on my drab Aboriginal fabric bag. All I had to do was sew the lining together and sew it into the bag.

I swore I was going to finish this bag during that webinar!

It looks a little better photographed outdoors in natural light. But it’s still a little muddy. It really needs some contrast. Too bad it’s too late. Here’s the other side of the bag. Almost exactly like the other side. See if you can spot the difference…

I did do something a little different with this one: I sewed my tag on with the machine, rather than by hand. And it’s so much nicer… it looks more professional and has a better finish. AND, it was really quick and easy. And I didn’t have to thread a needle!

Here’s some detail photos for your entertainment.

There is one thing about this bag that I really like. This is the first bag I’ve made with the non fusible fleece that I purchased by mistake. If you remember, I used some fusible webbing to fuse the fleece to the bag panels and to fuse the quilt sandwich backing to the fleece. Well, all that fusing made the bag more structured. It’s a bit stiffer and I really like that. So that purchase mistake has turned out to be a good thing.

After dinner I headed for my sewing room to play with the curved pieced blocks that I showed in my blog last night. So I dug into some ugly scraps and cut four 9.5 inch squares. I stacked them up and started cutting some wonky arcs. I ended up with five pieces.

Here’s what I ended up with.

Each of those arcs has four different fabrics stacked up.

Once I had these pieces cut, I started sewing.

The first block went seriously wrong!!!

See that arc that my scissors are pointing to? Well, I sewed that one in backwards. The thicker end of the arc should be on the right side. No idea how that happened. But that little mistake made a crazy assed block!

Here’s the second one I made. It’s squared up at 7.5 inches. Aside from being butt ugly, it appears to have worked.

That turquoise arc is a really odd shape. I can fix that with the next set I cut. But I’m feeling pretty good that I essentially figured this out. And I’m wondering what other things I could do with this.

And, hey, aren’t those fabrics hideous??? Egad! I’m almost embarrassed to put this one into the land fill. Maybe I should just go ahead and burn it.

So feeling a bit of a sense of confidence I grabbed five of the blue and orange fabrics that I showed last night and cut a 10.5 inch square from each one.

Then I stacked them up and used a dinner plate as a ruler to cut my arcs.

I really like how these shapes turned out, with the exception of that blue one next to the orange corner on the right. Here’s the block all sewn together and squared up to 8 1/4 inches.

I really like how it turned out. but I am bothered by that odd blue arc. I think it will be ok sewn into a bag. Keep in mind, I have four more sets of these arcs to sew… so enough for a couple more bags.

I’m thinking I might take some time and draw out a template for the arcs and then make freezer paper templates to get the arcs cut the way I want. I’m not going to play with that immediately, but when I want to make more of these blocks, I’ll definitely give that a try.

A friend of mine who lives in Salt Lake City texted me this evening and asked if I was really getting snow. I had no idea we were SUPPOSED to be getting snow. But look at this…

It looks like we might actually get some accumulation over night. I just poked my head outside (12:15 am) and it’s still just raining. But it’s a good, solid rain that will give everything a really good watering.

Bender would like to say “hi.”