motherbored's Blog
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Aug 29, 2008 | 7:18 AM PST
Tags: quilts , embroidery designs , machine embroidery , digitizing
Yesterday, I watered early and then came in, to hide from the heat. I was bored with nothing to do, so I decided to work on my Mike's computer; it's slower than molasses. I proceeded to delete a lot of stuff and it kept getting faster and faster, then I rebooted it and something shouldn't have been deleted, so I put everything back on. He's getting a new one, so I'm going to take his old one to the sewing house and connect my digitizing programs and card reader/writers.
I am joining a quilt guild and one of their members makes quilts for kids, so I'm going to digitize a bunch of redwork designs and show her how to save money and make really neat quilts for kids out of muslin with Sunbonnet Sue or the little boy with bib overalls, or dinosaurs or cars or -- the list goes on. If you want to see some of my past designs, here's my url:
http://www.geocities.com/moth
erbored.geo/
I haven't been here for quite awhile, because I started letting my son sell the designs to raise money for ARPkD. I was happy, when I was giving them away, but once it entailed filthy lucre, I quickly lost interest. Now I feel like starting again.
Hmmm, let's see, what can I do to get into mischief, today? ;-)
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Aug 28, 2008 | 6:38 PM PST
Tag: sorghum
I finally had to go research the volunteer "corn" that was growing and found out that it's sorghum. Here's a picture from wickipedia and the 2nd one is my sorghum. This volunteer came from the black oil seed (sunflower seeds) that I put in a feeder near this garden; I wash it off the walk, daily, and mostly I've gotten sunflowers, but this one sorghum grew... think I'll have to learn how to make ethanol ;-)
Wikipedia picture of sorghum
My sorghum
My grandmother raised sorghum, among many other things, and used it for cattle feed and syrup. In the mornings, she would make a black Norwegian bread, slather homemade butter on it, then sorghum syrup, then put heavy cream over that and then a very strong coffee, and give it to me for breakfast. I loved it. Grandma called it coffee bread; I thought I was all grown up, eating coffee bread ;-)
Aug 26, 2008 | 8:08 AM PST
Tag: spirea
I've had several questions regarding what the spirea will look like, once he's in the ground; funny, but that didn't occur to me, since I saw a poor, neglected, thirsty plant, the day I bought him for ten cents. I went looking and, whoop-de-doo, it's really pretty; here's a picture of one in bloom:
Today, I'm going hunting for more new stuff to plant; sales should be on and you can never have enough plants. I'm also going to try to find one of those pancake puffer pans to put in our trailer; our son is taking the girls camping on Memorial Day and they've been bugging me for one of these. I went looking, the other day, but it seems they are only available from the TV infomercial and, if that's the case, I'll just buy one at a kitchen supply place, 'cause, in the old days, they were called Kartoffel Puffer (potato puff).
Well, here I go, pennies in hand; wish me luck, please?
Aug 25, 2008 | 1:12 PM PST
Tag: spirea
This is the Gold Flame Spirea on the day he came to live here around 27 July:
Here's the picture of him today, Aug 23, 08; he looks much better now, wouldn't you say?
As usual, I managed to take a picture of one of my fingers; never fails ;-)
