January 2011

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

January 19, 2011

Old Man Winter is about to rear his ugly head again, but I have no room to complain. Our Texas winters are much milder than the rest of the country. I don’t know how y’all have been managing in places where you have a real winter; I’d never handle it. Though we haven’t had the [...]

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Taking This Show On The Road

January 17, 2011

I confess that for awhile I have had “tunnel vision.” All I see at the end of that tunnel is more crocheted squares to join together. Hundreds of volunteers are sending me thousands of squares to stitch into 150 blankets for kids with cancer. For months, as I stitch, I’ve been chanting the mantra, “I [...]

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Soup’s On

January 15, 2011

It’s still “soup weather,” despite the fact that our Texas temperatures seem almost balmy compared to the rest of the country. I decided yesterday was an excellent day to make a potato/sausage soup. Online, I found a recipe that is supposed to mimic Olive Garden’s Toscana Soup. As usual, I read the recipe … and [...]

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Message from Camp Quality Arkansas

January 14, 2011

Y’all might have seen me babbling on about the afghans we are making for children with cancer in the project called Share A Square. I thought you might want to hear about Camp Quality from someone other than me, so I asked Chris Jennings, the director of the Arkansas Camp Quality to write you a [...]

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Not A Kernel Of Truth

January 9, 2011

This fried corn from Clark’s Outpost should have been delicious. At least, that’s what my television said, and y’all know that the television never lies. The reporter didn’t even get the name of the town right — they pronounced it “Teeoga,” when everyone in these parts knows that Tioga is pronounced with a long “i.” [...]

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Riot Of Ribbon

January 5, 2011

One of my readers was kind enough to ask if I needed ribbon to attach the name tags to the afghans for Share A Square. I don’t think so, but thank you for asking. I got tired of cutting ribbon just a little bit at a time, so I put the rolls on a pole [...]

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Twenty Reasons Why I’m Not Social

January 4, 2011

Some of my Facebook friends and blogging friends have thought I had stopped blogging altogether. They worried that I had dropped off the planet altogether. No. I didn’t. I wasn’t captured by a band of pirates or secluded in a cloister, either. I’ve just been busy. So have my volunteers! I’ve got lots of good [...]

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