Medicine Wheel National Monument, Wyoming USA

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

--Beverly Sills

Intentions Progress

I'm not one to make New Year's Resolutions 

but

for the past couple of years I've made a list of Intentions.

Part of it is just a list of things I need/want to do 

and as such only gets updated as I work on them.

There is a section for things I really want to incorporate into my life or thought patterns.

Some health related-like losing weight (i'm happy to say I didn't gain any in January which is always a month for calorie laden comfort foods.)

Those things I'm tracking daily.

Because,

what you track and measure is what you value.

Some of them are quick like a bunny things,

like making the bed and taking my meds,

those get done nearly every day.

Some are longer.

Like playing the piano,

and taking a walk.

Some haven't been done at all!

Some only sporadically-it's been far too cold to walk!

Over all though I'm really pretty pleased with my progress.

Especially since I've quit binge reading!

The fact that photos are being scanned is entirely due to this list.

I hope that February sees some more regularity in some things 

and the addition of some of the others

without losing anything I seem to have a handle on.

Tomorrow, I have one of those health related things.

An appointment with the Urologist for my Kidney stones.

Wish me luck.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

All the Blue 9 patches completed so far.

I have several more in progress.

Then the foundation pieced

string tumblers.

One of the day's I'm going to have to take all the paper off the backs!

The tumblers are not very big - it's going to take a whole lot to make a quilt!

Everything in blue for this month.

I have so many more blue pieces to use up!

Progress Report

First Up,

Ryan's Trip.

Coming along nicely 

I'm liking it more and more which each additional group of strips.

I'd hoped that Ethan's Trip would be finished but not quite.

all the quilting is done.

The binding is cut.

So, just need to finish making binding 

Sew it on, and stitch it down.

On other fronts.

I've nearly finished the house cleaning/purge for now.

Except for the garage

that will have to wait for warmer weather.

I've been scanning paper photos 

onto the computer.

Only 15 minutes each day

but soon it will be done.

Well, soon in the cosmic sense,

who knows how long in days.

I have plans for all those digitized photos-more later.

I got an Ancestry membership for Christmas. 

( DNA kit too!)

I've managed to play around a bit each day.

Plus,

I figured out how to use the little TV as a second monitor!

So I can look at two things at once.

Then I finally got the newest version of Family Tree Maker 

to work. 

Turns out I have to open that version-

who ever heard of an upgrade that didn't over-write the old?

I'm hoping to get my excitement about research up and running again.

See you tomorrow with the RSC blues!

Nearly Wordless Wednesday

Gates of the Mountains National Monument.

Missouri River

Lewis and Clark Trail in Montana

"So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race."

Ernest L Woodward

Monday Musings

Me-1968-69 (At least the hair is right for then!)

This girl had no real clue who she was or what she wanted to do.
If I'm correct in the year
I was a Freshman at Baylor University in Waco, TX
Majoring in Elementary Education.

Looking back I can only think of how much I let my parents have their way.
I went to Baylor-instead of Missouri.
Mostly, I didn't care too much about that I just wanted to go to college.
(Or at least didn't want to be a secretary-I had/have nothing against secretaries I just didn't want to be one and was a TERRIBLE typist.)
I think my Mom wanted the cachet of her daughter being a Baylor Belle.
I wasn't, a belle.
Mom thought being a teacher was perfect-got your summers off to stay home with the kiddos.
Never mind that I had absolutely no talent for the job.
Again, didn't much care but looking back I should have majored in Anthropology!
(I didn't even know what that was then!)

I pretty much did what I needed to and what everyone else wanted me to.
Now, I wonder where my teenage rebellion was.

After all the kiddos grew up I discovered that there is life after being a Mom.
And I didn't know what to do about it.
Then Larry became ill and died.
Since then, having much time to think and I've learned a few things about myself.

I'm a sensitive, empathetic person.
That means my feelings are easily hurt and that the hurt remains long after the event.
It also means that I "feel" the emotions of those around me.
And those emotions effect me.

I'm an Upholder-so if there a stop sign at 2am and the nearest car is no where in sight- I will stop.
So, there's where my rebellion went!
I follow the rules and other folks expectations.
(Thank you Gretchen Rubin for the 4 tendencies!)

Just recently I put another piece of the puzzle that is me together.
I have Inattentive ADD.
I have no sense of the passing of time-have learned over the years to set alarms and timers.
I tend to jump from thing to thing.
These two things are why I never finish a "To Do" list!
I'm horrible with people's names.
I'm always looking for things-working at putting things in one place!
I can and do hyper-focus on one thing to the detriment of others.

Wonder what the next piece of the puzzle will be?
Why has it taken me so long to figure this out?

Friday Night Sew In

 For the first time I'm joining in the Friday Night Sew In!

The third Friday of each month there's a virtual sew in.

For last night

I made up another set of strips and attached them to Ryan's Trip.

I'm doing this one a bit different-

I was always forgetting that the stripes run in different directions

then having to un-sew and fix

So this time I broke the design into four parts.

That means that there might be fewer than 9 strips in each block.

That's okay though,

No un-sewing.

Oh, who am I kidding

There will be un-sewing!

    Then I made a couple of blue 9-patch block

 as leader/enders for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

I've done this one before. 

Then I went out on adventures so I stopped.

But since I'm wanting to use up fabric I thought I'd join again!

I have a LOT of blue fabric!

I'll likely be doing blue's all year along with the other colors. 

Finally, I went off to the movies again yesterday.

This time to see The Post.

About Katherine Graham, the Washington Post and the publishing of the Pentagon Papers.  

I enjoyed it- Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks what's not to love? 

I love watching a woman find her strength in spite of the men!

This particular reporting made the Post into a national paper and went to the Supreme Court.

It ended with the break in at Democratic Headquarters -universally known as Watergate-which ended Nixon's Presidency.

So many parallels between Nixon and he who shall not be named.

I would love to see the same outcome.