Where is my Brother?

“grasshopper?”
“yes…”
“What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?”
“hmmmm. that’s a good question.  The answer to life, the universe and everything is……………
 
 

PEACE.

The kids planted the rice at school April 28 (coincidentally, my older sister’s birthday) and it is growing quite well in flats in the school yard.  The seedlings are about 6-8 inches high and we will plant them in the field next week, June 6.

Fine young daughter running to place second…..
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fine young son with some [...]

………..gifts from farming friends,
neighbors cleaning out cupboards,
and friends with good taste!!!!!

quilt top in progress
unbelievably beautiful purple and teal batiks.
looks really boring in this photo!!!!
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My mom and I used to go in to Bellingham to hear Linda Allen sing.  We’d go to Tony’s Coffee, or to the museum to catch a performance.  She sings about women.  Strong [...]

23 years ago, on Mother’s day… I graduated from college.
28 years ago, again on a sunday…..Mt. St. Helens blew…while I was deep in the cascade mountains.
 
ah, the good old days.  Way back when…. High school with dreams and hopes for the future….I was on a high school weekend at Holden Village, an intentional community owned [...]

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OLDEST SON RUNS IN SCHOOL SPORTS DAY EVENT
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some stitchin’…….
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and there you have, the running stitch post.

I don’t think even SHOUT will get this mud out….

 
 
 
 
the kids at school were conditioning the rice fields for planting.
first they build up the sides with mud so that the water will stay in.  After the work is done, it’s time for some races!!!!!!!

 
 
 
 
Even though none of my kids qualified for the all school relay [...]

safety first
better safe than sorry
you could poke your eye out.
Sunday morning was grass clearing at the Jr. High School for the all school sports day next sunday.  It’s a big day for students and families and the fields needed clearing for parking.
and HOLY SHIT if they didn’t have men with WHIRLING BLADES OF STEEL working in [...]

another bag to hang on the rosemary bush.
lined with yukata cotton.
strap reinforced with flea market moth eaten wool kimono cloth.
MASON-DIXON rule number 16: “WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ RULES”
 
 Thank you to Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne for inspiring me to knit a log cabin…….
because my philosophy when knitting is….. “if it ain’t fun, then don’t [...]

Today i give thanks for the generosity of friends.  One especially.  She’s a blogger, a crafter and a bloomer.  She makes bags and is constantly coming up with ideas to challenge herself and to bloom where she has been planted.
I am talking, of course, about BLOOMING IN NIHON
http://bloomingnihon.blogspot.com/2008/04/green-giveaway.html
The beautiful bag she made and was kind [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
oh yeah.  happy days are here again!!!!  flea markets are popping up with the spring time blossoms!
I found  a few nice pieces of material for future quilts and a moth eaten wool kimono…….beautiful colors and funny how they all work well together.
There is a blue jacket of very heavy weave, probably a KENDO dogi. There [...]