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Thursday, February 07, 2008

A quilt for Lonnie

I never have to look far to find another opportunity to make a quilt.

These babies just seem to show up!

This quilt is for a little 2 year old girl who is being adopted by a friend.

Welcome to Lonnie with all our good wishes for a happy and healthy childhood .

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Now THIS is what I call winter!

Photos from our friends in Weed, California

Baby it's cold outside................

Saturday, January 19, 2008

and that was this week......

Finally finished Mary and Jarrod's baby quilt...

the baby is due February 7th- which is Chinese New Year

the year of the rat.... and my Mothers birthday!

http://chinese.astrology.com/rat.aspx

Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening we lined up at the library

for our free copies of Three Cups of Tea.

A wonderfully written book about how one person

made huge changes for children in Pakistan and Afganistan.

Besides picking up our books we could munch on tasty bites

and listen to the music of Pakistan and Afganistan.

I love our library!

This past week Russell finished this years painting for the

John Day BMRO Rally t-shirt.

Later on he will finish off the painting for me-yippee.

Yesterday we met friends for Spanish Coffee's at Hubers

and dinner at Al Amir- the best downtown restaurant for

Lebanese food. Yum!

That's it for now............

Friday, January 04, 2008

It's time for soup!

On a cold winter's day nothing satisfies more than

a big bowl of hearty soup.

Two nights ago I made this creamy curried winter squash soup....

here's my simple recipe:

Saute some onions and garlic in olive oil, add diced raw new potatoes

and 5 cups of water mixed with 4 tsp of chicken "Better than Boullion" .

Simmer for 15-20 minutes, add curry, Thai Green curry paste and pepper to taste.

Do not add any salt as there is plenty in the boullion.

Blend well with an immersion blender or use your regular blender.

(you really need an immersion blender-less fuss and easier!)

Simmer a bit more, ladle into big warm bowls and garnish with

chopped parsley and toasted slivered almonds....yum.

Serve with biscuits and enjoy!

Then here's the good old standby-hard to resist French Onion Soup!

I haven't mastered it yet and the best outside of France is found

at NW Portland's Fenouil restaurant.

We each had a big bowl just yesterday....simply divine!

Monday, December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I love Christmas. Always have, always will. When I was a child one of my favorite

things to do was to get up early on Christmas morning and sneak downstairs

so that I could light the tree and just sit and look at it. I wouldn't shake presents or even

pick them up or look at the tags. I just loved looking at the tree all by myself.

So here are our little trees that we put out now-gone are the huge trees of my childhood

and my children's childhoods. But the magic is still there for me.

My sweet dear husband does not have the happy memories of Christmas like I do.

However, after many years of Christmases with me, he does enjoy all the trimmings that I

scatter around the house. Such as this Santa Shrine next to "his" chair!!! Ho, ho, ho.

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a kitty curled up somewhere.

Nor would it be Christmas without our wonderful neighbors Tom and Steve.
This was taken at Portland Wine Merchant's Friday wine tasting last week.
Great place to taste wine on 35th and SE Hawthorne.

Besides loving Christmas, I love to feed people. Probably because I love to cook?
There just isn't anything better than the fellowship of sharing a meal with
good friends and family.