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Although tempted to stay at home and spin, spin, spin, I opted for the nice thing to do and joined John at Tonopah Rob’s Farm Stand today. Of course that meant getting up at an ungodly hour but it is nice to pitch in (yes, I have my own chore – fill the CSA boxes […]

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My fingertips are sore but the rug is done! Tonight was the moment when I clipped the strings that held my maiden Navajo rug to the training loom. The class (which I attended with my mom) started on March 4th and ended on April 8th. On that day I had about an inch of warp left to go. My mom […]

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We’re on the second day of our cleanse and are just taking things easy. This is going to be a fun year, my mom will arrive in 23 days, I’ll be done with my associates degree shortly thereafter, having fun with crafts, learning to spin, traveling, loving life.

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Since our old pillow cases started to look less than threadbare I have been saying I would use my sewing machine to make some new ones. This means I’ve been talking about it for a few months now. Well, I finally did it. I had this colorful bug print cotton fabric (thanks, Ruby and Axel), […]

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After another early morning MacDonalds trip we left Santa Barbara to drive home to Phoenix by way of the “Danish town” Solvang, north of S.B. Some might say Solvang is a bit of tourist trap, but it is definitly nice to see a town that is NOT looking like any other town. The old town is full of little shops, pastry places, and […]

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For the last two years we have attended the lumaria nights at the Botanical Garden and loved them. We would stroll through the park and enjoy all those different musical groups, most of them acoustic. There were people playing banjo, viola, guitar, American Indian flute, harp, a gospel group, a handbell choir, a barbershop quartet […]

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So I finally made it. I turned 40 years old today. I am my old man’s old lady, one could say. But frankly, I feel great, better than ever. And John came up with a huge surprise that really helped sweeten the deal. Yes, in spite of giving me the speech a couple weeks ago […]

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John got a cold/cough after we came back from Oregon. I thought it would pass me by even thought just about everybody in the office was sniffling. Well, now I’ve got it. In true form, it started on Friday and I’ve been in and out of bed all weekend. I’m trying to finish a couple more […]

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We drove out to the Tempe Dollar Theatre to see “Om Shanti Om” with Shah Rukh Khan and thoroughly enjoyed it. Another fun film directed by Farah Khan (Main Hoon Na). Since this movie was about people in the film industry in the 70s and today there were a ton of movie references and spoofs, […]

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Some time ago we bought a bunch of tickets for events at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Tonight was the first event, a performance by pianist Gabriella Moreno from Venezuela. During the first half she played a number of pieces by Chopin, after the intermission she did some improvisations based on themes suggested by […]

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