Class Project

After I finished it in class, but before I took it to work to share
After:

An offer on my local freecycle group

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Cathy wrote:> From: Cathy > Subject: [Odenton_Freecycle] OFFER: Snow> To: Odenton_Freecycle@yahoogroups.com> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 7:23 PM

We have plenty of extra snow. In our yard, on our cars, on our bushes. Good quality snowman snow! Clean, no yellow spots, and it's all yours if you want it, especially off the driveway and walkway! Let me know if you are interested.

THE GROUNDHOG WAS RIGHT!!!

The snow started Friday, 2/5, around 11 AM and didn't stop until late Saturday evening. The measurement we took was 28". I climbed out the window on the back of the house to clear the snow from the roof and satellite dish. We didn't get the entire driveway cleared until Sunday evening even with the snow blower.

Cassie taking a break from shoveling. She did the front walk and back deck path.
Driveway looking toward the street

The poor leland cyprus bent over in defeat

driveway partially cleared

Me in snow. I couldn't get my feet all the way to the ground.

J.D. and Candy couldn't climb up onto the snow. But they loved playing in it.

AND...........we have another 10-12 inches predicted for Tuesday night/Wednesday. Maybe we'll get another snow day.

Books I've Read in 2009

Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Four Corners of the Sky by M. Malone
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peal Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Late Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Darling Jim by Christian Moerk
Beginner's Greek by James Collins
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblowski
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
There's No Place Like Here by Cecelia Ahern
PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

I'm now reading Under the Dome by Stephen King. It was a Christmas gift and is almost 1100 pages

National Christmas Tree Lighting

It was an unusually warm day for December 3 - about 60 degrees - but it got cooler and windy after the sun went down. Security checkpoint

Mounted park police

Tree after the Obama family flipped the switch

View of Obama on stage

Harvest

Pickles and a few jars of pickled green beansGreen Beans

Tomatoes

Peaches

Applesauce

Still to do - jelly from berries picked in the spring.

Millenium Quilt 2

FINALLY, I finished the second quilt for my grandson Joshua's birthday. It was about as thrilling to him as getting socks and underwear, but hopefully he will appreciate it one day.