With Strings Attached

  We had 3" of wet snow yesterday.  It 's all melted on pavement and nearly all melted on grass, bushes, and trees.   Cloudy but dr...

  It's been unusually warm this fall.  We haven't had a freeze yet, let alone a frost.  (I just  looked up the definitions :   A f...

  At the July  guild meeting  we played quilter's bingo.  We made bingo boards from fabric -- "yellow stripe," "green bat...

 It's been a quiet week so far.  Perhaps I'm simmering down after the disappointment of the election results, resigned to the announ...

  Saturday afternoon I walked along this path.  It's part of a bike route that goes through Illinois Beach State Park and then connects ...

  After a couple of rainy days the sun has come out again so we've enjoyed afternoon outings to the forest preserves:   Indepdendence Gr...

 I am totally bummed and extremely apprehensive after yesterday's election.    

We went to the Chicago Botanic Garden Sunday morning to see  the  Fine Art of Fiber.  It's an annual collaboration of Illinois Quilters,...

The Zion Woman's Club held its annual ladies' night bunco party Friday evening.  64 women (some girls, too) came out to play.   Most...