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Another late Thankful Thursday

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, not about gardening on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This week I am so thankful that God has blessed my husband with good results for his most recent data-acquisition run.  Not only will he have good data to analyze and use for a paper and/or his dissertation, but he is so encouraged and motivated to continue by this!  Praise God!
I’m also thankful that it’s [...]

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Late Thankful Thursday

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, not about gardening on February 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »

This week, I am thankful for getting through the week whole. It’s been a crazy one with regards to the paper I’m revising for publication. I am thankful that some surprise issues have been working out okay, and that while there’s a *lot*more work to be done, I am confident that I can [...]

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In a meme kind of mood

Posted in not about gardening on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Recently I’ve been getting and/or seeing a lot of memes, so I thought I’d post a couple here.  I haven’t done one of these since at least college!
5 Things Meme (see Fruittart’s blog)
5 random facts about me

I love reading books written for children and young adults.  Some of my favorites include The Chronicles of Narnia [...]

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Thankful Thursday

Posted in Thankful Thursdays on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m thankful that it’s brighter in the mornings, and it’s still light when I leave work!  It’s amazing what daylight can do for your mood.  I’m also thankful that the little birdies on the porch are back.  I can hear them chirping, and we saw their tracks in the dusting of snow this morning.  Spring [...]

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Thankful Thursday

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, not about gardening on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m thankful that my talk last Friday went moderately well. Not as good as my first talk (last semester), but well enough. I’m also thankful for the way one of the faculty members that was in the audience nodded like he understood what I was talking about and chuckled sympathetically when I caught [...]

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Making the (practice) cut

Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last night I finished laying out and cutting the fabric for the practice dress.
Not only is this practice dress a test of the pattern itself, I wanted to make sure the pattern pieces would fit properly on the green silk.  The green silk is only 42″ wide (nowadays, typical (clothing) fabric widths are either 45″ [...]

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