Well, it's not that I haven't been doing anything... It's that I've been doing too many things!
We had a big snowstorm that dumped about two inches on the ground and then blew all over the place in drifts a foot high. It actually took a few days to melt, too! So I haven't done any gardening at all. But I have bought seeds for lettuce, spinach, carrots and watermelon.
We had a project day with my sisters-in-law and daughters and I worked on my new dishtowels. I got the ones I had ordered, and they are really nice weave and big! Here's the website I ordered from: Soy Works Candle Company. They didn't ship very fast, and I think when I emailed to find out where my order was, they realized they hadn't sent it and shipped it that same day with three extra dishtowels in it for me (I ordered 7 and got 10). When I emailed regarding the extras (there was no note or anything) they said they had shipped to the wrong address and when they figured it out, they reshipped to me. But the towels are great!
Oh, but I just talked to my mom and she said that she found some good ones that are a little cheaper in Logan, so I may have to get them from her.
This is the one I stamped about four years ago and just finally finished. It is on the yucky cheesecloth-type dishtowels.
This is the one I started at the sister-in-law project day and I just finished it. I started a new one today.
I did two scrapbook pages this week and that emptied out my folders on my desktop, so now I get to set up some more folders for my next pages.
(credits: background paper and striped paper are DS Free Lisa Boys will be Boys kit, blue frames are by Michelle Schfeveland of DSP in her Holiday Sparkle Elements, alpha is by Gina Cabrera - alpha essentials)
I've also been working on emergency preparedness quite a bit. We have made sure our money is all FDIC insured and tried to reduce costs on some bills including internet, phone, extra subscriptions, etc. We have put some cash in our 72-hour kits. We are in the process of videotaping our house for insurance purposes. Purchased a ladder for evacuating an upstairs bedroom, checked to see what our generator to our house actually powers. We're looking into having a gas fireplace converted to wood. We are also looking into buying a half a beef for food storage. We have an excel spreadsheet with our food storage stuff on it that we need to update. And above all, we are trying to USE our food storage and rotate it properly! If you want the spreadsheet, email me.
I started going to a genealogy class on Sunday evenings. The idea is to eventually get to some names that need their temple work done. So far it's been kind of boring, but I have high hopes for it! I had a friend over the other day and showed her all my computer hobbies, web stuff, genealogy, scrapbooking. It was fun. She's just getting into it and is taking this genealogy class, too.
And lastly, I'm reading the book Stolen Lives, which so far is really great! Check out the description on Desperate for a Good Read.
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