welcome to this week's list of likes.... not too many, life isn't so good right now around here, but there are a few things to mention and like. I have been going through my 30 valentine quilts and hanging them up around the house. The one above is a close up of
"in my heart of hearts" it's interesting to see an older piece hanging next to the TV, so I can just let my eyes linger on it, really seeing it.
I made oven baked buritos this week... take flour tortillas, fill with a mixture of (can of) chicken, refried beans, chopped jalepenos, cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, roll up brush with EEOO and bake for 30 min or til burbling. The tortillas get crispy and the filling gooey.
TV
We went back to the Bridgerton series as we missed the last few episodes. I just loved this series in books and the current show is AWESOME. Costumes are gorgeous, settings lush, photography great and acting wonderful.
We finished Virgin River for the season, sad... but Hallmark has Home, the time travel series on now. Also thanks to PBS for Miss Scarlett and for All Creatures current season. As a young teen I read all James Herriott's books and fell in love.
Note: I took an improv acting course from a woman from the Dales.... her accent was lovely
Of course I am also watching our current season of The Traitors... I LOVE it and watch the Housewives of NYC and Beverly Hills... again, it's a fave
I finished another embroidery kit and am doing two online challenges in quilt making, I share those on Saturdays. I love challenges with prompts. PQ this week challenged us to make a quilt in ombre colors and stay at home round robin challenged us to include crown blocks.
I spent time looking at rescue dogs online but am not in a position to adopt (physically) right now. I miss my beautiful boy always
mama loves you
Snow
I grew up in Florida and there's a reason you don't
see pics of snow on palm trees. When I was about 3 or so the city
brought in a truckload of snow and put the snow downtown at Christmas.
It was amazing to one so young but kids were enthralled in general.
My
family had a second home in NC up in the Smokey Mts, in Maggie Valley.
Sometimes we went up for winter breaks and I got a chance to need snow
boots and a coat. I might have been 11-12 ish so this was fun! I
couldn't get enough. I would stand on the back porch of the lodge and
break off long icicles from the roof. I also probably foolishly made
snowcones with what looked clean snow, and syrup.
Suddenly the books I read made more sense in an experiential way, and my love of the seasons began.
My
sister and her family moved a lot while I was growing up... She spent
time in VA, with a bit of snow, in Maine with a LOT of snow, in Indiana
with snow, and Michigan with lots of it. I got to visit on Christmas
breaks often enough to experience snow in many forms. I always liked
it.
As a young woman I moved to Canada for a bit, was a nanny,
and learned what the word snow means. And cold, as Edmonton dips to
minus 40 degrees. My nose froze shut when I breathed in, and our cars
had to be plugged into block heaters. The good news was we knew where
our cars were from the small melted circles on the hoods.
I had a
boyfriend that was sporty so I tried things like cross county skiing,
snow shoeing, outside ice skating. We would walk to town in the cold but
they were awesome about plowing. I had a full length down coat bought
for me my my sister in Ann Arbor. I put on so many layers I looked like
the Michelin man! I knew if I fell I'd be a turtle unable to get up! I
was stunned to learn it snowed in May
After I met and married my now husband we moved
within a few months to Maryland. The mid Atlantic states get some
cold and snow, but it's in bursts not sustained over a season. One
massive snow was something like 2+ feet, and our standard poodle at the
time refused to do anything outside that involved privates touching the
snow.
Uh Oh.... we shoveled a corridor along the sidewalk but
still he refused. DH shoveled a path to the next door neighbor's and
glory! Cole peed near their driveway!
Now we live in Colorado
where we thought there would be a lot of cold and snow. Climate change
has caused much shorter duration and snow amounts, temps are also
warmer. Today we have snow from the last storm because we had cold
temps. Our sun at high altitude is intense through, and once it's above
freezing the snow often melts to form icebergs that stick to roads. Our
part of the state does not seem to think plowing is important.
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| Cole in happier times |
please visit these folks to see what they liked this week
I got the pattern from a workshop so there is not one to link to here, so sorry. 
I wasn't aware of that one so I googled it. SO many ways to interpret the angles and lines. I considered my quilt center.... I thought the one on the right looked like crowns. I drafted out a little pattern of just the section that looks crown-like
Mary Englebreit has an image that says "Queen of Everything" and 
princess of quite a lot 
I thought this little embroidery was done with the pinks but this week I made light and dark pink improvisational flying geese and like it here. 
