Friday, October 12, 2012

I'm Okay...

I'm finally back from California and getting caught up. I've quilted a quilt, have another ready to go, am back to my workouts, back to playing (starting) with Emma, back to Washington and beautiful sunshine.  Yes, I said sunshine...its been bloody hot here, although not as hot as Quincy. (So it really was hot here when I originally wrote this; pinky swear!)

We headed down to Quincy to start cleaning our property up and to bring yet another load of stuff up here. And there is still more. We will head back down again in March, but I'll be going on to Asilomar and Dennis will be stuck for a week without me.

We did get lots done. After our house burned down, we built a shed and then put all the stuff from the old house into the shed so that we could move into the old house while we waited to have our new house built. Then, a few months later in the middle of December and a few feet of snow, a tree broke off and fell onto the shed. There wasn't much we could do then and by the time we could get to it in the spring, I just couldn't face it. It was like having another fire...more ruined stuff.

There were some great finds though!  Before moving to Quincy, I used to tole paint.  I painted this clock over 10 years ago and it can be saved...



This doll was the best find though.  When I lived in Reno, I worked in the District Attorney's Office. My supervisor there made me this doll for some occasion (can't remember what). To keep her safe, she was put in the shed. I had already come to terms with the fact that she would be ruined, so imagine my surprise when the very last box I opened had her in it and in perfect condition!  Simply amazing, especially since the pillow on top of her was horribly stained and ruined and the other doll outfit next to her on the bottom of the box was half eaten and next to a mouse nest. Why the little critters didn't eat her is beyond me, but Izzy lives!!!  It was the best find of the day!!


Thanks for your patience in awaiting my return and thanks even more to those of you that e-mailed to see whether I was still alive. Its nice to be missed!

Dory



8 comments:

  1. Hot? Girly, you don't know from hot!!
    Glad your cleanup/out resulted in some treasures. I hope you 2 don't have too much more work to do in Q. It was great to see you and thank you & Dennis again for getting Yellow Bike back to us. He's happy to be out in the garage again.

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    1. After, 30+ years of living there, lots still remains. I'm happy to report that most of it is Dennis' crap and not mine!! Glad YB is back home too. Especially with our garage situation!!

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  2. Whew! I was sure worried about you. Glad that all is ok, and YEA!! for the find of the doll. She must be lucky. When did your house burn down?? Wish I could come out and help. Hugs, Sara

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    1. Finding Izzy was great; I so expected her to be ruined! Dennis built the old house in the 70's (the one we moved back into). We built a shop with an apartment above. The apartment was so high up that I could see my ponies in the meadow, so we opted to live there. That's what burned down. Then we built the house that is currently there. Fire happened in 2005, I think. It proved to us that stuff is just stuff! Thank heavens I wasn't quilting then; it would break my heart if people's quilts were destroyed.

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  3. I was wondering what had happened to you. Missed your blog.

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    1. Life was getting in the way. So happy to know that I actually have readers!!! Thanks, Joyce!

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    1. Removed this post, Joyce, because it was a duplicate. How weird!!

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