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I need to pass these around to some friends and coworkers.

A Japanese quilting textile shop. Fabulous. Should liberate me from some of my money.

Amy is currently reading: The Little Stranger (Hardcover) by Sarah Waters
bookshelves: currently-reading

Amy added: Surveillance (Intervention, #1) by Julian May
On loan from Jacob. Struggled with some jargon early but eventually caught the rhythm. Ends on a massive cliffhanger.

1. Tristan Prettyman (1)
2. Josh Ritter (1)
3. Minus the Bear (1)
4. Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers (1)
5. Steve Aoki (1)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Amy marked as to-read: Whip Smart: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Melissa Febos
bookshelves: to-read

The quilt continues to grow in both size and belligerence. It is now eyeing the stove speculatively, wondering if it can be captured and rendered into perky squares.

Accompanying blog entry: domesticat.net/2010/03/these-are-few-my-favorite-things

I can count, right? Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve counted the squares against the numbers the computer layout shows, I have to see them laid out together to believe they’re really going to fit.

Accompanying blog entry: domesticat.net/2010/03/these-are-few-my-favorite-things

There. Done. To say I am delighted is an understatement. I am glad I took the extra time to sort the fabrics, to get a rough divide between warm and cool colors. The result isn’t obvious, but it’s subtly harmonious.

Also? I just LIKE it. So there. Neener. I’m keeping this one.

Approximate size: 80”x88”

Accompanying blog entry: domesticat.net/2010/03/these-are-few-my-favorite-things

Amy gave 4 stars to: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Paperback) by Susanna Clarke
Slow start. Tried to read it like a fantasy novel at first, failing miserably, but then picked it back up…

I did a variant on this and really liked it.

1904: William Hiram Rigsby (my great-great-great grandfather), Maudie Rigsby (my great-grandmother), Jane Jince (Warford) Rigsby (my great-great-great grandmother) & Eliza Rigsby

Also spotted at www.angelfire.com/tv2/rigsby/photo.htm with this info:

“(L to R) William Hiram Rigsby, Maudie Louise “Rigsby” Landers, Jane Jince “Warford” Rigsby, Louisa Rigsby. This picture was probably taken about 1904 in Lonsdale, Garland County, Arkansas. William H. Rigsby was born in 1823 in Tennessee and married Jince Warford who was born in 1825 in Tennessee. They moved with other Warford and Rigsby family to Hot Spring County, Arkansas in mid to late 1840’ and 50’s. Maudie was one of their grand-daughters and Louisa “Aunt Liza” was a daughter who never married, but resided with them until their deaths and then lived with her brother John H. Rigsby (my gr.grandfather) until death. Wm. and Jince are buried at Rigsby Cemetery on the old farm at Lonsdale. Aunt Liza is buried next to John and his second wife Laura M. “Bewley” “Humphries” Rigsby at Smith Creek Cemetery. John’s first wife Melvinia “Bowen” Rigsby died early and is buried at the Rigsby Cemetery. “

1895 - Sally Rigsby

1890 - unknown

Found at www.angelfire.com/tv2/rigsby/photo.htm

Description: Col. Jabez Benjamin Hiram Rigsby and wife Martha Miller “Lloyd” Rigsby. Parents of Maudie Louise. They are buried at the Rigsby Cemetery.

These would be my maternal great-great grandparents.

William Washington Landers and Maudie Louise Rigsby-Landers, my maternal great-grandparents. The grandkids and great-grandkids called them Mawmaw and BooPoo. They both died before I was born.

From front left: William Washington Landers(called BooPoo by his great-grandchildren), William Theodore (Uncle Bill) Landers, Maudie Louise Rigsby-Landers (my maternal great-grandmother)

back from left. Lloyd Landers. (Uncle Lloyd KIA Land Mine - United States Marine Corps Korea) Mildred Ruth Landers-Burrow (my grandmother), Anna Muriel Landers-Optiz (Aunt Muriel), Robert Landers (Uncle Robert United States Marine Corps)

front from left: Anna Muriel Landers-Opitz (Aunt Muriel) (My sister thinks she wasn’t married to Uncle Lowell at the time this photo was taken), Mildred Ruth Landers-Burrow (my grandmother)

back from left:
Lloyd Landers (KIA Korea land mine. United States Marine Corps) also served in WWII. not sure where he was stationed in WWII his son Wayne lives in California.

Back row: William Theodore Landers (Uncle Bill) My sister says: he’s young here, but he was also in the Air Force.
Robert Landers (United States Marine Corps.) Served WWII, my sister thinks he was in Iwo Jima as well as Guadalcanal.

Front from left. Clara Qualls-Goss (Divorced), Wanda Qualls-Williams, and her grandson Joey (her daughter Kristie’s son)
Back from left. Olen Dean Qualls (my father), Dakota Allen Clark (my nephew), George Qualls (my uncle)

Scan taken from my sister’s scrapbook. Photo circa 1997.

After I’d thrown the cat off the table six times, I realized I would get more done if I just accepted my fate, ignored the cat, kept sewing, and used a lint roller to deal with the cat fur later.