tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90807099258186172462024-03-06T20:34:56.082-07:00Nancy's Arts & CraftsNancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.comBlogger1106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-42762977918759307512019-11-15T03:42:00.000-07:002019-11-15T03:42:02.209-07:00Juliet Myers Heniford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-69047950963112672982019-01-31T08:58:00.001-07:002019-01-31T08:58:26.725-07:00Artist Trading Cards 2019<span style="font-size: large;">Putting together some of my 2.5" x 3.5" watercolor cards, they are shown here as a simpler way for judging entrance into <a href="http://www.illustratedatcs.com/">a terrific site</a> that is juried prior to entrance into their organization. Most of the images below which I have used for greeting cards are actually somewhat smaller than the official size. Having already applied for membership into the Illustrated Mail Art <a href="http://www.illustratedatcs.com/forum/faq.php">here</a>, now is waiting time to see if I have been accepted. All images are watercolor, but I plan on using acrylics for future trading cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I do want to branch out and use some three dimensional aspects on future cards, as well as mixed media. </span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-41048434105069982062018-05-11T10:19:00.001-06:002018-05-11T10:19:03.076-06:00Smug Mugs<span style="font-size: large;">Our coffee group made mugs. And we are proud of them. You might even consider us smug because those mugs are so clever. But, in confession, I admit it was a borrowed idea from <a href="http://www.popsugar.com/">Popsugar</a>. She thoroughly <a href="https://www.popsugar.com/smart-living/Sharpie-Mug-DIY-Project-24955886">explained the process</a> - and here is one of our cups signed with colored Sharpies.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Now that you have had a look at these personalized mugs, why not try it for older kids next month for one of their Vacation Bible School activities? Maybe use an apt Scripture instead of signatures, or even in addition to signatures on mugs (each kid brings one from the dollar store or the teacher could graciously round up those mugs).</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Have you jumped on the bandwagon led by Jordan Peterson and his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/0345816021/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1526054813&sr=8-2">12 Rules for Life?</a> <a href="http://highexistence.com/jordan-peterson-rules-living/">This web link</a> goes to more information than you can assimilate in a day, but dip your toe in and find a few profound life rules. Use one of those quotes on a mug, and I wager than any child who keeps his mug intact will, for many a day, ponder the saying that he or she has penned on that souvenir mug.</span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-82590924906036791252018-04-11T06:37:00.000-06:002018-04-11T06:41:28.039-06:00More Small Paintings<span style="font-size: large;">This week I tried various renditions of painting sunflowers. Below is a picture that took a bit more time since there were three times that the picture was set aside to dry between color applications. This is a 5" x 7" size, larger than those used for note cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunflowers are fun to paint. Their leaves are irregular in size and shape, allowing for yellows and oranges and golds to mingle. (Remember the back yard </span><a href="http://%3Cscript%20async%20defer%20src%3D%22//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E">fence painted in sunflowers</a><span style="font-size: large;"> from </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is another 5" x 7" watercolor on 140 lb. cold press paper. Again, this one took a bit more time to paint than the quick, smaller pieces.</span></div>
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Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-9984335072858549622018-04-01T03:52:00.002-06:002018-04-01T04:08:54.590-06:00He Is Risen<span style="font-size: large;">He is risen, indeed</span><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaUh6nA5Hggjv8VZVhEow_PvMngfVwReL0sWKX-UNhBYIzOVAAIcGmj4QkczDXEq7AepYfHhDvPOZgGNpgDUzTgr7_tEpi_WvHFMQQ0QtaAO0lg1Te8GJVe39UmuEDlZ9KzCGsvJqAhOg/s640/blogger-image--1687199828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaUh6nA5Hggjv8VZVhEow_PvMngfVwReL0sWKX-UNhBYIzOVAAIcGmj4QkczDXEq7AepYfHhDvPOZgGNpgDUzTgr7_tEpi_WvHFMQQ0QtaAO0lg1Te8GJVe39UmuEDlZ9KzCGsvJqAhOg/s640/blogger-image--1687199828.jpg"></a></div><br></font><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: 700; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Luke 24: 2-3 </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.</span></div><div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John 11:25-26. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal;">Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”</span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Acts 4:33 </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal;">With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all.</span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1 Peter 1:3. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal;">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 28px; margin-bottom: 28px; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntackXChRBMYwbCatJ5CoS9oBUpnV_yoZfKCsGM9qT118fhyphenhyphen9eypKCwL6KvHd9o59P_CcXKFzBO1Inx3WTBohH_x7VDp68WWFWTu8APKe-tHVvnC8458aMZcUOK2g01ISGr8wkYsKFq8u/s640/blogger-image--1822612561.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntackXChRBMYwbCatJ5CoS9oBUpnV_yoZfKCsGM9qT118fhyphenhyphen9eypKCwL6KvHd9o59P_CcXKFzBO1Inx3WTBohH_x7VDp68WWFWTu8APKe-tHVvnC8458aMZcUOK2g01ISGr8wkYsKFq8u/s640/blogger-image--1822612561.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="goog_506971468"></span><span id="goog_506971469"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back last spring, when insomnia and I began our current relationship, I chose to use the early morning hours to paint (instead of complaining there were too many unproductive hours in the day). Coffee tasted better at 2 or 3 am, when I had the run of the kitchen and sweets were the only foods that remained palatable because of </span><a href="http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2016/08/ever-visited-breast-cancer-dot-org.html" style="font-size: x-large;">Ibrance</a><span style="font-size: large;">. So, coffee, cookie(s) and a paintbrush were in hand while I half-way watched reruns of Midsomer Murders. A year ago, it was </span><a href="http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2017/05/painting-on-rocks-with-acrylics.html" style="font-size: x-large;">rocks that I painted.</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The insomnia continued, so I changed my painting target to that of <a href="http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2017/12/painted-wooden-discs-for-necklaces.html">wooden discs</a>. Discs were kind of intriguing, but I could give away only so many. And they were a real bust on Etsy, so I closed up my Etsy shop fairly soon after opening it. No wealth there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in May of 2017, I was still </span><a href="http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2017/05/more-rocks-more-dots.html" style="font-size: x-large;">painting rock</a><span style="font-size: large;">s, interspersed with paintings for my study and one acrylic canvas for a friend.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Next I went on to painting <a href="http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2018/01/christmas-2017-and-water-colored-cards.html">Christmas cards</a>. I really enjoyed making them, and watched YouTube videos for some differing ways to mount small pieces of watercolor onto the fronts of plain white purchased note cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome, 2018. Now comes this year's collection of greeting cards and little miniatures of fanciful flowers and people, and even a rabbit or two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rabbit and this vase of flowers are matted and framed and are wall hangings:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Below are some miniatures that were used for card fronts. </span><br />
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<br />Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-26745475100072695382018-01-03T08:35:00.001-07:002018-01-04T00:07:49.791-07:00Christmas 2017 and Watercolor Cards<span style="font-size: large;">Christmas 2017 was the only holiday season in twenty years when I sent out cards. And the cards I sent, over thirty, were all personally drawn and painted with watercolors.</span><br />
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Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-81280378113304688312017-12-16T05:47:00.000-07:002018-01-03T21:09:22.199-07:00Painted Wooden Discs for Necklaces<span style="font-size: large;">Going from Painted Rocks to Painted Necklaces, during November and December, I painted over 50 wooden discs for necklaces. These necklaces were fun to paint, and I kept making more. Then I realized I had to do something with them, so I opened a store on Etsy, listing 20 necklaces, mostly in different motifs. Not one request came from a prospective Etsy buyer. Not one sold. Consequently, friends and acquaintances and perhaps a few people not too enamored with me were recipients of a necklace or two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two inch wooden discs were either stained a honey gold or painted a dark blue or black background color. Then acrylics were applied to the backof the disc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of my favorite discs were of When Pigs Fly, but I failed to get a picture of them before they were out the door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All the materials for making these necklaces are stored in a box out in the garage. I feel compelled to use up the discs, satin and leather cords, paints, and jewelry making objects. Want one?</span></div>
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Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-32902154467043046982017-05-27T09:06:00.002-06:002017-05-27T21:14:26.362-06:00More Rocks, More Dots<span style="font-size: large;">Fresh after midnight doodling, here are more rocks finished over the past few days...</span><br />
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<br />Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-8809786249169647682017-05-24T08:45:00.002-06:002017-05-24T08:45:39.068-06:00Painting on Rocks with Acrylics<span style="font-size: large;">Because I cannot sleep well at night due to taking steroids for metastatic breast cancer, I have been painting rocks during the dark hours. This activity can be accomplished while reclining, so between knitting, reading and painting rocks, I keep occupied during the dark hours. It keeps me occupied and the attention to detail seems to help my mind slow down a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few rocks I photographed today that I have painted over the past weeks for the Latimer House Fundraiser (termed </span><a href="http://www.extraordinarywomenmugs.org/"><span style="font-size: large;">Extraordiinary Women</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">,) with proceeds going toward domestic violence services provided by Hilltop Community Resources in Mesa County, Colorado. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are small rocks, painted with acrylics and art pens similar to Sharpies, and averaging about four square inches. There are two dozen more I might touch up and spray with clear polyurethane before handing them over for sale.</span> Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-65643632599584079182017-03-03T10:20:00.003-07:002017-03-03T10:32:30.753-07:00Latimer House Fundraiser: Extraordinary Women<span style="font-size: large;">Latimer House, a safe haven for women and children seeking assistance from domestic abuse, is having a 2017 fundraiser to keep the House open and functioning. <a href="https://extraordinarywomenmugs.org/">Go to this link to learn more</a> about this opportunity.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">This year, a silent on-line auction will be available for bids. I came up with a 16" x 20" collage of women's faces in acrylics. Maybe you see yourself or someone you know in one of these faces:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's believe some one will offer money to help out Latimer House through the purchase of this painting! I envision some woman will purchase this and hang it in her office, being inspired to excellence by an extraordinary woman! Mike Green is heading up this project (970)-244-0240.</span><br />
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Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-49376727506113648432017-01-16T07:35:00.000-07:002017-01-23T19:30:37.950-07:00Belated January Christmas Letter <span style="font-size: large;">It has been many years since one of those self aggrandizing family update Christmas letters has come to our mailbox. You know the type letter I am referring to: how the friend has received yet another Important Promotion, with each child in the family excelling in his own way via achieving Most Grand PooPah of academic excellence or athletic acumen. People must have caught on that type letter is in bad form as none has graced our mailbox in a long while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Narrowing down a Christmas letter to include only the month of December, I will give an update. Let's see if I can win the prize for celebrating the month with sickness, then an upturn. I will merely report the facts, you can determine if we win the Most Miserable December award. To add drama to the following diatribe, Christmas Day was spent in bed with fever and chills with several forays to the bathroom requiring a fortitude of strength expended in merely crawling to the other room. You get the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three times in the course of three weeks in December and sloughing over into January, I was taken either by husband or friend to the hospital Emergency Room or Infusion Center with severe flu like conditions, more baffling symptoms than straightforward flu, </span><span style="font-size: large;">however. At each ER visit, two weeks apart, a gambit of tests were </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">performed on my heart, kidneys, lungs, etc. Upon discharge, no diagnosis of flu could be typed into the diagnosis tine on hospital forms. "Virus" and "Mutated Virus" were guesses as to why I was ill. Several Bad Bugs have been noted as living on the western slope of Colorado, and my immune system was at an all time low from the </span>Ibrance<span style="font-size: large;">/</span>Letrozole<span style="font-size: large;"> combo of cancer fighting drugs already </span><span style="font-size: large;">on board</span><span style="font-size: large;"> my system. My body was a petri </span><span style="font-size: large;">dish of germs and that perfect storm created a hellish holiday for us, while viruses and bacteria had a hay day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But after last month, I come to you "healed" and much thinner, still eschewing any meat protein because it tastes and smells so awful. Thanks to friend Beth who has made various grocery runs and provided soups, I can enjoy Ensure and be grateful for it. Other friends have also called to assist, and I do appreciate it. The palliative cancer treatments were put on hold until February, giving time for the body to heal before assault with more CA fighters brought on board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now is the time in the Christmas letter update to tell you about Gene. Instead of talking about myself first, I should have led off with him, but I had to give you the background of the Bug/Bugs in order for Gene's own round of issues to be addressed. Gene came down with this virus about two weeks ago. When he was feeling a little better, last week he was trying to provide a pasta dinner for us and was leaning over a pot of hot water on the stove waiting for a rolling boil before throwing in the spaghetti. I was in the recliner and heard a cracking noise, thinking he had dropped something, but no expected expletives after the strange sound. Not even turning around I called out "Gene, are you OK?" In a weakened voice calling from the floor he replied "no." And I found him crumpled on the floor where he had fainted. He hurt his back. And it is still giving him fits (he also has ankylosing spondylitis which exacerbates the problem). But between his coughing and his aching back, he, too, is on the mend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now for Julie: she caught an upper respiratory infection last week, and the manor staff has been on top of it all along. Breathing </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jolly times. But we are all getting better and I am back to getting outside and driving again, so the month of December was just a hiccup in the year of 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drinking a glass of healthful orange juice to you! And I am keeping Thieves in the water of my Young Liing diffuser! Sheldon knows how to keep well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How goes the start of YOUR new year?</span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-69910170776150720592016-12-23T07:02:00.001-07:002016-12-23T07:02:30.967-07:00It is Almost Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christmas will be here in two days, so now is the time to record photographs and what has been happening in our neck of the woods this month. We have not put up a decorative tree in years, but I do make displays of angels and votive candles and Madonna and Child icons to commemorate the season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Tuesday, friends came over for coffee. I was so bold as to ask that each bring a refreshment, otherwise I just did not believe I could host a small coffee. Why, getting up from bed or resting would have required an hour of standing! I am only half kidding here, because I do spend most days fatigued and prone on the bed. Thank you, everyone, for bringing tasty treats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Janice, the boys' mom. We lost her mom, Maureen, to metastatic breast cancer (mbc) almost three years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ornaments above are like ones that Julie chose to give to the workers at the manor. Every one of the workers at Mesa Manor received this small gift, along with a candy cane. After going back four times to Michael's to supply the goodie sacks, ensuring no one was overlooked, we made a total of 52 sacks. Julie and the last few bags are posing below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This picture was taken prior to our holiday lunch last week and pasted on FaceBook by Verda, so I am reposting it here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Healthwise, it has been a rough couple of weeks since pneumonia germs seemed to have found a nice spot to multiply in my lungs. Talk about a fatigue maker, pneumonia and its fighter, capsules of Leviquin, combined to create an atmosphere for feeling awful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A PET scan and an MRI are scheduled next week to determine if the Ibrance is working to keep tumors at bay. The oncologist decided to change medicines and will make further decisions after he reads results of the scans. "Scanxiety" is the term for wanting to know, yet not wanting to know results from tests scanning for cancer growth. Actually, I do not have scanxiety. as I will never be abandoned or lost (Hebrews 13:5).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Accomplished, elegant, savvy friend Beth invited me to attend one of the seasonal teas yesterday. (Note I did not characterize Beth as "sweet," although she is a very sweet woman.) We both recognized other friends there (hi, Shirley!). There was not one space available for the 11 AM seating. Needless to say, it is a popular Christmas venue!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were served tea and four courses of sweets and savories, oh my! What a lovely time! From Wine Country Inn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">... If Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford, had not been a little peckish one afternoon in the 1840's we probably wouldn't celebrate a proper British Afternoon Tea.....Soon the common folk emulated the Upper Crust, and a new custom of having afternoon tea was common place. It was an occasion to entertain friends and relatives for simple conversation, and maybe a little gossip.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The First Course: scones, crumpets or nut/fruit breads, served with Devonshire cream, jam and Lemon Curd. Second Course: cress or cucumber finger sandwiches, chicken salad pastries and other imaginative small treats, and delicious nuts with herbs and sugar glazes. Third Course: bite sized cookies, small cakes, and Chocolate Dipped Strawberries.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a sweet treat. Thank you, Beth, for a lovely time out.</span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-29994969102291304012016-11-29T07:36:00.001-07:002016-12-12T06:45:14.049-07:00Roses with Other Names<span style="font-size: large;">In this case, I knit three roses using different yarns and dissimilar centers. But they all looked pretty much like red roses, even if their names were changed to fit their purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the last of the four roses knit, Miss Priss. It was knitted with 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon. It used about 15 yards of polyester grosgrain. Disadvantages of grosgrain ribbon was that it was too stiff to easily handle, causing problems in pulling through loops and resulting in cramping hands, and the back was not flat. Advice: use a lighter weight ribbon, and flatten down ribbon before sewing it to make a backing. It has a good heft to it. A found silk covered button was sewn into its middle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This rose I wore yesterday on a black mock turtleneck pullover, giving a bit of color to the outfit. The name <i>Miss Priss</i> seems to fit this rose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is another rose, we'll call her "Libby's Sunday Rose" for use on a hat brim. Libby was the reluctant model. It was knit from two strands of fingering weight wool yarn, without a middle button. It gives a bit of </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="pattext"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "lucida sans unicode" , "lucida grande" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;">"Je suis belle et ça ne demande aucun." Translated it means "I'm beautiful and it requires no effort." </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And it requi</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="pattext"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">red no effort on the part of Libby other than to hold still.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there is another red rose, "Two Tones Floozy" that is my favorite. It was knit from worsted wool, with the inner petal knit in a darker, warmer reddish blue yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marianne made some delicious artisan bread last week and forwarded the recipe that you can pick up <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/sullivan-street-bakery-no-knead-bread-316202">here</a>. Another loaf of bread that I made over the weekend was also pretty darn delicious, but it called for half a cup of olive oil, so it was more calorific. That recipe can be found <a href="http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/breads/olive-oil-italian-herb-dutch-oven-bread/">here</a>. Both recipes are delicious and easy to make.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nephew Jeremy and his family are driving up from Georgetown, Texas this week. I will try to get some old fashioned <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/vanishing-oatmeal-raisin-cookies-3180">Quaker Oats Vanishing Cookies</a> made for snacking, along with a few loaves of the no-knead breads. We will be having our Thursday noon meal at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic parish along with a few others sharing in a Thanksgiving potluck. Jeremy and Martha and Evan and Edie will be staying at a bed and breakfast in Montrose this week, but we plan on getting lots of visiting in while they are here in Colorado.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember the St. Brigid cross that my friend Sharon was on the lookout for while she was in<a href="http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2016/08/st-brigid-cathedral-and-cross.html"> Ireland over the summer</a>? I put all the crosses, including St. Brigid's, on a wall mount for display. The red makes me happy! The cross on the right is made from olive wood and was crafted in Bethlehem. The cross on the bottom left is from the youth group fund raiser as they are collecting money to go to an alternative Spring Break in El Salvador</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span>
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Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-36880980668650737532016-11-07T05:59:00.001-07:002016-11-12T01:41:01.680-07:00Our Animal Friends' Visits<span style="font-size: large;">It was a dog weekend to roll over for. Friend Kathy in MN and her daughter adopted Olivia last night. Olivia is a loving catahoula mix, who came all the way from her foster family in North Carolina to live in her new forever home in St Paul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Saturday, two friends came over at separate times with their animals. Maggie is a Moxie Doxie, very smart and street savvy in a grand dame manner of sophistication and good breeding. She and her owner of 14 years have a wonderful, symbiotic relationship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then Cookie visited our sister dogs with Abbye, a Shit Tzu. Here are some of her glamour shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here is a photo of some of Sister Maggie and Sister Libby together, prior to Maggie marking her spot just below Libby. Libby was NOT the alpha dog that day! In "air quotes" imagine that Maggie is telling Libby that she is the one who is in charge, in no uncertain terms. (Beth was mortified.) It was actually quite funny. Sister Maggie gave no apologies for her "appropriate" doggish behavior.</span><br />
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Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-31242147281408176762016-11-04T04:50:00.000-06:002016-11-12T01:43:32.405-07:00A Skylight, A Recipe for Rice Pudding, Carol's Thoughts on Knitting<span style="font-size: large;">Husband disapproves of blog posts that have more than one topical area as he thinks writing should be "on topic." When he reads this post, it will be understood that he again thinks I've gone a ramblin'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Getting on with it, here is a picture snapped yesterday of one of the Tile Meister maestros performing his job of setting in a skylight in our relatively dark kitchen area; he had to go up twelve feet from the top of the ceiling through an attic area and onto the roof to get the job done. Yay for him and great that we now have God's own natural light coming into our work area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today's work in this new sunlight should be completed by 10 AM at the latest, to include <a href="http://www.womansday.com/food-recipes/food-drinks/recipes/a10769/orange-rice-pudding-122258/">this recipe</a> (rice pudding with oranges) and <a href="http://kitchenmeetsgirl.com/grandmas-pumpkin-snack-cake/">this recipe</a> (pumpkin snack cake). I must return containers once filled with tasty, very much appreciated foods supplied by friends (apple and pumpkin pie and homemade chicken soup), so why not go ahead and make some foods that my tummy can handle as well? <b>Brilliant</b>. (oh, and no sleep last night because of steroids and I forgot about that insomnia issue until it was too late to take a sleeping pill). <b>Not Brilliant</b>. Latest bone scan this week showed progression of lesions on ribs and spine, uptake of dye inside the skull.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carol, please know I have looked through the book many times, and like I told you, the striped socks on size 5 needles are in the queue!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my newest screen saver, and I wish I had the nerve to pull it out when someone starts whining about ANYTHING. Maybe I just will do that. A few manor staff and residents will like this, Julie and Louise and April and Cindy for sure. I'll record their reactions when I go in this morning. I have missed being at the manor more than a few days this week due to health issues due to radiation of the pelvis. Enough said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chin up, dahlings! </span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-16798591694943506622016-10-24T07:06:00.001-06:002016-10-24T14:41:59.563-06:00Mary Prayer Garden Establishment<span style="font-size: large;">Two enterprising Mesa State University coeds worked over the weekend in our new back patio area to help create a meditation garden. "Before" pictures three days ago would have shown aspen tree branches hanging down to the ground, completing obliterating the view of a raised tree bed area. If only pictures had recorded progress from Friday through Sunday... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Megan's dad, a horticulturist, Face Timed with her and helped us decide which aspen branches to remove (all below fence line). Then Allie and Megan put their shoulders and backs to the test and trimmed branches, hauled gravel away from the bed, raked in a dozen bags of topsoil and compost, and planted a stature of the Virgin Mary in an elevated pot, placing St. Frances in another small stand of trees in the corner. Water added, task completed!</span><br />
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(birds and bunnies placed beside St. Frances)</div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The young women are helping to finance their Alternative Spring Break to El Salvador in 2017, sponsored by The Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Parish. What a win-win proposition for us! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Allie and Megan did excellent work and created a peaceful, spiritual, meditative space. We are all anxious to see how this space looks after the ajuga gets rooted in for the winter, with future herbs to be planted around the border of the bedded area. Thank you, girls!</span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-15133666121503912562016-10-13T07:11:00.002-06:002016-10-13T07:14:00.260-06:00A Kinsey Visit; Furniture Replacements<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gene's brother, Pat, and Pat's daughter, Jackie, came from Missouri for a weekend visit. The two of them, Gene and Pat, used to really look alike in their younger years but not so much now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(2016: Pat, Jackie, Nancy, Gene)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last week, friend Beth and I went to several re-store places in the Aspen area. She convinced me that I could find beautiful old, used, and even restored or replaced items for a song. Was she ever right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A new (old) mirror that we both really liked. The margins of the mirror are painted in what appears to be Swedish, or rosemaling flowers. The outside dimensions of the mirror are 32"x 39" and it will be hung atop a new (old) sideboard previously belonging to its former Aspen area owners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday, I bought a few factory produced furniture items for our newly established homestead that are to be delivered today: two end tables for the bedroom and a desk and filing cabinet for Gene along with these two pieces for the living and dining room area:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just to keep a sort of medical diary, here are excerpts of emails sent to a new virtual friend in New York who also has cancer, and we have become a sort of support system for one another (as least she has become one for me)...</span></div>
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1. Yes, hips are hurting but in three weeks since MO suggested radiation, things have changed. Three weeks passed and that was a necessary delay because I had another PET scan, then another MRI to further delineate where the Rays should be targeted. But now, ribs are hurting as much as hips. Question is " how do you decide where to put radiation and why, if there are more than one or two spots giving trouble?"</blockquote>
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2. PET scan did not prove anything was worse, and that the Ibrance medication was helping the rib tumors to remain stable, perhaps decreasing in size, but also showed a new lesion further down, where it now hurts, 9th rib. Question: "radiate here now? Benefit? Radiate both hip and rib, BOTH places ( on left side where original cancer was found) ? Again, three weeks since MO said radiation would help hip pain. Things change.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, yesterday afternoon, this email was sent to my friend</span>:<br />
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After brief discussion with the RO, it seemed that the prudent thing to do is to have rads to both lower rib and the hip and the base of spine. I got mapped out with markers and clear sticky tabs that are supposed to stay on for the two weeks. Ten days of twenty minute sessions. Side effects are fatigue and diarrhea, oh my.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Long story short, I am mapped out for radiation and will start a ten day regimen beginning October 17 targeting left lower ribs, pelvic area and spine. Side effects will not be much of a treat come Halloween, given the optimistic fact that I can answer the door for trick or treaters without interruption from bathroom breaks.</span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-42592427499206878202016-10-01T06:58:00.004-06:002016-10-01T06:58:46.473-06:00Moving Accomplished<span style="font-size: large;">Two dogs are looking up at my mug of canned chili with extra added tinned tomatoes, microwaved to perfection, their salivary glands on overtime, trying to convince that they really do need just a morsel of meat from the mug. "Just a minute" means nothing to either of them. There. They each had a bite and now are off to their other person for an additional sniff in a different room where more unpacked boxes abound. All of us were up at 4 AM, and morning nap time now looms. As do the unopened boxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The move of households has been accomplished. Yesterday was the final hurrah as the last of the plants were loaded up, the patio hosed off, and garage hoovered out. A few cob webs are likely still lurking in the corners where the cars spent their evenings over the past nineteen and a half years, but the new owner will be too busy moving himself in to notice such a minor detail. I hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">September was hard on the husband: I vacationed and dined on luxury cruise cuisine while he ate from cans and used up frozen foods. He made note of that fact more than a few times as he made up lists of tasks that had to get done involved around changing addresses. He packed up and labeled boxes with tons of accumulated house hold items. And he discarded many items, he tells me. Changes are hard for him, and this move about used him up. He is resting now and well deserves a month or so off from Honey Do's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Julie fared well over the past month. Last week, Activity Director Linda at the manor took her (and Louise) up in the van and over the mountain to see the changing of colors in tree leaves, especially the aspen, in the high country east of Grand Junction. She had no health crisis this autumn! Playing Phase 10 continues to be her activity of choice, as well as dinking around with Word Chums, and throwing in Bingo on the weekends. Gene finished reading to her the 11th book in the <a href="http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2016/02/ollie-again-and-scrabble-update.html.">liturgical mystery series</a> book</span><span style="font-size: large;"> on those September afternoons while I was vacationing. Eye surgery for Julie is scheduled with the ophthalmologist for October 12 to pull in eye muscles, helping to correct the crossing of both eyes (<a href="https://www.aapos.org/terms/conditions/102">strabismus</a>). She is actually looking forward to that surgery as she knows it will improve her appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My health is holding, and the PET scan from last week proved Ibrance is doing its job since the metastasis in ribs has not increased. On the breast cancer web forum, reports are coming in that Ibrance has helped other women keep mets at bay for up to 18 months, on average. However, MRI's are scheduled next week for suspected growth in cancer activity in the femur. We will deal with that when the time comes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, have a lovely first week of October. What do you have planned for this new month?</span><br />
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CanadaAn old town settled by trappers and fishermen with the assistance of Jesuit priests in 1640 or thereabouts, Saguenay was a welcoming community of about 140,000 souls. They decked out n period costumes to provide a welcome to Azamara visitors (tourists equals money to the town).<div><br></div><div>We were greeted with fresh blueberry pie, a sawing demonstration, maple syrup and smiles abound.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBF-j4S_LsP4_AwLkVhXO383WMgbHcCkxP5S_FTm_sFs_Wsk7h7aidm2J7vHZqB7smRhAH5VsZfcVPZfkPE80cFKnG-1C67ranP_xQIvGjnGXWhpRqlkUfxb0dCVET_m5f3H2rUcGxZKiL/s640/blogger-image--1577640117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBF-j4S_LsP4_AwLkVhXO383WMgbHcCkxP5S_FTm_sFs_Wsk7h7aidm2J7vHZqB7smRhAH5VsZfcVPZfkPE80cFKnG-1C67ranP_xQIvGjnGXWhpRqlkUfxb0dCVET_m5f3H2rUcGxZKiL/s640/blogger-image--1577640117.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsssiEFNTmgyzO2A5cN7JnKc96VNNk52fLrg3ucP-7nhyphenhyphenHeG1qno662zGIhk1qZ93X3nQV-7lW9de3WcwNEctFgolk4TD0I6oSrk6fMCznaQjm7hwSmk8DjF8kmyn7ltfcEi2eW4jmg5Od/s640/blogger-image-1184366617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsssiEFNTmgyzO2A5cN7JnKc96VNNk52fLrg3ucP-7nhyphenhyphenHeG1qno662zGIhk1qZ93X3nQV-7lW9de3WcwNEctFgolk4TD0I6oSrk6fMCznaQjm7hwSmk8DjF8kmyn7ltfcEi2eW4jmg5Od/s640/blogger-image-1184366617.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4uMgz3p-2FkrGqVFDLxqd_Pw_-lkoAVywmKciESbs1kpTOLwwQd39cRNXJzJKqrmAZr7KJ9DEV06vzzhYgA-yjjmp18VXrlcABx-Su1t8CFgPRWyxpeAd30D0C0AbVBMRhBBrsYT8Ejm/s640/blogger-image-869302788.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4uMgz3p-2FkrGqVFDLxqd_Pw_-lkoAVywmKciESbs1kpTOLwwQd39cRNXJzJKqrmAZr7KJ9DEV06vzzhYgA-yjjmp18VXrlcABx-Su1t8CFgPRWyxpeAd30D0C0AbVBMRhBBrsYT8Ejm/s640/blogger-image-869302788.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFoHzT50EaMkTVJgV6mpT_8s7utvDXDyUuucKXPPmtG72wLW8Xyxt2L5L6f7oB2-q2mfcCzRF5TndfCqdWmzZqPiQ84Zd9TVt1DYEtxjTJB5pIn3til-EeR3FdlevpHgi4z8iaN9CTba4/s640/blogger-image-1052821213.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFoHzT50EaMkTVJgV6mpT_8s7utvDXDyUuucKXPPmtG72wLW8Xyxt2L5L6f7oB2-q2mfcCzRF5TndfCqdWmzZqPiQ84Zd9TVt1DYEtxjTJB5pIn3til-EeR3FdlevpHgi4z8iaN9CTba4/s640/blogger-image-1052821213.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzudPALh7KaTPizRp89wbGxvzuxdb2yzgrhOU_jjSHpi2p39COY29nAO2u-zDv6jnXiDtjohdQ9xJ7-0vpLfuA8WpFFNvBXoLlYGG9B6X5TNYKM19f_vythJ-Y4QYRPoqdNNqzzAHUgG8/s640/blogger-image-138852212.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzudPALh7KaTPizRp89wbGxvzuxdb2yzgrhOU_jjSHpi2p39COY29nAO2u-zDv6jnXiDtjohdQ9xJ7-0vpLfuA8WpFFNvBXoLlYGG9B6X5TNYKM19f_vythJ-Y4QYRPoqdNNqzzAHUgG8/s640/blogger-image-138852212.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div>And I scored goat wool, spun and wound. Beautiful!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj94X8O5ezJaS54Ig2bt_xm_7IQUC8NF_orL6BZNzMxT8RmwM9iqMYcZXwaH0DAvmjhn69E-jK_9ashOmnpgTdZuG8TTsj1CO7cWXvGVsGGTulN8tEIQq_pCOLnznAVPYRUHx9EOsh4wmEA/s640/blogger-image--1047425786.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj94X8O5ezJaS54Ig2bt_xm_7IQUC8NF_orL6BZNzMxT8RmwM9iqMYcZXwaH0DAvmjhn69E-jK_9ashOmnpgTdZuG8TTsj1CO7cWXvGVsGGTulN8tEIQq_pCOLnznAVPYRUHx9EOsh4wmEA/s640/blogger-image--1047425786.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-70769441561259468262016-09-18T12:49:00.001-06:002016-09-21T13:01:07.050-06:00St. John's, Newfoundlandt<span style="font-size: large;">Azamara</span> <span style="font-size: large;">travelers were greeted by a Newfie who was loving the slobbering attention he received upon arrival in St. John's as we all hounded him with our affection.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZnpMZMl_pQ0NuzRF1ILBGW0NXqbf48ZfAWEM_NiO-7oxXBkm0uBrcghcHGpOBtKxtWodoM8zdqD4JTQnF5qWNH7VcFPZ8cCWd7AktDyTmCax0Cu4pvomZXtCKiLmYj27x7JQJCRrj36-/s640/blogger-image-100396394.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZnpMZMl_pQ0NuzRF1ILBGW0NXqbf48ZfAWEM_NiO-7oxXBkm0uBrcghcHGpOBtKxtWodoM8zdqD4JTQnF5qWNH7VcFPZ8cCWd7AktDyTmCax0Cu4pvomZXtCKiLmYj27x7JQJCRrj36-/s640/blogger-image-100396394.jpg"></a></div></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080709925818617246.post-81291480261132472162016-09-10T07:21:00.001-06:002016-09-10T07:24:47.400-06:00Hello from Honfleur and Rouen, France<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Rouen is the town where Catherdral of Notte Dame looms over its city square. It is also the place where Joan 'd Arc was burned at the stake so if you look below you will see a picture of a plaque stating the fact. If it were not pointed out to you by a tour guide, you would surely miss it.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-K7ApLBNonIsB9ok5BQOfxVQKvT7e30z0JfKyNod4v7d3oND5C_y1z0oAZ82UKrBtF37GdMOjfD2hV9Uj2TlySV02JiA6i55qGUf0SP9N5mA6HtpQG03kWP95ZqO3KHktgmdB7NAVwsc/s640/blogger-image-1588357040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-K7ApLBNonIsB9ok5BQOfxVQKvT7e30z0JfKyNod4v7d3oND5C_y1z0oAZ82UKrBtF37GdMOjfD2hV9Uj2TlySV02JiA6i55qGUf0SP9N5mA6HtpQG03kWP95ZqO3KHktgmdB7NAVwsc/s640/blogger-image-1588357040.jpg"></a></div>And this is moi' grinning at you from the front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Rouen.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivoOJU-mUX3fIOlbLvUU_vYHUyRFf8AkI398Fsq011XNYZIatm1RePkfmqaCNn9ML8EC0e5He2ozU7o4A5iUhZJm332uW0cMGev9DHV3Y8eSScQb1ByScslTHHQGTC_M3yNrHhDgY_lOZ8/s640/blogger-image-1645179004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivoOJU-mUX3fIOlbLvUU_vYHUyRFf8AkI398Fsq011XNYZIatm1RePkfmqaCNn9ML8EC0e5He2ozU7o4A5iUhZJm332uW0cMGev9DHV3Y8eSScQb1ByScslTHHQGTC_M3yNrHhDgY_lOZ8/s640/blogger-image-1645179004.jpg"></a>A picture worth a thousand words is of a carousel that gave kids rides for a few Euro.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBShx0NglxkRHf4MwIwgTomDoI-WArHc6WKYhGePXqJq3FxYLDyiP8rnocaArm2uk3wN-1uXiuXXtbIZ985wuHtQnS3ZKMr4xtW2vlP1fIfueUx0Gzo5nC36AND9_jKyJ6tAUdy5LW3qpk/s640/blogger-image--902339726.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBShx0NglxkRHf4MwIwgTomDoI-WArHc6WKYhGePXqJq3FxYLDyiP8rnocaArm2uk3wN-1uXiuXXtbIZ985wuHtQnS3ZKMr4xtW2vlP1fIfueUx0Gzo5nC36AND9_jKyJ6tAUdy5LW3qpk/s640/blogger-image--902339726.jpg"></a></div>More of France tomorrow or whenever I get internet access.</div>Nancy McCarrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12867768046703596688noreply@blogger.com11