Back to Palmetto bugs again...your story had me laughing so
hard I almost fell out of my chair. Thank God up North all
we have are regulation size cockroaches...  Carole

--- "Marjorie L. Moorefield" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Camilla,
> I'm taking classes in MS Front Page 2000 this Summer, and
> I shall set up
> a web page showing some of my quilts.
>
> I still have my old web page on a disk from when Jerry
> Finch
> had the PD Web Ring, and it shows one of my quilts. But
> its
> no longer on the Web.
>
> Unfortunately, most of my quilts are given away, the
> smaller
> wallquilts I keep, because they are the right size for
> display
> in my house.  I try to change the display each month and
> keep
> it in with the season.  I still haven't figured out what
> to make
> for Hurricane season however!!
> I also collect Bradford Plates, so wall space is scarce
> at my house.
>
> Last week, I decided I'd start paper piecing again, and
> since its been
> several years since I have done any, I went to the Web
> and downloaded
> the instructions and a pattern for an arrow.  It had a
> green background,
> and a yellow arrow.  Well, being a child of the
> depression, I'm not about
> to spent my time nor money and then throw it away, and
> who in the
> world wants a yellow arrow?  So by thinking about it a
> little, I changed
> the base of the arrow to brown, and did use green for the
> grass, Changed
> the top part of the arrow to a beige fabric with little
> slices of watermelon
> on it, and blue for the sky.  Well, it turned out so cute
> I decided to make
> 3 more, make them into coasters, and send them to one of
> my Sisters in Texas.
>   She has twin grandchildren, who spend 2 weeks of July
> with her. They have
> picnics, tea parties, etc. They will just love those
> watermelon tree coasters!!
>
> So I kept busy all evening, and when I sew, I wait till
> I'm finished to
> clean up, and as I told you, I got new glasses, 2 pairs,
> one set
> computer/sewing glasses,
> and new regular glasses, which have bifocals in them.
> Well, needless to
> say, I'm not used to either pair of these glasses yet,
> and when I looked
> out across the room I saw some brown, and thinking it was
> a Palmetto
> bug which had flown in, I slid over on my chair and
> stomped the daylights
> out of it!  When I moved my foot it started to , at least
> I thought, get up
> again, so I stomped it again, and again it got up.  Well,
> I wear an AFO
> Brace and I KNEW this couldn't be possible, so I slid
> over and changed
> glasses to my bifocals, and when I looked down, I had
> been stomping the
> daylights
> out of some of the brown fabric I had trimmed from this
> "watermelon
> tree coaster"!!!
>
> Now do you see why my signature says what it does?
>
> As Ever,
> just Marjorie 67/12


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