A Simple Act of Kindness

      Yesterday I was at the library working on my blog (I don't have internet at home, it's so expensive), and this fella was leaving whom my son and I know.  People really don't know how to take him, around town, he's a different sort of person.  But we have always been friendly and welcoming to him, even when he has not always been so to us.  He seemed to be feeling lonely as he walked out of the library but he brightened up when he saw me.

     Tracy gave me this big smile and he stopped to chat, when he saw me and then went on his way.  He came back about 15 minutes later with this huge white bakery box of donuts.  He came right to me and asked if I'd like one.  There is no way that I'd turning down a donut.  I said thanks.  He went into the library and walked all around handing out donuts to the staff and patrons.  I could hear people saying "thank you" and calling him by name.  When he walked out of the library, I told him thank you again.  Many of the patrons followed him out, congregating out where I was and also thanked him again.

     You never know what a simple act of kindness, just speaking to someone, can do for a person.  I brightened his day and he in turn brightened the entire library.

     *there's a heart in the center of the donut; can you see it?!

Resolutions

Christmas market Luxembourg 2, a photo by Christian R. H on Flickr.

My New Year's Resolutions for 2014 are:

1. Smile More

2. Find the humor in every situation

3. Eat what I want, enjoy it, and not feel guilty 

4. Get back to my daily walks around the neighborhood

5. Smile and speak to everyone I walk past

It believe these are resolutions that will be easy to keep.

What are your New Year's Resolutions?

Snow Day

     Last Saturday, we had a little snow; like over a foot of the white stuff.   

      It was a dry snow and fairly easy to shovel, until the middle of the afternoon, when the sun started to melt the snow a bit and then it got a whole lot heavier.  It took forever to break through the end of the driveway to the street.  My car is so close to the ground I have to scoop the entire driveway.  I use to have a pickup truck and I’d just barrel through all the snow and up into the drive.  One thing I didn’t think about when I traded vehicles.  

     After six hours of shoveling snow, I finally had the drive cleared.  I really over did it.  I spent the rest of the day recovering, with aches and pains, and just plain exhaustion.  Thank goodness I didn't have to do the sidewalk and front slab.  My next door neighbor always goes out and clears the sidewalks and front slabs for the apartment complex.  He does that every time it snows.  The little lady on the end and I always appreciate this so very much. 

      Today, a week later, I walked outside to frost on the car windows and the birds singing in the trees.  Crazy birds!  I enjoyed the concert.  It actually made scraping the windshield enjoyable.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I participated with a group from work who decorated small pine trees to take to hospital patients over Christmas.  This was the tree I created.  I spent a Sunday afternoon hanging these red glass balls, creating popcorn strings (this took 3 bags of microwave popcorn, that's a lot for a small tree, of course that might be due to the fact that I had to sample every bag! LOL), and then I cross stitched the tree topper (a pattern I got off the Luli blog; Luli.). 

Among the glitz and glamour of all the other trees, my homespun Christmas tree was a big hit!

Merry Christmas! :)

National Novel Writing Month

There's still time to register for NaNoWriMo; a CLASS class at the Salina Public Library. 
Registration closes today!

Silver Needles Quilt Show

It's Saturday, October 19 and you guessed it,

it's time once again for the Silver Needles Quilt Guild Trio: 

quilt show, luncheon and auction.  

This years theme:

Kansas Through The Eyes of a Quilter.

Here are some photo's from the Trio:

Welcome!

I use to just be nuts over snowmen.  O-Kay, I still am, that's how this quilt got into the mix.

Detail from a red and white cat quilt.  (Of course, I'd go to the embroidery for details!)

Ladies checking out the quilts on display.

 

Love those brights!

Filing into the dining room to view the decorated tables.

This year we voted on our favorite tables.  This table won first place.

Yum! Dessert.

My favorite item from the auction.  Unfortunately, I was not the highest bid.  Too bad . . .

Every year the guild does a service project and donates quilts to worthwhile organizations around town.

There was so much to see, so many ladies to talk "quilts" with, food to eat, prizes to win, and so much more.

 This is just a slice of what took place on this day. 

Embroidery Class

My Beginning Cross Stitch was held on Saturday, October 5 and fun was had by all.  I had two students and the class ran long because we were all so engrossed in our stitching.  Both ladies said they hoped I hold another class so they could learn additional stitches.  Maybe I'll do that during the spring semester of CLASS.

Here is a photo of Pauline and Mary working on their stitching.