...goal accomplished!

In our quilt guild we had a challenge this year to complete some of our old projects--UFOs they are called. I really can't tell you where it came from. Just one of those things........... We were to set our own goal......"how many UFOs do you think you can finish this year?" Now, to appreciate this, you need to know that I had never before completed my goal! In some years past we had a contest to see who could complete the most..........well, I didn't even try those years..........after all, I had a family to care for and a more important goal of putting a nutritious meal on the table every night! That I did most nights........still, not every single one, but I feel okay about that. I'll stop talking........short story here is I COMPLETED THIS ONE!!!! I committed to four UFOs............not many, but certainly more than I had ever done before!! AND I MADE IT!!!! Here are three of the quilts...........the fourth was one I quilted for my daughter-in-law next door.........she pieced the top for her new baby boy and it sat for months on my quilt rack waiting for me to quilt it. Now the baby is four months old (she finished her part at least a couple of months before his birth) ...........but now it is quilted!!! RAH!!! Here they are......!!!

This one, I had to make the top............I've had the rabbit done for more years than I care to admit. Now it's done so Dan can enjoy it and use it while he's still in school...........I was going to say "while he's still a Rabbit" but he will always be a "Rabbit"!!!!

This was a class I taught years ago............finally quilted!!

And a humanitarian quilt............the white was donated to the guild and we were to go home and use some scraps, etc., to make a quilt...........this is left-over pajama fabric...........finally!!! DONE!!!!

It was/is such a good feeling to actually complete this.........I was beginning to think I couldn't "finish" anything!! But I can!!! Thanks for celebrating with me...........

Thanksgiving

I thought I should tell you about our Thanksgiving..........it was perfect.........we had everyone here but John and Sarah........so I guess it wasn't quite perfect. Lisa and Kelly came Tuesday night and worked so hard on Wednesday, doing all those little things I just never get to. They vacuumed up dust older than they are!!!! Well.......almost.......... On Wednesday morning we had a big steam engine come through town on it's way to Ogden. I think I remember reading that it is the last 4-8-4 engine Union Pacific had built. It certainly was big. It was certainly noisy. And it was certainly a thrill to see it so close up and working! My only regret is that I didn't ask to ride it to Lynndyl.....Tooele would have been better!! These huge machines fill me with awe.........

We put some coins on the track, but you can see he outsmarted us by coming on the other track......... I think the nearer track is a siding.........

They were pumping grease in somewhere...........very noisy.......... But look at the size of those drive wheels!!

After all that excitement it was back the house and preparing for Thursday........ More people came that night. Kevin and Brian came with their families on Thursday. Brian always has to work some hours on holidays...........we ate about 3:00............

Michelle made these lovely decorations for our tables...........

It was just so wonderful to have them all here...........it was so "right". I loved it!!!! I'm so glad we have Thanksgiving Day!




P.S. This is my first post since changing my template..........I think this is such a pretty one.

Thanksgiving Proclamation

This was published in the Deseret News on Thanksgiving Day. I read it aloud at the table. I love our country! I love George Washington! And I hope to someday have the courage and the opportunity to thank him for all he has done for us. A man truly "raised up", guided and inspired (whether he knew it or not), and absolutely faithful to his foreordained calling! A truly indispensible man!!!! I'll stop. Here are his words:

Thanksgiving Proclamation

By Pres. George Washington—October 3, 1789

          Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and

          Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness”;

          Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26^th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the Beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have enabled to establish constitutions and government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

          And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto  all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

          Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, AD 1789, —George Washington