Happy New Year

There is more snow on the ground now than in the frosty picture above. We have "enjoyed" temperatures hovering around zero, and maybe getting into the 'teens in the daytime since just after Thanksgiving. There has been very little snow, but what there is has not melted. Also, as those who listen to the news or read newspapers, Cache Valley has had the worst air quality in the whole country. Thank goodness we live at the far northern end, so ours is not quite such pea soup as farther south. A little snow fell yesterday, giving us some relief. Jenny took the picture below when she was here for Christmas. This was taken at her aunt's and uncle's ranch at Eight Mile southeast of Soda Springs, ID.

Happy New Year for 2009 - My Sampler Quilt Blocks

Our Preston quilt guild, The Preston Piecers, is sewing a sampler quilt this year. This block seems appropriate to post today, just in case anyone celebrated too much last night - The pattern has two names: either The Drunkard's Path, or Old Maid's Puzzle, depending on your likes and dislikes. I will be posting the individual blocks over the next few weeks. I have never gone anywhere to celebrate New Year's Eve - just a victim (or not) of circumstances. Actually, we had one of our more enjoyable New Year's Eves last night, because Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion New Year's Show" was broadcast on Idaho Public Television. We both felt that it was one of the best ways to celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another. Lots of wit and good fun music.