tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85244179243844636472024-02-18T19:10:59.403-08:00Boston Bitsreporting from the Woodstock, Virginia, my new home.Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-82192646285073557502017-01-06T09:14:00.000-08:002017-03-03T19:59:19.984-08:00Howdy,<b></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strike> I am just making my 3 month check to see how you all are getting along. Splendid, I see.</strike></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strike> I am in the throes of trying to sell a house and getting 28 years of treasures sorted. I have done very well with the boxes of quilting fabric and books. My quilt guild members were pleases to receive my many books and boxes of fabric and sundry items. I still have enough if I ever get back into quilting again. I am hoping by the holiday Gabe and I will be hanging a wreath on the front door of my new home in Woodstock, VA. </strike></span><br />
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I have missed you all and your interesting and informative blogs. PamPamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-40851793570131830972013-10-22T18:49:00.004-07:002013-10-22T18:54:39.192-07:00<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My best friend and husband died last Friday. Our family were all altogether for a last goodbye. Bob was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> happy that our son and granddaughter could spend the week with us. He was able to tell her how much he loved her and so proud she has grown to such a delightful young lady. Bob and I have had a wonderful 60 years together with such great and wonderful adventures. </span><br />
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Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-51867928166023957262013-07-15T14:27:00.001-07:002019-05-31T17:34:23.736-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Pam from Boston, VAPamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-64959253400617630582013-07-04T19:13:00.000-07:002013-07-04T19:34:44.186-07:00Still moving along but a bit slower.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Reporting in...hope you all had a happy fourth and good stuff to eat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I have been really one busy gal this past month. Bob was in the hospital in May. He is still one sick guy. He goes tomorrow for an operation to remove a tumor from his bladder and then in two weeks a epidural for his back pain. This is a guy 82 years old who has seldom ever had any medical problems. I have been his care-taker so I have not had much time to call my own. Been trying to catch up on the doll quilt exchange and I no sooner start to sew when something comes up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Fortunately we can afford to have a house cleaning team come in every other week. Then we also have another guy who comes and mows and trims the grass when it needs it. I have tried to keep the vegetable garden up. Boy you sure can tell the head gardener has not been in attendance. I ordered a new garden tool today. I read about it in the N.Y.Times in a column about new gadgets for the handicapped. A long handled shuffle hoe. When I checked the garden this evening I thought, hmmm just what I need. Look out weeds, here I come. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com1United States38.637673639683307 -76.94195508956909213.115639139683307 -118.25054908956909 64.1597081396833 -35.633361089569092tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-29968405990910413192013-06-01T07:20:00.000-07:002013-06-01T07:20:07.408-07:00All this in May<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is my May doll quilt exchange for Roberta. I am sorry it will be late but we have had quite a bit going on here in Boston this past month.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">First Bob has been in the hospital with some kind of infection in his blood. He is home now but has a tube (pic line) with antibiotics. He also has an oxygen bottle that certainly makes it easier to breath. I was real nervous about tending to all that but now it old hat. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Then I had a cataract and new lens in my right eye. Vision really improved. Amazing the progress made in that field.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The biggest news ----applause and trumpets---we have been married 60 years today. Many happy memories and some exciting times.</span>Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-91168025028305908712013-05-13T11:43:00.000-07:002013-05-13T11:43:09.279-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">I want thank to all the gals for the wonderful comments. Enjoyed being part of this birdie blog.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Pam</span>Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-1584609186601524732013-05-13T06:56:00.001-07:002013-05-13T07:28:21.409-07:00It's all about the birds!<br />
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Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-45598133854686377202013-04-24T15:30:00.000-07:002013-04-24T15:38:01.762-07:00Blooming time in Virginia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have lived and visited many places in the world but have never been anyplace with the glorious blooms of beauty right here in my yard</span>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">up the back walk<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The head gardener has been busy these past few weeks planting the spring vegetables and just general clean up. Lisa and Howard and two boys from the village, sans pony cart, are coming this next Sunday to clean the ponds. What a grubby mess that is. I will be the food service .<br /> Now that we are both in our eighties we have slowed down considerably. Of course Bob has a lung condition called pulmonary fibrosis so he has to stop and rest quite often. He was diagnosed about eight or nine years ago and is really done remarkable well. At first it was really frightening. Nothing but doom and gloom. There is a new drug used in Europe for pulmonary fibrosis and we are hoping it will soon be available here in the U.S.<br />I am just finishing up my doll quilt for April. It has two bluebirds in a basket of flowers. Bluebirds are busy feeding babies in the houses. We have a pair of Carolina Wrens in a box on the front porch. They are not the least bit timid and carry in the biggest bugs to their babies. What a beautiful time of year spring is. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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Here is the delightful and clever quilt I received from my Doll Swap gal. Clementine thought it was just a wonderful place for a nap. She knows. Thank you Diane.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love birds so this project is right up my alley. At this time of year in Virginia the birds are really full of activity. We see quite a few returnees and some just stopping by on their way further north. The bluebirds boxes have been tidied up. Wren houses have been sprayed and dusted for mites. In one Bob found the leavings of a mouse family that didn't make it through the winter. We've noticed the goldfinches have started to color up. The bird feeder is full of blue jays but they will soon move deeper in the woods. Seems like they don't want to have us looking and laughing at them when their molting.</span></b><br />
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<br />Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-40028495359110135702013-03-13T07:06:00.001-07:002013-03-13T07:06:30.585-07:00Oops! Spelling error, what I meant to say was desert...no trees, no flowers and few birds.Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-44408204126779744492013-03-11T08:43:00.000-07:002013-03-13T07:04:22.368-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This quilt is one of my first done in 1979 in Taif, Saudi Arabia. Home on leave in Virginia I spotted this wall hanging at a quilt show and just fell in love with it. I guess living in the desert at the time had something to do with it. I figured if I could make the lady bugs and strawberries the rest of it would be easy-peasy. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, the first one in March. It came in like a lamb so what do you suppose the weather guys have in store for us at the end of this month.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Boo, my computer has been in the shop for three day so I missed the last few days of the bias ladies. I really enjoyed all the entries to the bias ladies. It is always a great treat to see how much imagination quilters have. I think that is the most anticipators I have seen on a blog swap. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">We have the most beautiful pair of red tailed hawks nesting </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">in our back woods. They don't seem to bother the birds but have nailed a couple of squirrels. Our squirrels are well feed, always up on the back porch getting into the peanut suet holder. We have two worthless Siamese cats who much rather catch bugs and worms than chase squirrels. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Ugh!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last night I threw out some leftover scraps of ham and it wasn't but a few minutes before a fox was out cleaning them up. I love it out here in the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Alas, soon we must think of moving on. Both Bob and I don't seem to handle this big house and the outside work as easy as when we were in our seventies. Having been in the military and then working outside the states we never stayed in a place much longer than 4 or 5 years. We have lived here 26 years. There are lots of memories packed away in this house. What does one do with it all. </span>Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-80405473378061392452013-02-21T14:46:00.000-08:002013-02-23T09:06:24.807-08:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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It's All About Me was lots of fun. Some were really cute and humorous and other just full of great imagination. Above is the finished product and at the left is the beginning. Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com78tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-11582879021316855482013-02-18T06:35:00.001-08:002013-02-21T13:18:22.784-08:00Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-44357799702099207592013-02-10T09:29:00.000-08:002013-02-10T09:35:21.475-08:00Boston Crier<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Went shopping with daughter Lisa yesterday. She is busy making curtains for their new home in Woodstock. We found some super bargains at curtain and drapery shop just outside Charlottesville.. I found a nice piece for a new bag pattern...hope it doesn't end up in the UFO box. Where does my time go? I know those afternoon naps take up some of it. </h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a wall hanging from a dear friend. It is hanging in my kitchen to remind me to always be kind and cheerful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sun is shinning here in Virginia today. I can't beleive how many daffodills are ready to bloom. You just can't hold back nature. </span><br />
<br />Pamela Kiefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627605593041223171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524417924384463647.post-4736696540795066502013-01-30T20:00:00.000-08:002013-02-02T08:45:01.071-08:00Out with the old and in with the new.<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> M<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">onday was a good day. I sold some old gold bangles and with the proceeds bought an embroidery machine. It is waiting on my cutting table for me to start playing with. I am not quite sure what to do but I am sure in time I will have it all figured out. </span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Saturday we at last had an opportunity to stop in the new fabric shop in our town. I was really impressed.It does not carry any quilting fabric but what gorgeous dress material they carry. We fell in love with one piece of green plaid cashmere...$100 a yard. Going to have to sell more gold if I want that. They had some viyalla that was just beautiful. I bought some yardage of that years ago in England. It is hanging with my never to cut fabric. I did splurge on a nice border print, African animals on the bottom that would make a nice bag of some sort or maybe a shirt, baggy pants?</b></span></span><br />
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I should be down in my sewing room getting a quilt finished I promised my daughter for her birthday. All it needs is to be assembled. The blocks are from a project from the Culpeper Quilt Guild about 8 years ago. She found them in a box and said that was just the right throw for the second twin bed. Then I must start on the doll quilt for January. I have a great piece of fabric but nothing comes to mind as to what to do with it. I am going to the pain doctor in Warrenton tomorrow and then I will stop at Kelly Ann's guilt shop and maybe get an idea there. </div>
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