Welcome to my picture show:
a picture is worth a thousand words...instead of going for a drive this morn Shelby and I took a walk. As soon as I got my old work coat on she knew where we were headed and could not contain her excitement. She is in one of the pictures farther down. I urge you to click and enlarge each one. It really improves them!

More of the same weather, only it got colder as the day went. Everything is lightly covered by ice....or should I say was covered by ice. I guess it is still there, but now it has snow added to it. It started snowing after dark and we probably got an inch or two. I am debating on getting up and going for a drive tomorrow morn. I don't worry so much about my driving...I would take my husband's 4-wheel drive truck. But other people can really drive crazy.

The top picture is the tip of a branch of my crabapple tree and the bottom is the top of a 'post'--a post made from a railroad tie.

Anyway, my daughter got home this evening and asked me what had happened this morn out on the highway. Traffic was stopped and backed up when she headed to work. So I got the newspaper in and someone had ran into the back of a semi truck that was just taking off from a stoplight. The vehicle got stuck under the semi and the semi dragged it for about 400 feet. They had to about take the entire top off the vehicle to get the driver out.

They said road conditions did not seem to be a factor. Of course my thoughts are is someone had their ear glued to a cell phone--I have had a few too many close calls with people headed straight for me while talking on their cell phone. Anyway, it might not have been that at all--maybe someone had not had a good night's sleep and fell asleep. Who knows? Just glad it wasn't me.

And I must say that it is quite the opposite of what usually happens at these two stop lights. Usually it is the semis that run the redlights and hit someone...my husband had a friend that was hit when one ran one, I have a friend that was hit, but not hurt bad. My husband's friend was off work for a LONG time....and there have been several other accidents which involved semis running the light.

On to another topic for just a second...I did start FMQing the other baby quilt. I am still using my coats and clark thread and still having problems. I just don't want to go buy more thread. I really wish some of my Essentials quilting thread matched but it doesn't. I have had really good success with it without it costing me an arm and a leg.

I have used Aurifil and really like it, but not any better than the Essentials...and I have bought one spool of Sulky and just about swore off it because it was the worse I have ever had! And it was the thread...I switched machines, needles, etc, and nothing helped till I went to a different thread. Someone told me it was because it was variegated blue. Something about that particular color and the amount of dye used. So, I may give it another try someday. But probably not as long as I can get the color I want in another brand.

This picture describes the day--just wet and drab and dreary. It is supposed to turn to snow tonight...possible accumulation. But the weathermen have predicted accumulation so many times only to get just enough to cover the ground. Right now, I don't have a preference, yet I know if I wake tomorrow to 3 or 4 inches I will probably feel the thrill that school children feel at the possibility of school being canceled. And I will want to take a few new pictures.

And this is one of the things I did today...actually, they just came out of the oven a few minutes ago. I make my pie crusts from scratch, and don't know what I do different. But I always seem to tear them getting them on the pie. They are still light and flakey...still delicious. But I used to never have any problem whatsoever.... I am debating on having a piece. My husband will take at least one to work for him and his buddies. I actually owe one of his best friends a pie. He loves my apple pies...these are made from Granny Smith apples.

This friend is always one of the first to volunteer if my husband needs help carrying something down into our basement. He helped on my first big office desk/sewing table. And had volunteered for the last one, but other buddies close by came and helped.

Other than the pies, I did cook supper. And earlier in the day I got the other baby quilt pin basted, but have yet to do the first stitching on it. I will probably start on it tomorrow sometime. It is so nice to not have a deadline on it. But I do want to get it done till I can work on something else.