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<\/a><\/p>\nI gave the three younger grandsons patriotic quilts I had made. Our oldest son in his Thanksgiving hat. \u00a0He left it here Thanksgiving so we put it \u00a0in his Christmas bag. Always the comic.<\/p>\n I love giving presents. \u00a0We stopped wrapping them a couple of years ago or rather David stopped wrapping them because it took him days. Christmas bags are the way to go as our family continues to grow,<\/p>\n This past Sunday we got together with a few of the family at my favorite Pancake House to give gifts to the newlyweds. Now I go on making things. It was kind of nice going out into my shop and just making something not necessarily a gift, but just fun to. make. One project I am working on is a patchwork quilt. \u00a0I joined a group that receives six fat quarters of William Morris inspired fabric. I plan to make one small quilt each month using the same pattern, but different Morris fabrics and at the end of the year sewing all the small quilts into a larger one. Should be interesting. Is have no idea what fabric colors I will get each month, but the ones I have gotten so far were beautiful. \u00a0I will show you my progress as I go \u00a0along. Well, here we go again. \u00a0Another journey through a brand new year. \u00a0What will it hold? \u00a0Will there be another wedding, a new baby, hospital stays, travel? \u00a0That is the thing about a new year. It could hold just about anything. I know it needs our prayers. \u00a0We need to put it in God\u2019s hands. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13585,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions\/13585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nI had painted this picture of them and we took it to the restaurant where David asked the manager if we could place it somewhere where they would see it when they walked in. It was so funny. When our grandson saw it he said, \u201cIs that us?\u201d \u00a0He was so surprised. I really enjoyed painting it. It\u2019s a paint by number. I\u2019m not that talented! \u00a0You send a picture to this company and they make a paint by number picture of it and includes all the paints to paint it. I have done several. \u00a0My new favorite hobby.
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\nHere we all are at the restaurant. It was fun visiting and we went to our granddaughter\u2019s house afterward so the newlyweds could open the rest of their packages. I got to see my grand dog which is a Labrador.
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\nLook at that smiling face. \u00a0I love Labradors so much.<\/p>\n
\nFlowers in my greenhouse are doing well. \u00a0The geraniums especially seem to love being in there. They are all flowering profusely. \u00a0David divided a couple of mums I bought this Fall and they are growing new shoots and have flowers on them. If they do well, it will be the first time I have over wintered mums. The Poinsettia is just beautiful with several large blooms on it still.
\nOur daughter and her husband got us tickets to the Blue Man Group in February. \u00a0Never knew much about them so looked them up and it sounds like it will be a fun show.
\nI hope the new year is being kind to you and that you will get to do some things you love to do. \u00a0Happy and a blessed year to you all. \u00a0I will write more later. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"