{"id":7887,"date":"2018-03-19T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2018-03-19T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:08:17","slug":"authors-in-the-family-and-letter-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=7887","title":{"rendered":"Authors in the Family and Letter writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always have loved to write.\u00a0 If I were disciplined enough and didn’t have so many hobbies like quilting, knitting, gardening\u00a0and reading, I might have had time to write a book.\u00a0 I have written short stories for my grandchildren in which they are the main characters, but that is as far as I have gotten to being an author.\u00a0 Writing here on my blog seems to satisfy my need to write.<\/p>\n

Our oldest granddaughter actually wrote a book when she was fourteen and had it published.\u00a0 One of our grandsons likes to write and wrote a story about me trying to get to my birthday party.<\/p>\n

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I guess that’s me in the picture!<\/p>\n

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Wish you could read it. According to the story, I took a subway from Chicago to\u00a0Lafayette, Indiana. There was a ship wreck and cyclone I had to deal with also. \u00a0Quite a feat if I do say so myself.\u00a0 But I did get to my birthday party!<\/p>\n

His brother made a really nice birthday card for me also.<\/p>\n

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Better than any store bought card any day in my estimation.<\/p>\n

I got a letter the other day from the same grandson who wrote the story,\u00a0asking for a size 11 pair of socks.\u00a0 I think he was asking for his dad because I did not knit his dad socks for Christmas this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Not sure.\u00a0 I was just glad to get a letter. The art of letter writing in this day of cellphones and texting and E-mails\u00a0has gone the way of the Dodo bird.\u00a0 It takes time to gather a pen and paper and sit down and write down\u00a0your thoughts, then\u00a0find an envelope and a stamp and go to the mailbox and mail the letter. If someone does that for you, it’s a real blessing. It means they are thinking of you and you are worth their time.\u00a0 I\u00a0wrote him back and also told him to tell his brother to write me also and I would write back.\u00a0 Maybe we have started something here.\u00a0 Maybe I need to sit down and write a letter to everyone who means something to me.\u00a0 Have you ever written a person and told them what they have meant in your life?\u00a0 A teacher, or relative or friend?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I bet if you did, they would be so happy to get it. I got a birthday card a couple of weeks ago\u00a0in which a friend had written a prayer for me and it meant so much.\u00a0 \u00a0For some reason, a letter means more than a text\u00a0or even a quick phone call because it means the person thinks you are worth it.<\/p>\n

Do they even sell stationary any longer?\u00a0 I remember as a girl looking at\u00a0all the pretty stationary and spending time selecting\u00a0some.\u00a0Stationary came in pretty boxes and there was usually a picture of something on the top of each page.\u00a0 \u00a0I had pen pals I wrote to in Sweden and around the\u00a0United States.\u00a0\u00a0 The two girls I wrote to in Sweden would send me little gifts and I would send them something and we did this for a few years and then we lost contact.\u00a0 I still\u00a0have a picture they sent me of the two on them on ice skates\u00a0\u00a0by a lake.\u00a0\u00a0 Hard to imagine they are old ladies like myself now.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0I often wonder about them. I tried to find them on the internet, but someone I contacted, who\u00a0 I thought might be one of them, never contacted me back, so I figured it was the wrong person.<\/p>\n

I just finished writing a story based on my daughter’s Golden Retriever who lost a leg in a trap a few weeks ago.\u00a0 I tried to write it from the dog’s point of view and I tried to imagine what he went through, caught in a trap in the middle of the forest for fourteen days.\u00a0\u00a0 I still am amazed he survived his ordeal.\u00a0 My daughter says he runs fast now and coming toward you, you can’t even tell he is missing a leg, but he limps when he walks. It’s amazing how resilient animals are.\u00a0 After I have done some polishing of the story I will give it to my daughter and her family to read and then I may post it on here.<\/p>\n

Have you written a letter recently?\u00a0\u00a0 Is there someone who would LOVE to hear from you?<\/p>\n

In other news, the work on my shop is going quite well. I have several shelves painted and all but one wall painted and now I am working on the floor.\u00a0\u00a0 It takes two days for each coat of paint I put on the floor to dry\u00a0so it’s a slow process.\u00a0 Plus, I can only do small portions at a time as I have to move stuff from one side to another.\u00a0 When this gets done, I am done for a while. I did mention to David that my girly room is in need of fresh paint and he told me to get one project done before I started thinking of the next one!\u00a0 Maybe this Autumn that room will get freshening up.<\/p>\n

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It looks like the walls are pink, but they are dazzling white.<\/p>\n

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It’s so nice to have clean, freshly painted walls on which to hang things again. I have decided I am not going to burn candles in here anymore as everything was blackened by the candle smoke.\u00a0\u00a0 I have burnt a lot of candles in here through the years.\u00a0\u00a0 While I love to burn candles, they do leave a bit of\u00a0soot even if you cannot see it at the time.\u00a0\u00a0 So air fresheners will have to do unless someone can give me some advice on what to use. I’d\u00a0like to do something with peppermint extract because spiders don’t like peppermint.<\/p>\n

I also am trying to make some little quilts from these two books I got in the mail a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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I really love this quilt on the cover and want to make it.\u00a0 There will be some appliqueing in my future.\u00a0 In this book,\u00a0Kathleen Tracy writes of a young woman, Adelia,\u00a0who lived during the Civil War and shows us some of her diary entries.\u00a0 It is very interesting. I love reading about this time in American history although it was a very hard time and many lives were lost.<\/p>\n

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This is another quilt in the book that\u00a0I want to try. I love green and pink together.\u00a0 So Spring like.<\/p>\n

I am working on this quilt right now and am loving the process.<\/p>\n

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It’s a small quilt and just about all I can handle right now.\u00a0\u00a0 Its from this book by Jo Marten.\u00a0 I want to make every single quilt in his book.\u00a0 I’m thinking of having a quilt wall in my shop of all little quilts.<\/p>\n

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It’s becoming Spring in my neck of the woods. Daffodils are blooming on the south side of my shop and many more are getting ready to burst into bloom.\u00a0 I know this sounds crazy, but I’m kind of sad to see Winter go as I\u00a0had so many plans to finish so many projects that did not\u00a0get done.\u00a0 I did get some more socks knitted.<\/p>\n

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Believe it or not, David loves these and wore them to church this morning.<\/p>\n

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These go in the gift bag. I have another pair completed and am working on my Christmas socks. Yes, Christmas. I think about Christmas all the time because I make so many\u00a0presents.\u00a0 But the Christmas\u00a0socks will be mine. The first pair of Christmas socks I knit\u00a0turned out to be too pink, so they go in the gift bag also. \u00a0I also have yarn to knit David Christmas socks.\u00a0 So, there you go.<\/p>\n

Spring starts next week.\u00a0\u00a0 Enjoy it because right behind it comes Summer and the heat.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope we have a mild Summer this year. Not too hot or cold.<\/p>\n

I will leave you with a smiling face.<\/p>\n

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Molly Marshmallow says, “Hi.”\u00a0\u00a0 Took her to the vet for some shots and\u00a0 she remembered him from when she was there a few months ago because she got so excited when he walked in the door like she was greeting her long, lost friend.\u00a0 She doesn’t greet me like that!\u00a0 Here’s to happy dogs. Bye.<\/p>\n

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