Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement   Apple Peels When my mother was a girl, it was a domestic accomplishment to peel an apple so that the peel came away in one long, unbroken strip. Then the young girl would toss the peel behind her over her left shoulder and turn to decide what letter

Mary’s Monday Musing’s to Quilt Encouragement Shem, Ham and Japheth   A cruise ship is fun, but I wouldn’t want to spend a year on it. Oh, it provides good food, interesting activities, opportunities to relax, meet new people, and learn new things. But the only time we went on a cruise, I was glad

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement. The Super Ship Builder Sometimes we think of ancient days as woefully primitive. A recent visit to the full scale Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky shows the fallacy of not giving early people in ancient   civilizations credit for clever, talented methods to build things and conduct their daily lives.

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Looks Impossible The audience gasped when the man climbed onto a board balanced on two hollow tubes placed on top of each other at ninety degree angles. The gasps turned to groans when he made the tower taller with more unstable tubes stacked up. To balance on top of

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Looks Impossible The audience gasped when the man climbed onto a board balanced on two hollow tubes placed on top of each other at ninety degree angles. The gasps turned to groans when he made the tower taller with more unstable tubes stacked up. To balance on top of

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement The pretty gal pranced out on stage in a lovely outfit albeit a little bulky. When she stepped into a hoop and her partner pulled it as well as the attached cloth tube over her head, the tube jiggled a time or two and she emerged in a different

Mary’s Monday Musing to Quilt Encouragement When I visit the Jamestown ship, the Susan Constant, which sailed from England to land in the wilderness of Virginia, I never fail to marvel at the courage of those who left the security of a known life style for the uncertainty of how they would secure the basic

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement             The music soared through the auditorium lifting hearts with its triumphant sound. The Orchestra played in perfect unison the heart quickening notes of Tchaikovsky’s famed 1812 Overture and later stirred our spirits with the strands of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as the notes flowed from the violin strings. Almost

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Lily Pads The lake teamed with life, both plant and animal life. The interesting view of varied grasses punctuated with groups of lily pads called for us to sit and enjoy the scene. We spotted a crane land and watched him fish for his breakfast. We heard his rasping

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement Smells Good The Rose Garden was gorgeous. The only reason a person driving along the country road past farm after farm knew to stop to see the large garden was a sign reading.”Stop and Smell the Roses.” We are glad we stopped.  Row after row of large, perfect roses