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Friendship

This was my mother's favorite sentiment, and I recently found it on an ugly plaque in her sewing house:

We all need someone we can trust as a friend, and although we'll meet a few whom we like to a degree, only one or two will pass this test, there is a special chemistry.

Picture this full of fabric:

The goose today:

posted on June 27, 2012 12:28 PM ()

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Sewing house? What a luxury. What I'd like is an art house since no part of my house can be permanently converted to a work space. So I don't paint. I love that goose. It looks like he has taken over. I have made some special friends -- I count myself lucky. I also have Chicago friends who would not be on my list today except they date back to childhood and you can't hardly get those anymore. I forgive them their excesses.

comment by tealstar on July 6, 2012 1:59 PM ()

I don't know how much sewing ever took place there. I think they were fixing it up, and then my mother was diagnosed with cancer, so it was just a storage place for fabric. But the dream lives on.

reply by troutbend on July 9, 2012 8:55 AM ()

I love seeing the pictures of your outbuildings. What a wonderful property. I hope the fire is still missing you.

comment by boots586 on June 30, 2012 10:54 AM ()

So far, we're okay from the fire. The one relatively near here is 100% contained; not out, but not growing. It won't be totally out until we get snow. As big as it was: 87,284 acres and 259 homes destroyed, it has been dwarfed by the fast-moving one down by Colorado Springs that took out 300 plus homes in less than one day. Whole subdivisions were decimated, and we realized now we're just like California: too many houses too close together in places they have no business being. Next will come the mud slides.

reply by troutbend on July 1, 2012 2:33 PM ()

Is Jazz Mama bursting at the seams?

comment by elderjane on June 28, 2012 1:16 PM ()

No, it's not too bad. There is a wall of metal shelves with the fabric, some furniture, and various boxes stacked around. It has a vaulted ceiling, so it feels more spacious. I've made some progress consolidating and getting rid of boxes, and once we are done getting ready for wildfires, we might sell some of the furniture or donate it to fire victims.

reply by troutbend on June 28, 2012 8:57 PM ()

Sewing house?

I want a knitting house!

comment by nittineedles on June 27, 2012 7:51 PM ()

I have another place, a back garage that has been carpeted and lined with shelves that would make a perfect knitting house. You can open the big door, and the eaves are deep enough that rain doesn't come in if there is a sudden storm - you just sit in there, dry and snug and knit away. Or look at old magazines, or nap. Sometimes hummingbirds fly in and check out the shelves.

reply by troutbend on June 28, 2012 8:59 PM ()

comment by kristilyn3 on June 27, 2012 1:48 PM ()

reply by troutbend on June 28, 2012 8:59 PM ()

I've been very lucky in my life having friends (as described above) throughout it!

comment by greatmartin on June 27, 2012 1:10 PM ()

Not everyone measures up. We even see it here on MyBloggers - some folks we can trust to understand what we are saying, and others are just all about themselves.

reply by troutbend on June 28, 2012 9:01 PM ()

I loved your new addition.

Full of textile there?

comment by fredo on June 27, 2012 1:07 PM ()

Half full, anyway. Mostly drapery fabric and some cottons for quilts.

reply by troutbend on June 28, 2012 9:02 PM ()

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