2012 Retrospective

I skipped out of a Grange Meeting to work on my blog.  Last week I jotted down some important events of the past year thinking I would make a top ten list like they do on the radio.  But the list got very big and unwieldy so then I categorized them into:  milestones, home improvements, trips, visitors, and crafts. But even these subdivisions bled over into one another.  What’s a blogger to do?  I do feel a need to document—but why bore people with details that many of you already know or can refer to in earlier posts? 

My quick summary is starting to look like any other Christmas letter.  Drat, Blogger is not working properly for me to upload pictures from my computer.  I will have to reuse from past blogs.

I’ll start with visitors—since the all time big event for me was the Family Reunion centered on Dad’s 90^th birthday.  So, 72 people here on the island in June.

 

Other visitors include:  Liz, Guy, Jay, Marc, Nancy, another Nancy, Loretta, Don, Lynn, Diane, Craig, Barry, Karen, and Bjorn’s family (Bjorn, Ethel, Lenora, Iliana, Audrey, and now Corbin.)  I know I’m forgetting someone.

So, you’ve already guessed some milestones.  Our grandson Corbin born on March 13^th, My Dad’s 90^th birthday on June 10^,  Also, some sad passings, our nephew Drew in March, my friend Olivia and my first husband George in May and June.  And a couple great weddings as well, Abe and Hilary’s, Lindsay and Greg’s.

We also took some memorable trips in 2012—two to the Oregon Coast, two east of the Mountains (one all the way to Boise), and my big trip with friend Liz to Missouri to visit family and sightsee.

 

On the home front, we made some progress at Thornbush, mainly by getting ready for the big reunion.  I painted the bedroom and bath upstairs.  And Roger built a loading dock on the back of the house—complete with outside sink and dog bath.  I also made a mosaic bowl for the fountain.  But that brings us into the realm of craft.

 

This was a big year for craft.  I got to weave quite a bit, even bought a table loom --an 8-harness to augment my 4-harness floor loom.  I also made several baskets and attended the Columbia Basin retreat at Rockaway Beach, Oregon for the first time.  You may remember the cedar hat I showed off in October.  And now there’s the crow’s nest which the girls were eagerly decorating last week while up for Christmas.  I also participated in the Trashion Fashion show at the County Fair and hope to build on that success in 2013.

 Roger managed to run his business, lead the Grange, and improve Thornbush with loading dock and several improvements to the garden chicken run.

 So you see, quite a laundry list with out even including all the fun gatherings we went to through out the year.

 

Besides more trashion fashion, this year I will be President-elect of the Textile Guild, Roger is once again Master of the Grange. Goals mainly are for more home improvement, attending a weaving conference in Bellingham in June, and a short road trip to Canada to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.  I am turning 60 in May, you are all welcome for a big potluck at my house.

(and I hope Blogger is working next month so I can show off with new pictures!)