NEW CAMERA!!!! WRONG DATE!!!!

For the life of me can't get this crazy blog to post the correct date. Should be November 27, not the 16th.... ????

Steve, bless his heart, knowing my addiction for cameras... surprised me with a new Nikon D80. Does it get much better than that??? Here is my first attempt with it. Impressive camera to say the least!!! Thank you Santa.

BTW- this is a 3 foot tall wooden statue. We inheirted it. Looks to be rather old. If anyone has any idea on how I could find out more on it.... maybe where it came from?. Doesn't appear to be Oriental (my Father-In-Law collected those type of things .) Steve said they had it as long as he can remember. No one in the family seems to know where it came from.

We had a quiet Thanksgiving. After dinner the kids helped put up outside lights and deorations, then helped put the inside trees together. In Colorado, if you have a nice day you take advantage of it ..... otherwise you will putting lights up hip deep in snow... in a blizzard.

My goal for the rest of the year is to get a few unfinished projects finished so I can take a quilt class from Quilt U in January and not feel guilty for starting yet another project. Wish me luck with that!!!!

EYES ARE IMPROVING!!!

My eye infectionS.... yep got it from one eye to the other....is improving and I can actually see clearly now out of one and the other is getting better. Still not seeing well enough to trust myself at the sewing machine. Got out my trusty camera (set everything to auto) and waited patiently for our neighborhhod bluejay to appear for his morning ration. Caught a mighty big bluebird and a mighty hungry squirrell.... but Mr. Blue jay still manages to elude my shutter.