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Susie, I'm sorry your mother passed, but so very glad to hear she did so comfortably with your help! Thank you for your kind thoughts, I only hope I'm able to raise/sell enough to get them the funds needed -- and actually get them to accept the help. I know it's not something they ever like asking for, and I was raised by them and had a rough time asking for it for them -- but again, they need the help... and I know I just don't have the ability to do that on my own again. I am so incredibly grateful for the messages I've received in support for not only them but myself as well in doing this for them!

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Sorry, holly, not quite done yet-- but have hit a milestone of sorts-- have finished all the rosettes. Just did that little blue one on the upper right. All the rest is filler. (Yes, including that space right underneath that little blue rosette, according to the design that I've found.) After looking at some finished "la passacaglia" millefiori quilts online (there aren't many), I have decided to fill out (stitching in a random-ish patchwork) to the edge of the furthest finished rosette on each side. (Well, we'll see how far I get. :p)

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At tonight's miniature club meeting we are working with paperclay/airdry clay. I will be demonstrating how to make Carrara Marble countertops. Also, we will be making beehives using a thimble as the form.

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I'm going to a baby shower this afternoon for my next door neighbor. A week ago my best friend in New Orleans passed away at 88. Her funeral is next Saturday. I feel like I'm caught up in the circle of life. 

Meanwhile, Beacon Hill stair remodel is on hiatus as I've been making a new panel to cover the HVAC unit in my RL condo. The unit is in the ceiling of the main bathroom and had a plywood panel 24" x 50" that was held in place with 4 screws. It was impossible for me to remove it myself. I've made a replacement out of a 1" foam insulation board. I added strip wood around the opening to create a lip. The foam board rests on it, like a ceiling panel. I hadn't realized that the unit creates a suction when it's on, enough to lift the panel. After some thought, I've jury rigged fasteners -- hanging loops of needlepoint canvas glued in each corner with a piece of wood slipped through to prevent it from being pulled upward. The glue dried overnight. I'm about to install the new panel. The great test is about to occur. Keeping fingers crossed.

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3 minutes ago, chapchap73 said:

Anna, I see you have all the necessities for a lovely relaxing time:p

Yep, aiming for some flower baskers and yarn skeins for an Idea I have been pondering over for a while... did I mention the room has a sea view balcony???

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33 minutes ago, Anna said:

Yep, aiming for some flower baskers and yarn skeins for an Idea I have been pondering over for a while... did I mention the room has a sea view balcony???

Well we know where you'll be whilst your hubs is out on his bicycle!

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Early o'clock and we are at the AirPort in Copenhague.... an hour or so until flyinf. Wonderful ride from home to the AirPort, ie seeing how the sky went lighter and a dusty rose, al ost magical.

looking forward to a week of puré relaxation!

hugs

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Whew, major crisis averted tonight!  Our friend was over in our backyard and wanted some hot water for tea. I said, "go ahead in the kitchen and push the switch down on the kettle, there is water already in it".  As he came back outside he said, "I added more water to it and put it on the stove on high". I immediately jumped up and ran into the house and yanked my burning plastic "ELECTRIC" kettle off of the hot stove. The black smoke was suffocating.  Another, minute and the fire department would have had to been called. Luckily, the molten plastic came right off the glass stove top once it had cooled down.  Whew!

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6 hours ago, Sable said:

Another, minute and the fire department would have had to been called.

Wow, close call! He didn't notice the electric cord?

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3 hours ago, havanaholly said:

The electric kettle I use has the cord on a stand that the kettle plugs into.  Either the kettle itself OR the stand would not have survived any time on a stove burner.

Exactly, mine sits on a corded stand so the kettle itself does not have the cord attached. I think what confused him is that he went to our Vero house for July 4th and I have a stovetop kettle there. Poor guy, he feels terrible about the event. I found a check on my table for twice the cost of a new kettle. I'm just grateful he told me what he had done so quickly. 

Going to get more batteries for the smoke detector. 

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I'm just home from my friend Gloria's funeral mass. The church was standing room only and the priest did a good job. G wasn't fond of his frequent breaks with tradition in his liturgical approach. I guess he figured she'd come after him if he played around with her service. I wouldn't put it past her. :D I am missing her a lot ... but as the world turns today, a house for sale near my sister (N of Atlanta) rose into view just over the horizon. I'm waiting for a call from a realtor. Have been thinking of moving "some day" ... but apparently the universe is on a different schedule.

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55 minutes ago, sparklepuppies said:

So sorry for the loss of your friend Kathie. Virtual hugs sent.

But the possibility of having you as my same-city neighbor? Hooray! Miniature Designs hosts lots of great classes, wouldn't it be awesome to take a class together?! :)

Thanks for the hug :) 

Yes! I've been to Miniature Designs and love it. Taking a class together would be great fun!

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So I've had an interesting few weeks at work. A little background. I am a technician for our county school system. I was a school technician for 9 years. The area where we stored our stuff happened to be in a building behind one of the schools I serviced, so I became keeper of the things. I would also count and handle the dead tech pickups from that area. When they moved me to help desk 4 years ago, instead of giving those duties to the new tech, they traveled with me. This created a little conflict between me and the other help desk person, so I was happy when they named someone "inventory tech". Somehow though, I was still involved and still was checking out computers to techs and such. So when she retired only after 8 months, naturally it all went back on me.

Recently, our school board decided to roll out a one-to-one initiative (every student assigned a device, and the use of personalized learning) across the entire district at once. 52 schools. Luckily they (at least most) understood that the technology department would need additional staff. So I was made Asset Specialist, and no longer am on help desk and can do all the other things I had been doing, only better. Yay! So that essentially made me project manager over deploying 3500 teacher laptops (student devices will come in Aug-Sept after students come back) during the summer. Our vendor made an ambitious plan to do this in only 13 days. I am happy, ecstatic even, to report that we successfully completed that on time!! In order to do so, I had to tell the vendor where to place each device, and how many each school got. Which means I had to communicate with the schools and technicians. A lot. During the rollout, we had a team of our techs to oversee the vendors work, and then the school technician was also involved. Again, lots of coordinating. Our technicians have between 2-4 schools, so this was a lot work. (part of the 1-1 is that each school will now have a dedicated tech)

This week I started receiving a lot of harassing phone calls. Which ended yesterday with a threat by one of the techs wives to "hunt me down and find me" if I called again. On voicemail, so there's a record of it. Holy cow!! So of course I had to report that, and this sure is going to be a pain for everyone to deal with that. This particular tech is a contract worker, so now you have my bosses and his bosses involved. Sigh.

I am excited about my new position though. We are also getting a new asset management system, that integrates with our new work order system. I am also over getting all that set up and going. At least with the teacher laptop project over I can concentrate on that. Tech training is Wednesday for that, so I've got a lot to do Monday and Tuesday!    And then in August we start deploying out 35,000 student devices which I will have to manage too.

Teachers return in one week, wish me luck getting everything ready!

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4 hours ago, sparklepuppies said:

... wish me luck getting everything ready!

Wow ... the sheer numbers are astounding! Here's wishing you much luck and no glitches!

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Back home again after a lovley week in Sicily. It was warm, very warm campares to the weather over here (30-35 degression Celsius) so the balcony we had overlooking the ocean was in the perfect location, sun inte early morning and in the late afternoon evening until setting behind the mountains around 7. Wonderful hotel, LOTs and LOTs of stairs though, 131 one steps from the room to the elevator! 

No internet in the room so have been off grid so to speak

See I have a LOT to catch up on too so Will do that in the coming days.

hugs

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