Updated my webpage. Matt's too. He didn't care for hte background.
TGIF

Matt's back home. Surgery went well. I bought a new fridge, and hope to have it soon. In the mean time, it's COLD here, and we got 6" of snow yesterday. I'm shoveling the driveway on my own I guess. Check out my homepage for pictures of Matt's recovery. (Link is to the left). Off to do some stitching (or cutting - I'm working on a hardanger piece at the moment).... ta ta

Got the decorating done. Skipped the outside this year. The fridge died the day before Matt was to have shoulder surgery. So, what a fun week this is turning out to be. I dropped Matt off at the hospital, and then bought a fridge. I was back in time to meet with the doctor before the operation. Matt's doing well now and should be home soon. I will put a small Christmas tree up in our room as a surprise for him when he comes home.

Good afternoon. While I was away for Thanksgiving I did quite a bit of stitching. I am almost done with my Hardanger doily, and I made great progress on another project.

Christmas decorating will be on the top of the list for the weekend, so I don't know if I'll get updated pictures to my web page or not.

Sharp-shinned Hawk, eNature.com

Sharp-shinned Hawk, eNature.com

I've been seeing a small raptor at my bird feeder. I meant to feed the birds, not feed on birds. I've finally identified this raptor as a sharp-shinned hawk.

Now I just have to figure out how to keep him away from the birds I wanted to attract.

I was so proud of myself for being very organized. I had used a shopping program on my Palm to organize all my embroidery threads. I had categories and shopping lists and project lists.... Truly a work of art. So, I get ready to start a new project and I enter in all the thread colors I need, and see which ones I had, and which ones I'd need to buy... and I went out and purchased the ones I need.

So, I'll all set to work on this project. I got through the first part, and am on to the second - the part with colors. I realized that I didn't have two of the colors. I picked up one that was on number off, and (my favorite) 3772 rather than 3722. UGH! So, I made an emergency floss run. Of course I had to make other purchases while I was at the store... but that's supplies for another project.

Needless to say, all I did last night was wind floss after I got home. Tonight I can start on the colors.

Just thought I'd write a little. I'm taking a class right now, and the material is a little dry and technical. I should be paying attention. It's covering double byte character languages, such as Chinese and Japanese. The technology to support these types of languages is quite impressive. I was overwhelmed to have to stitch some Japanese characters! (See my stitching page to see what I made)

Happy Birthday to my sweetie.

You can see pictures of my stitching on my web page: Marybeth's Homepage

Just trying out some new formats, etc.
The day is grey outside. The geese can be seen flying around. No matter what way you look in the sky there is a big vee of them out there.

Ok. This is my first BLOG. I don't really know why I signed up for this, but I thought it might be a hoot.

I'm here at work, and trying to get someone hooked up with our on-line conferencing.

Technology is cool, but can be a pain sometimes.