41 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
40 years old on the first day of Y2K
37 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
35 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
34 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
33 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
31 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
29 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
26 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
24 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
23 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
21 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
19 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
16 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
14 years old when President Nixon left office
12 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
9 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
8 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
5 years old during the Watts riot
4 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated

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We just gave the go-ahead to the lady who explained the Home Equity Loan to us last Thursday. She is an excellent banker and they were letting us have a 20 yr payback, whereas our bank would only go to 15, but preferred 5. So we will be getting all this paperwork to read, lucky us. We need to get the taxes out of the way so we can work on Sean’s financial aid for school. Lots of ‘fun’ stuff indeed!
I feel like I am moving in slow motion at times though. Some days I have energy to do laundry, etc. while other days I sit like a bump on a log. I do feel so much better when I can go outside to walk around or pull weeds. I think Lyme Disease never goes away completely. I have had inflammation in different areas all over my body. I hurt one day in my elbow, and I am fine the next day.
Spring can’t get here fast enough.
Stitchingwise-I started the design of Independence Hall as mentioned earlier. The steeple part looks really nice. As I was working on this, the show ‘Surface’ had it’s season finale (I stitch while watching tv). The last shot showed the main characters after a tidal wave hit Wilmington, NC. They found ‘high ground’ in a church’s steeple! Cool coincidence.
Anyway, I was going to share the patterns from this 30 yr old famous landmark book, but I didn’t get any requests. Someone did a place in Tennessee that I’ve never heard of and the design was a big red blob of a building. I would have looked much harder before I picked that one. I would never pick something because it looked easy or I couldn’t find anything else. I just would ask someone for a pattern. Go figure. Ok, I have PMS, I can ramble. ; )

We watched the Super Bowl and now the Eagles will never live it down that they were losers last year because of Pittsburgh winning this year’s game. Yeah they are from Penna., but way over on the other side of the state. I am happy they won because my friend Mel is a fan.
So during the half-time show, 63 yr old Mick Jagger and his band performed. Did anyone else notice his face was orange and his neck was white? I asked Brian if he wanted a rhinestone belt like Mick’s, but Bri’s belly would hang over the top of the belt. Mick is one skinny chap.
So Bri was looking up Mick trivia. We were asking about his daughter Jade, etc.
Found this quote from MJ-“I will be dead before I sing ‘Satisfaction’ when I am 45”.
Guess 63 looks a heck of a lot better to him now.
Here is a photo of him and his hot, much younger fiance.

Thanks for the sweet, touching comments about the bear that I stitched for Joanna. Even her mama left a comment. How great is that?
One wonderful thing about blogging and the internet is that I can share my stitching with you.
Next up-Independence Hall for a tourist themed quilt. One of the ladies in my online stitching group found some awesome backing fabric featuring postcards. There are some interesting designs coming in so far. I believe someone is even doing the Aurora Borealis! Watch for ‘the hall’ in a few months. I started it today and can’t find all the colors I need. The book is from the 70s. Not saying the colors are obsolete, I just don’t have a few of them. I have subbed some already thanks to my DMC floss swatch booklet. If you don’t have one of them, you are missing out. That’s if you are a stitcher who needs to look up a color!

You’ve heard enough about my sofa and it came home today all fixed forever (I hope!)
It’s a pretty thing isn’t it? Look, a cross stitching magazine on the coffee table! Are you not surprised? And please ignore the record lps jammed in next to it (Brian!)
My little ‘Home Sweet Home’ pillow says it all.

We know all children are special. Love Quilts makes at least 20 quilts for the children each year. I first sent a card to Joanna through Make A Child Smile and received the sweetest thank you note from her and her mom (thanks Lorie). I connected with her sweet face and a teddy was in the works. Here it is, just washed within the hour.

Darn that Daniel is good! It’s the second week in a row that he won. There is fabric under the dress. Read what Tim, their guide says about it at bravo. What are the purple flowers, orchids-like flowers?

Sean was looking at an abandoned hospital where there are about 8-9 webcams set up. I had seen these site before and swear I saw an apparition at one time. Here is Sean’s capture screen. When I had this in PSP to cut out the section we wanted, the middle part definitely had more ‘smeared pixels’ and green and purple blotches.

I circled roughly where I see a face. At first we saw a figure, but I definitely see hollowed eyes and a mouth. It’s rather like that Victorian drawing of the lady sitting at a dressing table-do you see a lady brushing her hair or do you see a skull? It’s what your mind sees in these kinds of photos.

So then he almost feel off the chair when he saw this on a Hell’s Kitchen webcam in an old apartment building:

Not to worry, this hollow-eyed green apparition ‘shows up’ about every 10 minutes. Very funny, right?
We did watch the Gettysburg battlefield one pointing into McPherson’s woods. There was a red dot for a while and then two small dots. Maybe a raccoon or something, but it was pitch black.