MizTricia1 from Alabama, USA

MizTricia - thanks for stopping by and your kind greetings!

May you and yours have a truly wonderful and happy festive season

MizTricia,
Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and all the best in the New Year!

Wonderful Christmas Card. Thank you so much. I loved it.

have a great christmas MizT and a

merry christmas MizTricia, hope you have a truly bodacious one!

MizTricia from sunny Arizona Here's wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Just dropping in on the strong wind that is pelting my house this morning along with a dusting of snow to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a I do believe I'm ready for the holiday - I finally got my villages up - the North pole village does have some lights out in some of the homes - but should be up and running by the end of the day. the Fontanini village is ready and the people are enjoying their time "out of the box" Enjoy yor day, Mary

MizTricia, thank you for your greetings and Christmas card.

I wish you a very happy Christmas and all the best for a wonderful, fun, sudoku-filled 2008.

MizT, wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas from Down Under. Is the cyber coffee ready?

Hi MizT, Hope you and your family have a great Christmas. My children have all disappeared and left me with the wrapping paper.

Stopped by to wish you good cheer
Brought a little bubblie here
May your toast be great
For two thousand eight
May you have a very

Hope your Christmas was blest.
No resolutions to obsess
It is not too late
For to celebrate
Our Lord Saviour’s Righteousness

Hi MizTricia, for the welcome you posted on my page and telling me something about yourself.

I live in Canberra, Australia's capital city, with my wife (who is also a quilter by the way) and two sons.

Must dash now, time for a run before breakfast

MizTricia1 and Family!
Best wishes for 2008!

Hi MizT. I'm not sure if this will post as there are no posts at all showing on your page! I hope you have had a wonderful holiday season - ours has been wonderful. After 2 and a half weeks of being very careful, healthwise I am back to where I was 2 and a half weeks ago before I messed up! Yay!! Now I just have to continue to be sensible and all will be well...

Hi again MizT. I checked out your photo gallery to see if your quilting buddy had sent the photo yet... Then it occurred to me to wonder, what was your gift from the person who drew your name??

MizT...I've missed our little chats but do hope to get back to the forum next year. Wanted to be sure to wish you and yours a healthy, happy and prosperous year in 2008. Thought you may enjoy my you-tube, Sandi Patty, I'd never heard of her, but boy can she sing. Since we started with music as a common bond, I thought I might as well end the year with the sharing of a new discovery for me...although I understand she's been around for a long while. Peace...see you next year..hope Aurburn wins soyour hubby wll be a happy camper.LOL

Tricia! Cheers!

Just dropping by to wish you and your family a safe a wongerful



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Hi MizT, you got a packetful of stuff from your quilting buddy! I still think I would prefer the tote bag though. I received a bag from a friend made by a Cambodian Hilltop tribe. It is wonderfully red and was handwoven. I will have to ask her more about which parts were woven etc. My mother wants me to frame it and put it on a wall as there is no telling how long the tribes will survive...

Hi, a label for the quilt is a good idea but I'm not sure how to do it.Any suggestions would be appreciated. I will have to check with my sis-in-law about the age of the fabrics, she might have an idea. The quilt measures 60 by 72 inches, and looks really nice on Amber's bed. I put a close up of one of the blocks in my gallery if you would like to see. I left it large so the details can be seen quite easily. Thank you for helping me to finish this.

Forgot to say I looked at your quilts. They are just gorgeous. I wish I had the patience for that. Maybe one day I will try a small one.

MizTricia1 - Your quilts are just beautiful! That is a lot of work! I enjoyed looking at them.

Hi MizT, I think we posted around the same time! Post-op appointment today....

Hi MizT, it was a wonderful day! Good news and good friends! I would wish everyone could be overtired in the same way I was!

Hi MizT, I was glad to leave hospital relatively quickly as the hospital was a long way from home and logistically difficult. However, I did find that things that happened were more 'worrisome' because I didn't have anyone to ask about them. Other than you of course!!! In that way it would have been far better to stay in hospital longer....

for the welcome. I actually am a dropout from this site. I joined it 2 yrs ago this past Christmas. Buttttttttt...I got too wrapped up in it, found myself leaving later and later for work in the morning and finally dropped off the face of it. jj spiked my interest again when he had me take a look at his site. I went back into the archives and found my first post 12/31/05. There have been many changes. Gath has to have the patience of a saint to keep this going for all. I hooked up with Linda (LK) and then I became cozy with CeeCee and Jim from Jupiter. I was fortunate this past April to meet jj and cc when my mom and I took a cruise through the Panama Canal that debarked from Florida. I live in the Ventura County area of So Cal. North of your daughter. I'm 56, worked for LA County for 30 yrs so far, my husband is retired and we have two "children", daughter 23 in grad school and son 21 in 3rd yr college. I noticed my pix went down with the crash. I'll re-post when it comes back up. I love the quilts you have. I did needle work before children and have not gone back to it. Mainly cross stitch and needle point. I read now in my spare time. OK....TMI as the kids would say. Thanks for the greeting.

Hello and thank you.

Tyalgum is an adulteration of "Tall Gums", which was the name of the area when it was originally settled; it was full of tall gums (before the loggers started cutting them down!). It is pronounced Tal-gum (silent "y") and is a small village in far northern NSW in the Tweed Valley (in Australia) about 50km from the coast. The area is part of the remnants of a long extinct volcano and very beautiful. We are on a farm 10km from the village and are surrounded by National Parks, mostly world heritage listed, because of the number of remnant species found there.

So, where in Alabama are you?

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Was just thinking, MizT, about how changing careers mid-life is making me feel both young and old. Young because I am a novice with so much to learn, and old because the brain is not moving as quickly as it used to to pick up all that stuff I still have to learn!

Hi MizTricia - you're welcome. I lost a few messages here and there as well, when my internet randomly disconnected.

The caldera has a diameter of 50 km and is apparently the largest in the southern hemisphere. The centre is Mt Warning, which is really the remnants of the plug that filled the volcano - very hard basalt which is slow to erode.

Everything is lush here now, though we've had 5 years of drought that basically broke in October last year. We do have a subtropical climate, so should in theory have lots of rain. We are surrounded by 5 national parks. "Gums" are Eucalypts - there are heaps of different types, but "gum" is the name commonly given to the smooth barked ones.

We don't have "working ranch" vacations as such in our area (no ranches), though I know some farms have the woofer scheme ahappening, where backpackers get food and board on farms for some labour. Haven't heard of tourists replanting trees in the national parks, but I'm sure it probably happened somewhere. In our area, the trees revegetate themselves really quickly.

Soooo, where in Alabama are you?

Hi MizT, thanks for your message re giving my Mum her nip of rum every evening. She, of course, already has Alzheimers and it has progressed to the point where she has forgotten that she enjoyed a nip at bedtime - I think that habit started as she nursed my father through Alzheimers. If we thought she was missing it or would benefit by it we probably would ask that she be given some. It's very sad but she's forgotten about all the things she once enjoyed - her rum, chocolate, reading, crosswords, knitting etc.
Thanks anyway - it seems that so many of us on this site are having to deal with elderly parents.

Just out of curiosity, how do you and your cyber quilt friends work on a quilt? Do you share designs or do you pass around the quilt around the country? They're beautiful quilts and I can see the hard work you must have put in them.

MizT - Thanks for the birthday wishes.

And your kind words about Mum, funnily enough she seems more settled now that she doesn't remember much. I would rather have her back as she once was but since that's impossible - at least now she's calm and peaceful, she wasn't a year ago.

Hi MizT, Your quilts are beautiful. Do you do them by hand or machine? I have just taught myself to crochet by watching youtube and have made several hats for the cancer patients.

Hi Tricia,
I didn't have to google Montevallo, we have a great atlas - and I found it really quickly - sort of between Birmingham and Montgomery.

Tyalgum primary school celebrated its centenary last year, but like your town, nothing in Tyalgum is much older than 100, and it is only a village

The closest town to us is Murwillumbah and it has only 1 set of traffic lights, which were put in about 8 months ago.

Our "volcano" is definitely extinct - no active volcanoes anywhere in Oz - I know you have quite a bit of volcanic activity in the west - I remember when Mt St Helens blew.

:) Martha

Hi MizT.. how ya b? I'm mainly read current day light weight mystery with a tad of romance. No historical settings for me. Authors like Lisa Jackson, Julie Garwood, Karen Harper, Carla Neggar, Tami Hoag, some of Nora Roberts, Luanne Rice, Susan Wiggs, Debbie Macomber and others. They have to be light, entertaining and not stupid. My hubby has always been very interested in dome housing. In Acton about a 45 minute drive from our home toward what is referred to the high desert area Lancaster/Palmdale area, there are a couple of them. Craig has always said he would love to build and live in one. He'd be happy with a hole in the desert. LOL. Do you live in dome housing? We are currently getting long overdue rain. Interstate 5 north is closed due to snow. With luck the clouds will clear a bit tomorrow and we will see some minor snow in our hills. I love powdered sugar hills. Hope all is well with you.

MizTricia, all I can say is WOW! Not only is the spirit in which you make the quilt is admirable but the sheer talent and patience are tremendous. I know, I tried to make a granny square quilt. I had great visions of a queen size one for my bed, I ended up with a car blanket just fit the back seat for my boys.

MizTrica - I would love to see anything you think up. All that talent. Wish I have one half of that.

MizTricia, if you enjoyed Jean Auel, you need to read the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. The former was my favorite author until I discovered the latter! Another series of 1000-page books that you will NEVER put down! :)