Update on me ... some OT

As the long time posters know, we left Oregon where most of our children and grandchildren live so I could care for my ailing mother. After 10 months she graduated from hospice and DH and I got an apartment here in northern Idaho. After a lot of looking, I finally got a job as a motel housekeeper. It wasn't long until my hours were cut to about 15/week. Living here is not what we want so we started looking for work back in Oregon. We think we have found it. We will know for sure the 20th. I've continued to make quilt tops and occasionally even finish a quilt or quilted item. Everything I've done is pictured in my webshots album.

Happy stitching to all.

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maryd
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I'll keep my fingers crossed (and my toes, too!) that your job opportunity goes the way you wish!

Glad to hear your DM is dong better!

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Kate in MI

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Joanna

I have my fingers crossed for you Mary. Going home is a great thing. You have gotten a lot of sewing done. Quilts/tops look great. Taria

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Taria

Best of luck with your job search and move back to Oregon. I'm sure sorry it didn't work for you in Idaho, but hope this move will be better for you.

Thanks for the reminder of your Webshots album. It'd been a while since I'd looked at it, and it's always so much fun to see your work.

Reply to
Louise in Iowa

thanks for the well wishes on our job search and the positive comments on my quilts.

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maryd

Sending positive thoughts for your job hunt and move! ME-Judy

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ME-Judy

Oh wow, Mary, you've been a busy gal in 2009. So many pretty things there. Your Maine Star is out of this world. If you find you have too many quilts to move back to Oregon, you can send that one to me. ;-)

Keeping my fingers and toes crossed your job comes through for you. Glad to hear your mom is doing better.

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

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Michelle C.

Nice beg, Michele. I would be in trouble if I gave that away.

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maryd

I LOVE the Carol Doak mystery wallhanging. It would look great on my wall! Gen

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Gen

Thanks. I wish the print and the purple had been used more.

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maryd

Keeping fingers and toes crossed that the good word comes to you on the 20th. Let us know where in Oregon that will be?

G> As the long time posters know, we left Oregon where most of our children = and

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gaw93031

Thanks. I can't say any more than on the coast. DH said the company we are interviewing with has 2 openings... one on the Oregon coast and the other north of Bakersfield CA. Oregon is our preference.

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maryd

eeeeeek, ya dont wanna be in bakersplat. it aint named that for no reason. its hot, dry, too far from the ocean. once ya live near the ocean it is too hard not to live within about an hour of it, so ya can make at least a trip for the day and a picnic. nope, bakersplat is too hot, too dry and too far from the water. fingers and other extremities crossed Oregon comes thru for you. j.

"maryd" wrote ... Thanks. I can't say any more than on the coast. DH said the company we are interviewing with has 2 openings... one on the Oregon coast and the other north of Bakersfield CA. Oregon is our preference.

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J*

LOL We've already decided they would have to pay awfully well for us to go there.

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maryd

Hey jeanne, I grew up in OC. Lived about 8 years

15 minutes from Laguna Beach, part of those high school years. I almost never went there. I hate the beach. Lots of reasons but the just of it is the water is cold and lonely to me. I swear I must have drowned in the ocean in a former life that is how much I don't like the beach. If there was no salt water, stinky sand and crowds I might like it. lol I have grown to love the desert. I feel better in the dry heat. I am probably an hour and a half from the ocean here. I don't miss it at all. I have a sister that can't live more than 15 minutes from the beach. DS is a block and a half away. Not for me though. Bakersfield concerns me because of all the chemical pollutants from all the farming. There are some cute little towns up through the valley that aren't bad except the pollutants. I like to eat though and if I needed a job I'd take it where I could get it! I have my fingers crossed for mary to end up close to family in Oregon.

----- Original Message ----- From: "J*" Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.quilting Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Update on me ... some OT

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Taria

I'm CRUSHED!!!!!!!!!!!

That was my home for 8 YEARS! I LOVED IT THERE!

Only a coupla hours form the ocean NO WEATHER all summer that our artie LOVED. (mainly pain-free from artie then) Did dislike the Tulle Fog but that was only intermittently during the winter months when most of the US was fighting : SNOW, Blizzards, hail, sleet, high winds, etc.and we only had occasioinal rainy days and yes, some cold nights which the fruit trees loved.

Butterfly (who now lives in the Phoenix, AZ area and I don't dare invite J* to visit here)

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Butterflywings

Jeanne, each person is welcome to their own opinions, and finds the pluses or negatives to a place as they see fit. It's obvious Bakersfield is not on your list of places to visit/live. We get that. Personally, I love Bakersfield. One of my very best friends used to live there.

I was raised near the ocean. I live less than 2 miles from it now. How many times have I been there in the last 3 years? None.

How many times have I been to the desert or mountains in the last three years? Over a dozen.

G> eeeeeek, ya dont wanna be in bakersplat.

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gaw93031

Hey, it was worth a shot. ;-) Somehow I don't doubt you'd be in trouble if you gave that one away.

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

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Michelle C.

I always got the idea it was actually a pretty nice town. There are a few quilting stores and years ago there were a lot of antique stores that were always fun to hit on our way up the valley. Taria

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Taria

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