Milestone w/ Free App & Bucket List Check

            On February 28, 2014 I checked off an important item to me on my bucket list.  I finished reading the entire Bible.  This book is probably the best 50¢ I have probably ever spent.  

             I started out with what I thought was an unusual event with this book.  On the night of March 1 when I decided to start reading, I opened the book and.....

Found something in the book on that date!

Red rose petals!

          I flipped through the rest of the book and found no more. For some reason, finding these rose petals on THE day I opened the book to start reading, compelled me to be determined to finish. 

           I carried this big heavy book on all my travels over the past year, including to my Mother's for weekends.  The only time I didn't take it was on the Route 66 trip.  I managed to read 2 weeks ahead so I wouldn't get behind and discouraged.  

          About a month before I finished, I found a copy of this book (Yearly Plan) on the FREE Bible app called

You Version @ https://www.bible.com/app 

       This app:

*can be used on a variety of devices

*read online via a browser

*offers several versions

*offers various videos from different Bible movies

    
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     Then on March 2, 2014, I hit the milestone of being retired 1000 days.  "Bonus Days" of my life I call them.  I started an itinerary journal on my first day of retirement.  According to the dictionary, one of the definitions for itinerary is: An account or record of a journey. I feel everyday of retirement is a journey.

      I have a book for each year.  It's small to make it easy to stuff in the suitcase when I need.  I have numbered each day and have messed up the count a few times.  Just to make sure I count correctly, I use a web site where you can plug in dates to determine the number of days between each date. I like to go to http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html. So if you know your special day, plug it in and see how many days it's been.

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Scavenger Hunt 3-2-14

Unusual Crop

in Indiana on our Covered Bridge Trip

Probably not the "crop" term expected.

Isn't Sunflowers an "unusual crop" to raise?

Details
Iowa State Capital

visited Mr. G 's birth place

Look even closer for details.

On the Ground
Green River Dam, Kentucky

 Blooper (or shot where things didn't go as planned)
 Mesker Park, Evansville, IN

Not a blooper but a shot that didn't go as planned for the good.

enJOYed how the background complimented.  The joys of a DLSR camera.

Color
Northern Indiana, Quilt Garden Tour

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Quilt Shot Block #20~ 64 Patch

 12 inch square

Started out trying to do a bargello pattern and messed up with the order of strips and didn't want to tear them out. These are 2 inch wide strips.

Then I got in a big hurry and cut the 2 inch strips across.  I should have sewn a tube by stitching the outer edges.

 Turns out this way was just as fast and easy, if not faster.

 Lot's of practice matching seams.  Trick is to iron seams in opposite directions so they will interlock. Also, accurate cutting.  Thank goodness for mats, rulers & rotary cutters.  Of course a lot of experience involving trial and error.  Folks tell me they've tried it and couldn't do it.  Like anything else you become handy at...PRACTICE! Do it a LOT!

   I didn't know if there was such a thing as a block called "64 Patch."  After searching the internet, I found Krista Stitched made one.  She also has a tutorial.
    The old timers would use this block to use up scraps and scissor-cut each and every square! I don't think I could manage a whole quilt with the tools I have today much less cut the squares by hand.  Could you?

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