Hope everyone enjoyed their New Year celebration.  Here in Marquette, they have a lighted ball drop downtown at midnight to celebrate the New Year.  Andrew and me were going to go, but us old farts fell asleep in our chairs in front of the TV instead!  Oh well.

Driveway before I shoveled it out. It wasn't as bad as it could have been!

Driveway before I shoveled it out. It wasn't as bad as it could have been!

Our snow storm is still going on, with the snow coming and going in waves.  I finally went out this morning to clear the driveway.  Andrew tried to tell me not to bother, as he can drive out easily with the truck.  But the snow will only get deeper, so I decided to get out there and take care of it.  You can see there was a pretty good pile at the end where the city plow always leaves snow.

But it didn’t take very long to get it cleared out.  I shoveled out the end of the driveway and then used the snow blower on the rest of it.  It always amazes me how there isn’t even a slight breeze til I get out the snow blower.  Then a gale always comes up to blow all that snow back in my face!  I look like the abominable snow woman when I’m finished.

When I went inside, I managed to dump a load of snow from my hat right down my back!  ACK!  It (of course) went right down the back of my shirt and down into my long underwear.  Who needs a brother to dump snow down your back when you can do it yourself?

The result, 75 fun-filled minutes later...

The result, 75 fun-filled minutes later...

These photos were  taken around 10 and 11 AM.  Looks like twilight, doesn’t it?  Actually, it was snowing pretty hard when I took the second one, which is maybe why it looks so blue.

I joined the Liberated Quilters Group at Yahoo last night.  I was interested in participating in the Liberated Challenge for the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative.  What you do is to make a little quilt that will fit into one of those Priority Mailing envelopes from the Post Office.  It has to fit without folding or scrunching it up, so that means small, about eight by ten inches.  You can see all the rules at the AAQI website.  They auction the donated quilts off to raise money for Alzheimer’s research.  A very worthy cause!

I’m looking forward to trying my hand at the Liberated Challenge.  I’ve never done anything like this before, so it should be fun.  There was a picture of a seagull-type bird in the paper today.  I cut it out to use as inspiration.  Since I live so close to the beach, there are always seagulls around here.

I’m also excited to connect with other liberated quilters out there.  It looks like a great group of people.  I’d encourage you to join, too, and take part in the challenge!

I’ve found a couple of really cool blogs to tell you about too, but this post is long enough.  So I’ll share those with you tomorrow!

Baby quilt update:  I should be finishing the baby quilt today!  I started sewing the binding on yesterday.  I should finish it this afternoon.  Then I’ll run it through the washer and dryer, sign and date it, and take some pictures to share tomorrow!

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