NOAH AND THE LENGTH OF A PIECE OF THREAD

Hello my lovelies!

This term I have been studying Genesis with my Monday ladies up at the church and yesterday we reached the story of Noah!  What an amazing story that is!

Did you know that the 'Flood' story exists in lots of cultures and religions, not just in the Bible?

I heard that someone in America has built an 'ark' to the specifications in Genesis - chapter 6.  

"...So make yourself an ark of cypress wood;  make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.  This is how you are to build it:  The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.  Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around.  Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks..."

I don't think they've coated the lovely timber in this picture with pitch though.

I'm not very sure how long a cubit is as it was a very ancient measurement but some say it was the distance from the elbow to the end of the longest finger - about the size of the piece of thread you should use in a needle :)

Love Nanxxx

HATS AND SCRAPS

Hello again my lovelies!

I am on-line again!  Yoo! Hoo!

We had Robyn and Con and Quilting Robyn for lunch last weekend.  As you can see we had a wonderful time trying on hats.  

Robyn had gone with a friend to the cancer place here in Toowoomba which caters for people who come in from the country for cancer treatment at the Base Hospital.  The place where the folk can stay used to be a hotel.  When you come up the Range and are about to turn right towards Margaret Street, the old hotel is almost straight ahead.  It has a bit of a Tudor look about it.

Anyway, one of the many things the organization who supplies this service to the patients is a room where women can go and look at wigs, hats and scarves.  This, as you can imagine has been organized by very thoughtful people.  Once the patients' hair has grown back again, the patients leave their wigs, hats and scarves for others to use.  No-one needs to pay anything for this service.  They can take as much or as little as they need.

When Robyn visited she didn't think there was a very good selection of hats so decided she would make some.  Folk are giving her lots of material so she can keep cutting and keep that sewing machine going.  When she and Con came for lunch, she was carrying a big bag of some of her finshed hats, ready to deliver.  Here we all are having a wonderful time on the back deck trying them on.

Today I had my first day in the Sunday School Room with five little girls who had come to church this morning.

Simone took the lesson and I was her helper.  The lesson was on part of the Lord's prayer - "...and forgive us our trespasses and we forgive those who trespass against us..."  It was a good lesson.  We could all relate so well to the fact that we all do and think things that we shouldn't and that often other people can sometimes be very hurtful at times.  BUT, we must remember to forgive others as God has forgiven us.

Well my darlings I shall away and clear up some of the boxes of material that are lying around me.  When I was at quilting a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I didn't fold my fabrics and they were very surprised, especially Kerrie who said that she didn't know ANYONE at all who didn't fold their fabrics.  So...I rushed home, turned on the computer, Googled 'storing your stash' and looked at various ways of storing fabric.  I have now gone through all my boxes.  Anything that is less that a fat eighth has gone into the SCRAP box.  I have put these scraps into boxes by colour.  Fabric which is larger that a fat eighth I have folded and put into a boxes by colour.  Fabric which is quite big but not huge, I have rolled up and tied with a piece of material.  They have been put into their colour box and fabric which is very big I have just folded up into a box.   I am now feeling very organized.  Well, not quite!  I still have to take a walk around the house and collect any fabric hiding under tables, on top of tables or chairs and put them into their proper box.  

Now that I realize I have a lot of SCRAPS, I am going to have to start making some scrappy quilts.  Can't wait for you to get here and help me.

Love Nanxxx

AUTUMN, PAPA'S LATEST U3A CLASS, THE GARDENING CLUB AND A VISIT TO ROBYN

Hello my lovlies

We woke up to a very cold morning this morning although it was sunny with blue skies.  I have two jumpers, leggings, ugg boots and my fleece on.  Feeling loovely and cosy.

On my walk after lunch, I noticed that the Camphor Laurel trees are beginning to drop their berries all over the place.  The trees that drop their leaves in Autumn are really beginning to turn golden with leaves everywhere.  There was also a lovely smell of woodsmoke coming from chimneys around the place.

Papa went to his first class on archeology this morning.  He wasn't sure he would enjoy it as he felt he already knew quite a bit about the subject.  However, he was pleasantly suprised.  It looks as though the course is going to be fun.  The teacher who is doing his masters or something on the subject is using some aspects of his studies to teach the oldies.  At the bottom of the course notes he instructed the students they needed to bring nothing but their quills and papyrus.  I think he sounds a great teacher.

After Papa came home and we had lunch, he put on his workclothes and did some more painting in his office.  He painted the part above the picture rail and tomorrow I think he's going to give the ceiling its first coat.

Tomorrow I'm going to my gardening club.  I say 'my gardening club' as though I have been going to it for years when in actual fact I haven't been once yet!  This will be my first visit and I am really looking forward to it.

I'll try and remember to take the camera.

After that, I will head over to see Robyn who has been in Melbourne for a few days.

Love Nanxxx