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 Just checking in here to see where I am with my goals for this year. Not sure if I will do this weekly or monthly. We'll see.... 1. Take care of my health .  I'm working on eating better. And this week I have started being more intentional about when and how and how much I am exercising. 2. Read through the Bible this yea r.  So far I am ahead of the game. I read part of Genesis, finished the book of Job and now I'm back in Genesis. 3. Projects ! I'm not working on wood projects yet because of the weather but I am working on quilting projects. I've almost finished two quilts and have plans in my head for at least 2 more. Possibly a baby quilt included for an upcoming birth. Hoping to have those two quilts done this week or next. 4. Landscape . With all this wind and rain rain rain (this IS Oregon after all) I'm just in the planning mode. I'm pretty sure I know where I want to put my herb garden. I read about someone putting in a hydrangea hedge. I wonder h...

Books of 2020 actually means... the books I kept a list of reading but I somehow don't have May through October ... well, some are better than nothing.   I have put in the bold the ones I highly recommend. Where the Red Fern Grows;   Keep Moving -- Dick Van Dyke One Good Deed -- David Baldacci Marilla of Green Gables -- Sarah McCoy The Lost Letters of William Woolf --Helen Cullen The Chocolate Makers Wife -- Karen brooks Family Tree -- Susan Wiggs Murder She Wrote: Manhattan and Murder  Postscript -- Cecilia Ahern Surprise Surprise -- Agatha Christie A Girls Guide to the Outback -- Jessica Kate Things You Save in A Fire -- Katherine Center Get out of Your Head -- Jennie Allen The Couple Next Door -- Shari Lapena Range of Motion -- Elizabeth Berg The Secret of Chimneys -- Agatha Christie Major Pettigrew's Last Stand -- Helen Simonson Family Matters -- R. Winters and Sherry Lewis Somewhere Between Luck and Trust -- Emilie Richards Salem Falls -- Jodie Picoult Bitter...

  A new year, a new list. So that I don't forget what I'm looking to accomplish, I wrote down my goals for this year. In no particular order.... 1. Take care of my health. As in, go to the doctors... check ups, routine visits, all of that..I don't like going to the doctor. It took getting a nail in my finger last year to get my overdue tetanus shot. Along with doctors, I want to lose about 10 pounds. We took a weekend away in October and I came home with extra weight that wasn't there when we left the house. And it has not gone away. Yet. 2. Read through the Bible this year. I did this back in 2018 (?) and would like to get at it again this year. Day 3 and I'm still on track  3. Projects! Last year I started a playhouse for the kids. Hoping to finish it once we get our windows in ... We'll take a couple of old windows and put them in the playhouse. I also plan on building a picnic table and possibly some Adirondack chairs, although these seem like a challenge, b...