Sunday, July 11, 2010

I'M BAAAACK!

This is the quilt I made for my grand daughter's new big-girl bed.  I got another picture up on here but I had a lot trial and error involved. Yikes! I have to improve at this.



Life sure is interesting. We have to get up in the morning to see what is going to happen that day.  I have started actually writing a new book. I'm calling it Ivy and Esther in my head, not sure what the title will turn up being. It centers on two young girls during the years of the Civil War.  These young girls are based on what I know about my children's great great-grandmothers. One was the daughter of an Indian squaw and a white man. The other was the daughter of a town doctor. I have the barest of information about these women and so will have to make  most of it up.

I have done a lot of research on the civil war era but there is so much to know. I am concerned about making some horrible mistake that will make me look like a dummy but I will forge on. The story takes place in southern Ohio before and during the time of Morgan's Raid through the southern Ohio area. I am very interested in these two girls and what they get up to. The doctor's daughter has diabetes and the squaw's daughter becomes her companion.  The relationship between the girls in intersting to me and or course what was going on with the war as a backdrop.

I have one chapter written and am encouraged.

In the meantime my husband is not feeling so well. He fell off the toilet and cracked his head on the cupboard on Friday. I know, it's almost funny, but it scraped the skin off his forehead and since he is taking blood thinners we had to get his brain checked out. It was a long morning in the emergency eventhough when we arrived there was not a single person in the waiting room. Not one. I couldn't believe it. Ended up he was a bit dehydrated and was given IV fluids.

So that's what I'm doing for fun this day. I'm not going to explain about my failure to stick to my proomise to write every week. I'm just going to try doing better.
 

2 comments:

  1. Diana,
    I lost one comment that I posted. I'm still new at this too.
    Great post. Love the Civil War idea. You'll do a good job with the story. I know you can do it.
    Beautiful quilt for grand daughter. Quite an accomplishment and lots of hard work.
    Hope Bill is doing o.k.
    The ER is not fun.
    We do it often too.
    Blessings.

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  2. Barb, it is good to have you reading this. I hate the feeling that I'm out her all alone.

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