Sewing Deli Totes, Liberty and the Snow

Here's the project I was 

working on and finished this week.

I made deli totes for more of my 

friends at Seniors.

This one is for my dog loving 

friend B.

For my gardening friend

E. who is in her nineties.

Yes she's still gardening!!!

For M. who's home state 

flower happens to be the sunflower.

Lucky fabric choice for her.

I just love this fabric combo.

Liberty loved it as well.

While taking photos she grabbed

the sunflower tote and ran up the 

hill with it, shook it to death,

and decided after a few 

maddening minutes

 that it was worth

trading for a few bits of dog food 

shaken in a can.  

Whew!

For my friend P.

She hasn't received it yet

because she wasn't at Seniors

Thursday or today.

She has family visiting 

from out of town.

This one is for another friend M.

I don't know if she likes chickens

or not.  I just liked the fabric

and she loved the tote.

Yeah.

Liberty enjoying the snow.

She looked like a fawn

with those fat snowflakes 

on her back.

I went to the Senior's Christmas

 party and lunch today.

It was the best party

 that we've had there.

Ever.

A class from a local school

came to give gifts and homemade cards.

They sang songs for everyone

and introduced themselves.

Each and everyone were 8 and 9 

years old.  

Sweet little kids.

A dad in his military fatigues

arrived to surprise his daughter

after being gone for months.

She ran into his arms!

Tears, clapping

 and cheers abounded.

I know what those 

reunions feel like

from our twenty years

in the Navy.

Seeing these reunions

on the news makes 

me cry every time.

Seeing a Navy ship

come into port is 

even more heartfelt to me.

There were many choked

up grandmas in the crowd.

Time to get back

downstairs.

Rick is on his way home.

He's making his way through

the snow stopped trucks  

as the freeways are closed 

north, west and east of us.

The mountains are getting

several feet of snow

so the trucks are parked 

everywhere. Off and on ramps,

sides of the freeway, and at every

exit the streets are crowded with 

parked trucks finding any space

they can for waiting out the storms.

OK

got to go,

but I just want to 

add one more photo.

 Liberty was good the other day.

I think it was Tuesday.

Edited to add

this photo from our daughter.

 Interstate 5

Mt. Shasta Ca

December 21, 2012

She says 

 "It was worse than it looks."