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The Chicken Sisters

Books

Author: K J Dell’Antonia

I saw a post for this book on Facebook and since Stacia, Deloise and I are working on that Here a Chick, There a Chick project I thought I should read it.

Three generations ago two sisters, Mimi and Frankie, opened chicken restaurants in the same small town – one serving the railroad travellers and employees and the other serving the coal miners. Over the next two generations a rivalry existed between the two restaurants. It wasn’t until Food Wars, a reality TV show, arrived that the questions of which one was best would be answered.

An easy and fun read with a predictable ending.

Goodreads Rating: * * *

Happy Birthday Ron

Cards

August 30, 2024

Improv Summer Sun Mug Rug (The Polka Dot Chair)

If you are wondering why I’m doing another improv piece when I said I wouldn’t, I was working on the two cards in tandem. They are slightly different, but neither one is like the way it should have turned out.

Emma

Quilting
From Little Handfuls of Scraps by Edyta Sitar (Finished 9.5″ x 11″)

For our monthly sewing day in August this was my project.

I would have thought I had enough four patches and squares pre-made but that was not the case. I had a few larger four patches that I was able to trim down but for the majority of them I was starting from scratch. I had the small squares in my stash though so that gave me a head start. I’m re-thinking my scrappy projects; I’m trying to make them a bit more organized. I had the border strips on my cutting table from another project so I dug in my bins to get the red squares.

After everything was organized actually putting the project together was quite easy. The quilting is very simple – no thread colour changes involved.

While we were discussing each other’s projects I realized I had missed one project in my alphabetical listing so I guess that one (Carol) will be my next project.

Written as I Remember It

Books

Author: Elsie Paul

I’ve know about this book for a long time and I’ve had it on my bookshelf for several months. I think I was putting off reading it because I thought it would be difficult.

Much of it was difficult to read and, at times, it made me very angry. The colonial treatment of our First Nations was horrible. It takes a very special group of indigenous people to forgive us for what was done but none of us should ever forget.

Elsie is in no way judgemental in the book. Her mother was a residential school survivor but from a young age Elsie was raised by her grandparents. Elsie is named after an aunt who was taken to residential school but when she became ill she was sent home and died only a few days later. Elsie spent two years in residential school but her grandparents moved to the bush whenever the scoops were taking place. They only returned to their village after the “quota” of children had been filled.

There is no way to rate this book. I’m going to leave it on my shelf with my other important books.