About 3 weeks ago I told you about our ice storm and of course many of you heard
about the severity of the ice storm damage to parts of Arkansas and Kentucky on the tv news. The other day a quilt guild member at Thursday’s workshop told us how she had been without power for 17 days and of all the tree damage traveling north to her house – she lives about 40 or more miles from where we meet. Today my husband and I decided to go see what kind of damage there was to this heavily forested area to 
the north of us here in Arkansas. We were surprised to see that we missed the bad ice storm (we only had minor amounts) by only 16 miles. Sixteen miles north of us we came upon the first of the damage and traveling a little further on there was one tree down after 
another – tops of trees laying on the ground, branches broken off, I am not exergerating we judged that if you looked at 10 trees at least 7 of those trees had damage. They were piled on the sides of the roads where the road crews had to cut trees to get them off of the roads. We pulled into the entrance of a small campground and had enough room 
to back out and turn around but entry to the park was not available. It was covered with downed trees. We traveled 50 miles from our house and it was like that from 16 miles north of us. We have no idea how far the damage like it goes but one lady that I correspond with lives in the area of Harrison, Arkansas 80 miles to the north of where I live told me that out of 8 
acres of heavily forrested land that they own half of their trees are damaged. We took pictures and I’m posting just some of them, click on them to enlarge. It really and truly in places looked like a tornado had gone through the area. Part of the Ozark Highland Trail goes through this area and I hate to even think what it looks like – I have a feeling hiking this year on the trail might be dangerous because of all the branches hanging in trees waiting to fall.
Most people that I know of from the news reports in Arkansas have their power back on but it will be a long time before this area gets back to normal looking. Luckly Arkansas trees grow fast due to long summers and short winters.
I have the binding on the Scrappy Irish chain quilt and in the process of the hand stitching. I’ll take a photo of it after 
it gets finished and washed – have to get all those chalk marks out you know!
I haven’t put any photos from my mug collection on here in awhile so here is one more, my daughter Melanie gave me this mug about 10 years ago I guess. I have no idea where she got it, my memory is not working 
it is tall and skinny, holds about 14 oz. I like to use it for fresh cut flowers instead of drinking from it. She gets on here and reads my blog at times so maybe she remembers where she got it and can fill us in.
The last question I posted was a terribly easy question I thought! the answer was all of the above. One can make templates from just about anything!
Another question: What is the needle of choice for hand quilting?
A- milliners
B - sharps
C- betweens
D- crewel
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