A dear friend of mine bought a new house (her first) and named it Patti's Palace, scratched into the newly poured concrete patio. When I bought mine a year or so later, I referred to it as RuthiesRetreat, since I thought I wouldn't move again until a big California earthquake dumped us into the ocean. A couple years later, I got my first computer so used it as my screen name for email, and for my quilt labels, and for this site.