Look at the lovely pictures and updates! That's great news Joesmom, both for you and the dog
And welcome to the deep end, DebbieJJ!
I have been sick (as a dog??) since Tuesday, just in bed as a miserable coughing lump, so haven't done a thing. I still have 5 more Lupine Star blocks to go, they go fast. Then I can turn the page of my notebook and start working on putting together the borders. I had thought that the some of the geese units would be used to make sort of pinwheel sashing, and then just a single edge, but I was (once again) wrong.
I grew up and learned to drive in Alaska. I largely consider snow just another condition outside, take proper precautions and don't panic. After basically 30 years in Seattle though, I began to appreciate the whole city shutting down for just a couple of flakes of snow. For one, the people just never get enough snow to learn/practice on. For another, a lot of the cars and tires are just more marginal. Thirdly, HILLS! In Alaska hills were taken into consideration, so even if the main traffic patterns were sidewways, the up/downs still had right of way because of stopping/starting issues.
When we took our trip prior to moving part of it was to see parts of the US (like we went to Mt Rushmore), as well as to actually see what it was like here in Peoria and the other areas we had considered. I really liked Wisconsin a lot! But along with hubby's old home town of Grand Rapids, MI, hubby had ruled out Wisconsin as "too much snow". In addition the the Air BnB we stayed at, we had a lovely afternoon in Mount Horeb, the troll town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Horeb,_Wisconsin