Author: Patty

After 15 years living in Sun City West, my Mom is now living in Oregon. For the next two weeks, she’ll be staying with us and then she’ll move to her apartment in Wilsonville,...

There’s a lot going on in our world, including one more trip to Phoenix next Wednesday to get my Mom moved out of her house and up here to stay. She’ll be moving into...

Thanks to the generosity of friends, TheHudsons surpassed the dollar amount raised last year for the Oregon Humane Society at Doggie Dash: $1290. It wasn’t even close to being enough for the top three...

It was all about “meeting” friends, fabric shopping and just hanging out. Patti Ferguson organized the weekend in Chicago where Mardel Fehrenbach, Barbara Bell, and Diane Egelston (DianeE on the Pattern Review and Stitcher’s...

I believe this was the second such conference and it was quite intimate and small, which I quite enjoyed. Perhaps had I known it wasn’t as big as even Madrona Fiberarts, I might have...

I was looking for a particular class taught by Galina Khemeleva and happened on the Mile High Lace Knitting Conference in Denver. I’m all about lace AND I graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School...

Last year Tom and I walked the Doggie Dash and raised enough donations for the Oregon Humane Society to put us in the top three teams (excluding the board of directors). We’re walking again...

Three weeks ago we all decided that it would be a good idea for my mom to visit us so her realtors could really work on selling her house. The good news is that...

Sun DogJake likes to be warm. We’ve had a fair bit of sun over the past few weeks (we’re told that it’s almost spring!) and when it shines into the bathroom, Jake finds the...

Through in visits to Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale and Campbell and you have our weekend destinations. The trip down to see Jack at Year Round Tax (in Scotts Valley) and Dr Ballentine (in San Jose)...