Kirk M on November 14th, 2007

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on February 19th, 2007

It’s the middle of February here in Newport as it is everywhere else for that matter and with it comes that wonderful malady called Cabin Fever. However, that doesn’t stop the owner of Long Meadow Farms Quilts from getting ready for Spring by slowly reworking the interior of her shop with the essence of the [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on December 11th, 2006

What do you need when the sun isn't around to backlight your stained glass items you have hanging in the window? Better yet, what do you do when that stained glass lives in Long Meadow Farms quilt shop and needs to be backlit all the time? You build a lighted display thing-a-ma-bob for those very [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on October 4th, 2006

Wouldn’t ya’ know.
Just at the start of the holiday season, our local ISP that hosts Laurie’s website, www.longmeadowfarms.com, suffered fire, smoke and water damage when the building next door burnt to the ground taking the server with her website along with it.
They have since replaced all their hosted websites with a default “This site is [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on September 20th, 2006

I’m always amazed how much my lady can accomplish in just a relatively short period of time. Once she tunes in on something she wants to do, stand back and watch things happen and so it has been with her new addition of stained glass items to her Long Meadow Farms quilt shop and website.
I [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on September 6th, 2006

My “Long Meadow Farm” lady recently completed her second stained glass panel from an idea she had just a few days before (she thinks of something and a few days later it’s done…amazing). Just like when she makes her quilts, she saves all the left over pieces that she believes are viable and uses them [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on August 21st, 2006

Something new has arrived at Long Meadow Farms quilt shop. Stained glass items.
These colorful, sun-catching items are the newest thing coming out of the LMF workshop (the workshop being spread out between the shop and 2 different locations at home.
Here’s a couple of the first images taken this afternoon.

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Kirk M on August 20th, 2006

OK, now here’s a weird one.
I happened to have the Google Toolbar sitting on top of my browser when I banged into “Just Thinkin” during my usual weekend morning “surf around” and I noticed that the blog was ranked 4 out of 10 on the site rank meter. Excuse me?
I’m not to sure why [...] Read more »

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