Quintessentially Quilly

Quilly | June 30, 2010

Jenn from, You Know … that blog?, hosts Sensational Haiku Wednesday. This week’s theme is: Travel My beloved one, light crosses the galaxy to shine from your eyes.

Category: creative writing, poetry | 21 Comments »
Tags: Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Quilly | June 30, 2010

But I do!  Oh, I do!  Please don’t tell Amoeba, but I have found a multitude of garden planters online that just might want to come and live with us.  That high end planter pictured on the left is definitely making my heart pitter-pitter-patter.  Isn’t it lovely? I have been having a wonderful time with [...]

Category: b-vtz, current events, ecology, food, lifestyle, nature, product review | 12 Comments »
Tags: garden, gardening

Quilly | June 29, 2010

Thanks to guest blogger Benjamin Brooks for the post. I take so many photos every day and yet the hardest part is not taking those numerous photos every day, but rather managing all those photos and sharing them. The very first thing I do is to move all my photos from my camera to my [...]

Category: Internet, b-vtz, business, entertainment, technology | 13 Comments »
Tags: guest post, photography

Quilly | June 29, 2010

I know that several of you are moving in the near future. Since we just finished that major chore, I thought I would offer some time and money saving suggestions. First and foremost, if you have items you’ve not used in the last year, it makes more sense to sell them than to move them. [...]

Category: LW, finance, humor, lifestyle, website review | 5 Comments »
Tags: moving company

Quilly | June 29, 2010

Nessa of, The Chrysalis Stage, hosts a weekly writing theme called Tales on Tuesday. The idea is to tell a short story based on the week’s theme. To provide us inspiration, each theme will be the title of a TV show. This week’s theme is from, Charmed, which ran as a television series in the [...]

Category: creative writing | 15 Comments »
Tags: Tales on Tuesday; short story

Quilly | June 29, 2010

My Thoughts: This was an incredible story! I loved every single word and could hardly put it down. The Mailbox is an intricate and complicated story of love, betrayal and forgiveness. It spans years, yet the narrative flows seamlessly from past to present and back again without jarring the reader out of the story. The [...]

Category: Christian, book review, contemporary fiction, entertainment, romance | 4 Comments »
Tags: book review, First Wild Card Tour

Quilly | June 28, 2010

My Thoughts: If you enjoy going through people’s photo albums and looking through old country cookbooks, you will love, Way Back in the Country Garden, by Kay Wheeler Moore. The stories were funny, sweet, charming and/or heart twisting. Each of them highlighted some aspect of country life and the self-sufficiency of family. All of the [...]

Category: book review, cookbook, culture, family, memoir, non-fiction, recipe | 9 Comments »
Tags: recipes

Quilly | June 28, 2010

Welcome to Punny Monday. Every Sunday evening about midnight Pacific Daylight Savings Time I post an original photo and ask my readers to figure out what was going on in my brain (or Amoeba’s) when he/I/we made it. What noun does this photo represent? EMAIL your answers and leave a comment designed to either help [...]

Category: contest, humor, photo | 41 Comments »
Tags: Punny Monday 2010

Quilly | June 27, 2010

I love the net and you all know I am into internet shopping, but that said, when we can Amoeba and I prefer to support our local businesses. Happily, I have discovered an online search engine that actually helps me shop right here on the island. I just did a search of the local restaurants [...]

Category: Internet, b-vtz, entertainment, finance, food, shopping | 3 Comments »
Tags: Internet, shopping

Quilly | June 27, 2010

Warning! Restricted Area! Keep Out! The signs make it clear, the Ignis Fatuus, a haunted cargo ship berthed at Morey Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey, is no place for the faint at heart. Offering 15,000 square feet of terror, the Ignis Fatuus is the newest and creepiest attraction on the New Jersey shore. Live actors [...]

Category: current events, entertainment, family, lifestyle, vacation | 6 Comments »
Tags: amusement parks, New Jersey, Wildwood

Quilly | June 27, 2010

It is time to have my vision checked again.  I went online to see what I needed to get to process a prescription through Zenni Optical.  I saw that I needed to provide my Pupillary Distance and I wondered what it was and why it was necessary, to I decided to educate myself via an [...]

Category: PPP, current events, education, finance, lifestyle | 5 Comments »
Tags: eyeglasses

Quilly | June 26, 2010

I am feeling a LOT better today.  I slept for 12 hours last night! And I am actually in much less pain from the surgery than I was from the infection!  Doc removed all of the diseased tissue, so I appear to be (my diagnosis) healing this time around.  There is no more pus or [...]

Category: Friday Harbor, current events, health, lifestyle | 45 Comments »
Tags: health

Quilly | June 25, 2010

No shopping.  No blogging. I went to the doctor in Anacortes because I have an owie — and an infection that isn’t healing — and the local doc wanted me to see a specialist.  The specialist looked and poked and prodded, and then he pulled out a scalpel and did some slicing and dicing. What [...]

Category: current events, health | 45 Comments »
Tags: health

Quilly | June 25, 2010

I’m headed for the ferry and I will be spending today in Anacortes, WA.  Okay, so it’s not a big city, but it’s a heck of a lot bigger than our little town of Friday Harbor.  I’m going to start the morning with a doctor’s visit and then I will be doing some shopping.  Nothing [...]

Category: Internet, PPP, current events, finance, lifestyle, shopping, website review | 9 Comments »
Tags: coupons, shopping

Quilly | June 24, 2010

I love gift baskets.  I love getting them and I love sending them.  I have a friend, a former MIL, and a niece that I always sent gift baskets. My niece preferred gift baskets brimming with food and cooking items. She especially loved a basket that had a kitchen utensil or two stuck in it [...]

Category: PPP, family, friends, lifestyle, shopping | 7 Comments »
Tags: gift giving, shopping