Are there Chocolate trees in Oregon?

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Here you'll find things that I know and hear about quilting locally in Oregon.

Santiam Scrapppers Quilt Guild

The plan is to include some information concerning the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild. Items I hope to feature will be articles about guild shows, classes, meetings, retreats, and general goings-on.

Email the Guild at
SantiamScraps@peak.org

Other articles will highlight area quilting shops, sewing sales, auctions of interest, garden tips for quilters, and other important, need-to-know info for my quilting friends.

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Flowers wilt, jewelry tarnishes and candles burn out...
But chocolate doesn't hang around long enough to get old

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Chocolate is Natures way of making up for Mondays

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Letter Two... Steep Going

Dear Friend
   Can it be mid week already? This road is hard and so steep I fear we shall roll head over bottom all the way back to the ship from whence we came! So weary have we been each night we have stopped to make camp, that I have quickly prepared our meal while William tends the team and soon thereafter slept soundly Ôtil morn with no time to write nor stitch.
   The sites have been beyond magnificence and all the more wondrous because it is the land of the midnight sun. We must be careful to plan a time to rest, lest we go on through the night and not realize. William says that we shall soon be out of these peaks and if the wagon wheel holds. I shall be able to spend more time with my needle. For this, I shall be glad. My dear friends, quill and needle, have I missed dearly.

Your dearest

Elspeth

Food used for medicinal purposes, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast and Sara Lee Cheesecake, do not have calories.

Very Important Info

Important, very important info such as the precise location of the best fishing holes. (Places a nice quilter can catch big fish like the ones in the following picture... the ones wearing the hats!)

Local Wildlife (Native to Oregon?)

As I travel the area, i'll include photos of the local wildlife and

the unique places to get a Good Drink as you travel the area's quilt shops during the annual Quilting Safari (coming in a few months)..

Plus there will be more quilting stories and letter's from Elspeth.

We have found a long forgotten trunk with some of Elspeth's original blocks and quilts. Plus, (who would believe it?) she made duplicate copies of every letter she wrote from Alaska back to her "Dear Friend" and other friends and relatives "back in the States."

So all this will be coming to these very web pages. That is if the creeks don't rise and my rumatis poultices keeps on a-working.