Medlem: webecca

Hi, Rebecca. Today I visited my profile page for the first time in a couple of years, and there was your very nice note dated September 2007, copied here as reference:

Hi Janice,
Although I'm not Quaker, I do live in Friendswood Texas, which was named for the Quakers who originally settled in the area. I understand Friendswood is the Quaker center for the Houston area.
I enjoy reading your reviews! Stella Standard's bread book was one I used regularly in the 1970s. It was so easy to use, since kneading one loaf at a time was (pardon the expression) a piece of cake. Now I'm collecting sourdough cookbooks. I used to have a starter named Herman, long long ago.
What do you write? So far I have written and self-published a how-to booklet (GridSource) and my family history.
from Texas,
Rebecca (webecca)

Well, Rebecca, I'm not really a Quaker either. I've been an attender at my local Quaker Meeting for about four years now, but I haven't joined. Joining a silent-tradition Quaker Meeting in Australia is a big deal, kinda like getting married instead of just living together. Some members tell me they were attenders for many years, one for as long as 20. I have, though, located quite a few Quakers in my genealogy of the sixteenth century.

I didn't know there were Quakers in Friendswood (but I never attended Quaker Meetings when I lived in Houston), so I looked them up on the Internet. Looks like a nice group to me. Just a quick history. Quakers are of two basic varieties: programmed and unprogrammed. Friendswood is programmed. I can tell that because they have a minister and they call their meeting a church. The only unprogrammed meeting in the Houston area that I could find is Live Oak Meeting, which has a fairly new Meeting House that has become quite world famous because of Quaker artist James Turrell's skyspace. "Headquarters" for Houston's unprogrammed Quakers would be South Central Yearly Meeting, a loosely organized umbrella for unprogrammed Quakers in Texas, Louisiana, Oklaoma and a few other nearby states. Australian Quakers, like British Quakers, are all of the unprogrammed variety -- no church, no steeples, no pastors. In America, there are several branches of Quakerism, including unprogrammed. All the splinters finally made peace (which is good since all of them claim to be pacifists) and began having international gatherings in the earlier part of the twentieth century, under the banner of Friends General Conference. Interestingly, the splits began with a visit by a British Quakerer (1850s, I think) who was preaching a new doctrine and new format. It caused a great stir in America, and many meetings fractured in two or more opposing groups. The old Brit went back home after a while, and when he tried to preach the same thing back home in England, they told him to shut up and sit down. So British Quakers are still one group. It's a fascinating history, and I'm having a ball as the librarian of my local meeting. (Attenders are often active volunteers but cannot hold the office of Meeting Clerk and cannot attend meetings concerning membership.)

Ah, my writing. I retired early, moving from Houston to Perth in 2002, just so I could spend more time with my writing. Since then, I've only published a book review. I got busy volunteering, to meet "the locals," and have been very lazy about my writing. I started a website, just because I had taken a course in HTML code, and I wanted to practice what I learned. I use the website to archive my writing, so you can see what I've done at www.stensrude.com. Mostly, I wrote articles on New Age topics for an urban monthly that was distributed in the downtown and neartown districts in Houston.

And you make quilts? I took a quilt course when I first arrived, just to meet my neighbors. I've always got something in progress, but I've only completed two.

Thanks for your note.

Janice

inlägg gjort av bookcrazed vid 11:24 pm (EST) Sep 2, 2009

Nice collection. Tell me about you.

inlägg gjort av AuthorsandExperts vid 12:28 am (EST) May 18, 2009

Hi Rebecca,
Have a great day!!!

inlägg gjort av AuthorsandExperts vid 12:23 am (EST) May 11, 2009

Hi Rebecca,
I'd like to see your quilts on AOL but the site is no longer available. Are you considering putting it up at another location?
Dorothy

inlägg gjort av oksner vid 2:18 am (EST) Apr 29, 2009

Your profile is interesting and also impressive...

inlägg gjort av AuthorsandExperts vid 6:26 am (EST) Apr 25, 2009

Webecca- Just saw your comment left last year regarding the Brashears family. Sorry, haven't been to this site for awhile. Yes, I am a descendant- would be interested seeing how we are related. I pick up the family line at my 3rd great-grandmother, Catherine Brashear who married William Leake- Her father was Barton. PattiMR

inlägg gjort av PattiMR vid 2:42 pm (EST) Jul 31, 2008

So you got on Ravelry? Great, hope you enjoy it.

I had checked out the Math Quilts site quite a while ago. Nice to know someone involved with that site. I am especially impressed by the double 7-point feathered star! When I see that sort of thing in an antique quilt, I always assume that the quilter just couldn't get 6 or 8 points to lie flat, but it seems you did that intentionally. Amazing.

One of the best parts of LT is browsing other libraries. Yours is quite eclectic, and I can't believe we share only 36 titles. Most of the "users with my books" are deep in one area - quilts, or US history, or whatever. I haven't found many LT users who share Robert Bishop, Joyce Vedral, and Richard Feynman! LT user carminowe is the one who shares my books in more categories than any other – but then, she has almost 10,000 books, so she is bound to overlap with almost everyone.

Your quilting collection seems to have quite a few duplicates. I know that I have some deliberate duplicates (e.g., 100 Greatest Books version of Pilgrim’s Progress, and a facsimile reproduction of the first edition), but putting my catalog on LT has helped me to find a substantial stack that I can take to Powell’s (so I can get more books of course). In case you didn’t know, you can find the dupes easily by going to the stats link on the right side of your profile page. At the left of the stats page, under the total book count, is a link for “see work multiples”.

inlägg gjort av oregonobsessionz vid 9:27 pm (EST) Jan 22, 2008

You're welcome! And welcome to Ravelry!

inlägg gjort av AnnaClaire vid 4:43 pm (EST) Jan 22, 2008

A crummypb is a standard (pocket)sized pb as opposed to the larger and usually nicer trade paperback.

inlägg gjort av inkdrinker vid 10:59 am (EST) Dec 30, 2007

by the by--your quilts look incredibly cool...

inlägg gjort av rampaginglibrarian vid 11:13 pm (EST) Oct 6, 2007

actually blah blah blah is kind of a fluid tag like most of my tags are--it's one of those phrases i use often and it can refer to either someone's philosophical views that i don't necessarily agree with but find interesting or something that i really should be reading and ascribing to. That probably doesn't help you at all, most of my tags are pretty individual to me. As a librarian i try to make my tags most useful to myself and therefore "sparking" something in my own mind.

inlägg gjort av rampaginglibrarian vid 11:12 pm (EST) Oct 6, 2007

I did go to that site. I am afraid I am absolutely dismal at math, one reason I am so glad for paper piecing. Cheers.

inlägg gjort av carolcarter vid 12:08 am (EST) Sep 9, 2007

I love the quilt. Is there somwhere you have more photos? I see we share a lot of interests. Thanks for adding me to your list.

inlägg gjort av carolcarter vid 8:49 pm (EST) Sep 4, 2007

Hi webecca - we share a pretty eclectic lot of books! Atilla the Hun's leadership secrets indeed - well... my tagging system is terribly dull I'm afraid, and mostly down to location.

CH - my books at my parent's house
GR - books belonging to my grandmother
SH - books with me
Magnoos - refers to magazines which, for some reason, I want to keep.

Hope that answers your question!

inlägg gjort av eine vid 12:34 pm (EST) Aug 31, 2007

Love your Flow Snake! I notice we share a book by TRW -- perhaps we share an employer, as well

EowynA

inlägg gjort av EowynA vid 2:21 am (EST) Aug 24, 2007

Thanks for the comments!
Nope--no floor lamp so far, although I've thought about one. But then the cord would probably get in the way. There's a light in the ceiling fan as well as other directional/recessed lighting (on a dimmer switch) in four places in the ceiling.
Those cuckoo clocks you see are actually miniatures, for salesman display purposes ... they keep time but don't have "birds" in them. But if you could see the rest of my house, you'd definitely see plenty of other cuckoos as well as many other clocks (well over a hundred). (I've got way too many globes, too, besides the ones you noticed).
I'm definitely a pack-rat! LOL.
Once I'm done adding my books to LT (I'm probably about half-way at this point), I plan to add my other collections to squirl.com.
Oh, and I plan to get a window-seat cushion, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Thanks again for the comments!
John

inlägg gjort av SpacemanSpiff vid 8:57 pm (EST) Aug 5, 2007

Hi - I love your homepage (and your Flowsnake, too, of course). My wife is actually the fiber arts person in the household, but, wow: mathquilts.

- Bob

inlägg gjort av AsYouKnow_Bob vid 11:21 pm (EST) Jul 25, 2007

Thanks for your comment. I'm always surprised and pleased to get a comment from other LT'ers!

Yes, that is my college slided rule. This was LONG before computers and even before the first hand held calculators!

inlägg gjort av etrainer vid 10:08 pm (EST) Jul 9, 2007

Thank you, you are my first comment. Actually, we also share The Joy of Jello, too. I haven't got around to logging all the vintage cookbooks yet. Too many of them, and it's hard to get the images for each.

inlägg gjort av eggwood vid 2:02 pm (EST) Jun 29, 2007