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January 2020

Bible study...
Lifeway Christian Bookstores closed all their brick and mortar stores, so I stocked up on several Bible studies. I have a few books that our women's group at church have done over the years that I never totally finished, so I'm going to start with one in January. Many of them have 6-8 weeks worth of lessons, so I'm hoping to do 6-8 studies this year. Up first is Fight Back with Joy by Margaret Feinberg.
 
Quilting...
Yesterday I showed  how out of control my craft room has become. My goal is to quilt at least one quilt top a month, as well as bind and label it. For January I'm going to tackle a Christmas quilt I pieced a year ago.
 
Hobby...
The Southern Wake Quilters Guild has a president's challenge every year. This year the challenge is to do something for each of the 4 charities the guild supports. I've already completed the one for Ryan's Case for Smiles (hope to show those tomorrow). For this month, my goal is to make the kids size quilt for Quilts for Kids.
 
House project....
Finish painting our bathroom. I started that project back during the summer but for various reasons could not finish the same weekend I started. Then after my fall in September it's not been safe for me to climb up and down the ladder. My knee is still not well, but it's well enough that I can conquer the last parts of the bathroom now. No more excuses!!

Reading...
Over the last several years I've purchased books at sales that are out of my normal genres of reading. Several of them I've actually started! This year I want to add them to my "books read" list. Since I don't read non-fiction with the same zeal as fiction, for January my goal is to actually read half of one of these books. No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion, edited by Jeff Toalson, is one of my six historical books to read this year.

Cleaning...
Finish cracking pecans. I know that doesn't sound like cleaning, but I've been trying to eliminate the bushel basket of pecans from last year (so I can start this years!). I came to close to finished the bushel basket today, and there's about a peck bucket beside it, then 2018 pecans will be done. Since every other year is the larger harvest, we don't have as many for this year (about a peck total). It's ambitious but reasonable to think I can have all of them cracked and bagged by the end of the month. 
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