Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen . . . .

. . . . feared by the bad, loved by the good. . . .

There's a new Robin Hood movie coming out.

I've loved Robin Hood since I was a kid. Richard Greene as Robin Hood is still on my local Channel 11.2 in the afternoons. That TV program dates back to the late 1950's.

The next Robin Hood I remember is Kevin Costner. His movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves came out in 1991 when I was teaching at Columbia Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. I had to drive past the theaters on Little River Turnpike to get home. Stopped there after school one day and saw the movie first run. Bought the movie too.

I also have a Sean Connery movie from maybe 1976 called Robin and Marian. The Robin Hood character has aged in that movie.

Are there other Robin Hood's that I haven't mentioned?

Russell Crowe as the new Robin Hood? I'll have to wait and see.

Bisquick!!

I remember my mom making Bisquick biscuits back in the 1950's. She'd roll out the dough and use a donut cutter (without the center hole cutter) to make biscuits to go with our Sunday fried chicken dinners. Fast forward to the 2000's. I remember me dropping biscuit dough on a cookie sheet for a fast version of Bisquick Cheese-Garlic Biscuits.

What's my fascination with these quick biscuits? I really love those cheesy biscuits from the national chain restaurant Red Lobster.

A few years back I searched the Internet for one of those copycat recipes for the Red Lobster biscuits. One recipe even contains Bisquick! Then a routine cruise through Raley's grocery store took me to the aisle for baking ingredients. And there was the small package of the cheesy biscuit mix from Bisquick!

But then came the day when Raley's didn't have any of the cheesy-garlic biscuit mix on the shelf. I settled for the buttermilk biscuit mix instead. Aaaah, these buttermilk biscuits are great with honey for Sunday breakfast. Can you smell them baking?

National Quilting Day

It's National Quilting Day!! The National Quilting Association has provided a pattern to help celebrate the day. The pattern is called Tie One On For the Troops.

So what am I doing on National Quilting Day? So many choices!! I have a quilt top layered and ready to baste. The graphic on the left shows my Electric Quilt version. I enlarged a pattern called Spring Pinwheels from FreePatterns.com. Their pattern contains directions for a 20" x 20" wall hanging. I needed a 40" x 40" version.

Did I say "choices"? My neighborhood Walmart will be closing soon! A new Walmart SuperCenter will be opening about 4 miles away. Of course it is opening without a fabric department. So today I could celebrate National Quilting Day by buying those Walmart fabrics that will soon be gone. They have some beautiful butterfly fabric I've been looking at for months. Then there are the pillow panels with roses. Then there is the tone-on-tone white that can be used for backgrounds.

Another choice? I've been overwhelmed with work for the past several months. Hardly any time for myself. I think it's time to bust out of this town for the day! About 1½ hours from here is a wonderful nursery and quilt shop. It's open seven days a week and has fabrics I don't usually see locally. It's called Workman Farms Crafts & Nursery in Fallon, Nevada. It could be a beautiful day for a drive.

And even another choice! At the No Quilt Police Yahoo Group, we have a quilt design challenge. Some folks started last month to be finished by National Quilting Day. Others are doing something special today. We'll share Electric Quilt and Quilt Pro project files. Last evening I started putting blocks from a children's book into Electric Quilt. Then I'll design a quilt or two with those blocks.

Soooo, what shall I choose. . . . . . ?