Happy Birthday, Margo!

[Paul Sisco]

Let’s have a cheer:

Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar,

All for Margo stand up and holler!

[Robert Coker]

Happy Birthday Margo.

 

I just stood up and hollered “Margo’s 81, oh my”

 

Robert

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[Christina Winter]

Happy birthday Margo!

I am hollering!!

📣📣📣

Got the megaphones out!

Tina

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[Margo Macdonald]

Thanks Paul for always remembering.  Christina and Robert, I believe that would have been a sight to behold.  For my birthday, I found my debit card which I lost last Saturday.  I knew it would show up and it did….right where I lost it.  It has already been an amazing day.  

I will start working on 82 tomorrow.  Love to all, Margo

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[Raymond Spence]

Margo, Happy birthday!

We still have the "Friends" plaster door ornament on our patio door. You gave it to us at one of our Training School/ CHS parties years ago.

Have a great day!

Raymond

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[Margo Macdonald]

Raymond, I loved that garden art.  The place I got it closed when USC took over the farmer’s market area next to the stadium.  There are not little farmer’s markets, but none so grand as that place.  I grieve all the small businesses that die due to condo builders. Take care and enjoy spring.  Margo

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[Christina Winter]

Let’s all go for 82, 83, 84 - life is Good! Lets celebrate every day and the ones before us!

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On Apr 13, 2026, at 4:08 PM, Margo Macdonald <margo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Raymond, I loved that garden art.  The place I got it closed when USC took over the farmer’s market area next to the stadium.  There are not little farmer’s markets, but none so grand as that place.  I grieve all the small businesses that die due to condo builders. Take care and enjoy spring.  Margo

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[Dean Pope]

Happy Birthday and Happy Spring, Margo.  So far being 81 has been a little hectic.  But I just got back from a wonderful trip to Italy with my granddaughters and their parents. I concentrated mostly on health food  — bread with olive oil, wine, melon, gelato and  prosecco with a variety of pastas. I will hoist a glass to you at dinner and suggest that you hoist one to yourself.  You deserve it.  

Dean

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On Apr 13, 2026, at 4:08 PM, Margo Macdonald <margo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Raymond, I loved that garden art.  The place I got it closed when USC took over the farmer’s market area next to the stadium.  There are not little farmer’s markets, but none so grand as that place.  I grieve all the small businesses that die due to condo builders. Take care and enjoy spring.  Margo

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[Margo Macdonald]

Dean, I appreciate your health food.  I will drink some Lemoncella instead of wine.  Yum.

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[Dean Pope]

Margo- I actually had some homemade Lemoncella at its birth place in Positano, made by the local lady who cooked us dinner one night. Refreshing but unlikely to replace bourbon in Virginia. My hoist to you tonight  was with a very nice Italian white. I think that you would approve. Like you — elegant and refreshing. And no pretension.

Dean

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On Apr 13, 2026, at 6:33 PM, Margo Macdonald <margo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dean, I appreciate your health food.  I will drink some Lemoncella instead of wine.  Yum.

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[Mike Murphy]

Happy Birthday Margo! Are you going to Gatlinburg this year for an art project?

Mike M

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On Apr 13, 2026, at 1:57 PM, Margo Macdonald <margo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Paul for always remembering.  Christina and Robert, I believe that would have been a sight to behold.  For my birthday, I found my debit card which I lost last Saturday.  I knew it would show up and it did….right where I lost it.  It has already been an amazing day.  

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[Margo Macdonald]

Mike, I go to Arrowmont yearly, mainly in the fall.  I taken Brandy's (Nan to me) advice and started quilting.  I belong to a church group who make quilts for people who are sick or who have lost a dear one, or even for happy reasons.  I have almost learned the math of quilting and am best at ironing.  I still do a little painting and handwork.  I taught two classes on slow stitching.  Who knew that was a thing?  So I am doing many art projects.

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[Karen Wade]

Happy birthday 🎈🎁!! Quilts can be very artistic if you go to quilting shows. Or do you do the patterns?

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[Susan Alexander]

Margo, I will be 81 just slightly behind you. Happy 81st! I agree that we should aim high -- why not? If we are able to send emails and use incredible emojis ( thanks, Tina!), travel to Italy ( I'm jealous, Dean), never miss a birthday (Paul, you are amazing), or remember who gave you a present and when -- though years ago (congrats to Raymond), I say shoot for 100 at a minimum. And Margo, you are a very special woman...we are all lucky to have known you for so long. Let's make it much longer! ( I hope I got all of the above names and kudos correct-- maybe it's a good thing that I live in a senior residence!) My apologies if I missed your comment... it's a pain to scroll back through emails on a cell phone.

Love ❤️ to all of you, keep on livin'!

Susan

PS: don't you love having sunlight after dinner? !!! I do.Susan ❤️ 

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[Susan Alexander]

What, Margo, is slow stitching? Count me among those who did not know it was a thing!

Susan

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[Margo Macdonald]

Ha, Karen, right now I do what I am told.  Hope for the future,  Thanks,Margo

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[Margo Macdonald]

Susan, I agree that we should live for a long time….as long as we have our wits or at least one wit.  Slow Stitching is a mediative practice.  It may have had its origin during WWI in the English Embroidery Guilds.  These women took men from hospitals in “shell shock” and put them to work doing embroidery.  Their work is still exhibited in the guild houses. Many of these men were healed and return to society.  The embroidery is not particularly beautiful but it can be.  It is repetitive and simple. 

Another place that is known for slow stitching is Japan with examples of Sashiko and Boro.  It uses simple running stitches to mend and reinforce clothing.  I mend all my jean shirts with patches of brightly colored cotton using Sashiko stitches.  I have an aversion to the material clothes are made from today.  It feels awful to me..  I look like a doty old bag lady, but it is just my style.  Margo

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[Mike Murphy]

Margo, when we lived in Murray KY we were just about 40 miles south of Paducah, the home of quilting. We went to the quilting museum once and were amazed at some of the quilts. Have you ever been?

Mike

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On Apr 13, 2026, at 8:14 PM, Margo Macdonald <margo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Mike, I go to Arrowmont yearly, mainly in the fall.  I taken Brandy's (Nan to me) advice and started quilting.  I belong to a church group who make quilts for people who are sick or who have lost a dear one, or even for happy reasons.  I have almost learned the math of quilting and am best at ironing.  I still do a little painting and handwork.  I taught two classes on slow stitching.  Who knew that was a thing?  So I am doing many art projects.

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[Margo Macdonald]

I have not been there.  I’m very new to this, so when I told Karen that I do what I am told, I really do.  I sew blocks that someone else cut.  I am the worst cutter outer ever.  The best thing I do is make Christmas Coffee bags.  We are a conduit for coffee grown by Mexican farmers if they can get it through the border that is shut down even for commerce periodically.  We give the coffee away to some people.  People also buy it for presents.  We put it into handmade cloth bags that we make so it looks nice.  We make about 250 of these gift bags a year.  The church doesn’t buy the coffee as Presbyterians really take the money changers in the Temple seriously.  Members of the Outreach committee buy the coffee and it is delivered by them.  They do this in support of a Mission at the border which has connections with the coffee growers.

I have seen films of that Museum.  There is also a film of quilters that are in prison.  Quilting both machine and hand is like sanding wood.  It is good for the soul and all else that ails you. I started going to the quilt group to help make coffee bags.  The atmosphere among these women is enlivening so I became a quilter.  You can always learn something new if you work with your hands.

What other crafts do you guys do?  Margo

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[Phil Aquino]

Murray is an hour east of Hickman, which is on the river.

My dad was born in Paducah and grew up in Hickman.   I spent many summers there.   It’s downtown flooded so many times over the years that the Main Street is for all practical purposes gone.    I have a picture of my grandfather and youngster Dad traipsing through the water.    A lot like Saint Marks Square.

Phil

 

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Margo, when we lived in Murray KY we were just about 40 miles south of Paducah, the home of quilting. We went to the quilting museum once and were amazed at some of the quilts. Have you ever been?

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[Margo Macdonald]

OK Phil, no pictures as of yet of the coffee bags, but this is a quilt that we are currently working on to hang in a room called the parlor at the church.  The room has recently been “redone” and it looks like a doctor’s office…not at all warm.  It has blue and grey furniture which is dreadful with cool white walls.  Apparently the committee was filled with people who knew nothing of color and its expression.  We have been asked to warm the place up with about three quilts.  It would take about 10 to help but this is a start.  It is about a door size quilt width and about 6 feet long.  This is unfinished with just the top of the quilt done.  The binding is going to be dark.  The quilting will add some definition and some lines of stitching from the center out. The material is lovely and gives off a soft glow.  Margo

(Just so you guys know, I did none of the cutting or stitching on this quilt, but I did help choose the material.)  I will show my work when I actually find some.  All the coffee bags are out on coffee bags.

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Murray is an hour east of Hickman, which is on the river.

My dad was born in Paducah and grew up in Hickman.   I spent many summers there.   It’s downtown flooded so many times over the years that the Main Street is for all practical purposes gone.    I have a picture of my grandfather and youngster Dad traipsing through the water.    A lot like Saint Marks Square.

Phil

 

On Apr 13, 2026, at 10:36 PM, 'Mike Murphy' via Cubs63 <cub...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Margo, when we lived in Murray KY we were just about 40 miles south of Paducah, the home of quilting. We went to the quilting museum once and were amazed at some of the quilts. Have you ever been?

Mike

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On Apr 13, 2026, at 8:14 PM, Margo Macdonald <margo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Mike, I go to Arrowmont yearly, mainly in the fall.  I taken Brandy's (Nan to me) advice and started quilting.  I belong to a church group who make quilts for people who are sick or who have lost a dear one, or even for happy reasons.  I have almost learned the math of quilting and am best at ironing.  I still do a little painting and handwork.  I taught two classes on slow stitching.  Who knew that was a thing?  So I am doing many art projects.

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Happy Birthday Margo! Are you going to Gatlinburg this year for an art project?

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