LOIS - nice that you got a new bundt pan for your hubby's birthday! lol! I bake so few bundts that mine will still be like new if I live to be 99 yrs old! Hope you get to sew today!
KATHY - I'm glad to be an inspiration to you - I think. I gave away a set of Christmas dishes. In fact, two. But I had three!
So you can see why I had to start purging! lol!
CINDY - well??? Are you a great gramma???
LORI - I think we're all relieved that I settled down here and quit cleaning! haha! But if we have many more rainy days, I might have to start again. Have a fun time in Utah!
LYN - what a nice story about your mom and a testament to the power of faith. I'm smiling again!
JANA - gosh! I hope you don't get snow in 3 weeks! What is your elevation? I think each boy would like their own individual sewing lessons. But start with the eldest first! My DGS's wanted to learn to sew but by the time I saw them next, they'd lost interest.
MARY ROSE - you had a busy and productive day yesterday! I love Halloween sewing in the fall. But everyone in my family has their Halloween quilt so I probably won't do any this year. But I know you'll enjoy yours!
IZZY - I missed what your "second grade throw top" is about. But glad you're almost done with it. Hope your license arrived.
CHRISS - I went to an all girls private school and we had to take PE, too. And I had to wear an old fashioned knee length gym skirt thing from the fifties that my mom got used from an older student. All the rest of the girls got to wear the cute little shorts sets that were new that year. Color me
. Then we had to duck walk around the parking lot for exercise and the boys from our counterpart school would drive by and hoot at us. More morification. I knew they were singling me out! Sports and I have never been friends! Glad you didn't go to that quilt show! and yes, you and I know I'll be sorting out that closet soon, possibly today.
JUDI - I'm so not a casino person. We stop for free overnights in their parking lots sometimes and if so, we patronize their restaurants. But we just aren't gamblers. Mostly because we can't figure out the new machines! haha! I'd be in the RV with you, in jammies, stitching away!
BECCA - sheets are another thing I need to purge. Every closet I go into, I find another set! We have a queen in the trailer and a king in the house. End of beds. I don't need twins or doubles any longer! lol!
FLO - sorry about the cold coming on. Fluids and rest. And still they seem to be 3 days coming, 3 days here, and 3 days going.
Yesterday Bill and his sister visited Ernie and his older brother, Jay. Ernie seemed a little bit better and it looks like he will be transferred soon to a skilled nursing home near us. I spent a lot of my day preparing documents re Vicki to take to the courthouse to petition for involuntary hospitalization. That is going to happen this week. Praying something comes of it for her sake as well as ours. Though, come to think of it, if she leaves her home, who's going to feed the rats???! Yikes!
I did play in my sewing room a bit. I cross-stitched a pillow for my mom at least 35 years ago. It has her name, Marie, on it with blue/yellow flowers. I've re-backed and re-stuffed the pillow twice before but finally I had to rip it apart again and I made a small wallhanging from the stitchery for my sewing room. I also started cross-stitching a quilt label. I have the words done and am doing a little house on it as well. It's a house-warming quilt for Bill's sister's new home.
Funny story - a few weeks ago Bill asked me if I'd ordered Lori Holt's Farm Girl Vintage II because he had received a shipping notice. I hadn't. Turns out he did some early Christmas shopping and forgot all about it. And the book arrived yesterday. He insisted I open it. lol! Yay for me!
Time for another cuppa!
Piece, ladies!
mary z