Today is our last babysitting day - a bonus day of our bonus week. We'll go back tomorrow for pizza lunch and to celebrate Autumn's Jan 10 birthday early. We only have two more sleeps here.
SHARONA - brrrrr!!!! My phone says your lows are only about 24* with a high of 48*! My DSNIL (step niece in law) lives near you and got 6" of snow. How much did you get? Asking for a friend (my DBIL who is in FL right now. It's his DD). Your warranty doesn't by any chance pay for hotels, does it??? I'm assuming you have no fireplace or woodstove. Maybe a few space heaters? I sure hope you get heat by today! I can't remember what kind of machine you have - thinking a Bernie - but I know my Bernies aren't supposed to be cold like that. And if they are, they need to be brought back to room temp before trying to sew with them again. I know we all love our machines but you may have to actually sleep with yours to keep it warm!
CHRISS - Oh, please don't climb on ladders and lift totes! They can sit on the floor until someone comes along who can do that for you. Or you can revise where you store them. My younger sis only has a few so she stacks them behind her curved couch, tosses a quilt over them, and voila`! A console table where she puts a lamp! And don't you have a wall in your sewing room that is mostly cubbies where you can sort and store your fabric? Or have you changed your room and gotten rid of the cubbies? Or gotten more fabric???
JANA - oh, wouldn't it have been fun to go through those totes of ornaments??
LYN - I'm so happy your computer is now happy again. And, apparently, so is your geek! Win/win/win! And yes, as of Sunday night, after we say good bye to our kids, we'll finally be off Covid protocol. Though, we could go into a few places wearing masks - and Bill has a couple of times - I've had no reason so haven't. So when we leave Austin Monday morning, we're going to Houston our first night and will see Cindy and Sue Monday night.
MARY Q - That is a LOT of storage space above your garage!! We just have a small loft, but we do have a fixed stairway. It's where the little rocking horse lived for almost 40 yrs. I LOVE the fabrics in your quilts! So pretty! You are really getting a lot of stuff done. Rounding up those UFO's and dealing with them is kind of like cleaning out the fridge of leftovers after Christmas! What kind of batting did you get and how much is on a bolt? We buy and pick up our batting at the W&N factory by the bolt - 40 yds of 90" wide - on a roll. It lasts me about 15 months.
FLO - I'm not much of a FB person, but I will try to find your quilt. Any chance you could post a photo of it here on the forum?
JUDI - what was the pattern that you decided to nix? I probably know but forgot. I've never decorated our bedroom, though we do have a ceramic tree from the 70's, with a lightbulb inside and multi-colored little removable plastic "bulbs" and it sits on top of Bill's dresser. It's on all the time, all year long - our nightlight.
LOIS - Looks like there will be a few of us doing the Cats in PJ's quilts. I love when that happens. It's fun to compare the similarities and differences in fabric choices! I can't wait to start mine. I will have to hit the ground sewing when we get home. I have to have Foxes, Butterflies, Cats, Unicorns, and Hedgehogs (all Hartman patterns except for foxes) done by or before end of May. They are all needed before then, plus we will be spending our summer driving to Alaska (and back).
Yesterday was a little different with our Kumquat. She'd had a bad night and kept her parents up most of the night. So SHE slept in, but her mom and dad went to work exhausted. They came home at 1:30 to nap, anticipating another bad night ahead. So we took Baby for a long stroll, then a long play session with her in the giant playpen, then her supper. We did it! We kept her quiet for 2 hours! We're curious to see what kind of night she had. We also took headshot photos of us with her, sent them to CVS to be developed (8x10's), and picked them up on our way home. One for her and one for us. We're going to get a frame and give it to her tomorrow so she can hopefully not forget us.
We have our campsite all picked up except for our outdoor stove and 3 chairs (Foxy has to have a chair, too, or he steals ours!). So, we're nearly ready to roll out. Once the goodbyes are said and we're on our way, I'll be fine (I think), but for now, I'm getting a bit, what Other Mary calls, schmoopy. But we are leaving just in time. Allergy season, aka cedar fever season here, is just starting and I'm feeling it. And I have no allergies! Except to Texas.
Treasure your day!
mary z
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