TUESDAY, April 29th, 2025

[purrfect-lady]

Good morning, Girls,

I slept well - yay for me! I only woke twice and went right back to sleep. 7-1/2 hrs. I'm going to put a star on the calendar.

It's supposed to rain today so I'll be inside, doing laundry and hanging in my sewing room. I have my third crazy border almost finished. I plan to finish it and get started on the fourth. Then it will be time to start attaching borders to the quilt with mitered corners. Whew! I'm so ready to be done with this project! 'Cuz I counted - I have 13 UFO's and 2 WIP. Not to mention quilts in the planning stage that I haven't even started yet. I don't need just a mini-me, I need a whole squadron of Minions! But thinking about it, 2 of my UFO's are quilts that have been sitting in the Quilting Queue for some months now. Shouldn't they count as Bill's UFO's instead of mine??

LORI - I'm a morning person - even as a kid and a teen. If I get up at 0500 I feel like I'm late! But by 3pm, I'm done. It's time to sit down and relax, and I'm in bed by 8:30 to 9. Do you have a wall where you can display all your mini quilts? My younger sister's SIL quilts and all she makes is mini's. How special to find cards from your grandparents' wedding!

JUDI - Happy Anniversary! I read once of a long-married woman's advice to marriage. You give him 10 "things" before you decide to kill him. And every time he commits one of those "things", you say, "That's #1. . . " It's always #1. You got a lot of things accomplished yesterday. Do you always work out a week's menu and then shop? I've tried that a few times but it seems nothing ever goes according to plan.

JANA - you got a reprieve from your dental surgery, but this isn't the way you want to do it! So now are you taking your BP every day, and recording it, until your dr appt? Because that's probably what your dr will direct you to do. I have to say - like Judi - Mine goes up just driving by the office. I think I have a crown replacement in my near future. I can feel my BP rising just mentioning it.

MARY Q - I loved your photos! I remember all those quilts now. Nice to have them done! I only had time to glance at them yesterday. I need to go back and really look at them today. I think that Live, laugh, love quilt would make an ideal graduation present - or even a wedding quilt. When I have extra quilts from lottos, swaps, etc, I take them to the nursing home at Christmas for residents who have no families to bring them a gift. Believe me, they are grateful!

CHRISS - we are twins this week - appointments, yardwork, sewing. It's so nice of you to go clean your parents' house. I know how much they appreciate you! I did that, too, when I still had my parents, but not as much as I should have. Yes, being a baby parent is much different now. No real food until 6 or 9 months old. I think avocado was one of Amara's first foods, too. I do remember it was green. And peanut allergies have become such a 'thing' that the first time they gave Amara peanut butter, they did it in the ER parking lot! So Daddy got in the back seat next to her ready for quick action if she reacted while Mama gave her the peanut butter. And she started screaming and was definitely distressed! Autumn started to panic and was getting ready to grab and run for the ER doors. They finally realized Daddy was wearing a hat. She'd never seen him in a hat before and it scared her. Turns out she loves peanut butter!

VAL - When you post on the wrong thread, and have the time, you can always go to 'edit', highlight your entire post, cut, go to the correct thread, and paste it there. You probably know that but had to scurry off to your class. I'm glad to hear you were able to get back to your MC project. You must wear a cape to be able to work on so many projects at one time. I can't do that. Maybe because I have no place to put projects aside while I work on others. And also because I get focused on one thing and can't let go of it until it's finished.

LOIS - your baby quilt sounds adorable. Next time I'm in my sewing room, if I can think of it, I'll shoot you a photo of the pattern I have. They do sound similar.

LYN - How did Day 1 at the Service Center go? You have your vehicle so you can go places. Quilt shops? Fishing shops? Lunch? Don't you have relatives in the area to visit, too? Let me know if you want the paperback book I mentioned. I have it set aside for you.

Yesterday was kind of chilly and gloomy. Today might be 60* but cloudy and breezy. An indoor day. With indoor chores. I have at least 4 loads of clothes to do. I'm saving the "big stuff" like vacuuming, bathrooms, mopping until I have my NYB ready for quilting - and that should be by the end of the week. Then I'm going to have to whip my LA'er into action.

I veered from my planned menu yesterday and made split pea soup for supper. But it was a little thin, so I tossed in a cup of leftover cooked rice. Still thin so I added a handful of macaroni. Then it was too thick! But tasty. I thought. The 'peanut gallery' was very quiet and gave me no comments. Leftovers for lunch. Supper will be grilled chicken breasts. I often marinate chicken in Italian dressing, but am out of it right now. so I'll make my own with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and herbs de provence. I think I'll make potato/onion packets to put on the grill as long as it will be going anyway. And a veggie TBA.

Happy bobbin emptying!
mary z
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[zfatcat]

Happy Anniversary Judi and Ken.

[WeeOne]

Day 2, possible rain today. It was nice to get up at 4:30 to 70° weather.

We are here for the whole week. I have the MH ready to roll when Troy, our tech shows up at 6. He drives it across the street into the building and backs it into his bay. Between 2 and 2:30 he brings it back to the campground, parks, hooks up electric and puts slides out. The only time they have kept it overnight was in 2020 when we got a new windshield and they wanted it to seal good. Then we stayed overnight at a hotel that night.

Yesterday I went to an Amish store that sells fabric, it was only 3 miles away. I did buy a yard if fabric and 2 quilt block magnets, one for me and one for Deb.

I will get to some others while we're here.

Hope y'all have a great day.
Lyn

MaryZ, I apologize. I typed a text back but forgot to hit send. DUH

[auntjana]

Good morning!

At least it's somewhat better. My kids ganged up on me and 8 spent several hours at the ER last night. My BP was severely high, so we had it checked out. I have a appointment on the 12th with the family dr, but they were still fussing. Turns out I was right and nothing wrong. Still the BP is high, but the ER Dr figured that my system has adjusted to a higher BP for some time and didn't want to mess with it and let the family Dr start adjusting and adding a BP med. All systems tested OK , so that's where we're at. I take a reading and log it so the Dr has a chart of what it's doing, until the 12th. DDS is on hold for a bit.

So today I'll catch up on missing sleep and then see what I can get into trouble wise. I good at trouble!

Happy Anniversary Judi and Ken!

Here's a old Amish story I know - you see there was a Amish gentleman that got married and took his bride off in the horse drawn carriage. They were happy, giggling and talking as they drove down the road. Then the horse stumbled and the gentleman said, that's one. The bride looked and wondered what he meant. Still they continued on and the horse stumbled again, that's two the gentleman stated. Perplexed the bride again wondered what he's talking about, when the horse stumbled a third time. That's three, and the gentleman stopped the carriage, got out and took out his gun, and shot the horse dead. Oh the bride started yelling, questioning what he just did. How could he do that. She went on and on. When the gentleman turned , looked at her, and said , that's one.

Hugs,
Jana

[zfatcat]

Jana, thanks for the giggle. That's one. hahaha Glad you are okay. I have to be dying before I'd go to the ER.

Lyn, glad things are going smoothly. Nice that you found some fabric that needed a home.

Maryz, my norm is about 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 hours of sleep. I'll sleep right through unless one of the boys needs to go out and potty. I was up at 6 to let Jack out, then at 630 to let Wrigley out. So I just stayed up. Usually I don't get up until 730. I do have a place for my display wall. Just need a few free hours to put it up. I move everything once a month to clean in the sewing room, so I'll do it then.

Well I'm up early and have had coffee. Just letting the boys digest their food and we'll head out for out walk. I have another appointment at the bank this morning and need to get into the safety deposit box as well. After that Bill should be home and we'll head out for late lunch. Dance class last night was fun. I'm actually starting to get the hang of it. We're looking for another place to dance on another day. It's great exercise and so much fun.

Have a lovely day.

[Marilynsgrammy]

Good morning. It's going to be a great day today. I'm going into town today to get a few things. Yardwork will likely consume the rest of my day.

Judi, I really think it's cool, that after 59 years together, you look forward to your anniversary. Hope the smile never leaves your face.

Maryq, I really don't cook much, mainly because I don't want to clean up a big mess. My chicken is usually put into the air fryer and eaten with a veggie. I pretty much have the same meals over and over, not a lot of variety. It wouldn't be bad to give a sleep study a shot. I wish I had done one long before my sleep apnea got bad. And, because I use a cpap machine I get a medical device discount on my electric bill.

Jana, hope you get fixed soon so you can have that dental work.

Lori, I hope you find Annette and are able to send her those photos. Sort of makes you wonder, you found them after all these years and maybe Annette needs a smile now and those photos will be just what gives her that smile. Your rock wall fort was much cooler than mine. Mine was walls made from raked leaves. Lots of stuff needing to be wrapped up when dealing with an estate. I reminded my dad yesterday that he needs to show me some things. Glad you are likiung line dancing, it does sound fun.

Maryz, when soup gets too thick put it in a pyrex dish sprinkle cheese on top and call it a casserole. I had forgotten about the peanut butter in the ER episode of the tripleA sitcom. My kids are the same way and will surely be sitting in that ER parking lot too. Wonder how our grandkids will raise their kids? Emily Taylor has a pattern Flora and Felines, it made me think of you.

Lyn, I like the way that the MH place works. You get to spend the night in your own bed, it's a great set up. And you get to explore all day long.

Well, that's it for me, time to get moving. No clue what dinner will be, I have bacon thawed out, maybe a bacon cheeseburger. Hope you all have a fab day,
Chriss

[grammiequilts]

Good afternoon I didnt get here today as planned, I had bread dough rising over night so I took care of that this morning then and old friend ( my oldest friend) called she wanted to catch up so we did,,,Ive known her for 40 yrs.
Today we go for the hearing aides this afternoon and then we have dinner plans,,And a gift card from the kids..all is good.
I am headed to thr sewing room for an hour to work on blocksthen get ready to go///
Jana I fit was me I would call the drs office back and tell them exactly what your blood pressure has been and that you were in the Er already,,,they should get you in in the next 2 days not 2 weeks and I would tell them so...It has worked here,,,Since you already have a significant stroke risk or Heart attack risk they shouldny make you wait 2 weeks.....that is not exceptable....but you need to tell them that,,,the squeaky wheel gets the oil I worry about you....<3
Thank you for the anniversary wishes,,,XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo