I hope you all had a nice Fourth no matter how you celebrated. The older I get the more this holiday means to me. We had a great day and evening. I had plenty of time to do my kitchen work in the morning, sew on my Christmas Swap blocks, quilt a little bit of OWL in the afternoon, and visit with our new Boondocker who is an avid quilter from CO. We had a good time sharing pictures, stories, questions, and other adventures in sewing. They are leaving this morning and I'm sorry they aren't staying longer. They fit right in with our friends who came for the BBQ. In fact, they were all exchanging cards! lol! Our evening was nice and one couple even brought some empty peanut butter jars they'd saved for Scottie to lick out! Now THAT is a good guest! They also brought R/W/B silk leis for all us ladies and a pot of yummy beans! Everyone left by 10pm just when the "boomers" started booming. Things got very noisy for the next two hours. It was not a happy time for our furry or feathered folks here! Today, I'll do some sewing, some quilting, and some relaxing with a book, I think. We are almost finished cleaning up after the party. Bill needs to fold up a table and the lawn chairs and put them away and take out the trash but that's about all there is left to do. I already cleaned up the kitchen.
TINA - I'm imagining your room and I think I've got it. When you sit to sew, will you face the wall (where your LA used to be) or will you arrange your machine differently. Glad you had an iron waiting in the wings though I had a Shark once and it did the same thing your iron just did to you. So I am off that brand along with Rowenta and Oliso. My new iron is supposed to be delivered today. I feel for your granddoggies being alone and hearing all the booming from the fireworks. Glad you are watching out for them. What all is Holly and fam doing while in San Diego? I don't suppose they will go to QIAD and bring you back a "souvinier"? San Marcos is close!
JANA - glad to hear Michael is being such a good patient and making progress. Has he ever had heart problems before or is this all a total surprise to you? You have said he was a big foggy on occasion and breathless now and then. But you thought they were sequellae to his Covid. Maybe not? ICU rooms are certainly not designed with the comfort of visitors in mind!! Probably for a reason.
BECCA - oh, I hope you don't start clucking! People tend to look askance at clucking ladies!
You mentioned going to watch/listen to a band yesterday. It instantly brought to my mind the old Disney movie, "Pollyanna" and the scene where the band played in a park gazebo, on Fourth of July. CAROL - My furbabies agree with you about the fireworks! Even our owls kicked up quite a protesting fuss last night. Did you get your bindings on yesterday?
We have a lot of brats left over so we will have more of those tonite, plus a green salad. Other folks brought the side dishes we had last night and took home their leftovers, thankfully. They were all so good and I know I'd be overeating if I had them here. My coconut cake turned out pretty well but we have half of it left, so I'll going to send a couple pieces with our Boondockers this morning. We have WAY too much for us!
What's going on your plate tonite
