After 3 nice days, I think we're in for a stormy day today (and a rainy week to follow). That's OK. I'll call it sewing weather! We've had 3 days of yard work, a couple hours each afternoon. We have 2-1/2 heavily wooded acres and about half of that is house & yard. The yard work we're doing now is removing about a 6" layer of fall leaves from everything and hauling them by tractor bucket loads to our slash pile in the woods. I'll have to go through the yard later, mostly on my knees, weeding, but for now we're just trying to get the fall leaves and 4 months of winter blow down (branches, fir cones, cedar sheddings, etc) cleaned up. I love our property but it does take work a few times a year. We priced yard maintenance companies - minimum of 2 people for 4 hours - $900! So we do it ourselves.
In the morning, though, I finished "filing" away all my fabrics, shortened a pair of pants, and got backing pieced for my Cats in PJ's. I did piece the little girl's name, Rylan, in 6" letters. I didn't have enough of a single fabric for backing so I used two that coordinated. And added her name. It turned out cute. After it's quilted and bound I'll share a photo. Today I'll start on name and backing for the unicorn quilt for Rylan's twin, Addison. Again, I'm going to have to use two different fabrics for backing, but they are leftovers from the front - unicorns and purple stars. It's going to work!
TINA - I'm sorry your leg is still bad. Is it the same leg that you hurt last year? And I'm happy for you that Frankie is willing to take on the yard work. If Bill can use the tractor, the chainsaw, or his industrial strength leaf blower, he'll help in the yard. But in 32 years, he hasn't pulled a single weed and he's not about to break that record now!
Happy birthday to your Kevin! So nice that the kids are coming to you instead of you having to drive to Cruces again. Enjoy those little boys!! (and the big boy, too!)LORI - You made me think of burgers. I might ask Bill if he wants them for supper. It means standing outside at the grill and it's going to be a stormy day, but our deck is covered so maybe . . . It did feel good to be out in the sunshine, didn't it. We had sunshine, too, though most of it was covered by a layer of clouds.
CAROL - what kind of soup did you make? A very good ide to use your scraps and orphan blocks - placemats for meals on wheels. I decimated my scrap bin with my king sized crazy quilt. Took me a few years, though.
BECCA - you are so right - being with the grands and greats, especially, makes you susceptible to all kinds of viruses, etc. I haven't had even a cold in many years, but we have no little ones around us either. I'd choose the family if I could. I hope you get to see a photo of the twins with their new little brother soon. Do they live close to you? I can never remember who is near you and who lives further away.
Well, I'm not sure about supper tonite. We have leftover spaghetti sauce. Lori made me think of burgers and that's an option. So is homemade pizza. When my Other Half wakes up, I'll give him his choice and let you know.
What's YOUR choice?
P.S. He chose burgers! So now he has to chose fries, tots, beans, or just salad.
