Today is Kumquat's 4-month birthday! Yay! They sent a little video of her yesterday. Looks like she is in training for the 3-foot crawl! lol! We leave in 2 months, 3 weeks to go see her! oh - and her parents, too.
Yesterday we both finished our quilting - me, my wall hanging and Bill, Catholes. Today I will make a Catholes label and then bind both projects while he loads the last top in the QQ. I don't know yet which one of us is going to quilt it (it's a lotto win from last year). By the time we finish these last few projects it will be time to pick blackberries again, and vacuum, mop, dust, etc. I work on Amara's cross-stitch stocking in slack times and through the evenings. I'm about 1/3 done. This pattern is really testing all my rusty skills.
TINA - Did you find your missing patterns? I've got a lot of patterns in binders, too. About ten binders, last count. All sorted and organized by topics. Most I culled from magazines when my mag collection got too unwieldly. I also have a box, bigger than a photo box, that is full of smaller patterns that come in 5x7 ziplocks. And of course, all my books. Too many!! But I tried to go through and eliminate some a few months back and I got rid of 2. Just 2 patterns and no books. I'm hopeless.
BECCA - With that white squirrel running all over the place, you are bound to be having some excellent luck! How is the baby quilt coming along? Are you hand quilting it?
CAROL - I guess the main thing is the pool is gone and the kids are safe - at least from that. No, I didn't see the author of the Med Cookbook I saw at Costco. Next time we go to Costco, I'll try to remember to take a picture of the cover and send it to you.
LORI - We love line dancing, though haven't gone out for any kind of dancing for years. I had a big fat binder of all our choreographies but loaned it to a friend who, a few years later, had no recollection of ever borrowing it and now she's dead. So they are all lost now. But we used to do the Electric Slide, Stray Cat Strut, Cimmaron Stroll, Slap Leather, Tush Push, Achy Breaky Heart, and many more. We taught some of them. We also did a lot of couple dances - Two step, ten step, 16-step (Rebel Strut, I think), country waltz, country cha cha, Schottische, polka, etc. We were in a dance club called the Guns & Garters, and did performances around the area. Our dance teacher was our friend, Tex , who actually is from Amarillo! Have fun with your dancing! It's great exercise! I didn't have a weight problem until our club and dance team disbanded.
Tina can tell you much more about chilies. But I use them to make chile rellenos, chili casseroles, or dice up into chicken enchiladas, chili, meatloaf, and some soups and stews. They have varying degrees of heat. I like medium.
Tonite's supper, I think, is going to be white chili using up the extra chicken we grilled last night and some of those chilies!
What sounds tempting to you?
