morning! oh what a beautiful day. 
i just feel like singing! could it be because i dropped off the D O G for obedience/pre-field training for TWO (2) whole weeks?!??!?!?
it could be.
and it is!!!!
the D O G
is growing. and chewing. gah. he’s “perpetual motion”.
except when he’s not. he likes to pretend he’s a scarf.
did i mention he is growing? yesterday i had to pick up another bigger kennel for him to keep at the kid’s house. sometimes i just need to be able to contain him. and it also allows the kids and i to actually LEAVE sometimes.
if i can’t contain him, things like this happen. this was popped ball #1 of the day.
so the new kennel, right?
i’m nothing if not “adaptable”
popped ball #2 of the day
it’s hard to tell in this shot, but schult-z is laughing at me. bad D O G.
down and out
but not dead. at least not yet. and i don’t think i will be. 6 days of not feeling well. this morning i woke up with a headache and ear ache to add to the sore throat and coughing that i’ve been dealing with for several days. enuf! i say to myself. go thee to a physician.
so i did. i arrived at acute care 3 minutes after it opened and was cheerfully handed a card reflecting #20. what ho? how did you seat 20 patients before me in 3 minutes. oh well, too sick to wonder about it for more than a brief moment. i sit. i wait. i continue to sit and wait. 127 minutes later my number is up. i’m weighed and measured, blood pressured and pulsed. and it’s back to the lobby for me because there are no rooms open. i sit. and i wait. i’m called back in to sit and wait. yea! the doc is here. i stick out my tongue and say ahhhh. i breathe. i’m poked and prodded and pronounced alive on arrival. 2 infections (1 raging and one getting a good start). some antibiotics and cough med w/codene and i’m on my happy way.
i’m just gonna burrow down for the next several hours. plan is to wake up 100% well tomorrow am.
autumn thoughts
kinda like “deep thoughts” but not really remember who’s writing this folks!
i’m still holding out hope for some warm weather (i still have to winterize the pool which i imagine includes getting IN it for a final clean…..sigh. why didn’t i do that 2 weeks ago?) but we’ve already had some pretty cool days.
hats and sweatshirts were the order of the day:
shoes in the sand:
and shoes in the mud:
this is how we make mud when nature doesn’t provide it:
find some dirt, pour water on it. lots of water.
and then make a funny face when nana suggests cleaning up.
finish up the day with some tasty chili and home baked bread.
and finish up clue #3 (jami is already DONE and i’m just on clue 3. sigh)
did some stitching on the long past due wedding quilt-it’s ready for quilting now. and did some quilting on joyce’s basket quilt. SID is painful and no-one sees it. but you know when it’s not there. grunt.
i may have found a puppy obedience school to send the D O G off to. yea me! hope to go check out the facility this week.
audrey and i went to the movie “all about steve” last night. starring sandra bullock as an eccentric crossword puzzle maker/stalker. really enjoyed the show.
i’ve been a busy little beaver! tomorrows a new day. are you ready for it!??!
not my fault….
we had a really nice evening last night with scott’s friend from georgia. i even cooked. and i cooked more than 1 thing. since it was late when we called it a night, he stayed over. he just left (5 am ish). he left sick.
the last thing he said to scott was “tell kay it wasn’t her cooking”.
hmmmm or was it. i probably should never cook again. for the safety of the world.
feel better chuckles.
guess who’s potty trained?!?
not the dang D O G that’s who. i guess it’s me. yea.
yesterday within 30 seconds of scott leaving, piddle in the kitchen floor.
today i was upstairs and scott left, piddle on the computer room carpet. DANG! who left that door open SCOTT.
ok, i get it. you love scott. i’m fine with that. a boy and his dog and all but LISTEN TO ME. i am the house wench and if you pee, you die.
scott friend chuck is coming for supper tonight. we’re having roasted D O G with baby potatoes. what are you making?
here today
and gone tomorrow. that’s what it seems like. kris and neil were here for most of september. it went way too fast. we mostly hung out and did famdamly things but we also went to the sidewalk arts festival and to the state quilt show. BONUS TIP: it’s illegal to drive through the unauthorized “driveways” on the interstate unless of course you are authorized. and if you DO drive through and are NOT authorized, make sure the car behind you isn’t a highway patrol car. i’m just saying, wouldn’t you rather spend $105 on fabric?!?!
i also managed (just barely) to quilt something for kris:
this is a rainbow kit from a few years ago by Starr Designs. kris enlarged it with the checkerboard and outside borders.
i quilted it using small splash by willow leaf studio
and used perma core thread in olive drab color
kris used a wide batik backing fabric. she prewashed it and i had beautiful stitches!
we used quilter’s dream PUFF for the batting. a bit more loft than cotton or 100% poly. yet very light weight. NICE!
there you have it!
i’m clueless
that is, i’m ready for clue 3.
so here is clue 2 all done up:
did i mention that i am SLOW at this? i think it has something to do with the fact that i don’t seem to just be able to “DO” the clue. there is always a problem.
like for instance, the fabric i pulled from my stash, while really cute was in fat quarter form rather than 1/4 yard cuts. so i had to cut twice as many strips (read MATH) and then sew them together, before i could even begin the first step!
and then i went WILD and decided to use one of my very own hand dyed purple fabrics for the background. kewl no? yeah, that was great until i realized that in the hand dyeing process, the width of my fabric was no longer 42+ inches long. i need 42 inches of fabric for step 2. ugh.
and
clue 2 done. as in DONE.
please becca may i have another clue?!?
i’m ready
and waiting for my next mystery clue. finally finished up my strip sets. good thing this is a work at your own pace mystery quilt. otherwise i’m sure i would have been reprimanded.
anyhoo, here they are:
given that i have little idea what the finished quilt is going to look like, i still like the looks of this so far! how’s that for a sentence that says nothing?!?! must mean i’m not quite awake yet.
suppose i should go brusha-brusha and get out the door. it’s a new day peeps! find something to smile about.
and lookie here, my clue has already arrived!
how do you say
STINKIN’ CUTE?!?!
one of the things kris and i did for fun while she was here was to take a class at the lqs Heirloom creations. the class was to make a “ruffle playdate skirt” by bridget & lucy. you can check out their website at www.bridgetandlucy.com Since kris came to visit without her sewing supplies, we tag teamed the sewing. i dug out a delicious little corduroy print from my stash, picked up some coordinating ribbon and tulle and we got busy! by the end of a 3 hour class, we had 2 skirts completely done. the bodies of 3 skirts done and the ruffles and tulle ready to sew on. not bad! and they are soooo easy to make you guys!
the designers are a mom and daughter team and are quilters. so they have developed and written these patterns so that the average quilter can sew it. even “I” can make one (or a dozen).
so since i have no little girls to wear skirts, i made skirts for my niece jess’s 3 little darlings and my nephew jason’s 2 little pixies.
here they are…..the skirts not the girls as i have to mail off 3 of the skirts. hopefully the moms will snap some pix for me with the girls wearing them.
it was supposed to just be skirts, but i found these yummy little winter weight tights and they fell in my cart. luckily they were the right sizes. the shirts fell in too! the brown shirt set is for Sydney and the turquoise one is for Alex.
the dark pink shirt set is for Libby, the shirtless set is for Courtney and the light pink set is for Gabby. somehow a purple shirt got in my cart…it will fit Courtney but there is no purple in the skirt so i’ll have to replace it with a pink shirt.
i repeat STINKIN’ CUTE. and ridiculously easy to assemble.
thanks a ton to kris for the fun time and for your expertise in assembling the skirts.
if you are interested, heirloom creations has another skirt class on the agenda. it’s a new pattern called “ruffle joy”
the bridget and lucy gals have ready to wear items on their website too if you’re short on time.
there you have it! one item checked off my to-do list!
