I have finished the quilt top and cut the fabric for the back. It is now in the hands of Sunflower, who is a trained long arm machine operator:
I have a plan and the fabric for my next project. This is just a sketched out detail:
and the fabric:
Howdy Y’all! We were bzzy bees today. I did the shoppin’ for provisions and then mowed the yahd along with edgin’ stuff even. OYKW took four loads of stuff over to the church house and then got busy goin’ through even more’ stuff to make disappear. He says he will have at least one more load of stuff to take to the church house tomorrow. He’s really been into gettin’ stuff gone. Betwixt the give away and the throw away, it looks like he’s gettin’ rid of a good three quarters of the stuff he had in the storage buildin’. Go Him! Sup was BLT’s and oven fries. We did manage to achieve nappage and afternoon day drinkin’ on the back porch. Can’t forget the important stuff now can we!
butters, do you have a proper southern lady garden hat? 
Conga rats on the trivia win baker!
metal mouse, I can see that you may want to YouTube a tutorial on using the appointment feature on your new phone. 
It’s pretty easy and you can have it remind you the day before and hours / minutes before said appointment. It’s simple enough that my 84 year old dad has grokked the basic concept now.
Bon voyage Moooooooom!
Your quilt is beautiful hippy! The sketch for the next one looks interesting. I would like to see how the blocks are arranged.
Irked, came out to 85F weather, so I turned the AC on in teh car and the apartment. We have a late start tomorrow, so I’ll work some more on the paper quilt borders for next year’s family project ( I use the scraps from this year’s albums for mats and borders for next year).
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
swampy I like your thinkin’ on the day drinkin’. Tis a wonnerful thing.
I got the truck back from the repair place with a new muffler, but they say I need new lines for the power steering. I knew it had been leaking fluid for a bit, but didn’t know it was $500 worth of leaking. So that sucks. Bit, gotta say, not having the truck sound like a semi is nice.
I think I’m gonna build a “kid help in the kitchen” stool for my friends and their, as of last friday, 1 year old. I made a prototype to see how not to make it, and now have a plan. I like these in between huge project times when I can do stuff like this.
Happy Hump Day!
It’s a pretty day, 82 degrees outside.
The windows are open, the grass got cut, and Mike got all the dead stuff trimmed.
I hope the pups are enjoying daycare.
Still dealing with frustrations with hospital bills and unemployment.
I’m in the middle of the insurance company and the service provider on one of them, with the provider saying they didn’t receive anything from the insurance company and they won’t take a partial payment, and the insurance company saying they paid part of it. Each is accusing the other of nefarious intents.
Whatever, it has been sent to some department at the insurance company to fight it out.
Medicare kicks in on May 1, so I have to find a new PCP since mine doesn’t accept it.
I want to say F Medicare, because it is going to cost me a good chunk of money more than my insurance premiums do now.
I finally got around to rescheduling with my cardiologist. The first appointment I could get was in October! There was a cancellation, so I am going in two weeks.
I filed for tax extensions, but haven’t mailed them yet. I have until Moonday, the robber barons can wait a little longer for my check. I wouldn’t feel nearly as bad about giving the gov my money if the gov didn’t waste so damn much of it. If the money was coming out of their own pockets, I think they’d be a lot more frugal with the spending.
Park drama hasn’t changed. The group is basically done, nothing I can do. Some are going over to the small dog side, others are coming later, and some are going to the other park.
I’d feel bad if I ran everybody off, but she will just say it’s their choice and not her problem.
I’m the last hold out, and well one other person. The barking doesn’t bother her other than she’s afraid we’ll all be asked to leave.
The dogs are wiped out, so I guess they had a good day.
They both reek of doggie cologne, I don’t know if all the dogs are getting a spritz or if they’re trying to tell me my dogs stink.
Happy Cruising FCM
My grand daughter has one of those and she uses it a lot to cook and bake with her parents~that’s a great gift!
Hippie That’s gorgeous! I can’t wait to see how the next one comes together. 
Swampy congrats to OYKW! That’s hard work. Now he just has to figure out what he’s going to do with the quarter he’s keeping…
VanGo Kid stools for the kitchen are awesome. We had one that the kids used and loved. It also doubled as a fort at times, being a convenient object for hanging blankets upon. I think this is a nice thing that you are doing.
Evening all. Swimmin’ has been swum and soccer watched on the TV, then coached goalkeeping for some girls tonight. There is a line of nasty weather near the Mississippi/Ali-bama border heading this way due to arrive between 9pm-midnight. swampy, looks like you’ll catch it early in the morning and red will catch it about the same time I do. Will drop the high temperature tomorrow to 68F, it was 83F today.
VanGo, it will be a wonderful thing for the kid or an absolute disaster for the parents…pehaps both. Enjoy.
Red, I seldom have the phone on these days, will have to do it soon to install and try some ‘apps’, normally my appointments are on scraps of paper on my desk…works so far…
hippy, nice work.
Cookie, save move tomorrow.
Oopsie, got my Shingrex shot a couple years ago under Medicare, no family history of it so I waited, but BBBoo offers an option if it is important to you.
OK, need to fijnish internettin’ for the night and get the garbage ready to go out (may wait for tomorrow morning to take it to the curb). All y’all take care.
Me, too! I haven’t been to a big league game in eons, but we’ve gone to see the Blue Crabs play - it’s always fun. I’d love to see the Nats, even tho most of the players I knew are gone (dammit) but no way I’m going into DC.
WOW WOW WOW!! I am very impressed, and I’m not usually a fan of quilts. Beautiful!
My daughter got a line on a potentially great job, and she’s got an interview tomorrow. The only concern is if she’ll be leaving her school in the lurch. But the school hardly pays anything and this other job is quite a pay jump without the stresses of dealing with teenagers. She’s going to see what she can work out, but in the grand scheme of things, she has to look out for #1. So fingers crossed…
I’ve taken my spider plants outside and I soaked them really well. I need to water the house plants, too, and run a last dishwasher load. And take out the stinky kitchen trash. Details, details…
I’ve got a load in the washer - FCD wants all his jeans clean. Once they’re dry, he’ll pack. I’m mostly done packing my stuff. I got some cash after getting rid of the kids. I need to go thru the folder of travel docs to make sure everything’s here. COVID has made travel prep much more complicated, but I think we’re good to go.
Evening, mumpers! The weather was finally kind to us and we managed to leave Joseph and head to Walla Walla. The drive was long and quite horrible for a lot of it as the snow started about an hour after we left. Fortunately the roads were mostly quite dry/clear but there was a big chunk with snow, spray, muck, poor visibility and lots of trucks. Made it in one piece though, so we grabbed some lunch and went to a state park about an hour’s drive away. I is done with driving today. Is it wine o’clock yet?
Happy cruising, moooom, look forward to hearing about it when you get back.
nellie hope you can get something more positive out of the eye doc.
hippy beautiful quilt!
There should be more to add but I am tired…
Paintcharge, I don’t remember odd colored hair. There ended up being eight people on the team, including myself. One couple was a mother and son. It’s not really bright in there, so hair color didn’t stand out. We did keep on warbling “Fernando!” to one of the audio categories. If that sound familiar maybe it was me! Where do you live, if I could ask?
My sister and I have already signed a contract to sell the house. Finalization with be May 13th, a Friday of course. We had five offers already, and picked one. The offer was even above the price listed, about 14%. When the house is sold it will really hit me that Mom is gone, as all the stuff will have been distributed and the payment disbursed and her account closed. Except for an aunt I’m the oldest in my branch of the family.
peedin, glad it’s over for you. Eat all you want!
I like the kid stool idea VanGo. May it see some good use.
metal mouse, I’m getting the rain and wind right now. I’m hoping it will blow over by 2100 so’s I won’t have to put Nelson’s slicker on him. I think you’ll like the calendar part of your phone once you get used to using it. No app to install for the basic one, it’s part of your phone’s software.
It looks like the next storm is moving in. More water! Yay!!!
I met one of the new neighbors tonight, as she was going to her car. In bathrobe and slippers. Gordie actually behaved himself, so they don’t know yet that they signed a 12 month legal contract to live next to Psycho Hellbeast<supTM</sup
I saw the pic on FB. the beds(and house) look nice.
Nifty, hippie!
VanGo, the kid stoll sounds like a nice project.
Sounds like what I had yesterday. 90 degrees, 35mph winds and dust storms in the afternoon. Tornado sirens, hail and raging thunderstorms in the evening. Spent some time huddling in the basement. Remind me to get some flashlights and extra batteries to stash down there. My roommate gave me a funny look when I asked if she had a radio station on her phone so we’d know when it was safe to come out of the basement. Radio? she said with a puzzled look. Sky that sickly yellow green. Now today it was 31 degrees. At least the forsythia is finally opening up some hopeful yellow petals.
Hi, all! I am soooo tired. I got to bed late, then was up early to spend time with my sister.–my very anxious sister. All the tough stuff she’s been through has made her so anxious about things like changed flights that she kind of freezes and needs help sorting things. Her flight from here was delayed twice, and she was worried about making the connecting flight home because she has to change terminals, and she’ll “only” have 45-60 minutes. So I ordered a wheelchair for her because a) she’s 3 months out from knee surgery and still walks slowly and 2) she can let someone else get her to her gate, relieving her anxiety. Her birthday hometown had a tornado warning last night and a watch today, but she got home safe and sound. Whew.
As for the contacts, the doc won’t budge. I called today to find out if I’d get a refund if the optometrist can’t fit me, and the secretary said, puzzled, “There’s no such thing as not getting fitted. EVERYBODY gets fitted.” 
Hello, my name is Nellie. I’ve had 13 eye surgeries and have complex corneas. Nobody has been able to fit me with a rigid lens. The secretary said she’d check and let me know.
I had PT today and confessed that I didn’t do my homework. See, my dog ate my paper…No, wait, I don’t have a dog. Or paper. I did do some of the exercises every day, but not as many. Now that I’m not entertaining, I can get into a routine.
hippie, very impressive!
Oopsie, I paid out of pocket for the Shingrex vaccine when I was 55, BUT it was because my docs were afraid with my lupus, shingles would be very bad. AIUI, anything that weakens your immune system–depression, stress, exhaustion, cancer, age–ups your odds of getting shingles, and it’s a nightmare experience, I’ve heard. Your doc is playing the odds: if you’re under 50 and have a healthy immune system, low stress, etc., you probably won’t get this hellish disease. If you’re OK with those odds, why not wait? (I’m not a nurse. When in doubt, defer to Nurse Boo.)
I had more responses, but I keep dozing off. More tomorrow.
In Maryland, I’ve been to both of the Orioles’ stadiums, and I’ve seen the Delmarva Shorebirds and Hagerstown Suns. I’d love to get to a Blue Crabs game if I’m ever up that way again!
Have a great cruise, Moooom!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. The bad weather isn’t supposed to hit till tonight, which is nice.
Last time I saw the Orioles play, it was in the old Memorial Stadium (which no longer exists) and Brooks Robinson was on third. It was some time in the 60s, and if I recall the game correctly, Jim Gentile hit a grand slam. Or maybe not - I might be mixing up a televised game with one I saw in person… I’ve never been inside Camden Yards but I’d love to see it.
My bag is packed, tagged, and sitting by the door. FCD hasn’t started packing yet. I still need to gather my toiletries, but not till after I shower, since I’ll use some of them. Around 8 or so, I have to take Higgs to my daughter’s, drop off their HHR and pick up our truck. And we’ll leave here by 10:15 to go to my sister’s house. BIL will drop us off at the terminal since my sister’s bowling league meets this morning (she’s pretty hard-core about her leagues.) But she’ll pick us up next Firday.
I think I have everything organized. Mostly. I need to stick my tablet, the chargers, and the documentation in FCD’s backpack - that’ll be our carry-on since we can’t get to our cabin till after 2. His meds and a fold-up cane will be in there, too, just in case. I’ve got 4 books from the library on my tablet, plus a bunch of classics I was able to download for free. So I’m ready for max chillage! Do try not to miss me!!
Happy Thursday!
What’s this about waiting?
Enjoy the trip! And don’t worry about the mumpers, I’m sure they will all behave.
Hippy, that quilt is gorgeous. I’m impressed with anyone who can keep going with such a big task.
I’m guessing this is not a floral scented cologne.
My parents have bought a lot of wine in Walla Walla. I think it’s always wine o’clock in Walla Walla.
Reminding Boo to add to the stash of flashlights and batteries. And to make sure all devices (phone / e-book / table) are fully charged.
Missing you already!
Tomorrow and Monday are HOLIDAYS!!! So need it.
Spent two hours with IT today to fix a problem from September. Finally.
We’ve been told to come back to the office on Tuesday, unless we have an agreement with the boss. But there’s no procedure for documenting such an agreement, so everyone’s confused.
And Tuesday is the beginning of a 3 week train mess, which means I cannot take the train directly to the office. I can take it half way, and then take a bus. Which is subject to traffic. Nice timing. I suppose it’s lined up with the school holidays, but company’s not.
Due to the neighbors doing some digging, I have a detour to even get to the train station. Would be a really good time to work from home instead of losing 3 hours to commuting.
Oh well, the sun is shining. Which means I have to mow the lawn and then water the plants.
What is it they say? The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get.
Time to hurry.