Today I got out of bed to face challenges – several of them.    I started by bringing a bale of hay by wheelbarrow to the sheep.   That was enough.  I decided that the roads were too dangerous to have me on them yet and I had just had a workout, so didn’t get to the gym.  When I went to add bedding to the sheep night quarters, I found that they had for the most part taken these two panels apart.  So taking twine, I jury rigged this and hope it holds until the snow melts so I can bring a new panel with which to repair this.

And here is part of the crew supervising.  OK, sheep taken care of, time to quilt.

And here is the quilt that does not want to be a quilt.  It was paper pieced and that went good.    Quilting it was another story.   The first thing that happened was the thread jumped out of the disks and I had a big mess on the bottom.    This happened not once, but twice.  I finally conquered that and the next thing was the machine tried to eat a hole in the fabric when the needle got stuck.   Eventually, after a few hours this little 33″ square is quilted and tomorrow I will put the binding on and some little baby will be wrapped snuggly in it.

Why did I get out of bed this morning?  Sometimes, it’s hard to know why these challenges are in our day, but I’m hoping that meeting them makes me a better person.  They sure do wreak havoc with my plans.