Boredom? Doesn’t happen here!
This knocked me off my chair late last night. I really thought he would never find the right woman. He’s nearly 40 now, so he’s met a few and no one appealed to him enough to make him pop the question. Now he has done it! And we are happy for them. No date has been set yet.
I took Beau (dog) to the vet this morning to get the stitches out and he gets so excited with all the new smells, it is difficult to hang onto him. We came home from that and Bill and I went to the grocery store. I had a short list, but, even so, they didn’t have half the items on my list.
The UPS man dropped these 40# boxes off at the gate to the barn instead of at the front door. When DH went to get them, one of the dogs slipped by and did a neighborhood walk about. So I put the boxes in the back of the car and then went dog chasing. And this is why I go to the gym 3 days a week.
I made stuffed Rigatoni for a company lunch tomorrow. I simmered the tomatoes to half the amount and added vegetables to that. The filling for these is a vegan ricotta/spinach filling. Then I did get some basic house cleaning done and 5 pints of green beans canned.
When I went to feed the sheep, I found one with his head stuck in the fence and he didn’t want to pull back, so I called a neighbor to have him help me push the head back through. How is it these sheep can twist their heads to get to grass on the other side of a fence, but can’t twist it to get back out? Boredom on a farm? It doesn’t happen. Sometimes I wonder what I did for entertainment when we lived in the city, and then I remember. We had little children and music lessons!
Every day this week, I had allocated the afternoon to sewing, but every time an afternoon came, there was something else more pressing. I only have a week and a half of this month left and still have not completed any of my August sewing/quilting challenges, though some are started. The knitting challenge is finished. I just looked at next weeks and find that Monday, we go to the heart doctor and my helper that usually comes for 5 hours on Monday is taking the day off for eclipse reasons. Tuesday, the people are coming with the excavator to dig the hole to put a large water tank and a propane tank. Lines will be dug to connect the water to the house as well. Maybe Sunday, after I water the gardens, and Wednesday I can work on some of these projects. I don’t do well missing sleep, so that is not an option.
Boredom? I don’t even know what that is.
Right now, I’m ready for the Sabbath rest. You are welcome to join us.
And these hydrangea came home with me. Now I must find them a permanent home in the ground as they will become large.
These bleeding hearts have popped back to life and will soon take over the entire corner and will need staking as well.
Spring must be ready to appear as the azaleas are also blooming. Then why is it still so cool outside?
On our outing, I was able to get 12 tomato plants, which are now in the ground.
The floors are swept and mopped, the laundry is done and the rest of the morning was filled with errands: taking DD to get prescription, delivering some items, and grocery shopping. All done for another week – maybe.
Then I cleaned off the cutting table and mounted the purple hummingbird quilt ready to quilt. I’m hoping to get this quilt finished as well as the snowman quilt. Soon, I have to process the scraps into their homes until used. I only did half of my walking each day, but I feel good about the accomplishments. It seems to take so long to get the preliminaries done, and then POP, one gets several finishes.
12 More roses are now up on the board. I think I may be half done. I need to dive into my scraps and even whole pieces for more colors. But it is looking so much better.
I started this cute little wall hanging last fall and then it disappeared. I looked everywhere I could think of and didn’t find it. Last weekend when I was rearranging in the studio, I found it had slipped between two stacks of drawers. So now it is all together, but only held with a thin layer of glue. I need to applique all the pieces on and quilt it. That will happen in my free time because this little quilt didn’t even get found in time to put on my ufo list – though it belongs there.
January sock progress is like molasses. Very slow going. I am now half way through the heel flap. No the socks will not be finished in January as I originally planned. I’ll have to see what is scheduled for February = hopefully no more illness so that I can get February’s socks done and go back and finish these.
This week was one to “hang on tightly for a wild ride” and try to enjoy the ride as the disasters happened.
One needs only a 10″ square of fabric, another of lining, and another of batting to make two of these. One zipper with two pulls is also needed. So you can really make these little cuties with scraps.
Here is my first one. They will make perfect little gifts. I want to look around for some fun zipper pulls to attach. I highly recommend you make some of these for yourself and for gifts. The patterns are available at quilt shops as well as 
Big red, medium red, and little red cars were parked in front of us at the grocery store. It amused me. It doesn’t take much, does it?