Two Busy Days!

Yesterday was the day we were collecting money for the Borst Park lighting show. I picked up some chicken at Safeway and then headed over there by 4 pm. Once that was done, we ate before getting ready for the cars to arrive. We ended up with 523 cars going through for the show. We got our donation check and will get another one later, after they figure out how much of the "keep donation" goes to our group. We had a blast. There was 6 of us and we handled it perfectly. 

Today, was our tea "date" with Sandy, Sandy, Geraline and me. We had an awesome time. Must have chatted up a storm because we were the last ones to leave. It was so much fun! The "tea treats" were really good as well. This was our second year going. We will go again next year, with just the 4 of us. It works out better that way. 

 We arrived with the chocolate on the teacup and the menu in the envelope. I think Sandy II took the menu home. lol 

I brought home some of the deserts that were there on the top. It was so good! We couldn't eat it all! But I did bring some home for Patrick. Since I had enough. 

Got home around 4 pm and let Debbie know. She came over to work on the quilt she was giving to her daughter for Christmas. We worked on adding a few quilting stitches to the quilt. It took us about 3 hours to get that done. She used my Juki sewing machine that is for quilting. It worked out great. I may end up changing to that machine to sew. I will try it later and see how it sews for me. 

So, I think that counts for being Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Got Started Early Today

This morning, Patrick went to Safeway and moms. He went to help mom move her clothes from the dresser to the spare room. She's getting a new bedroom set, a little at a time. 

While Patrick was gone, I boiled potatoes to make the family Lefsa recipe. I noticed our recipe is a little different from what is out there. I think mom and dad added to their recipe over the years, but I had the one I got from mom back in the 1970's. 

When Patrick got home, he helped me with cooking the Lefsa. I found that I didn't have the right rolling board or even the sleeve that goes over the rolling pins. BUT since this was my first time, I did what I could with what I have. 

They turned out right. BUT I didn't have them in a "perfect circle" as we are supposed to do. I will give some to mom and Phil tomorrow. I will probably take some to our embroidery meeting on Monday as well. I love Lefsa but realized I don't eat a lot of it and neither does Patrick. lol 

Then it was about 2 pm. So, I relaxed, put my earbuds in and listened to my books while Patrick watched a show I didn't care for. I was playing my Seeker's Note game. It was fun. 

The rest of the day was pretty much sitting and enjoying myself. I have a busy schedule tomorrow and Sunday, so I really didn't feel like doing anything else. I will do the star bread sometime this weekend. I don't think I have time tomorrow or Sunday now that I think of it. May make it on Tuesday then. 

I definitely wasn't may day for Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Finishing A Few Things Today

Today, I was lazy all morning. I was waiting for the phone call from QOV. We needed to chat about things I needed for the NAMS program. I enjoyed my chat with Kathy. She understood where I was coming from and what I was doing. 

Then I goofed around for a bit while doing laundry. Once the Seahawks game started, I started to get a few things done. 

 First, I finished the first of two blocks for the baby quilt. Not the best picture, but I wasn't in the best spot. I was too lazy to get up and get a better photo. 

Once this was done, I moved to get one of my Round Robin pieces done. I researched the books of flowers to use on the embroidery piece. 

After I finished this, I felt better. Two projects done! Thank goodness. I was getting tired of being behind. 

I found this pattern for the Salmonberry flower. I had fun working on this. BUT I had to practice it a few times to see what looked better. It's bullion stitches and then floss wrapped around the bullions to fill in the center. Easier than I thought. I just had to figure out how to divide it into five pieces. 

I will work on the next two pieces and try to get all three out in the mail for the next person in the round robin. 

At least I got myself to get my butt up and work on something! I am just Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Productive Day - Sort Of

 This morning, Patrick was up way before me. He was going to go golfing, but the weather was still rainy and windy. So, he was watching the news. 

I was up and found the water was off. Patrick had to go check on the well. Then he called our systems "people" and they found that the motor was buried out. So, after 8 hours of no water, they fixed the problem. I needed to get my accounting updated, so I balanced the checkbook, and then wanted to add some income in there. EXCEPT I got a message asking me if I wanted to do something, like clear my "fix" and said yes. It wiped out the enter accounting back to 2024!! So, I was cussing when Patrick came to see what was up. I hadn't backed it up since 2023, so that didn't help at all! Patrick looked for an "undo" button on what I did - and NOPE wasn't there. 

SO, I ended up getting the bank records Patrick printed out each year. We had our meeting in September, so the good news was that he had all the information up to Sept. Which meant I still needed to record it all back in. I did the billing for next year, and thank goodness, I had who owed till the end of the year. My deposits where the problem because I didn't have who made what deposit. Thank goodness for those billing statements! We were able to get the bookkeeping back where it was. I have backed up the program twice now. I'm thankful I keep my records in the checkbook updated! If I didn't have that and relied completely on the computer, I would be in deep, deep trouble. 

Once all that was fixed, I pulled out the dogs that I need to have appliqued and finished for the baby quilt. 

I love my lightbox. I was able to get the second dog ready to applique, then I can do the embroidery. I know I need to do the round robins but I'm holding off on that right now. One thing at a time. 

I used the back basting method. I like it. I will work on this after the other one is done. Sophie wasn't happy I was working on this. She kept licking and pushing my hand to pay attention to here. I was able to get it done though. 

I marked the areas where I needed to work on the outlining. I worked on some of it tonight. I can finish this tomorrow if I put my mind to it. I'm getting farther on this. Once it's done, I will take it to moms, and she can add it to the other blocks. 

I decided to call it done for the day. Too much was going on today! It's called, - What A DAY! 

At least I was able to find time for Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

 

Physical Therapy And Moms

 Today, I had PT at 3 pm. So, first thing today, I cleaned. I got the kitchen cleaned and in order, vacuumed the house, and worked on laundry. 

Then I went out for a walk. Once all that was done, Patrick came home from golfing. I played on my tablet for a bit and then had to head over to the church to pick up 3 quilts that were ready. Once all that was done, I headed to moms. Dropped the 3 quilts off with her and Debbie's quilt to see what we could do. Mom was going to bind the 3 quilts and try to see if hand quilting would work on the quilt. 

Then we played with some of her blocks. 

We had this at first, then started to move blocks around. 

Didn't like what we had, so moved more blocks around. We tried again for 2 more trys. 

Then ended up with this. it was a process that take time. But we were able to get this far. Mom started pinning the blocks together in rows so she would know how to sew them together. It's a start and it's another quilt that will be done. 

I headed to PT for my last appointment. We pretty much chatted about my progress and he's sending a report to my primary doctor as well as my sports medicine doctor. I'm not crazy about the sports medical doctor. He just wasn't much help. 

Stopped and got chicken at Safeway. A guy next to me asked if "you have breasts" and the gal answered, yes, I do. We broke out laughing and the poor guy was more shocked than anything. He didn't laugh and he acted as if he didn't get it. We did. Then he pointed to the chicken and said, I meant this. She just laughed and said, "I know what you meant," still laughing. 

Came home and it was late. So, I didn't pull anything out to work on. I will try and do that later this week. I really do need to get moving on what I have! 

At least I can say, I was with mom who was Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Spent The Day At The Casino

This morning, I was up and moving around. Patrick asked when we should leave for the casino. Told him around 10 am would be good. 

We stopped and got moms prescription at Walgreen's. I hate going in there! I have to wait FOREVER for them to ask what I want. I ran into a friend of moms, and they asked about her.  Then they told me he does wood working and asked if I would like one of his pieces. Said sure. Then he took me out to the car and gave me the only piece he had out there. It's really nice. It's signed on the back, and it was done in 2019. He loves doing the work and give them away. We stopped and dropped off the prescription at moms. Then we headed to Lucky Eagle. 

I wanted to get the dishes that were a gift from them to me. I signed in and got the ticket. I was a little worried because I had to wait till 2 pm to get it. We had the choice of the pie plate with lid and carry case or the baking set of 2 square dishes with lid and carry case. I wanted the 2 square dishes. 

So, we played, and played, and played. We didn't spend all the money we took to play with. We came home with half, but we played a good 6 hours. There were a couple times I thought, "ok, we're done," but then one of us would win $150 to keep going. I was okay with that. We love to play. Hate it when we don't get to play long, but today we were able to. We enjoyed it. That's all that matters. Plus, we really don't do much of anything else. 

Came home around 6:30 pm. We ate at the casino and got some more candy bars for Patrick. When our card gets our food at half price, it's not bad to sit and eat there before coming home when we have played that long. 

I wasn't anywhere close to Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Play Day

This morning, I was up shortly after Patrick. He seems to be up around 7 am anymore. He used to sleep till 10 am. Now that he golfs so early, he seems to get up early. 

We went to the play at the theater in Centralia. It was "The Best Christmas Pageant" or something close to that. There were a lot of kids. Now the theater is full more often than not. It was pretty full today. Patrick said a month ago that he had a hard time finding seats for 2 of us. They were good seats though. 

Came home after going to Safeway for potatoes. I want to make grandmother's Lefsa. I will do that this week. 

I pretty much relaxed after we got back from the play. I could have worked on something but just wasn't in the mood. 

As much as I wanted to be, I wasn't Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Getting Closer To Finishing The Quilt

 This morning, I was up before hubby. That's unusual. But was nice for once. 

I had my war game at noon and then back at 4:30 pm. So, I wanted to get some work done downstairs in the meantime. It was time to get back to my quilt tops. 

I had to trim some of the side borders. It wouldn't fit the blocks that go in the corners. I had to take a break when I was to this point. 

Came back downstairs and found that I had to take this apart and cut a longer piece of white. Somehow, I had them short. So, I got to work. It didn't take long, but it was no fun ripping it out. 

In between doing the quilt, I was baking bread. I had 4 small loaves. I gave two to the neighbors. 

I got this far, then realized I need another 5" to the quilt all the way around. I was trying to decide what to do. I decided I'm not going to put another fabric there. Instead, I'm going to put a strip of white around it and bind it with the red in the middle. I have just enough. 

While I was trying to decide, I worked on doing two of the pillowcases for a couple quilts that are done. 

I will finish them later. 

Came upstairs. My tablet ran out of energy, so I decided to get my embroidery going. I pulled out the dog for the quilt. I have 2 to get done and I need to work on it NOW. As well as the round robin pieces. 

This is close to getting done. I have the bow tie on wrong, so I will have to deal with it when I mark where I need to do the outlines. I'm almost there. I need to use my light box to get the lines on there. 

At least I was able to find time to enjoy both by being Happy Quilting & Happy Stitching!

Casino Day

We left for the casino around 10 am and didn't make it home till around 6 pm. That goes to show how much fun we were having. We pretty much came out even on the deal. We were winning, but not enough at times. lol We just had fun playing on their money. We had been close to getting 3K but it just didn't happen. We were okay with at. 

Both of us needed to get out of the house. Patrick hasn't been able to golf for a week, and I have been pretty much lazy all week. This was a way to get us something to do that we enjoy. 

It wasn't a day to be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Don't I Know It!

Yea today was one of those days, I didn't do squat! Don't I know it! I have a ton of stuff I could have done but didn't. 

I did go and pick up my embroidery that was framed! I love it. But if I post it, it will be a gift that was "let out of the bag." So, I will post it later, after it's given away. I did do laundry - oh wow! As if I don't do that every day! 

I know! I have so much that needs to be done, and what do I do?! I sit and relax all day. I didn't do anything constructive.  I didn't even worry about anyone else. UGH - 

My list of things I could have done, well let's see, I could have finished the quilt on the wall, I could have worked on the round robins - yes 3 - I have, I could have worked on the cross stitching I started, AND OH YEA, I could have started to quilt that quilt that has been waiting on me for over 5 years if not more! And yet, I did nothing! 

Even Sophie was giving me the eye, wondering if I would do something or even just get up. NOPE! I did do my stretches, so I guess that something - BUT it's not being Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!!!

Tried To Go To The Casino - Flooding!

Today, we woke with little flooding in our area. But Centralia got more last night. They are expecting more this evening as well. We are not getting the rain they are up north, but we do have rivers going over the banks. 

Patrick had his dental appointment today at 1 pm. We went there. I played my games in the car waiting on him. Then we headed to the casino, since Facebook stated it was open. As we were arriving, all the cars were leaving. We asked the attendant what was up and he said the water was coming over the banks and they closed the casino. So, we got in the line to head back home. 

On the way back, we were seeing all the water coming from the river to the farm lands. 

The road over there was covered in water. 

Stopped at Safeway to pick up a few things for supper and then came home. I just gave up and played my games. I wasn't in the mood to do much. It was late anyway to do anything. 

Tomorrow is another day, and who knows, I may just be Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!