tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24577683918582154612024-03-06T02:01:43.774-06:00OKPeri's PlacePerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-29583555146463436992012-11-07T17:03:00.004-06:002012-11-07T17:03:50.168-06:00Catching UpI guess it is time I showed up again. I know it has been a long time since I have posted and I appreciate those of you who have inquired about Aud and I.<br />
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Aud turned 96 on October 11, and she is still going strong. Not as strong as before, but she is hanging in. The sight has diminshed in her left eye due to the coumidin (that is not spelled right and I am too lazy to look it up, lol) she has to take. <br />
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I have taken her to an eye specialist and now she has had two shots into her eye, a month apart, and is seeing much better.<br />
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Here she is with her leg brace on, her back brace on, her cap to keep the glare out, and her trusty bag that holds her Iphone, Kindle, and Ipad. She would probably wring my neck for posting this picture but at least she is up and moving. And, her sense of humor is still perking along. </div>
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she can hardly get around so I got her a four wheel walker with a basket and brakes, and a seat to sit in if she can't make it another step and she is moving right along back and forth between her bedroom and the ktichen area. Her old walker now sits at the door of the living room, which is sunken, and she transfers everything to her bag and steps down and uses that walker to move to her chair. It works out pretty well. </div>
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I have acquired a few more health problems in the last several months also, so there are days that I don't get around too good either, but I have lots of energy when I can get around. </div>
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As a result of that energy, I have been getting some quilting done, and finally finished up my batik basket quilt that has given me fits for months. I am in the process of binding it but this will give you an idea of what it looks like. </div>
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Have finished up a couple of other quilts, but don't have pictures handy so I will try to post more sooner than later. </div>
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I am still playing bridge a couple of times a week, and am the treasurer of our local quilt guild this year, so there is no grass growing under my feet. Just wish I could work some cooking into my schedule, but that seems to be on the very very back burner for now. </div>
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Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-11990204405794625762012-06-10T22:20:00.001-05:002012-06-10T22:20:35.185-05:00Aud TaleI realize I haven't posted in a good while, I keep intended to and just putting it off. However this one is just too good to pass up.<br />
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Around this time of night Aud has managed to do all of the sleeping, reading, and playing solitaire that she can do without turning on her television. She probably has watched some tv throughout the day because she keeps assuring me that she can multitask. <br />
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Most days we do watch some tv in the living room because I try to spend some "quality" time with her every day. This is where you have to realize that spending time with Aud involves a tv going and her either reading or playing solitaire while she watches tv (multitasking). Not sure this counts as quality time but she is an avid tv watcher. Doesn't seem to care what she is watching.<br />
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The problem with all of this is about this time of night if she is in her room she starts channel surfing and before I know it, the tv is loud enough I can hear it through the walls. So I make my nightly trip in there to ask her to turn it down because by this time of night I am usually reading or playing bridge on the computer and I can't multitask, noise drives me bananas.<br />
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Tonight is no exception. I knock on her door and when I open it I see that she is watching a Spanish language tv station.<br />
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What in the world are you watching a Spanish station for? Why aren't you watching some of the stuff I have taped? No wonder I can hear it through the walls...you don't even realize what you are watching!<br />
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I do so!.....I am brushing up on my Spanish!<br />
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Who else do you know that is 95 1/2 years old that is "brushing up on their Spanish?"<br />
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:) Life is never dull around here.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-29998170415750264332012-04-18T08:00:00.001-05:002012-04-18T08:00:04.806-05:00SpringSometimes when things just don't seem to be going well, I look at the yard and see bits and pieces of spring in all it's glory and promises of things to come and it gives me such a sense of peace.<br />
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Things are never being simple at this place, This happened on a Thursday, and the part needed for the washing machine had to be ordered and would not arrive until Monday. Got up out of my sick bed and went to alliance store we deal with to buy a new dryer and of course it also had to be ordered and it would be Tuesday before it would get in and could be installed. <br />
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Last Monday, the washer was duly fixed and ready to go. On Tuesday morning the dryer was delivered and hooked up. It is a gas dryer and I needed it moved over a little bit from where they hooked it up, they moved it and off they went.<br />
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I washed some sheets, put them in the dryer and it took them two hours to dry. Something is wrong here. I call the appliance store, and they tell me it will be Wednesday before they come out. Well, we got that straighter out in about 5 minutes and they showed up about an hour later. The technicians had turned off the gas to move the dryer over and forgot to turn it back on. Unreal, right? <br />
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I wash 4 loads of clothes and dry them and then I wash a small quilt that I use as a table topper on my table, and I cannot get it to spin dry! Finally end up wringing it out by hand and getting it dry in the dryer.<br />
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Of course I call the washer repairman the next morning and my regular person isn't available so they send me someone else. The washer is acting like it did before I had it repaired so I assumed it was a bad part. After a lengthy discussion with first repairman via telephone and owner of said repair company we finally decided that what was happening was the washer was compensating for an unbalanced load and was never able to spin properly. The part replaced was a water value of some sort and since our water was now so soft it was able to spray more water since the pipes weren't clogged up. Now to compensate for a small load of a heavy object I have to add a couple of towels to make the silly thing spin correctly. <br />
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This washer is a Whirlpool Duet which is a front loader, and the way it works it balances the load ever little bit so it won't fly off into the next room. Picture that. The new dryer is also a Whirlpool Duet with steam. I have been informed that it has had problems, but Ms Aud was insistent that is what she wanted, and as the song goes, "What Lola wants, Lola gets". :} <br />
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I see repair bills down the road, but the dryer is a beauty.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I made "couture" handles for the largest baskets. Think I will keep those and get the appliqué done and put them together before I tackle the next size.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkQPn9ATfkFAc9ccRHKHAG6Y0cqohq3Q0gzabLhhXggE1XHh6et87UIZwpDmOo7oz62SgAN2lmwt_hp-8ziRsHfvFxxnLGUfVK2F9x8_siDF03NksjeumZj6YrRLZArSmbYPzmthuLHUZ/s1600/IMG_2969.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkQPn9ATfkFAc9ccRHKHAG6Y0cqohq3Q0gzabLhhXggE1XHh6et87UIZwpDmOo7oz62SgAN2lmwt_hp-8ziRsHfvFxxnLGUfVK2F9x8_siDF03NksjeumZj6YrRLZArSmbYPzmthuLHUZ/s320/IMG_2969.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Decided I could not stand that color basket handle on all of the smallest baskets, so off with their heads!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Now to decide what colors to make them.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Check out <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2012/04/16/design-wall-monday-april-16-20">Judy's </a> to see what is going on in other places.</div>Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-40728376778720257122012-04-02T09:25:00.000-05:002012-04-02T09:25:38.956-05:00Market Baskets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last year <a href="http://www.mossbluffquilts.blogspot.com/">Sharie</a> and I decided to do this quilt. I had cut out all of the handles and backgrounds and made a few of the small baskets. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtAeyYWli-NVjTzlZGm-bkCEsg12DavnIujHpI1KU1zvam68drjHIKjkuNacBJcerUBAOIoZC0x99BjpTiMiuR2GJI0DZvAprIchdy2TjD4vDnzJkXo4IMB2xJf3dnej98fhOjasgY2av/s1600/IMG_0187.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtAeyYWli-NVjTzlZGm-bkCEsg12DavnIujHpI1KU1zvam68drjHIKjkuNacBJcerUBAOIoZC0x99BjpTiMiuR2GJI0DZvAprIchdy2TjD4vDnzJkXo4IMB2xJf3dnej98fhOjasgY2av/s320/IMG_0187.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br />
When I finally got back to it this year, I decided that the basket handles are too dark so I am changing them. Now I have all of the baskets made and "all" I have to do is cut out the handles, appliqué them onto the backgrounds and I will be finished. lol.<br />
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To see what other people are up to this week, go here. Thank you <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/">Judy</a> for hosting this.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-2122905555562760232012-03-29T08:00:00.002-05:002012-03-29T08:00:11.388-05:00The Saga of The Child House<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">A monologue to remind me of where our money goes. It makes me faint with angst!</span><br />
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This is about The Child House. I named it that because it just keeps taking and taking, and just about the time I think it has "grown up", it comes up with a new request.<br />
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Short history here. My husband passed away in 2000 and my children live in Oklahoma and with only Aud and I, (I am an only child), we were encouraged to move here so they could help us if they needed to. It all worked out as it should because I was laid off in early 2011 and we put our Texas house on the market, I accepted a job in Oklahoma, and Aud stayed in Texas to sell the house there. <br />
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It took a year to sell it, and when it finally sold, I had two weeks to find a house up here. The movers were scheduled, etc, etc. It was one of those moves from hell, so to speak. I found the house, papers were signed, I was to fly down to drive Aud up, and had to have emergency gall bladder surgery. So The Child House became ours. Since I was recovering from surgery I could not lift anything over 10 pounds, which didn't help, but that is another story. <br />
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Anyway, we had two days to get the carpets cleaned and the house cleaned before the movers arrived. They unpacked, all was well, and the next morning we were washing dishes, and washing some clothes and the commode got flushed and all of a sudden we had water problems. <br />
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And those water problems have popped up periodically ever since. We could not wash dishes and clothes at the same time or use the front bathroom if any of those two items were being used. The piping was too small. That was solved by buying a new washer and dryer that used less water. 3 months later the dishwasher was not usable, there was a short in the wiring that we didn't know about. so we purchased a new dishwasher. The water heater was replaced 2 years later.<br />
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Then the main waste pipe going out of the house broke (cast iron, this house is 40 years old) and the floor in the master bedroom had to be dug up for about 15 feet and new piping put in. New valves<br />
had to be put in in two of the three bathrooms which also required holes being dug in both of those.<br />
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By then we had found a decent plumber and we basically have had him on retainer since. The next thing to go wrong was the outside sewer line which broke due to tree roots so we had the tree cut down, and new piping laid to the main sewer line that goes across the back of our backyard.<br />
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And then the a/c unit drain would clog up and water would spill out all over a side hall and we had to replace carpet and so on. So, we replaced all of the carpet, put tile in the kitchen and bathrooms, wood laminate in the dining room, side hall and 2 bedrooms. 1 of which I used for sewing at one time.<br />
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About a year later, we redid the kitchen countertop, added a new cooktop ,oven units and sink.<br />
In the process of doing a final installment tweak, the workman clipped a hose under the sink by<br />
accident. He left for the day, and a couple of hours later we were washing dishes and the nicked<br />
pipe hose split the rest of the way, and all of a sudden the kitchen was full of water and it was<br />
creeping in on the laminate floor and under the cabinets into the next room which also had laminate on it.<br />
Couldn't find the cutoff valve in the house and didn't have a turn off tool for the outside, and none of the close neighbors had one either. Called the fire department and they came out and cut off the water.<br />
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So, the contractor had to replace most of the laminate in the two rooms close to the kitchen and fix<br />
the split hose. It was a total nightmare for a couple of weeks. <br />
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Somewhere along the way we have replaced all of the windows, the a/c and heating unit, all commodes, put in a walk in bathtub, a new "handicap" accessible shower setup and updated another shower, and put in a ton of insulation in the attic. <br />
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We have also put in a totally new kitchen, including all new appliances, which is absolutely wonderful, and a pleasure to cook in because everything has it's own place. We did add a wall in part of the kitchen<br />
and open up another wall to give us a little more counter and cabinet area. That greatly increased the flow of the kitchen and the house. At that time we also painted the inside and outside of the house.<br />
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And then we had a slab break which required rerouting the hot water in one area of the house. It caused water damage to the laminate flooring again, which had to be replaced again. Could no longer get what we had used originally, so we now have two separate areas of laminate, but surprisingly they look ok.<br />
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We had french drains put in in the yard due to water problems with heavy rains a couple of years after we moved in. Also added a sprinkler system to take care of the watering. And just this month, we had to have a section of the back porch concrete replaced because it had sunk and water was getting in under the fireplace and getting the living room carpet wet. We also had some of the back yard dug out some more to further facilitate the water not backing up onto the porch. Now we have a swale in the back yard just off the middle of the back porch which is going to have to be fixed.<br />
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As to the yard, it was a total wreck when we moved in, and over the years I have finally gotten it to the point where it looks great most of the time, and this year finally had a full yard of fescue in the back which will stay green all year long. That got dug up of course when the back yard was "regraded" a couple of weeks ago. I have added lilies and other perennials slowly but surely and this year removed every plant that requires a lot of maintenance because it costs so much to maintain them and good gardening help is hard to find and very expensive.<br />
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And then there is the electricity. We have replaced the majority of it and added some capacity also. Replaced all light bulbs with curlies when they first came out, which really saves on electric, and have now replaced all of the lights in the living room with leds on dimmers. These are wonderful and not hot. Also replaced outside security light fixtures and put in led bulbs on dawn to dusk cells. Our electric bill has dropped another 30 a month. <br />
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AND, I must not forget the fireplace. We called a chimney sweep to clean out the fireplace when we first moved in. It needed a new "cover" on it, BUT, there were baby birds inside the chimney and since<br />
they were protected, we could not put the cover on. So, we had to wait until the silly things grew up and flew away. I remember at night they would start yelling and I would holler "shut up" into the fireplace and they would, lol. After they left, we converted the fireplace to gas logs and things were good until about 3 years ago when the turn on valve started leaking gas. And our good friend the plumber had to<br />
put in a new turn off valve, lol. Of course it proved to be a royal pita, but he got it done.<br />
<br />
ALSO, there was a hole in the eaves of the house and a squirrel family had set up shop in there and had a baby. I kept telling Aud we had some animal in the attic and she never believed me until one day I was outside and looked up and there was a squirrel staring at me through one of the screened openings in the eaves. We had to have it trapped and that was another whole adventure. My son-in-law came over and covered up the hole and when the roof had to be replaced because of hail damage somewhere during this journey, that was taken care of.<br />
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The past two weeks we have endured the installing of a soft water system. Our dishwasher, which was installed when we redid the kitchen 2 years ago, was not acting right. It was under warranty so I called the technician to fix it, and was informed that hard water was eating it up and he told me we needed to get a water softener system in or we would have to replace the dishwasher in another year. If you have priced dishwashers lately, they are not cheap. Also, a month ago, we had to replace the faucets in the bathtub for the same reason. The soft water system was installed a week ago Monday. This morning at 4 am I hear this ungodly noise coming from the garage. I go out there and there is water gurgling out of<br />
the water heater drain. I call the soft water person, leave a message on his answering machine, send a text to the plumber and literally set in a chair for the next few hours with my stomach in a knot listening for the sound of water. <br />
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The soft water person came by about 8:30, informed me there was no problem with the unit, and the plumber arrived around 11. He has run the snake down the drain, there was 40 years of calcium in it I am sure, and now the soft water is working again, and there is no water coming out of the drain. When I found out he was coming I ran to Home Depot and picked up 4 new faucets to change out in the bathrooms. We had changed them out several years ago and put in the "one handle" variety. Both Aud and I have trouble turning them to the right temperature, and they seem to drip back onto the countertop and since he was going to be here anyway, it would save another service call expense. They are beautiful.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Last fall when we had the a/c unit checked, the motor on the heat part of the a/c had to be replaced.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">When the plumber and I were throwing out the trash from today he said to me "it sounds like the motor on the a/c unit needs to be replaced. It is whining some." It is due for service in April. </div><div><br />
</div>One bright piece of news, we have been told in the past month that we do not need any piers!<br />
Are you listening, Child House?<br />
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As Aud is so fond of saying, and I think the house hears her and giggles, "surely there is nothing else that can go wrong now. Don't we have it all taken care of? " <br />
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Don't think I will tell her about the a/c right now, lol. Give her a couple of days to feel secure.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-43009904051412288322012-03-28T15:57:00.001-05:002012-03-28T15:58:34.064-05:00A Quilty HappeningThe last time I posted before I took my hiatus, I was working on a quilt using the Grace collection by Three Sisters. I used the Lucky Stars pattern by Atkinson Designs, and I did get it finished, and Aud promptly claimed it for her bed. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4suZElUKOUVFVtBYzjFQWy4bf_YwTJQBWxAAfVEGTda7sNdGUzbFw1ETv8_gvGxWLuVLXSqYgSvuUDBkmaPjwSDdWu4g0RWjWyBLfrbICOyI_VSG-SL3lbTeMIRAOaq8l9HgHwKYouY3/s1600/IMG_2896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4suZElUKOUVFVtBYzjFQWy4bf_YwTJQBWxAAfVEGTda7sNdGUzbFw1ETv8_gvGxWLuVLXSqYgSvuUDBkmaPjwSDdWu4g0RWjWyBLfrbICOyI_VSG-SL3lbTeMIRAOaq8l9HgHwKYouY3/s400/IMG_2896.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-74821097728353133722012-03-26T20:33:00.001-05:002012-03-27T00:10:07.332-05:00Aud<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> Here is a picture of Aud around the first of January. She is reading her Ipad which is propped up on the pillow I found her for it that she just loves. (Look on Amazon if you want one.) She is eating something, drinking a coke, and has an Ethel cap on her head to keep the glare out.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9S1emexD3kckt18jBXDYxHMH0120XknlVx12gzWaXVmEhj1PehsrQXNMxyDDZW6GRrikgBR41ZiIUCUu5OXbJ6sQSolMYGHMKystbCcWXLCTYSNN99hyH8UAhbRRLVUc4_0y0Hxp3kEq/s1600/IMG_0111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9S1emexD3kckt18jBXDYxHMH0120XknlVx12gzWaXVmEhj1PehsrQXNMxyDDZW6GRrikgBR41ZiIUCUu5OXbJ6sQSolMYGHMKystbCcWXLCTYSNN99hyH8UAhbRRLVUc4_0y0Hxp3kEq/s320/IMG_0111.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here she is a couple of weeks ago. Holding her own, thank goodness. Notice the ever present Ipad and a package of Wurthur's. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdDSfhAvs0UnyB3vkfinAuC-Sg_HNHTDejqJiZP2sIgCmEmvWH2ttu1srBbL4GrymZURBuNKKoXk02zjNuCHEjxyFicbMWeC3F68lhAHHzryD8wqx1l27RBxULaTmw-JtZLZBvJ4QR086/s1600/IMG_0155.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVdDSfhAvs0UnyB3vkfinAuC-Sg_HNHTDejqJiZP2sIgCmEmvWH2ttu1srBbL4GrymZURBuNKKoXk02zjNuCHEjxyFicbMWeC3F68lhAHHzryD8wqx1l27RBxULaTmw-JtZLZBvJ4QR086/s400/IMG_0155.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Audrey has certain Items that she insists are on the grocery list each week. They consist of Snickers Ice Cream bars, Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia, Wurther's Caramel hard candy, Planter's Mixed Nuts with Sea Salt, Walmart's Trail Mix, and Dr Pepper. We are not allowed to run out of them or there is massive whining. She is now up to 2 Snicker's bars a day! I have talked to her doctor about this "diet" and he says she is old enough to eat what she wants! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For breakfast she does have Granola cereal with milk and grape juice. For lunch she has a Kind date and walnut food bar. (It is a very healthful one that I buy by the case from Amazon) and then the rest of the days is spent eating her "must haves". I do cook dinner most nights but she doesn't eat enough to make it worth messing with most of the time. On the nights I don't cook she wants Panera's Napa Valley Chicken Salad. This has been her diet for the last 3 months, lol. Never thought I would see the day that we wouldn't have a sit down meal consisting of all the basic food groups at least 5 days out of the week. My how times have changed. </div>Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-3154416852256136402012-03-25T23:59:00.000-05:002012-03-25T23:59:53.800-05:00I Really Am HereI know it has been forever since I have posted. I keep thinking things will slow down and the world<br />
will stop for just a few seconds and I will catch up long enough to put thoughts and pictures here.<br />
<br />
Aud and I are basically OK. We have had a tough winter health wise but I can see the end in sight and<br />
now with warm weather on the horizon we are both feeling a lot better. I think we probably have about<br />
2, maybe 3, weeks before Aud will decide it is too hot to get out and she will start her summer hibernation.<br />
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Meanwhile, I hope everyone is doing well. Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-43600370915457462672011-09-09T19:07:00.000-05:002011-09-09T19:07:49.941-05:00IF You Live Long Enough you.......can tell your child or children everything they ever did that you didn't like, or tell them stories that you have no idea whether they are true or not. <br />
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Sometimes, the ones Aud tells explain some of the reasons I am like I am. (And sometimes I wonder if she makes stories up just because)<br />
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I am an only child and have always had the irritating (to some people) habit of trying to tell people how to do things, or trying to fix something that I think they are doing the wrong way. Well, now I know why.<br />
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We are driving down some road a couple of days ago having one of those ongoing (for us anyway) conversations about why we have made some of the decisions involving our move from Texas to Oklahoma 10 years ago. We always come up with variations on a theme of the reasons. <br />
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Imagine my surprise, when out of the blue, Aud says to me...You always were a sh*tt* child.....<br />
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What? What do you mean?<br />
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Well, you were.<br />
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Oh, ok, well great, Mom, thanks for letting me know. What took you so long to come to that conclusion?<br />
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And we laughed, and went on our way.<br />
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This afternoon, out of the blue, Aud says to me....you know when I told you you were a sh**ty<br />
child?<br />
<br />
Yes<br />
<br />
Well, what I meant by that is.....when you were little I wanted you to be so perfect and act right in every instance so I taught you from right and wrong and how you should act. like.....<br />
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Little girls don 't do that, this is the way you act, etc...<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I didn't have any siblings to boss around, and Aud says I just bossed everyone else, and some people didn't take it very well, and guess what, they still don't, lol. </div><div><br />
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and for the last 72 years that is exactly what I have done.<br />
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The moral of this story is, if there is one, if you live long enough you can blame all of your shortcomings or goings on your parents.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-52694085365004587702011-08-03T16:22:00.001-05:002011-08-03T16:25:18.312-05:00I Don't See The CardContinuing on with the surreal week I seem to be having......<br />
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It is 108 here this afternoon and I just got home from doc visit and a couple of errands I needed to run.<br />
And the following is one of the reasons I am not getting anything accomplished this week in the way of working on Grace.<br />
<br />
Hello, Toyota? I need to get my oil changed. Do you have time today?<br />
(been trying for two weeks now and they want me to leave it all day, hah)<br />
Can you leave the car?<br />
No<br />
Well, you are looking at a couple of hours<br />
Ok, will check back later<br />
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Well, let's see, I have a couple of coupons and a gift certificate to Coldwater Creek. Guess I will drop by there and see what they have and then check back with Toyota and see if they can do the car.<br />
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I go to Coldwater Creek, find several things for me and several for Aud. It is our favorite place to shop and they know us there, etc. Oooh, don't have my card with me, oh well, I can call Aud and get her to give me the numbers.<br />
<br />
Calling Aud,<br />
<br />
Mom, would you please go look in that basket besides my chair and get the Coldwater Creek card out? I need the number.<br />
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Hang on, I just got out of the shower and I don't have my glasses on.....<br />
hmmm, can't see very well, let's see, this is Blockbuster .....<br />
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I don't want Blockbuster<br />
I know, I am looking, I can't see very well<br />
<br />
Audrey, go get your glasses please<br />
Ok, I have to put the phone down, be right back.....<br />
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Ok, let's see, hmmmm, no, no, no, here's Amazon,<br />
No, I don't want Amazon, just Coldwater Creek,<br />
It should be leaning against the front edge of that basket,<br />
No, not here..... here's Ethel<br />
Ethel? I don't have an Ethel credit card<br />
Oh, no , this is just a card,<br />
Mother, we are looking for a credit card<br />
No, I don't see it, here's .... and here's ..... and so on and so on<br />
<br />
Well, look in the black card case, that is probably where it is<br />
ok......<br />
no, it is not here<br />
Are you sure?<br />
Yes, I have looked through it twice.<br />
Ok, never mind, I will use my other card. <br />
(I like to use my Coldwater Creek card because I get "rewards")<br />
Thanks for looking. See you after while.<br />
Pay for our stuff, and leave.<br />
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My Toyota has keyless entry, and I walk up to it and pull on the handle, and it doesn't open. Sometimes when I leave it with valet parking at the doc's office, it won't open without the key for a couple of times.<br />
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So, no problem, I get the key out and press the button and I can hear the beep but the door doesn't open. Now it is 108 and I am "sweating" and thinking, great, just what I need, middle of this heat and the electronics are affected. I press the button again, and nothing.<br />
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I glance in the car, and hmmm, maybe this isn't my car. It looks like my car, though<br />
I go around to the front, and there is an <i>L</i> emblem on it. This isn't my car, this is a Lexus!<br />
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I look around, and my car is two spaces down. :) Thank heavens no one was around, I felt like a fool, but it wasn't beeping and no alarm was going off. Yay for that!<br />
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I grin, get in my car, turn the a/c as high as it will go, and head home. No way am I going to go sit in the dealer's waiting area for 2 hours or so.<br />
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I do stop and fill the car with gas and am thinking, please let me get home before I can't breathe!<br />
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I get home, look where I told Aud to look for the card, and sure enough, it is right where I told her it was. I notice the connecting cord for the camera to connect to the computer is laying on the floor and it usually is attached to my camera case.<br />
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Mother, the card was where I told you it was. <br />
Show me<br />
I show her the card case, and she says, that's not the case I looked in.<br />
What case did you look in<br />
The one that looks like one to hold your glasses.<br />
Did it have a camera in it?<br />
Yes<br />
Well, that is my camera case, and I show her the card case, it too is black, and it is right beside the camera case!<br />
Oh, I didn't see that. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">ARRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!! I am not yelling! Why? Not sure! Wouldn't do any good anyway</span><br />
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Aud goes off to change clothes, and I am getting a fashion show will I am opening mail.<br />
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And, then,<br />
I hate to tell you this, Perry, but I don't like this blouse. It is too hot and I don't like the feel of it.<br />
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Ok, I will take it back tomorrow. <br />
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It doesn't matter how many times we have gone out there or how much or how little we buy when we go, there is always at least one item that has to go back, lol. And it is a good 10 or 12 mile to the store we go to.<br />
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Tomorrow I will return the blouse, pick up my BOM from the local quilt store, and go set in the Toyota place with a Starbucks and my Ipad and get the oil changed in the car. Maybe the third time is a charm.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-91666558869444951522011-08-02T20:00:00.001-05:002011-08-02T20:00:01.145-05:00I Can't Find My Wallet!Aud, come on! Your doctor's appointment is in 15 minutes!<br />
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I can't find my wallet.<br />
What do you mean, you can't find your wallet.<br />
I walk into her bedroom and she is digging through her dresser drawers with her blue purse in one hand.<br />
It's not here and it's not in my dresser.<br />
Have you looked in your chair?<br />
Yes, it's not there.<br />
I raise the chair...look under the chair...is it there? No.<br />
Did you look in the living room?<br />
Yes, it's not there.<br />
It has to be here somewhere, you haven't been anywhere.<br />
It's not here.<br />
That's not the right purse you are looking in<br />
Yes it is<br />
I don't think so, do you have your keys in there?<br />
Yes<br />
We search the house.<br />
Mother, this is ridiculous, we are going to be late and you don't need your wallet right now and you do have the keys.<br />
I need my money and it is in my wallet. <br />
I have money, we can look for your wallet when we get back. Aud we are going to be late!<br />
Well the keys aren't in here either.<br />
What do you mean, the keys aren't in there? You can't lose the car key, it is the extra one that has the computer thingy in it. <br />
Well, it's not here either.<br />
Can I look?<br />
Yes, but it's not there!<br />
You're right, it's not in here either. This isn't the right purse. Aud, the last purse you used was the bag thing that is striped.<br />
I looked in that one, it's not there.<br />
Can I look?<br />
yes. but it's not there!<br />
I go to her closet and picked up the striped bag that is laying on the floor in the corner. Is this the bag<br />
you looked in? <br />
Yes<br />
This isn't the right bag, Aud. The stripes went up and down, not around.<br />
That's the purse I used<br />
Well, your wallet is not in there. <br />
I know that<br />
Let me look in the car and see if it dropped out. What really concerns me is where in the $%#@ the car key is!<br />
I look in the car. Of course it is not there.<br />
I walk back in the house<br />
Aud, come on, we have to go.<br />
I found it! <br />
Where was it?<br />
Well. when you said something about that not being the right bag, you were right. It was in the other striped bag, and so are the keys.<br />
Where was the purse?<br />
Under some clothes in the closet.<br />
Oh for cripes sakes! Come on, we are late.<br />
We get in the car and head out to the doctor.<br />
Don't let that happen again Perry.<br />
What? Let what happen again?<br />
Don't lose my keys again.<br />
Ok, Aud, I will be more careful from now on. <br />
:)Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-6972976877367653282011-08-01T09:22:00.001-05:002011-08-01T09:36:07.454-05:00Design Wall MondayI have made progress on my Grace Quilt in spite of all the "adventures" that have happened in the last couple of weeks. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To see what other people are up to this week, visit <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/">Patchwork Times</a>.</div>Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-24613836294058177272011-07-30T13:53:00.000-05:002011-07-30T13:53:36.231-05:00How Did This Happen?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, it's like this, Doc, I was standing at the kitchen counter finishing up dinner and told Aud to come get her plate fixed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Aud walks into kitchen and begins to fill her plate and I hear "oops" and then I feel pain! <br />
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For some reason, not sure why, she has a sharp 8" long knife on her plate and it has slipped off, and landed point down in my foot!!!!! Who walks approximately 8 feet with a sharp knife on one edge of a plate? Beware of mothers! They can always find a way to get to you!<br />
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I had sharpened 2 knives about 30 minutes prior to this so we could use them to cut the pork chops I had grilled and to cut cantelope. Since she was coming into the kitchen to get the porkchop I knew she hadn't cut that yet. What are you doing with the knife on your plate? Cutting my cantelope. Well, great, cantelope juice in my foot, whoopee!!!<br />
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My foot is bleeding like a stuck pig. I have a kleenex on it pressing down to try to stop the bleeding, and I am thinking when is the last time I had a tetanus shot and I cannot believe this. I sit there for a few minutes and the bleeding hasn't stopped so I hobble into the bathroom, get some hydrogen peroxide, lift my foot up to the sink (that was a sight to behold, let me tell you) pour half the bottle of peroxide over it, grab a washcloth and hold it on the foot.<br />
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It quits bleeding in a few minutes, and I get up to go find the tetanus shot record that I need, and it starts bleeding again. Great! I finally get it under control enough to go get the shot record, and hobble back into the living room and call the local clinic to see if I need to get another one because it has been 6 years since I had one. (the one I had to get when I sewed a needle through a finger, talk about fun!)<br />
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No, you don't need another one for another year or so, but you need to come in if the bleeding doesn't stop or you need stitches.<br />
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Stiches? OMG, hadn't thought of that. It is 7 pm and they close at 8, so if I am going to do something I have to do it now. I have put Neosporin on it and covered it with a bandage and taped it good, but haven't checked to see how deep it is. Yuk, this thing is going to need stitches.<br />
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Hobbling to the car with a houseshoe on the affected foot and a sandal on the other, I drive myself to the local clinic, about 2 miles away. <br />
<br />
Get there, fill out paperwork, and don't have to wait but perhaps 5 minutes and this sweet young man comes to get me and takes me to a small room to take my vitals. 125 over 85 bp, heart rate 106, oxygen 95, ok, I can live with that. bp a little high for me, but not to shabby considering. Then he has me stand on the scales and gets my weight, we are not going there, and takes my height. I have not removed my shoes but figure that won't matter. <br />
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By the way, what is my height? 5'3".....WHAT??? Last time I checked I was 5'5" without shoes!<br />
I have shrunk over 2 inches! No wonder my pants are so long!<br />
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I get taken to another room, wait for doctor.....<br />
<br />
Hello, how are you? <br />
Great! I am bleeding from a knife wound and I am 2 inches shorter than I was!<br />
Well, hop up here and let's look at that foot!<br />
Hmm, how did you do this? ( see above)<br />
you are going to need 2 stitches in here.<br />
Oh wonderful! I hate needles.<br />
Well, I can put 2 sticks in your foot to deaden or 4 sticks in your foot for the stitches<br />
Ok, I guess I would prefer just 2 sticks. OW! Hurts!<br />
So I have two beautiful little stitches in my foot, it is covered with this flesh colored bandage, and I am not to get it wet or remove bandage for 24 hours.<br />
Go home and prop your foot up and come back it if starts bleeding, and so on and so on.<br />
See you in 7 to 10 days to have the stitches removed.<br />
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Add another adventure to the road of life.<br />
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Hope your weekend is going smoothly.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-74386861985731996372011-07-14T08:45:00.000-05:002011-07-14T08:45:00.482-05:00You Bid Three With Those Points?Back in another time in a galaxy evidently far far away from reality I played duplicate bridge; was fortunate enough to have good teachers and partners, and traveled to several states in search of the elusive master points that are used to establish your place in the bridge world pecking order.<br />
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I absolutely loved to play and I got to be pretty good at it for a few years, and then life stepped in and said that's enough of that, and I had to quit playing.<br />
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When I first moved to Oklahoma, I played a couple of times but couldn't seem to find a partner that I thought I would enjoy playing with, so I didn't pursue it. Time passed, and about 3 years ago I played a couple of games, and got kind of interested, but that didn't pan out so I had not played again until last month when one of my old bridge partners came to town. We didn't do very well, but it sure did rev up my "bridge playing" need.<br />
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My daughter Summer texted me (we do better if we don't talk to each other in person, lol) and told me she had an old friend she had run across that used to play bridge and thought the two of us might enjoy playing. Would I be interested?<br />
<br />
Sure<br />
<br />
Ok, John (the friend) comes over Thursday night to "discuss" our bridge game. When you are playing duplicate bridge, it is a little more complicated than regular bridge, and there are lots of rules and conventions, etc, that can "enhance" or "screw up" your bridge game big time. <br />
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We agreed to see if we can play together and made plans to play last Saturday afternoon. I have quite a few Master Points so we have to play in a higher category than he would if he was playing with someone on his level. That sounds conceited, but I didn't make the rules. He said he wouldn't mind playing at a higher level, and I assured him I didn't play real well because I had forgotten a bunch and had no memory.<br />
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Oh, I also have no tact at all anymore, never had much, but none at all now it seems.<br />
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Ok. Scene set......<br />
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We are playing along and seem to be doing ok. I bid by the seat of my pants and gut instinct a lot because I do have good card sense most of the time.<br />
<br />
We have a couple of missteps, my bidding, his defense, I point out my own really stupid mistakes and the ones he hasn't played long enough to correct, lol. He takes it all very well.<br />
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Add to this "trying to be a good partner and have some patience" and "keep from screwing up", I have this horrible, raging headache from hell that is making me dizzy and nauseous, and I am so not really together.<br />
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Up comes a hand that he opens, I make a bid, he makes another bid (which he has to do under the conventions we are using) and I make the bid of 3 hearts. It goes pass, pass, pass.<br />
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His hand comes down, I take one look at it and say<br />
I can't believe you bid three hearts with that!<br />
Perry, I didn't bid three hearts, you did!<br />
Oh, lol, good thing I made contract, isn't it!<br />
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You probably had to have been there to appreciate the humor?<br />
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Did we do well? no<br />
Is there a promise of having a good partnership? yes<br />
Are we going to play again? yes <br />
This coming weekend.<br />
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Pray for John.<br />
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Me, I don't think it will help at all, unless you pray that I am in this galaxy and in the state of Oklahoma next weekend when the games are going on, lol.<br />
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Will let you know how it goes.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-35757604201921805082011-07-13T08:33:00.001-05:002011-07-13T08:33:02.211-05:00Aud TalesHaven't posted too much about Miss Aud lately. She has had some rough patches the last few months, and I have had some too, and we just haven't done a lot of "fun" things.<br />
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However, wherever she is, there is always something going on. lol.<br />
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The last part of May I was somewhere and someone asked me if I had a blue rinse in my hair, you know, like the old ladies wear. I had to laugh because they were talking about the purple streaks in my hair. I have had purple streaks in my hair for several years, but since my thyroid is finally straightened out, my hair doesn't seem to keep the purple in.<br />
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When Aud and I were at Shelva's (hairdresser to Perry and Aud) in June, she put purple in my hair and I was letting it set while she did Aud's and Aud says,<br />
I want pink in my hair today.<br />
Mother, please don't<br />
Yes, I want some pink in my hair.<br />
If I had known that I wouldn't have put purple in mine. Please don't.<br />
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Well, of course she did, which did not set well with me. Why? <br />
How would you like to go somewhere with your almost 95 year old mother and people ask you if you were sisters? <br />
lol, happens every time we both have colored streaks in our hair.<br />
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So, I decided this month, I would put no purple in my hair. It was all gone from June by the time we went to Shelva's last week anyway. <br />
<br />
No purple for me today. <br />
You don't need it, Perry, says hairdresser to Perry and Aud, your hair looks like it has a purple tint to it anyway and it is a different color than it was last month. <br />
Great! I look like a little old lady with a blue wash, is that what you are saying?<br />
Hah, Hah, says the hairdresser to Perry and Aud. No, but I think secretly she is telling me a white lie.<br />
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Put pink in mine today says Aud.<br />
Here are pics of Aud with her pink hair.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Typical of the conversations we seem to be having these days:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Why did you buy Neosporin for me, I have plenty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Because you put it on the grocery list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No I did not, I put campho phonique (sp, too lazy to go look) on there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No you didn't.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Where is the grocery list?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, I threw it away, (bad words!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, it said camphor phonique.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No, it didn't</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yes it did.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will NEVER through another grocery list away again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, put it on the grocery list.....this was 2 days ago</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Guess who finally put it on the grocery list today? Me of course.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I need to go close the garage doors, it is dark. (me)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You have already locked up the garage. (Aud)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No, I haven't. I have been asleep. (trouble with vicious migraines lately)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, I didn't lock the door.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Must have been the resident ghost again, huh? Gee, we haven't seen him for awhile.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think the trouble comes from her being the youngest of 5 children and since I am an only child I must be older than she is, right? Makes perfect sense to me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">-------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Visit to Doc's office on Friday. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Doc says..your blood pressure is a little higher than usual. You need to get rid of all stress.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Aud says...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">well, i just hate to shoot her….</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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So, why do you have this iron? asked the Little Red Hen<br />
Why the better to iron my appliqué when I am prepping it, She replied.<br />
And where can I buy this? asked the Little Red Hen<br />
Why, <a href="http://www.bunnyhilldesigns.com/store/products/details/?product=appvideo">here</a>, of course.<br />
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Well, this is the site of Bunny Hill Designs, says the Little Red Hen<br />
Yes, says my friend.<br />
Well, what else can I find at <a href="http://www.bunnyhilldesigns.com/store/products/details/?product=appvideo">this site</a> that I will just love?<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh, will this teach me how to do the wonderful kind of applique that I see on Bunny Hill Designs?</div>Why, yes it will! If any thing can help you learn to do beautiful needler turn applique, it will be this CD.<br />
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I think she may be right, too. I bought the CD, I have watched it, fallen in love with the method, and as soon as I can get all the "stuff" caught up a bit, I intend to try to do some of it. It is just beautiful and looks so simple! There will be more later on this I hope.<br />
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Then, I was looking at Fat Quarter Shop and found something that is the perfect answer for me to the problem I have about taking "just a few pins" somewhere. They always fall out of the little plastic containers and I have tried several homemade objects to stick them in, and nothing compares to this.<br />
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And when you open it up, there is a magnetic lining for pins and needles! The best part about this is that the magnetic part is confined to the inside. When the lid is closed it does not magnetize on the outside. <br />
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You can find them in two "colors" <a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Shopper_id=696627154630696&Store_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=60233&Parent_Ids=">here</a> and <a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Shopper_id=696627154630696&Store_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=60234&Parent_Ids=">here</a>. I think it is one of those "must haves".<br />
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Hope this week is going well for all of you!Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-66402179037858107762011-07-11T05:30:00.006-05:002011-07-11T09:49:26.611-05:00Design Wall Monday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The beginning of Grace. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Thanks to <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/">Judy</a> for hosting Design Wall Mondays. Be sure to check out the other beautiful projects that are always showing up over there.<br />
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This is my version of Diamond in the Rough, a pattern by Deborah Maddy. I took a class at the local quiltstore taught by Marilyn Karper about 2008 because I figured that was the only way I would ever make a quilt with this block. However, this is "my way". I did the sashing and borders differently than the pattern calls for. The fabric is all Thimbleberries except for the backgrounds, and they are just offwhite small prints. The back of the quilt is composed of large squares of the Thimbleberry fabrics I used in the quilts.<br />
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My Luna Notte is at the quilter's and it should be done in a couple of months. I feel like I have some progress going on!!!<br />
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Was down in the bowels of Texas last weekend and it was hot down there too. I was on I35 on a Sunday and, OMG! Traffic was unreal, both lanes each way going 80 and motorcycles weaving in and out and cars cutting in front of anyone they could. I think they were all sun crazed or thought they must be in LA or something. <br />
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I stopped somewhere, not sure where it was, just to get out of the fray for a while, and get some gas etc. in case there was a wreck and I was stuck for hours. I got back in the rat race and sure enough the traffic slowed to a crawl and this car besides me was honking and pointing to the back of my car and I looked out the rear view mirror, and lo and behold, I had left the gas cap off and the panel open. Yuk! So I pulled off the road, got out in the 100 degree heat with all these people staring at me, put on the gas cap, got back in the car, and a truck let me get back in, thank you very much trucker, if you read my blog. <br />
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I was so tired by the time I got to my cousin's she asked me if I wanted a margarita and I said yes! So I had two of them, and promptly took a nap for about an hour, lol. Had the most delicious meal and then I slept through a couple of tv shows and went to bed.<br />
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Monday, I got back on I35 and headed to OKC. Put the car on cruise at 80 and said, I'm going home, don't care if I get a ticket, thank goodness I didn't, and got home in record time. And it is nothing but hot up here! <br />
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Aud is doing pretty good. She has her good days and bad days. She did had a wonderful time while I was away. <br />
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A friend of mine stayed with her some and my grandson got her to go out to eat a couple of nights, and he took her to see his mother one day for a few hours. She was worn out when I got home, but full of stories about the cake she and Jackson (grandson)made (it was not good, lol) and the pecan pie she took to Summer's (her granddaughter) house and the fact that my ex husband ate all but 2 pieces of it . Since Aud told them she had to bring a piece back for me, that left 1 piece for four people, lol. Love it!<br />
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I went to the library a couple of days ago to pick up some new books and got her the new Nora Roberts , Amanda Quick, and Susan Elizabeth Phillips. So she reads the Roberts, I read the Phillips, and then yesterday she starts reading the Phillips. I go back to her room last night to check on her and see how she is enjoying the book, and she is reading Black Heels and Tractor Wheels by Pioneer Woman. <br />
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How did you like the Phillips book, Aud? (assume she has read it since that was what was reading when last I saw her reading)<br />
I haven't finished it.<br />
What do you mean you haven't finished it. If that is so, why are you reading the Pioneer Woman book?<br />
I told you I haven't finished it.<br />
Aud, this is not the Phillips book!<br />
This is the one I am reading.<br />
Ok, I get the Phillips book and show her where she has turned it over on a table, and,<br />
Oh, I was reading that, wasn't I?<br />
No wonder this wasn't making much sense but I think I have read it, talking about the Pioneer Woman<br />
Yes, you read that a month or so ago.<br />
Well I thought I remembered some of it.<br />
So we laugh and I don't think anymore about it.<br />
Today, guess what she is reading?<br />
The rest of the Pioneer Woman book that she has already read. :)<br />
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At least the TV is off for a while.<br />
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Me, I have been working on the Grace quilt kit I got from<a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Shopper_id=696627154630696&Store_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=52816&Parent_Ids="> Fat Quarter Shop</a>. It must be sold out, couldn't find it on FQS site, but the pattern is <a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Shopper_id=696627154630696&Store_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=48383&Parent_Ids=">Lucky Stars</a> by Atkinson Designs. It is really going to be a beautiful quilt. Hopefully it won't take me a year to get it done, lol.<br />
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I guess that catches me up for now. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and remembers why we are celebrating!Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-5169018918833978192011-06-20T12:48:00.000-05:002011-06-20T12:48:14.995-05:00What Was I Thinking!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">It has been a while since I have posted. Lots of life has happened.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I did finally finish my basket quilt. As I mitered the last border on it yesterday and laid it out on the floor so I could see it, I could only think ....what in the world was I thinking! I only wanted a table topper from this fabric, but it kept growing and growing and growing, until finally it emerged into this 95 x 100 queen size quilt.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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Anyway, it is finally finished and I just love it! Hope you do too!<br />
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I will reply to your request for information about the Berninas I have here because I cannot reply to a nonreply email. To receive personal emails you must have an email address to reply to.<br />
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Background:<br />
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When I bought my 220 Bernina I only wanted a machine that had a great quarter inch foot and a beautiful satin and blanket stitch. Since I already had the Pfaff that did other things I only needed those 3 things in a machine and I did buy a quarter inch foot and a straight stitch face plate. It was also light enough I could take it with me to a class if I wanted to. It does not have the capacity to make button holes but that wasn't important to me. It is a wonderful smaller machine and does not disappoint me in any way. It does exactly what I wanted it for and does a great job.<br />
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When I started sewing on the 220 I remembered how much I had enjoyed my previous Berninas, and the size of the Pfaff quarter inch seam was not compatible with the 220 one. So, I bought the 440 because I wanted the features of that machine and it would be compatible with the 220 seams as far as sewing was concerned. Now I can start a quilt on one machine and finish it up on another and know the seams will be the same size.<br />
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I did sell my Pfaff and I do miss the Integrated Dual Feed on it. It was great, but I gained the ability to sew using two machines on the same project. That has become important to me because my sewing areas are not contingent.<br />
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Now to answer your question.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hello - I'm thinking of buying a Bernina 220 and wonder if you could give your appreciation of it - I see you upgraded to a 440 - what was the difference like? Will I be disappointed with the 220? I believe it does not come with the feet I want.. 1/4 inch, walking foot and free machining or darning foot... does the 440 come with these or is it worth getting 220 and buying the extras?</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I would really appreciate your view, Many thanks,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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If you can afford the 440, go for it. The main reason I bought it is it has a feature that allows you to tighten the weight of the top foot and helps prevents fabric slippage when you are piecing. I hope that makes sense to you. It is the closest thing to the IDF of the Pfaff that is available in this price range. It has many more options as far as stitches are concerned than the 220 and, depending upon the dealer or the current package Bernina is featuring, will come with several feet you are wanting, and sometimes the walking foot is included (it was with mine). It also does buttonholes if you need that. Mine came with a quarter inch foot, a darning foot, the Bernina Stitch Regulator and several other feet. It does have an embroidery module that you can get for it but I am not into that so I did not get that option. Perhaps later I will add that.<br />
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Before I forget, the 220 and 440 feet are interchangeable, as is the straight stitch foot plate. And the feet are not cheap. I did buy foot 20 for embroidery because I like it better for embroidery as it is more open.<br />
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I did keep my 220 and I use it mainly for machine embroidery because I can set it up with the thread I want to use and the foot and foot plate and leave it that way. I use the 440 for the main quilt I am sewing on because I have my design wall behind it and this is the area I use to put my quilts together on. I also use it for machine embroidery if I need to. I love having the option of doing one thing for a while, and then switching to something else to work on. The machines are in different rooms.<br />
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I have now added a featherweight which is also compatible with the Berninas as far as stitch width is concerned. I have set it up in a spare bedroom that has a tv in it and I can piece in there and watch tv when my other two areas are in use for other projects. I am very fortunate to have the 3 areas and I can now have 3 projects going without having to move things around. Added bonus is exercise going from room to room, lol. I really do love the concept. It is counterproductive when I have to move something to do something else and can't remember what I was doing. Plus I can only cut out fabric for a little over an hour and then I am exhausted from standing, and this way I can do other things instead and not have to put my cutting stuff away.<br />
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I don't think you would be disappointed with either machine, frankly. They are both great. Right now with it being Bernina's 40th Anniversary you can get great financing on all of their machines and no finance charges using Bernina's Credit Card on purchases over $1,000. <br />
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After rereading this I am not sure I have really given you a concrete answer. I will just say I love both machines, but if you can only have one and can do it, go for the 440. It is heavy and not fun to lug around, but it is a great machine. <br />
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My original Bernina was an 830 and I sewed on it for 35 years before I finally upgraded to the newer ones. They are built to last, that's for sure.<br />
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Hope this helps, if you have other questions, email me again, but be sure you give me an email address I can respond to please.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457768391858215461.post-70677647163133830752011-03-31T23:27:00.000-05:002011-03-31T23:27:46.828-05:00A Touch of Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeKn5OdpEEeTs1VzcO7oY53tGRtfKwq-WyRgsv0AHr83aT14dWo8P9ypmAIoTQC-wtn0e_Qgn11-fvFAtfO4ui3Qy-v5MpnXYkSiAMAcmowE_mNlq2doDbUXe5P91RAaO_-mweBgXtMkM/s1600/IMG_0309.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeKn5OdpEEeTs1VzcO7oY53tGRtfKwq-WyRgsv0AHr83aT14dWo8P9ypmAIoTQC-wtn0e_Qgn11-fvFAtfO4ui3Qy-v5MpnXYkSiAMAcmowE_mNlq2doDbUXe5P91RAaO_-mweBgXtMkM/s320/IMG_0309.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The pansies are just beautiful this year and my lilies are getting green, green, green. The daffodils are growing, all of the groundcovers are just beautiful, but the poor tulips...don't think they are going to make it. We are supposed to have 90 degree weather by Sunday!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have started X-Rated, the Schnibbles quilt by <a href="http://missrosiesquiltco.com/">Miss Rosie</a>. I think I know why she called it that, lol. At least those are the kind of words I used. I was so frustrated in trying to keep the rows straight when I was laying it out......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Doesn't look real good, but it sure works well!! portable and not expensive! The best kind!!! Oh, and don't laugh to much, it is really pretty neat. One of these days when I have a whole "pretty" piece of flannel, which I think works better for design walls than batting, I will make it look better maybe. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UG6TAvcxR7tokqNqCIf4FBLrCrddjdWEdDSBPl6a-lBCmEnTNA-noSYiCMKN83Fuix3iyGIiKRVqhF9v1P1orf2-HrcWmi_vHbVTRpExYQHXtdFc8w1HV9WQEXlPl3RXboNWbvkKXEvW/s1600/IMG_2738.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UG6TAvcxR7tokqNqCIf4FBLrCrddjdWEdDSBPl6a-lBCmEnTNA-noSYiCMKN83Fuix3iyGIiKRVqhF9v1P1orf2-HrcWmi_vHbVTRpExYQHXtdFc8w1HV9WQEXlPl3RXboNWbvkKXEvW/s320/IMG_2738.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See how nicely the quilt pieces go on this? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4Tyf4cEl11LKRR4UH-MspmBwHPeUWCi1IZk3jMYHonKhkQTF2EmSW74zDLgrQdDpveR5Z2FUnGIWAjLCIv4Icrzm3Ici20X-n2zXK9iKUKtWskGBbhTCRoygzRSMS859oEd9GDRJX174/s1600/IMG_2741.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4Tyf4cEl11LKRR4UH-MspmBwHPeUWCi1IZk3jMYHonKhkQTF2EmSW74zDLgrQdDpveR5Z2FUnGIWAjLCIv4Icrzm3Ici20X-n2zXK9iKUKtWskGBbhTCRoygzRSMS859oEd9GDRJX174/s320/IMG_2741.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was able to turn the board so I could check the placement of the colors. Not too good of a color choice for this pattern, not enough contrast, and the LQS didn't have the light gray that goes with this collection. So I chose the white, which washes out the colors I think, and that is what I am using. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The great thing about this size "design wall" is I can put it up right beside my sewing machine and pick up the pieces straight off of the surface without moving. Works great! Maybe, just maybe, I will get this sucker together without messing it up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FuRIViF4M4aG2qaCxujynry3nMdU8tohNQCrG_ELG8EiBDhsE0AJ8QsY-7geEbFSQiUOJ41lspUkdCDGukQLh0vtyx8f6iVwlmXu2FJjBkw-5J4S_F-SEG_oXXGXObHv6fXm6Z1ayvQL/s1600/IMG_2742.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FuRIViF4M4aG2qaCxujynry3nMdU8tohNQCrG_ELG8EiBDhsE0AJ8QsY-7geEbFSQiUOJ41lspUkdCDGukQLh0vtyx8f6iVwlmXu2FJjBkw-5J4S_F-SEG_oXXGXObHv6fXm6Z1ayvQL/s320/IMG_2742.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Also managed to get my Kaffe BOM started. This is what it is supposed to look like when it is finished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN2pcgbnd8zNfqMX3RyBsBcs1ssz2hxXJt6DioSqcpdekntVKQv2TQTD5EIkVjuZG9iwBgz6lg0SBh_2XHDVVFjulysdCJFROqYZ0rPoJeu1Ge4M3m66iDqth5UoJrtKXkelriHaF61Kcu/s1600/IMG_2733.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN2pcgbnd8zNfqMX3RyBsBcs1ssz2hxXJt6DioSqcpdekntVKQv2TQTD5EIkVjuZG9iwBgz6lg0SBh_2XHDVVFjulysdCJFROqYZ0rPoJeu1Ge4M3m66iDqth5UoJrtKXkelriHaF61Kcu/s320/IMG_2733.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>This is the first month. I am machine appliquéing it and am going to try to keep up. Hah! Wish me luck on doing that.<br />
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Will get back to my Luna Notte baskets next week I hope, and hopefully, the Market Baskets. Check out <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/">Judy's</a> blog to see what other people have managed to get done lately.Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14450995984017232831noreply@blogger.com13