I'm going to try to get a better picture of this before I send it out into the world, but B2 (Bossy Quilt, the Sequel) is done and done and done.  I'm planning to drop it off to Laura on Wednesday morning.  The proceeds will go directly into the "I Need a New Stove" fund - I'm getting close!

Next?  I'm going to have to update the Next 4 list.  Daniel's Christmas quilt really ought to be next in line, but I have no idea what it looks like yet.  I want to use some more of these lovely fabrics from Erin's mother-in-law to make something for Chance.  Again, no idea what it looks like, though.

I'm flying solo at work this week, Joanna's heading south for the week, she'll be back Monday, Tuesday, and then I'm off Wednesday until the following Monday.  Mom's hip surgery went well, but she's had some blood pressure/blood sugar issues so she's staying put in the hospital a day or two more.  Best place to have health issues, I figure.

I need to get this nonsense off my counter.  So. Much. Green!  I'll give it some serious attention this afternoon; the weather's kind of marginal and I don't need a lot of groceries this week, so I'm not going back out.  Laundry, a pork loin, some applesauce and green beans - done.  There's enough bread and cereal, and fruit for breakfast tomorrow, so, done.

This week - 
Monday - Flying solo at work!
Tuesday - Dr. appt 11:15
Wednesday - Drop of B2 to Laura 7:40
Thursday -
Friday -
Saturday - Knitting at the Bixby
Sunday -

What's for Dinner
10 Pork Loin Roast
11 Tomato Sandwiches
12 Chicken Strips or Fish & Fries
13 Spaghetti
14 Fried Rice & Egg rolls
15 Pizza
16 Nibbles
17 Roast Chicken
18 Daniel's Birthday (Daniel's choice)
19 Meatloaf (w/leftovers)
20 Deli
21 Mac & Cheese
22 Pizza
23 Lasagna
24 Chicken Pot Pie
25 Grilled Cheese
26 Omelets
27 Chicken Parm
28
29 Pizza
30
31

Not what I'd Planned

Installing this bad boy today was not my plan, but such is life.  Yesterday, attempting to warm up some lunch, the frozen pizza bagels stayed frozen, and the smell was ozone, not pepperoni.  Dammit. It looks like the hanging bracket from the old one matches the bracket from the new one, so that's good.  As long as the top bolt holes match, all is good.  I can install it anyway, of course, but not having to fill old holes and drill news ones would be ideal.  Fingers crossed for an easy install.  I'l wait until Daniel's up though - this is definitely a two person job.


January is over  How'd I do with my resolutions?  I managed the discretionary spending!  I not only did it, but I have some cash leftover!  Daniel owes me a little bit of money, but I don't think I'll replace that cash unless I have to.  Nightime snacking - I indulged a little once the calendar changed, but I really didn't like the way I felt afterward, so I'm going to make that a policy.  The water habit has stuck, though.  I don't drink enough during the day, but that mostly is because I really hate the incinerating toilet we have, and the nearest flush toilet is down the stairs, out the door, across the parking lot, down the road, up the driveway, across the parking lot, though the porch, and down the hall.  It's easier to drink less.  The exercise still didn't happen, but my 'no-bread-at-lunch did.  Unexpected side effect, though, I carbed up when I got home.

For this month, a line in the sand.  10 lbs.  It's not a lot, it's not enough, but I'm going to weigh myself every morning, and get this done.  And week 1 - only fruit or veggies when I get home instead of chips, or a bagel, or cookies.  Plus water.  I wonder when Lent starts? (March 6)

I have backing. batting, and spray baste for the quilt.  That's my target for this week.  It's big, I'll need a big clear space, so I'll need to do that too.  I think getting this together is going to be about as hard as getting it quilted (not really😟)

FEBRUARY 0/10

Week 1 - fruit or veggie snack after work

What's for Dinner?

3 Roast Chicken
4 Grilled Cheese
5 Fried Rice and Eggrolls
6 Spaghetti
7 Chicken Pot Pie
8 Pizza
9 pigs in blankets
10
11
12 fajitas
13 Mac & cheese
14 meatloaf
15 Pizza

A better picture (and an edit)

This top covers my bed!  Laura wants a dark calico for the back (I'm sure I don't have that)

And Saturday's dinner MUST be Meatloaf!  (It's Groundhog Day!)

88 inches Square!

I don't have a good picture - I'd need a bed that *wasn't* covered in clean laundry for that - but the newest version of Concentric Squares is done.  Well the top is.  I do love this pattern, bossy as it is. 😉

It's snowing again - we got 14 or 15 inches last weekend, then a little rain, a little melting, and today a couple inches more.  I was out on the plow earlier to get the sides pushed back.  All we were able to manage last weekend was a single, smallish, car's-width.  The UPS truck?  not-so-much.  Better now, though, so we can handle a little more snow.  I need to do a little research to figure out how to tighten a cable, but that's inside work, and when I know how, it should be quick.

The crockpot's making dinner, I'm done sewing for today, and I've had a shower.  I don't need to go back out, I'm done.

News - Tori bought a house!  She's a millennial - how'd she manage that?!  Good for her, her mortgage will be less than she's paying in rent.  Her (accepted) offer is of course contingent on HOA approval and an inspection, but neither of those should be a problem.  What a kid!

And mom's hip surgery is a go for March 7.  Joanna, my boss, has already booked time off the week right after, I think I'll plan on sometime the week of March 20.

This week... hmmm.  Again nothing on my calendar until knitting Saturday morning.  Lovely!

JANUARY Discretionary spending ✔ Still good

Week 1 - Not eating after 8 pm ✔ yup

Week 2 - Extra 12 oz water daily ✔ It's becoming a habit!

Week 3 - 10 extra minutes of exercise every day. ✘  Didn't work.  If I don't get this done early, I don't get this done.

Week 4 - skip the bread with lunch.  (I usually have soup and a toasted bagel, but mostly I just eat the toast, and I'm too full for the soup.)

What's for Dinner?

27 Beef Stew & Biscuits
28 Grilled Cheese (or a fried egg sandwich)
29 Stromboli
30 Mac & Cheese

31 Fried Rice & Eggrolls
Feb 1 Pizza
2 Chicken Pot Pie
3 Roast Chicken
4 Grilled Cheese
5 Meat Loaf
6 Spaghetti
7
8 Pizza
9
10
11
12
13
14 Pie Day!
15 Pizza

SNOW!!

We're in the middle of a huge snow dump.  I think we're solidly over a foot already, and it'll keep coming for a few more hours.  I believe the forecast says it'll knock off this afternoon, Daniel and I will get out and clear it then.  He's got no school tomorrow or Tuesday, so as long as I can get out, we're good.  We have a freezer full of food, an extra gallon of milk, lots of toilet paper, and we have a puzzle

It's been quite a week.  Ugh.  On Tuesday morning, as I drove in to work, I noticed a State Trooper vehicle parked on the lawn in front of one of the houses on property.  Odd, but not concerning, I thought.  As it turns out, I was wrong.  Our dear friend Angela, who's been at the Harbor for years, seasonally, had died, I believe in her sleep.  We are a small crew through the winter and her death hit many of us very, very hard.  She had just celebrated her 45th birthday, the day before my 55th, and that timing shook me.  If someone exactly 10 years younger than me could die, then I am just on borrowed time, right?  Sleeping has been a little tricky, because honestly, I'm afraid I won't wake up.  I imagine it will pass, but Z-Quil is my friend right now.  The pain of those at work who knew Angela must better than I is hard to bear.  We had a grief counselor come in Wednesday, it was helpful, and agonizing, but it helped.

Mom, 85 and going strong(ish) has a date for her hip replacement surgery.  March 7.  I'm going to see about taking some of the week after off work to go help out with driving and such.  I'll float the idea here - at work it shouldn't be a problem.

Anyway.  January continues its status as the suckiest month.  11 days to go.

Once we come back in from shoveling, I'll get the second corner sewn onto Laura's quilt - I'll finish the top this week, I think.  I've got as many HSTs as I need, and maybe enough solid edge pieces - they're easy enough to cut if I don't.  

JANUARY Discretionary spending ✔ Still good

Week 1 - Not eating after 8 pm ✔ Still doing it!

Week 2 - Extra 12 oz water daily ✔ It was not so easy, but I did it!

and this week, 10 extra minutes of exercise every day.  Today, that'll be shoveling. ;)

Nothing on the calendar this week, except Daniel's haircut Tuesday.

What's for Dinner?

20 Garlic Chicken
21 Grilled Cheese
22 Omelets & homefries
23 Spaghetti
24 pork chops
25 Pizza (Robbie Burns Day! we should have Haggis!)
26 Fajitas
27 Pot Roast
28 Deli Sandwiches
29 Stromboli
30 Laze-agna
31 Fried Rice & Eggrolls

It's up to 8º! Practically tropical!

There's not a lot on the calendar this week, nothing on fact, until Saturday morning knitting at the Bixby.

Last week's resolution, to not eat after 8 has worked out just fine.  When I've been inclined to graze, I look at the clock, and then don't.  Easy peasy!  I'm going to keep up with that, but also add 12 extra ounces of water every day.  I was noticing how dry my skin is, and while lotion is a fix for the symptom, I think more water is a better fix for the problem.  The discretionary spending is also under control, and it's only the 13th!  Awesome!  Restricting that to cash only has kept my resolve strong, and has stemmed the perpetual inflow of stuff that just ends up going back out.  Hair cut's paid for, and I still have a little mad money.

I've been working on Laura's quilt in the evenings, and have now "only" to fill in the corners.  Each corner requires 48 (I think) HSTs, and 14 solid squares that will get trimmed into triangles along that edge.  That cut will be bias, though, so I'm going to keep them square until after the quilting is done. I'm about 60 HSTs short, but have enough to fill in 2 corners. I'll make them as leaders and enders as I go, and be sure to mix in new ones with the old ones so that there's no obvious before/after going on.  2 corners by next weekend is my goal, and I think completely doable since my calendar is mostly clear during the evening this week.

My range is slowing falling apart.  The oven is temperamental, the drawer has lost one of the side supports, and on Friday, the oven door hinge spit out a rivet.  I've started a little savings account that gets a tiny influx of cash every payday, and the payment I get for this quilt will go in there too, along with the Christmas check from Mom that's on the way.  There's a stove I really, really want, Let's hope this beast holds out until I have enough $$.

Daniel has plans to play video games with his friend this afternoon, so I'm not going out until it's time to drop him off. I'll go to Costco and Shaws or Price Chopper and then back home and back to my sewing machine.  I'm not even dressed yet, but the laundry's running and the dishwasher is full.

What's for Dinner?

13 Chicken Thighs & Stuffing
14 Deli Sandwiches
15 Meatloaf
16 lasagna
17 Garlic Chicken
18 Pizza
19 Pigs in Blankets
20 Beef Stew & Biscuits
21 Grilled Cheese
22 Omelets & homefries
23 Spaghetti
24 pork chops
25 Pizza (Robbie Burns Day! we should have Haggis!)
26 Fajitas
27 Pot Roast
28 Deli Sandwiches
29 Stromboli
30 Laze-agna
31 Fried Rice & Eggrolls

Oh! It's Thursday, I almost forgot!

My plan, last Christmas, was to not BUY Christmas this year.  I'm still thinking that same thing.  Up first, of course, Braiden's "You're 16 now" quilt:

It'll be probably a little bigger than some of the others, but so is he. ;)

<- this is not the layout.  The "tree" blocks will alternate with the "X" blocks that you can see in the top(ish) corner.  Think Irish Chain.  I laid them out like his for a reason that escapes me now, oh wait, I remember.  Those aren't 4s, they are paired 2s.  I laid them out to make them INTO 4s, which I will then set alternately with the Xs.  Glad I'm just thinking about it, and not doing it right now - there'd be un-sewing this weekend, I'm sure.

So that's that gift.

Number two is not what t appears to be.  Daniel believes this is a sweater for Simon.  It is not, it's a cardigan for Daniel!  He doesn't read this, so he'll never know.  And if he *does* read this, he's smart enough to keep his mouth shut.

If you look carefully the rib changes about 1/3 of the way up - the body of the cards is knit in one WIDE piece, 190 stitches across.  I'll continue along until 16" from cast-on, then shape armholes from the back (while holding front stitches on 2 spare needles, then shaping armholes from the front, then knitting sleeves and finally attaching the whole business together with saddle shoulders.  (no top shoulder seam - more of an epaulet treatment.  Finally collar and front button bands, and boom!  Instant sweater.  Not.  We'll see.

I'm thinking of asking Daniel to set up the knitting machine I was gifted, to see if I can speed up the process for the next creation.

And that's it.  Christmas gifts for Tori ad Simon?  Still under consideration. (= I have no idea)

Christmas on Thursday

*ETA *publish!* hit the publish button or this goes nowhere!

This is some, but not all, of Braiden's quilt.  I like it!

The X blocks are all done, and I plug along on the trees - they're all sewn but not assembled - these are all 2s, they need to be 4s, but I want to avoid matching trunks, crowns, and backgrounds and that will be easier if I do this in stages.

Is it 'manly'?  I think it's manly enough.  The trees get a little lost when assembled into the 4 patches, but they sort of turn into compass roses, and that's good too.  The x blocks all have blue centre, like the sky, right?  Whatever, I like it.

Weekend Update

Oh my goodness, I think I've been to the Promised Land!  Erin's mother in law Sue was more than a quilter, though she was definitely that.  She was a shopper with lofty ambitions and excellent taste, and I am honored to be the new caretaker of a very small selection of her treasures.  This looks like less than it is - those are bolts on the right, and that zip bag is full of 5" charms of beautiful Moda charms.  The small (not really) box is jammed full of light 1/4 and 1/2 yard cuts.

Under the batting are 2 pieces of upholstery weight fabric and a completely pieced, layered and basted baby quilt.    This is the top of my full sized freezer, and it is covered.

I am very very lucky, and inspired to turn this bounty into something good.  I will.

The home itself is beautiful - a beautiful house with 2 wonderful decks, a mezzanine,  and a magnificent stone fireplace, a separate cottage that was Sue's studio, a shed that was the cats' home, a greenhouse, and an actual studio that is now a shed.  It's the kind of place you can't imagine ever leaving.  I'd love to go back just to drink coffee on the deck.

Today though, is Father's Day, and I need to do some errands and pick up ribs for dinner.  Onward.

This Week:

Monday - ANWSD Food Service Picnic
Wednesday - Dinner for Farrells
Thursday - ANWSD payday

What's for Dinner?

17 Ribs
18 Grilled Cheese
19 Chicken strips (or fish) & fries
20 Baked Mac & Cheese
21 Deli Sandwiches
22 Pizza
23 Hot Dogs & Potato Salad
24 BBQ Chciken
25 Grilled Cheese
26 Fajitas
27 Spaghetti

28 Burgers
29 Pizza
30 Cold Meat & Salad
July 1 Canada Day!

A Field Trip!

Wooo, busy day today.  I'm running out the door shortly to go on a field trip!  😁  Friend Erin and I are going to Granville (hour-ish from here) to her late mother-in-law's stash, er I mean house to help clear out some of the fabric and sewing supplies.  I have no idea what to expect, but an hour drive into the mountains sounds like a treat, and free fabric is a bonus!  I said I'd meet her at her house at 8, but I'm going to stop and get coffees and cardamon buns at The Laundry first.  I don't think she'll mind.  Details upon my return.

This afternoon groceries and a few errands.  The forecast is for hot and humid, so I think a trip in the A/C sounds dreamy.

The garden

The garden, she is in!  Or just about.  No onions (where to plant them??) and no zucchini.  I lost the seeds, somewhere on the kitchen counter.

This morning a small group of us got a friend's garden planted.  She was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago, and the every-four-weeks chemo is kicking her butt.  Her family is picking up so much, but there's a limited planting window here in VT, especially if you actually want a harvest.  It was a fun morning, and inspired me to get back here and get MINE done.  And it is.  Ish.

And yesterday, with no commitments until 1:30, I dragged my right brain upstairs and quilted the little log cabin for Baby Next-door.  I decided that the double stars that I'd put together looked too much like something I found in the basement.  They're going in the yard sale.  Tonight I'll slip a cold pack into my wrist brace and get started with the binding.

These blocks are from the swap that made me quit swapping, I suspect.  I don't know how long I've had them but there's 26 more that I won't use.  Into the yard sale box they go.  Many of the not-used are badly sewn, untrimmed, backwards... and very much not my style.  Out they go.
This little top is 27 by 36, and the 12 'best' of the bunch.  If the rain continues, I'll layer and quilt it this afternoon for baby next door, as soon as we have confirmation of her arrival.

I hope to hear from the Basin harbor Club this week - there's a 40 hr/week job available that I'd love to have.  It's Mar-October, I could fill the gap with subbing, I'll bet.  Or personal shopping. ;)  And I'm holding out hope for CSAC as well.  Something will happen, I've been finding a lot of pennies lately.

Monday - Friday @Lillian
Wednesday - Underclassmen Awards
Friday - Last day of FUSION - ASM numbers go down.
Saturday - @Carolyn Thompson 3hrs garden work

20 BBQ Chicken, Salad, Roasted Potatoes
21 grilled cheese
22 Quesadillas
23 spaghetti & meatballs
24 Quiche
25 pizza
26 nachos
27 Roast chicken
28 Memorial Day! hot dogs, potato salad
29 grilled cheese
30 sausage fusilli
31 fried rice
June 1 Pizza
2 Burgers or Chicken sandwiches
3 

Weekend Update

Today I'm going to do some baking, and get the paper off the back of the rest of those tree blocks. Oh, oops, I was going to save talk of Braiden's quilt for Thursday.  So, today I'm going to bake. ;)  Zucchini Bread, Orange Bread, and a Quiche.

And I'll create a Facebook Album with quilts for sale - I need to generate some cash, and I've got the materials, I hope, to do it.  I have 3 kinda/sorta ready to go and I'm offering them at a slightly discounted price, just to get some interest (and cash)  <-This one is mostly done, I'm hand sewing the binding down in the evening.

  -> This one is just a top, and it will be a top,
I think, until someone asks me to finish it - it can be bigger easily.  It's 28 x 42 right now, a good size for a crib or on the floor for a teeny one, but could quickly move up to 42 square with the addition of 12 more blocks (and a bunch more dollars.) 😃

And this one <- is done and larger 42x60ish.  Ready to go. I'll keep making them, taking orders if that's what happens. I have yardage for backs, I have (some) batting, plenty of thread (including 150 prewound bobbins I got at the thrift store for $10.  And time.  I've got that too.

The next plan is to back the t-shirts I bought at a rummage sale with the fusible interfacing I have and make a sample memory quilt.  T-shit top, fleece back, meander quilting.  I want that done before April Vacation, (21-29) so that I can advertise it on Facebook to all my friends who have graduating seniors.  Maybe that's what'll happen while I babysit the oven today.

Groceries can wait until tomorrow.  And tomorrow I need to send some follow up emails - I did not get the Front Porch Forum job :( and am still waiting to hear from the Chamber.  I do know that they have NOT hired someone else, so I hold out hope.  I get an email every day from Indeed that points me toward other open positions, and I can always get myself on the Sub list for the School District.  There is work out there, and I will get something.  I should be panicked, but I'm not.  Oh, and I need to do the taxes this week too.  That one?  Not so happy making, but it needs to be done.

8 Quiche & Fruit
9 Grilled Cheese
10 fajitas
11 spaghetti & Garlic Bread
12 pork chops 
13 pizza
14 burgers
15 Garlic Chicken
16 Omelets
17 Fried Rice & egg rolls
18 lasagna
19 Pulled Pork
20 Pizza
21 Chicken Sandwiches
22 

Well...

That thing?  In my comfortable chair?  That's not a pillow.  It is the 75"x90" quilt that was a top, a batt in a bag, and flannel yardage on Sunday morning.  It's done.  It demanded to be done, and so it was.  And it was done right - there is not a single pucker, not one of my meanders crossed over itself, the sides are parallel, the corners are square. The binding is double fold and hand stitched down. All this in 4 days, 3 of which I worked 2 "real" jobs.

Holy cow.  I know when I'm out-bossed.

Weekend Update

Today is Daniel's birthday, we he and his friends are going bowling this afternoon.  I'm going to go to Goodwill and the grocery store, and bring a book to kill the remainder of the time.  Where or where has the time gone?  In the words of toddler Simon, "Me not know, Mama.  Me not know!"

He's in High School!  He owns woodworking equipment!  He's growing sideburns!  And he likes to hang out with me when I sew.  :)

Braiden - The trees continue.  I try to do at least 4, ideally 6, sometimes more of these every day.  Today, since we'll not be home most of the day, I'll babysit the oven later, trim them up and tear the paper off the backs.   Once that's done, it's block assembly, then top.  Onward.

And I think I know where the Concentric Squares quilt is going.  It's going to be a kinda Farewell/Housewarming/Thank You gift for someone at work. It seems fitting, since that's where it happened to come together.

I've also, as mentioned yesterday, I've started a leader/ender Log Cabin project for which I will buy absolutely nothing.  I'm not even going down to my basement storage room (old "sewing" room where exactly NO sewing ever got done.)  Everything comes out of the pile that began with Braiden's quilt.  It's all scraps and leftovers, and I'm using them.  Nothing but.

It's Sunday, so let's get this done.



What's for Dinner?

18 Daniel's b-day Cordon Bleu, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob

19 grilled cheese

20 Quiche

21 lasagna

22 pancakes

23 pizza

24 grilled ham steaks
25 Roast Chicken

26 quesadillas

27 pork chops

28 spaghetti

29 meatloaf

30 pizza (my last day of work!!)

31 Pigs in a Blanket

April 1 Easter

Today is World Quilting Day

I'd best get to it, then!

Oh, and I was gifted a giant knitting machine today.  I'll look into that in a while, but today is for quilting.  Pictures tomorrow.

Weekend Update

It's been winter and spring and back to winter again this week.  It's March, so it's the cold side of spring, but the end is in sight.   My "room a week" cleaning has stalled, although I did get a big pile of basement taken care of the week before last when there was no school.  Maybe I'll get a little more done today.  Not sure, though, I'm not feeling well at all - headache and an upset stomach.  I was planning to go to Lillian's art opening this afternoon but I'm not so sure now.  We'll see as the day goes on.

As I mentioned yesterday, I've kinda-sorta quit my job.  I've applied (online process) for a couple of others, but I think I need to commit.  I'm going to give myself until April 20 - I'm circling the date on the calendar at work, and that'll be it.  I'll be employed elsewhere, or I'll be unemployed (but I won't, because I'll work ANYwhere until I get something better.)

I've had a friend ask me to help her make enchiladas for 80 for Cinco de Mayo.  I've maybe made enchiladas once?  Twice?  I'm going to try a pan full today - making them and then holding them until tomorrow to see if ahead is an option.

I need to compile a quick grocery list, and then get upstairs and do some sewing, while the laundry does itself.  I'll pile all the clean stuff on the bed and fold it while I watch 60 Minutes.  

I've been commissioned to make a queen sized quilt (very loose 'rules'.)  Like this, but multicolored, heavily leaning to purple.  I think I want to start very light/low contrast at the center, working out from the middle getting brighter and more contrasted and then blending to dark/low contrast at the outside edges.  So yeah, not really anything like this. ;)

This week
Mon - 
Tue - 
Wed - 
Thu - 
Fri - No school
Sat - 

What's for Dinner?

4 Chicken Pot Pie
5 Fajitas
6 burgers

7 ravioli

8 chicken stir fry

9 home made pizza

10 corn dogs

11 Roast Chicken

12 grilled cheese

13 fried rice & egg rolls

14 spaghetti

15 pork roast

16 pizza

17 mac & cheese

18 Daniel's b-day Cordon Bleu, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob

19 grilled cheese

20 Quiche

21 lasagna

22 pancakes

23 pizza

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27

28

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31

April 1 Easter

Last week happened without a plan!

Imagine!  (But a plan always makes me happier, so here it is)

We're eating out of the freezer mostly this week - I got groceries yesterday, and other than another mid-week gallon of milk, and pizza for Friday, I think we're all set.  And next week, maybe we'll do the same.  Funds are (I suspect) about to get tight again.

I think I'm quitting my job tomorrow.  Well, offering my resignation anyway.  As terrifying as the prospect is, I am truly unhappy where I am; I am leaping without a parachute, with no idea how far the ground is.  I feel honor bound to finish my contract with the school district, so at least I have a tiny reliable income until June.  Writing that down actually makes me feel better.  Huh.

Since we have yucky weather today, I'm staying home and baking (aka babysitting the oven), sewing, cooking - prep for next week and beyond.  I may not even get dressed!  I'm now plugging along on the X blocks for Braiden's quilt (pic here)  Four 9 patches, 4 plain lights, and 1 blue center square (at least) every day.  This afternoon while the oven is misbehaving, I'll start trimming up the trees so I can get the trunks sewn to the crowns, then eventually joined into 4 tree blocks that will alternate with the still-to-be-assembled x blocks.  That's all. 😁

This week
Mon - meet with Yvonne
Tue - 
Wed - 
Thu - 
Fri - 
Sat - Hair app't 9:00

What's for Dinner?

25 Chicken Cordon Bleu
26 Grilled Cheese
27 Pulled Pork
28 Spaghetti & Sausage
Mar 1 pancakes
2 pizza
3 Mac & Cheese
4 Roast Chicken
5 Fajitas
6 burgers

7 ravioli

8 chicken stir fry

9 no school - home  made pizza

10 corn dogs

11 steaks

12 grilled cheese

13 fried rice & egg rolls

14 meatballs & egg noodles

15 

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17

18 Daniel's b-day (guessing Cordon Bleu)

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April 1 Easter

Snow Day Sew Day!

Well, a couple of hours anyway.  School was cancelled today in advance of a storm that kinda/sorta busted.  We did get about 8 inches of snow, but most of it came after the busses would have been off the road anyway.  But no school means no after school, and no after school means no after school meal, soooo... I got a few free hours.  And I sewed!  No pics, maybe tomorrow - I worked on Braiden's quilt so a Christmas update would not be out of the question

And I knitted!  I'm on teeny hat #2 for the American Heart Association Big Hearts Little Hats (?) program, making tiny red hats for ICU babies.  Fast and fun and gosh, it's not like I don't have yarn (a lot!) lying around that  could be used for a better purpose than dust collection.

I didn't make that tiniest one, my friend Erin did, but it'll get sent off with mine when I have this next one day.  There are tiny babies with cold heads!

Weekend Update

Ooooh, it's cold.  But I'll take -22º over 80º any day.  You can always put on more clothes, right?

Nothing new on that Next 4 list.   Plodding along.  I have started, repeatedly, a new hat with some found yarn.  Repeatedly, because it's knitted top down, and it's been too big the last 4 times I've started.  I think I've got it now, though, but who knows?  It's meditative, all that tearing out and redoing.  Call me Sisyphus.

What's for Dinner?

7 Roast chicken
8 Omelets
9 fajitas
10 lasagna
11 Ham & scalloped potatoes
12 pizza
13 Beef Stew & Cheese Bread
14 Pork Roast
15 Soup & Grilled Cheese
16 Fried Rice, egg rolls
17 Baked Ziti
18 Nachos
19 Pizza
20 Mac & Cheese
21 Crockpot Chicken & Stuffing
22 Quesadillas
23 Baked Potato Bar
24 Spaghetti w/meatballs
25 shepherd's pie
26 pizza
27 Chicken Sandwiches
28 Pot Roast
29 Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup
30 grilled ham steaks
31 Lasagna
Feb 1 pancakes
2 GROUNDHOG meatloaf!
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