Wednesday, July 11, 2018

My day is going well, in spite of the fact that I was up at 5:30 this morning. Pat needed to be at the hospital at 7:20 AM and last night we decided to leave at about 6:45 (giving us oodles of time). I was sound asleep when Pat woke me and told me it was 6:30; my alarm hadn’t gone off. Turns out his alarm when off at 5:15 (rather than 6:15 as it was supposed to) and it wasn’t time for mine to go off yet (at 6:00). My biggest challenge with Pat’s procedure was I had to drive his truck; after the cataract was removed he wasn’t able to drive. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and we were back home before nine.

I spent the rest of the morning finishing the basting on my English paper pieces. If I counted correctly I now have all the pieces basted for the 26 blocks that I need to put together. I hope to have some fun tonight putting together all the different colours and pieces into bags that will be easy to pick up and work on. The Farmer’s Daughter quilt is my project for the weekend at the mini-retreat.

After a quick trip to Cranberry Hall this afternoon I put together a couple of cards. I have one of them quilted and the other is sandwiched. If my luck holds I’ll get the binding on both of them and I can take them with me to Pat’s doctor’s appointment tomorrow. Judging from the number of folks getting cataract surgery today the office will be full tomorrow. He has an early appointment (9 AM) so maybe we’ll be in and out quickly.

Okay, back to those cards and then on to some fun putting blocks together – at least putting the pieces for blocks in separate bags.