Thursday, September 15, 2022

You know me – there is a story behind every picture and it seems wrong not to share it.

Day 2 of my challenge. The McKnight women might remember this sign from the year we got together at Roberta’s Clearwater Lake cabin. We’ve spent so much time together over the past 21 years – so many laughs and tears and so many memories. Our weekly chats are priceless but we must do it again soon in person!

Neither Pat nor I had anything scheduled on our calendar today. I don’t remember the last time that happened if, indeed, it ever has. No excuse for me not to get something done so I had Pat help set up the tables on the deck and I sandwiched all day. I’m certainly feeling it tonight. I always say I’m only going to sandwich one or maybe two projects at a time but once the tables are set up I can’t seem to stop until the pile of projects is done.

I was working on my Botanical Garden last night and noticed there was a mistake. I knew of a way I could easily fix it so I started down that path. But for the past several weeks I haven’t really liked the way it was turning out so I’ve decided to start over. I will keep the outline of the blocks as they are but I’m going to take out most of the other stitching. I’ll use some of my leftover floss to add more colour. I think I was mostly unhappy with the two colours I was using and the floss for the leaves was too dark compared to what I was using for the flowers. I was already quite far behind and at this point I won’t even try to keep up.

I noticed that there is another Hallowe’en stitch-along happening. I’m going to try to stay away from it but last year’s was just so darn cute it will be hard to ignore the new one.

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

I’ve been following Tiffany’s 10-days of photos on Facebook and I’m enjoying them all, particularly the ones I can associate with her. I hadn’t a care in the world about being tagged so you can imagine my surprise this morning when I saw that she had picked me. My original thought was OMG what will I do but then the news of her granddaughter came through so it was an easy choice for today. I admired this photo on her timeline from a few weeks ago and it certainly made me smile and brought me joy and even more so now that little Sawyer has arrived. Tiffany looks much too young to be a Grandma but I’m thrilled for Audrey and Marcel as great grandparents. I’ve picked my photos for the next nine days and, watch out, you too may be tagged!

I managed to get batting and backing cut for six small-ish projects this morning. I expect that while I have the tables set up I’ll go ahead and sandwich the Community Quilt as well. There will be lots of quilting and binding in my future but it will be nice to have them off the pile and sent off or stashed away.

As I expected the meeting with the surgeon didn’t tell me much. The biopsy results aren’t in yet so it was hard to talk details. If surgery is needed there is about a 3-4 week wait but he says that breast cancer is generally very slow growing so the wait won’t make any difference. So I’m back home and waiting again – maybe no news is good news though!

I feel done-in so for the rest of the day I’ll play on my iPad or do some work on my Botanical Garden.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

I’ve finished both of the tops for my new projects. Hopefully tomorrow I can start sandwiching. I had almost as much trouble with the second one as I did the first. I get so confused when I look at a picture that shows an up-and-down arrangement but I have to sew the rows on the diagonal. It takes me a lot of arranging, re-arranging, sewing, ripping out and re-sewing but eventually it gets done.

I managed to move off a couple more Hall items this morning. I have another training session this evening and then I hope that is off my list for good. I still need someone to take over the bookings but no one is offering yet. At the meeting last night I was made a Lifetime Member which was a nice recognition.

I have an urge to get done as many of the tasks on my list as possible before my appointment with the surgeon tomorrow. It’s an afternoon appointment so it will be hard waiting around all morning. I’ll try to keep busy – maybe doing the sandwiching or maybe just playing on my iPad.

Monday, September 12, 2022

I went out to the yard with two tasks in mind – cut down the daisies that are done for the year and make another weeding trip around the patio blocks. I got started on the daisies and then Pat joined me and got out the hedge trimmers. He cut down the lilacs and a few patches of daisies and then did the remainder of the daisies that I was working on. He also trimmed back a few bushes, and cut the tops off the day lilies and irises. While he did that I weeded the daisy bed, the back corner where the fig is and started to work on the wall. I thought we would make a trip to the dump with our green waste tomorrow but since we had to pick up all those clippings anyway we loaded the truck and got it all done today. The patio bricks will have to wait for another day.

I’ve been working on one of my new projects this afternoon. I’m about half done but it is challenging me as it is set on point and that always confuses me. I’ll keep at it until our marathon of “stuff” begins in less than an hour.

Pat has an online Open Mic followed by a guitar lesson. Before he leaves for his guitar lesson we both need to log into his Zoom account so I’ll be ready for my training session at 6:15 followed by my last Board meeting at seven. Following the Board meeting Pat will log back on for a meeting with a couple of Board members regarding the Home Routes concerts. Pat will likely pick up something for supper after his guitar lesson and I’ll find something at home before my meetings start.

It is much less smoky today which is nice. The sun is shining but it isn’t as hot and, just now, we are having a little sunshine shower. That will help to lower the smoke even further and, fingers crossed, it will help slow down the fires that are burning.