A slow day today

went in early this morning for a fasting blood test, back  home for COFFEE and breakfast then finish the bathroom windows.  After laundry, empty dw and sweeping the kitchen I spent the day in the sewing room organizing fabric and kits.  Have a couple of projects that will be quick to finish so I think that's what tomorrow will bring.  I need to stay off the foot darn thing was really hurting today.  So I'm off my foot for the rest of the night and work on my red work project.  George is going to carry the folded laundry up from the laundry room for me. 

Cold, windy Thursday

Went to lunch bunch yesterday and had a good day visiting with friends and other quilters.  A good day, I worked on my red work chickens, finished one block and on to another. 

Today no sewing, I washed windows on the inside only, and washed and ironed curtains.  Smells nice and fresh in the bedroom tonight.  I didn't get the bathrooms done, saved that for tomorrow.  My back started to act up so I knew it was time to stop.  I also wore the boot on my foot, I knew I was going to be going up and down the basement stairs so decided I'd best have the added support.  Foot feels fine tonight but the back's not so good.  Rest it tonight and it'll feel good tomorrow.

Mike and William stopped by so they each had a bowl of chili, George and I were finished so they got the leftovers.  William showed me the book he's reading, "Stories of Mark Twain" and he said he hasn't been able to put it down since he started it last weekend, even reads it on the school bus. 

The oak tree way in the backyard is turning a pretty gold the rest of the trees haven't started turning yet.  Probably ;next week.  High winds tonight, we are showing 60 mph and gusts even higher.  It's stripping a lot of the leaves off the trees. 

That's all for the last couple of days, off to work on some more red work chickens.

Last day of summer

My gosh when it was in the upper 90's, just seems like yesterday, didn't think it was ever going to end.  I finished sewing the binding down on the quilt and discovered a seam I missed in sewing the sashing on and the raw edge of the fabric is showing as well as the batting.  Ugh.... have to figure out a way to fix it, maybe stitch down a little bouquet of yoyos and buttons.  Luckily it's on a corner so I can do the same thing on all 4 intersections. 

I got a red work project today that I ordered, will prep it tomorrow to start sewing.  Will be doing the embroidery by hand.  Then I am going to sash and border them in gingham.  I don't know if it will  be in red, blue, yell or whatever.

Topped for gas today and paid  3.59.9, hasn't been that price for a long time.  Hope it keeps going down, won't feel like it's doing much until it's below $3 and by the way where the hell did that .9 crap come from,  like I don't know it's $3.60 or might as well be.

Awesome day

Did some sewing today using my left foot, have to be careful don't have as good a control as I do with my right foot.  Wish I had my old singer that had a knee control.  Grandpa ended up taking Emmie to her nail appointment and then to her running.  He also came home early and we went grocery shopping so I had to take a pain pill.  Tried just laying low today and see if I could stay off the pain meds.  It worked until I went shopping.  

Spent a good part of today going through paperwork, shredding, tossing and filing so the computer workstation doesn't look so messy.  Also worked on the kitchen counters and my cutting table.  I have some room to work now.  ]

I don't think I will be going to lunch bunch tomorrow, too hard to walk and carry my sewing projects, so will stay home and sew something.

Awesome view

View from the running/bike path along the Fox River

A quick note

This is going to be short and sweet tonight, I have been in major pain all day.  I think it might have been the trips down the basement to do the laundry and carry it upstairs to put it away.  I waited until dinner to take a pain pill.  I think the anti biotic is upsetting my stomach too, take the last one tomorrow.

Took Emily to her running, they do it along the river on the bike/walk path so I sat and watch wave after wave of Canadian geese floating down the river.  I took a couple of pictures from the car so don't know what I'll be able to see.  Will post tomorrow. 

So I'll say good night and hope this foot starts to feel better pretty soon.

Coming back

I'm starting to feel like I'm going to live and I want to.  It's been a rough 3 days and my advice to anyone who will listen, if you feel a tightness in your chest, sore throat and itchy ears go to the Dr immediately.  Both George and I did and I would hate to know what would have happened had we not gotten the anti biotic as soon as we did.  Boy this seems to have started awfully early for us. 

No sewing for the last 3 days, yesterday I slept all day and today I didn't sleep but I didn't do much either, just sat around watching the stupid Bears and Saint game.  The old Bears are back.  I fixed a pot of chicken soup, jello salad and then had to rest.  Mike and Katie and William stopped by with a big bag of oranges boy did they taste good.  I have been so hungry for oranges must need the vitamin C.  George went to his 60th high school class reunion last night, I didn't get to go.  Boohoo  I do love to go out for dinner and his classmates are a friendly bunch. 

Well it's time for bed around here so I'm off for now.

Shees

Cubs pitcher just bounced 3 pitches in front of  home plate and walked the batter.  I could do that good.  No wonder they're on the bottom.  No hope again this year. 

Tried going without pain meds today but ended up taking one at supper time.  Didn't have any pain all day until dinner time.  George took a ride to the train tracks, Mike called and said a train had derailed somewhere along the line and no commuters were coming in.  He didn't see anything but about 3 mi. east of here he saw 2 Metra buses coming in and 2 commuters parked there so something was wrong.

I started sewing down the binding on Katie's quilt today, will finish it tomorrow.  I used my left foot and kept my right foot elevated.  I'm really looking forward to getting these 2 quilts finished and starting something new.  I'm going to work on my snowman cross stitch table runner tonight. 

We had a hard frost last night so the garden is done but my flowers up close to the house seem to have survived to bloom another day. 

Quiet day

today.  Didn't go to lunch bunch, I stayed home, rested my foot and did hand work.  Didn't finish the embroidery but got a lot done.  George got home early, he called the Dr. to see if he could get something for the nasty cold he's got.  Glad he got home early, we had to turn the heat on, it was 65 degrees in the house and that's not comfortable when it's rainy on top of it.  George got a zpak anti biotic so that should kick the cold, he also brought home a roasted chicken for dinner. Now how nice was that, roasted chicken, crusty bread, salad and veggie. 

I did get a kit out and read the instructions, it's a Thimblberries and I think it will be my next big project for this winter.  I also found some towels I bought way back when that need some applique or embroidery on them to finish them off.  Need to set up the embroidery machine tomorrow and let the machine do all the work.  I just might have some pictures to post tomorrow.

That's all for today, pain med is kicking in so it will be beddy bye time soon.

An easy day

Running the sewing machine didn't go too well so I perused magazines, sorted and trimmed scraps.  I did get to the Post Office and got my 10" sqs. mailed off and my block of the month orphan blocks sent off.  Talked to my friend for a while this morning, she was busy cleaning out her freezer, something I did earlier this summer.  I don't buy a lot of extra food anymore, we just don't use it up fast enough.

Don't know if I'm going to lunch bunch tomorrow, if I do I'm going to take my lunch so I don't have to walk to the restaurant to get lunch. 

George's cold hasn't peaked yet, he feels lousy.  I fixed beef/veggie soup for dinner with crusty bread and fruit salad.  I guess we are at the end of the good fresh fruit season.  The peaches were kind of dry, will have to see what fresh apples are in.  Might see if Emmie will drive me out to the apple orchard  this weekend for some really fresh apples.

Well it's time for bedtime meds, watching Diane Sawyer with the Jacqueline Kennedy tapes, very interesting.

Beautiful day

We had wonderful weather all weekend and today was just as nice.  Sat. we took a trip to the casino to try our luck, I was surprised when security checked out my purse before they would let me in.  I've never had that happen before, I wasn't the only one they were checking all bags. 

I went to the Foot Dr. today to have my right foot checked out, had real bad pain in that foot for about a week.  Xrays showed I have two "stress fractures" so I'm in special boot  and  on Viacodin.   So the pain is gone but I'm a bit loopy or loopier than usual.  George went to his Cardiologist today and they've decided he needs blood pressure medication, then he came home from the rehab house tonight and he's coming down with a nasty cold to boot.  So we are both down for the count for a few days. 

I can still do some sewing just can't drive a car with the boot.  She didn't say anything about driving a sewing machine.  Ill see how the foot feels when I sew.  My philosophy is if it hurts to do it then don't do it. 

Thursday's happenings

Worked in the sewing room, got my last years applique block of the month out and started getting it organized to work on again.  I'm going to quit fretting over it and just do it.  However it turns out it will be done.  I have all the fabric just wasn't happy with my applique work on the first block and didn't start another one.  It is what it is and I'm going to finish them this winter. 

I'm going to the Bernina shop tomorrow and sign up for a couple of classes, one to learn how to download embroidery patterns to my laptop and then either burn a CD or use a stick thingy.  So far I haven't had any luck with either method.  I also want to learn to use my digitizing software so I can make my own designs to use on the machine.  Old dog, new tricks time.

Just got a call, need to pick Emmie up at the high school, Katie up at Johnson's Mound preserve and take them both to the Geneva Middle School for a race.  Will need to load up a bag of energy snacks, apples and oranges and a couple of bottles of water. 

Tonight George and I went out for supper, really good chicken soup  and fruit salad.  Yup it's gotten so cool chicken soup actually tasted good.  When I'm done hauling kids tomorrow afternoon I may do a Portillo's run for a couple of Italian beef sandwiches for supper. 

My kind of wather

Well high today was 75 degrees, going down to 55 tonight.  Oh that will feel so good.   We went out for brunch this afternoon, had a very pleasant day.  I did do some sewing this morning, worked on a border for an RR swap I'm in and it just isn't working out the way I would like it to.  Going to play with adding a coping strip tomorrow and see if it looks better with a high contrast strip first then add my border.

I worked on William's blocks a little, got everything sorted and put in it's own container so I don't have his 4 patches floating all over the sewing room.  I found my embroidery instructions for a little pin cushion I want to do so things are coming together.

I downloaded some machine embroidery patterns yesterday to the computer now I need to figure out how to get them to my machine using one of those little stick thingys.  The local Bernina shop is offering a class to teach you how to download and copy for the embroidery  machine, I'm going to call and see if I can get in the class, take my laptop and my sewing machine.  This old dog needs to learn some new tricks.  I'm also going to take a digitizing class and learn to use this very expensive software I've had for 4 yrs. and still haven't learned to use it.  Shees!!!!

Wasted day

darn it.  Didn't get any sewing done but did get bills paid, grocery shopping done and put away and a couple of loads of laundry.  Now isn't that an exciting day.  I think the heat and humidity got to me because I didn't feel very good when I got home from shopping or it was sticker shock from the price  of my groceries.  Seems like it's almost double what it was a month ago.  Oh well gotta eat.

Might get some sewing done tomorrow after the floors are scrubbed.  I have to do some repair work on Williams quilt, the long arm quilter didn't catch all the edges when sewing down the binding so I need to fix that before I sew it down.  I'm getting anxious to start another project that will have a quick finish.  I want to get some of the smaller ufos I have around here done and then focus on my Dear Jane quilt this winter.

I put my camera in the car so I can get some photos of some of our beautiful foliage this fall.  I think that's what I like the most about our fall, it's so colorful. 

MIA

for a couple of days.  Busy doing this and that.  Went to lunch bunch yesterday and had a delightful day visiting with friends and seeing all of the show and tell projects.  Saw Sue's darling painted baby quilt, it was absolutely gorgeous.   She used fabric paints to fill in printed designs.  We also critiqued her black and white blocks on the design wall.  It just didn't look right and weren't playing nice in a quilt top, then one of the gals said hey "put the blocks together into sets of 4".  It worked beautifully so then suggestions flowed on how to add a "wow" aspect to the quilt and she decided on lime green.  It was awesome and I can't wait to see that top put together. 

I worked on the binding on the John Deere quilt and discovered that some of the edges of the binding hadn't gotten caught up in the seam so I have to do some repair work before I start stitching it down.  Will these 2 quilts ever get done or at least be done before the kids are in college.  Shees!!