I've been cheating on you :0(

I haven't been around much. And I have a confession to make. I've been blogging on another blog, like a personal diary. But I like it here with friends. So I'm going to try to blog more here quilting or not quilting.

First of all I've been reading a lot and when I went to the library the other day I finally got up the nerve to take a photo of one of their flower barrels. The first time I saw it I thought there was a tabby cat in there. Now there are a bunch of them. I have no idea what the plant is called. But since I love cats but don't have one I need one of these plants.

So what else have I been doing? I'm in therapy and my therapist can't believe how my face lights up when I talk about doing church things so I guess that's where I need to be. We're having the building restored and added to.  We're going to keep the chapel part the same but have the roof fixed and the lead based paint on the sides scraped off and repainted as a first step. On Saturday to begin to prepare for construction a bunch of us went and cleaned out the youth group room - furniture, fooseball table, everything. As we put stuff out on the sidewalk people kept walking by with their dogs or kids in baby carriages and asking how much we wanted for this or that. So it turned into an impromtu garage sale. We took some of the stuff to the thrift shop around the corner and a woman who bought a chair there asked if they knew where she could get another one. They told her to go around the block to the church and check the sidewalk *LOL*.

DH and I both feel well but we are both ill. I have to go to my kidney specialist twice a year now and go back to the kidney clinic cause I'm down to 30% function. Darn. I hate the fact that it makes me tired cause there's so much I want to do. I'm following all the advice, except getting back to walking - gotta remember to do that. DH is a different story. He destroyed his liver drinking for the last 40+ years. He still has a bit left and will live awhile as long as he quits drinking completely. He's still sneaking a glass of wine now and then. It makes me angry because I didn't cause my disease and I'm doing my best to combat it. He caused his disease and he won't do the one simple thing he needs to do to stop further damage.

The other thing I have to do is go to the local archives and see if they need volunteers. I love history and our area is full of it. It's only 150 years old, but still, it's interesting. A lot has happened in the last 150 years.