I didn't miss today!

It's 11:00pm here on the West Coast so it's still Thursday. But I have nothing to say *LOL*

I did work today from 2-5. Walked in the shop at 2:00 and it was really bare. Everything was at the 2 shows where we have vendors booths this weekend. Even at that I did manage to make $80 in sales so that will make the accountant happy. There obviously was nothing to do in there so I just read my book and visited with the customers who came in. It's nice to do something different sometimes.

I Drew the Short Straw...or Needle?

October is blood test month for me. Every three months is blood test time. But October is the one where they do who knows what and I have to fast. I know Cholesterol is one of them. The nurses at our local lab are very nice.... but today I think I got Miss Ratchet's illegitimate daughter.

Even though I've had these tests for years, I have a standing order, I still get a bit nervous just before they are about to puncture me insert the needle. So I find something in my surroundings to comment on. This time I was watching her stick all these stickers onto my order sheet and I giggled. She just stared at me like Nurse Ratchet up there and asked what was wrong. I said "There's just so many stickers!" She just continued to stare at me and then told me to make a fist. That was the extent of our conversation and the expression on her face never changed. Usually the girls in there are East Indian and they are so nice and friendly and competent. They make going for a bloodtest almost enjoyable.

Came home and got a call from the quilt shop. They accidentally booked 3 shows for the same weekend. So even though that will leave very little stock in the store they still want to stay open. I get too tired working full days in there so she asked if I could work 2-5 tomorrow. Works for me. So this afternoon I need to finish putting the half square triangles around my Christmas quilt so I can take it with me to leave for the long arm quilter. She picks up her orders and the shop.

By the way, I heard from Kim (Doglover) from the old blog. Remember her? She said she misses all of us from the old blog. I told her where we'd all gone so she's going to come and have a look around. She hasn't been quilting lately and hasn't had the time to blog. I told her she should come on here anyway. In some ways I do miss our original blog. It felt more "homey" somehow. But a lot of us have moved here and connected and I think that's great.

Blog Every Day??

Oh boy. This is getting tough. I think I caught whatever Lane had yesterday *LOL* My get up and go, got up and went. Fall decided to arrive... or maybe it's winter.... whatever it is I don't like it. It's damp and dreary and all I feel like doing is sitting and organizing (in my head) what I should do next. The actual doing of it, well, not so much. I'm turning into my mother! She once told me she'd get up in the morning, look around at what needed doing and then sit down and read a book all day. I can live with that.

What I am doing though is I decided that I've been reading too many "cozy books" lately - probably cause a friend of mine lent them to me and she's a more avid reader than I am. I have stacks of them. So I decided to ease up on those and go back to reading books that make me think or that I might learn something from. Today I chose to read more of The Seven Daughter's of Eve. This book is way over my head. It's about mitochondral DNA which I can't really say I'm understanding exactly but only females pass it on. Science is like a foreign language to me, but the parts I do understand are fascinating. Did you know every pet hamster in the world is a descendant of a gold coloured female captured in Syria in 1930? See now I didn't know that yesterday.

Guess that's my post for today. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have more to say.

Happy Thanksgiving/Columbus Day

To everyone else Happy Monday!

Life sure isn't like it used to be. Things like Thanksgiving used to be a big family deal. Maybe it's cause I'm not a kid anymore and my family is mostly gone now but I don't think so. I think the world is just moving so fast that the thought of slowing down and being thankful, counting our blessings, is overshadowed by sales and just plain shopping. Most people have to go out to work just to make ends meet so there is no other time for them to shop.

When I was a kid stores weren't open on Sundays and holidays, neither were movie theatres. We didn't have a television until I was 10 and even then television on a Sunday was rarely allowed.

We had time to *gasp* reflect, to spend time with family and friends and enjoy it. Maybe my mom who was stuck doing the cooking didn't think so but I never heard her complain. She never entertained at any other time so I guess she looked forward to it.

This year we're having our turkey a week late cause our daughter has 2 other places to go and she really wants to have the time to enjoy it at home instead of having it blurred into yet another dinner. My husband is retired and I'm kinda retired but still today is just another Monday. Except that I'm trying to focus on the things I am grateful for. It isn't difficult.

Have a great day.

Fall Embroidery

I finally finished my Fall embroidery I was doing. It wasn't my choice. I had two but hubby liked this one better cause of the cat. I think I need to get him a kitten. I was going to do the other one too but now I'm on to hand quilting my snowman quilt.

I decided to use crayon on it cause it was kinda blah without it. But I'm not sure. DH says it looks fine with just the sunflowers heavily coloured cause they're the focus. I think it all needs to be heavily coloured. Any opinions? I've never coloured before. Both husband and Michael kept telling me not to go outside the lines *LOL* I also said to DH "Bee's aren't all yellow like that." He said "This one is" *LOL* Gotta love a supportive husband.

I bought this frame at the thrift shop and was going to rough it up to use. But now I saw Angela's Ball stitchery and I'm so totally in love with that frame Jim makes.

DH also found out through the grapevine yesterday that the kid in the park that got stabbed was treated and released. It was really no big deal as stabbings go. Everyone thinks they got out the copter and all congregated around here cause they were bored. The never get to take the copter out cause nothing ever happens around here. Their motto is "No call too small".

There's never much action if they're assigned to the South district. We do have teenage parties and stuff that they break up and they do drive around looking for crime but on the whole I think the job is a bit of a snooze. Of course then they have to do rotations in the North District and it's gotta be a total adrenalin rush for the whole shift up there.

It finally got kinda frosty here last night.. okay 2C (@34F), which is mild compared to other areas, but still I'd have to put a coat on and everything to go out.

WINNER Hallowe'en Giveaway

Today's the day! I hope none of you are dizzy from being shaken around in a plastic lunch bag *LOL*

And the winner is
Quiltluver! Congratulations Karen.

I'll go down and press them (honest) and get them into the mail as soon as you answer my email giving me your address.

The little scarecrow above I made 5 or 6 years ago when I was in my need to try something new period. He turned out pretty well. I saw a photo and just tried to recreate it my way. He turned out kinda cute. His pumpkin is a plastic one I bought that has batteries in it and the eyes flash green when it's turned on. I really should try to find him and dig him out for the season.

Had a rather odd night here last night. I always say our area is so safe I could go out for a walk at 3am and not worry. We've been here for 15 years and I think that concept is changing. Probably cause life is changing... on weekend nights anyway.

A few weeks ago there were two groups of kids down the street and it was getting pretty rough. A girl started to scream. So I called the police and they said they'd already had calls. Of course by the time the police got here half the kids were gone. But they questioned the ones who were left and maintained a presence for a couple of hours.

Last night at 11:00 an ambulance came down the street. No biggie, the ambulance is frequently going down that street cause someone down there must have a medical problem. But then I heard a helicopter overhead. It was the police copter flying at about 200 feet, doing a grid, obviously looking for someone. First thing we locked all our doors and windows.

Just yesterday morning in the paper we read about that kid Colton Harris-Moore. Then there were reports that he was in Pt. Roberts, Washington which is right near us. So we started thinking maybe it was him they were after. We really need a police scanner, I'm way too curious to not have one. We had the radio on two different channels and kept switching back and forth to news channels on TV but nothing.

First thing I did this morning was snap on the 24 hour radio news channel and there it was. Stabbing in Cromie Park, which is at the end of our street. Yikes! It's a soccer field and has bright lights they turn on for night games but they really need to be on all the time cause teens do congregate there. That would be one heck of an electric bill though huh? No specifics yet, of course, but I'll be watching/listening throughout the day to find out what happened. Used to be the biggest thing that happened around here were horses falling in ditches. Times have changed.

To Stopper Border or Not to Stopper Border

Those of you who were on the old blog may remember that 2 years ago *blush* I was making this Catch A Falling Star quilt. I finally got the last two blocks attached last week. Now I need to finish it with borders.

I didn't like the finishing on the pattern. It had a black stopper border and then a large red border. It didn't fit in with my quilt, I guess cause I used more country kind of fabrics. So I decided to make 1/2 sq triangles to use as a border.

I looked at the quilt with no stopper border... looks okay. Then I tried black and I tried a light red. I think I like the red. So I'm crossing my fingers and going for it. So hopefully I'll be able to show this quilt again in a few days with the borders on. Then it's going out to be quilted cause I really, really, like this one. Funny how some can become our favorites.

Still sunny today. I may go out and use the outdoor Windex stuff and clean the windows. I like it cause it cleans the screens at the same time. And it doesn't go all streaky on me.