still kickin'

I do believe this is the longest I've gone without posting in my 5 + years of blogging.

(Can you believe it's been 5 years?! Time is just wooshing by)

I'm sorry if you worried about me.

I'm doing okay.

~

We've had snow,

multiple times,

in the past 2 weeks.

And it is so stinkin' cold. 

This non-insulated house and all of our portable heaters just can't keep up.

I've actually gotten in quite a bit of sewing,

but save for some hastily snapped crappy cell phone shots,

(which I really don't want to torture you with)

I have no pictures to document it.

And I don't want to take time to get decent pictures so you'll just have to take my word on it.

The  hole is patched (I made a teeny tiny yo-yo and hand sewed it over the hole. 

My friend (who knew about the hole) looked right at the spot and didn't notice it, so I call that a win.)

I finished the quilt top Saturday night (I went with the patchwork border after all. Tyler liked it...)

and moved right on to the backing

which I finished Sunday morning while the snow was coming down in huge flakes outside.

Since I couldn't baste the beast at the house, and we couldn't go anywhere,

 I took a break from the quilt to start on a specially-requested wallet :-)

(I'm almost finished with it - about another hour and a half or so left)

Monday night, I went with Tyler to the church to spray baste.

(Love, LOVE spray basting! So worth the additional expense in my (and my knee's and back's) opinion!)

A friend of mine came over, too, so I could show her how I do it ~ so that was fun.

(she's always basted with pins. she was duly impressed ;-)

Tuesday, I started on the machine quilting.

I'm having to go slow or my stitches gets loose and tension goes all wacky.

Not sure what's up with that. It's a bother, to be sure.

Wednesday,

I was gone from the house almost the entire day. bleh!

Jeremiah and Lily both had dentist appointments;

Jeremiah had a cleaning and Lily, bless her heart, had her four front bottom teeth pulled!

Her teeth were coming in behind 'em, and they had to go.

Then I had my appointment with a naturopath doctor in F'ville

(where I got a big list of supplements to try - which is just what I was hoping for)

before heading further north to take Gramma Joyce out to dinner to the Village Inn.

(Wednesday is free pie night ~ you know that makes Gramma light up like the Fourth of July!)

TJ took my last turn, since the weather was yucky, 

so I was really missing her. I'm glad the weather was agreeable for me to go - it was kinda iffy there for awhile...

We had a really nice visit (TJ joined us, too, looking especially handsome :-)

and Gramma was thrilled to go home with 2 pieces of pie 

(mine and T's free slices - she ate every bit of hers!) 

which I told her not to eat all at once, but I doubt she listened to me ;-)

(Okay, fine. She went home with almost 2 pieces of pie - I took 3 bites. Sue me.)

I headed home after dinner, 

but T and Gramma decided they were going to see a movie after dinner before he took her (and her pie) home.

I made it home just in time to watch an episode of Leverage with my men, before ironing Tyler's shirt and crawling into bed.

Today,

I spent about 2 1/2 hours and a bunch of money

buying that list of supplements 

and now I've got a quilt and a sewing machine calling my name...

(there's also a clogged sink calling my name.

I'm ignoring it.)