Good morning, my friends. Happily, I can report that I'm feeling much better after my flu shot malaise of yesterday. Tylenol helped bring the fever down, but I still felt crummy for most of the day. Fortunately, I had my medicinal cat standing on me, checking my breathing and heart rate for most of that time.
Good morning, my friends. Happily, I can report that I'm feeling much better after my flu shot malaise of yesterday. Tylenol helped bring the fever down, but I still felt crummy for most of the day. Fortunately, I had my medicinal cat standing on me, checking my breathing and heart rate for most of that time.
Good morning, my friends, and welcome to October. It's not such a good morning at this end. As expected, I'm feeling pretty puny this morning after getting our vaccines yesterday. The flu shot is to blame, I believe. It always makes me sick. We got our shots around 10:30 a.m. By dinner time, I could feel that I was developing a fever. Tylenol helped, but of course, it didn't get me through the night. I awakened last night shivering with chills to the point my teeth were chattering. This morning, I was running a fever ...
read moreGood morning, my friends, and welcome to October. It's not such a good morning at this end. As expected, I'm feeling pretty puny this morning after getting our vaccines yesterday. The flu shot is to blame, I believe. It always makes me sick. We got our shots around 10:30 a.m. By dinner time, I could feel that I was developing a fever. Tylenol helped, but of course, it didn't get me through the night. I awakened last night shivering with chills to the point my teeth were chattering. This morning, I was running a fever ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. I'm writing fast this morning. Since I didn't get nearly enough hypodermic action with my blood draw last week, we're heading into town this morning to get our flu shots and our COVID booster. Expect us to lie low for a couple of days. The flu shot almost always makes me feel crummy for a day, and so I'll settle in with some slow stitching, assuming recovery time will be needed.
Yesterday started in rare form. Mike had two cats on his single lap. No hissing nor snarling.
Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast this morning. Since I didn't get nearly enough hypodermic action with my blood draw last week, we're heading into town this morning to get our flu shots and our COVID booster. Expect us to lie low for a couple of days. The flu shot almost always makes me feel crummy for a day, and so I'll settle in with some slow stitching, assuming recovery time will be needed.
Yesterday started in rare form. Mike had two cats on his single lap. No hissing nor snarling.
Good morning, my friends. Yesterday's activities made up for the previous day's inactivity. There were several things on my to-do list, and I managed to get through it all. The weeding isn't finished, and I'll have to do some more today. I think by the end of today's session, it'll be good to go until next spring.
While I was out yesterday, I took a few pictures of the things that are still blooming. There isn't much, but the echinacea continues to brighten its corner of the garden.
Good morning, my friends. Yesterday's activities made up for the previous day's inactivity. There were several things on my to-do list, and I managed to get through it all. The weeding isn't finished, and I'll have to do some more today. I think by the end of today's session, it'll be good to go until next spring.
While I was out yesterday, I took a few pictures of the things that are still blooming. There isn't much, but the echinacea continues to brighten its corner of the garden.
Good morning, my friends, although there isn't much morning left in the day. It was a busy and productive morning for me. I showered and left the house early for a fasting blood draw. It's a miserable morning when I can't have my coffee. It took three sticks for one vial of blood, which was mildly annoying.
The phlebotomist read off the tests they would run on my blood, looking at me for affirmation. "If that's what the doctor ordered," I said. "I was hoping you would know what we're doing." Sheesh. It didn't ...
read moreGood morning, my friends, although there isn't much morning left in the day. It was a busy and productive morning for me. I showered and left the house early for a fasting blood draw. It's a miserable morning when I can't have my coffee. It took three sticks for one vial of blood, which was mildly annoying.
The phlebotomist read off the tests they would run on my blood, looking at me for affirmation. "If that's what the doctor ordered," I said. "I was hoping you would know what we're doing." Sheesh. It didn't ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. First of all, thank you for your many kind comments about the Tin Cup Store quilt. I'm so glad you like it. It was the most difficult of the art quilts I've attempted, and completing it has enhanced my confidence level. There are two prompts left in this round of quilts. I have ideas for both, and so I'll be working on the next one soon. To see how others in the group interpreted the "Vintage" prompt, visit The Endeavourers blog right here.
In other sewing, I finished top-stitching the first block for ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. First of all, thank you for your many kind comments about the Tin Cup Store quilt. I'm so glad you like it. It was the most difficult of the art quilts I've attempted, and completing it has enhanced my confidence level. There are two prompts left in this round of quilts. I have ideas for both, and so I'll be working on the next one soon. To see how others in the group interpreted the "Vintage" prompt, visit The Endeavourers blog right here.
In other sewing, I finished top-stitching the first block for ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. I’m so happy reveal day has arrived because I’ve been dying to show you my latest art quilt. Way back in 2019, Mike and I went ATVing in Colorado for the first time. We stayed at Taylor Park Reservoir. One of our rides took us to the almost-a-ghost-town of Tin Cup, Colorado. Getting off our ATV's, I was immediately smitten with the rustic Tin Cup Store and I took this picture.
Almost right away after returning from that trip, I started wanting to render my photograph into fabric. In the intervening years I ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. I’m so happy reveal day has arrived because I’ve been dying to show you my latest art quilt. Way back in 2019, Mike and I went ATVing in Colorado for the first time. We stayed at Taylor Park Reservoir. One of our rides took us to the almost-a-ghost-town of Tin Cup, Colorado. Getting off our ATV's, I was immediately smitten with the rustic Tin Cup Store and I took this picture.
Almost right away after returning from that trip, I started wanting to render my photograph into fabric. In the intervening years I ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. Well, my dreaded task of sandwiching quilts is one-third complete. This morning I was thinking it feels a lot like when I bring home tomato tonnage. When one has 60 lbs. of tomatoes sitting in one's laundry room, one has no choice but to get to work with the blanching, peeling, coring, cooking, ladling, and processing. There's no time for thinking. There is only doing. Saying that, it isn't quite the days-long effort of pasta sauce and salsa, but the keep-going-until-it's-finished feeling is there nonetheless. Partly, I suppose, it's because I ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. Well, my dreaded task of sandwiching quilts is one-third complete. This morning I was thinking it feels a lot like when I bring home tomato tonnage. When one has 60 lbs. of tomatoes sitting in one's laundry room, one has no choice but to get to work with the blanching, peeling, coring, cooking, ladling, and processing. There's no time for thinking. There is only doing. Saying that, it isn't quite the days-long effort of pasta sauce and salsa, but the keep-going-until-it's-finished feeling is there nonetheless. Partly, I suppose, it's because I ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. We've moved on down the road this morning. We're in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, which is just about 20 miles from Bardstown, Kentucky. This is where Mike gets to check a few things off his bucket list, starting with the bourbon distilleries. So, I'll tell you about our plans for the area in a bit, but let's go back to where yesterday started.
We were in no hurry to leave the previous spot, and that gave me plenty of time to work on my slow-stitching yesterday morning. I filled my hoop.
Good morning, my friends. We've moved on down the road this morning. We're in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, which is just about 20 miles from Bardstown, Kentucky. This is where Mike gets to check a few things off his bucket list, starting with the bourbon distilleries. So, I'll tell you about our plans for the area in a bit, but let's go back to where yesterday started.
We were in no hurry to leave the previous spot, and that gave me plenty of time to work on my slow-stitching yesterday morning. I filled my hoop.
I recently joined another small group, the focus of which is to challenge your creativity. And it's so much fun!
Every quarter someone from the group presents a challenge word or phrase and we have 3 months to make a little quilt interpreting that phrase. We are restricted to a maximum size of 20" x 20".
Sometimes I'm really inspired, sometimes not so much.
These are my quilts from the last 3 challenges:
Good morning, my friends, and Happy President's Day. It's another wet morning here at the Three Cats Ranch. We've been promised some drier, warmer weather later in the week. I sure hope so. It would be good to get out and pull some weeds before we take off on our trip.
Yesterday morning, I spent quite some time trying to generate an image I could use for Project Quilting's fourth challenge: "Hourglass." We could go off in any direction with this, but we were required to use the hourglass shape in our quilt. I had an ...
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