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 Today, is Veterans Day. A day to thank veterans and appreciate what they have done for our country. 

We had the presentation at the museum (will post photos later), and then we went to the Lucky Eagle Casino for the Veterans Day Dinner. 

Starting with the museum presentation - The museum had a ceremony that we were a part of. The speaker was a gentleman that is on YouTube, book writer, and has been featured on new stations as well as PBS over the last 25 years. He talked about meeting the veterans and letting them tell their stories of war ...

 Today, I was up getting ready for our presentation at the museum. I left early to get to Phil's to drop off some tomatoes. Then post office and the museum. 

Arrived at 11:30 am to find the "Brother's In Arms" already there. They were all ahead of us. We got the quilts out and did what we do. I had to play caught up. I'm not sure why they were so early, but we waited on 2 others to get their quilt as well. It was a small presentation. 

It was fun! I really do enjoy ...

 This morning, I tried to sleep a little longer, but it wasn't in the cards. Patrick was up at 4 and 6 am. I was up at 6 am and then kept waking up every 30 minutes after. Even when Patrick went into the Livingroom to sleep. 

I headed to the museum with my usual stop at Dutch Brothers. I had enough time before I needed to be at the museum, I stopped in at Walmart - I KNOW! 2 days this week!! - and picked up some chips that have 3 ingredients. I was chatting with my daughter in law ...

 Today was one of those days, had to be up for a zoom meeting with the state coordinator about QOV. That started at 10 am. Then after it was over, I got a few things done but came in here to work on genealogy again. 

After lunch, I went downstairs to get a binding done for the quilt that Debbie dropped off yesterday. Once I had the binding ready, I worked on the pillowcases that I need to do for Thursday. 

 This morning, I was ready to head out for the museum. First, I had to go to Safeway, and then it was off to Phil's to drop off Patrick's clothes in case he has to go get Patrick. Patrick was scheduled to get out of the hospital today. 

I headed over to the museum and got some stuff done before everyone started coming in. Brother Patrick arrived shortly after I did. I got him set up with the people we were expecting. We had a great presentation. Only one person didn't make it to the presentation. 

As ...

This morning, we had our presentation. Actually, it was at 1 pm but I had to get there early to get stuff done. We ended up with a couple veterans an hour early. Patrick was there even earlier than that. So, it all worked out. I just had to play catch up. 

We honored 7 veterans. Two where Father and Son. Those 2 are on the right. Kreft family. Not in order but they were: Andrew Short, Bryan Barbee, Ray Kreft, Joshua Kreft, James Nelson, Brain Cox, and Aaron Allen. 

We will try to get the other 2 later. It ...

This morning, I left around 10:30 am to head to Dutch Brothers for our drinks. I didn't care for my usual drink; it was watered down. That surprised me. 

Arrived at the museum early to find that Debbie was already there. We had to set everything up today. Which was fine. 

We were hoping for 8 veterans but got 7. we honored Chris Westley, Army, Sharon Sheriff, Navy, Vann Sanders, Air Force, Terrance Julien, Air Force, Dan Parsons, Navy, Mike Moline, in no particular order. 

Patrick came to honor them. He had applications for 3 more veterans. It ...

This morning, I was up and getting ready to head out to the museum for our presentation. 

The museum was busy with a car show that had a lot of people showing up. We had to figure out where to park and find a place for mom to park as she's not so steady on her feet. We also had to find a place for the one veteran in a wheelchair. 

We were able to be upstairs, so that was a plus. Our meeting started a little late because Debbie and I were dealing with the quilts. We decided ...

This morning, I took my time getting ready to go downstairs. Patrick had the fireplace going, so I didn't have to worry about getting it warmed up. 

Colleen was first to arrive. Mom called today she couldn't make it. Then Peggy and Martha showed up. Both of them had quilt tops done. Martha needed a border to one of hers, so we cut some fabric for that. Then we got busy and getting the pillowcases done. 

Thirteen pillowcases were completed today. Eight of those were for the 250th Anniversary quilts. I have them ready to go. The rolled-up ...

Today was presentation day. 

I was out the door and stopping at Safeway before meeting everyone at the museum. Seems a couple of the veterans beat me, even, to the museum. 

We had one guy who didn't show. We will try and get him next time. 

Jeff Moulton, father-son team - Jeff Galliaspie & Justin Gillaspie, Larry Granville, - Seated - Michael Hayes and Candance Sonner. All were presented a quilt today. Having Ret. Col. Patrick Taylor do the honors of presenting them with the quilts has been awesome for us! Thank you for your service, and thank you for letting us present ...

This morning, Patrick went golfing and I got up to get ready for company to work on our QOV projects. 

I went downstairs and was getting things ready for sewing. Everyone arrived around 10 am and we worked all the way to 3:30 pm. Mary stayed a bit longer to help me with the panel quilt 

We had about 3 or 4 quilts going at once. They were all ones that were started but not finished. We did get one finished that needed a border to it. This quilt, we were able to get 9 of the 11 rows ...

This morning, I worked on cleaning up the house before heading to the museum. I had some laundry done, cat litter taken care of, and even some computer work done. 

Then I headed out to the museum and picked up some coffee for Debbie, tea for me, before getting there. 

I had a few things going on when I arrived. Sam wasn't there, because she's in Texas. Chip was busy with something that happened to the museum, so didn't get a chance to chat with him. Everything was set up for the presentation. Donna filled in for ...

 This morning, I was cleaning up. Had things to do and get done. 

Once all that was done, I played games. Watched TV and played games. Wasn't in the mood to do much till around 2 pm. 

Then I pulled out my cross stitching.

I worked on the upper left area. Now I'm coming back down. I had to take out a good part of the area in the top left where the green is. I had the wrong color there. So, I ripped it out and put it back in. 

I was having fun with this; I ...

This morning, I headed downstairs to get ready for our group of quilters. I was getting more of the pillowcases cut. 

Around 10 am the gals started coming in. We had at least seven of us. Each had something to do. Val and Colleen worked on sewing the pillowcases. Mary, Debbie and I worked on pinning them for them to sew. Then mom worked on ripping stuff out when needed. Lynn helped with ironing. We had a good process going. We took a break at about noon for lunch then we got back into the pillowcases. They started leaving around ...

 This morning, I wanted to enjoy a few minutes of time to myself. Then I had to get a few things done for the meeting at the museum. 

I left around 10:10 am and stopped at the post office. I was able to get the package out in the mail. Then I went to Dutch Brothers. 

Next stop was the museum for our meeting. A few were there before I got there. I was a little late, considering I wanted to be there around 10;30 am. It was a good meeting. We ate and then talked about what ...

Today, I was all set for the presentation. It's been almost 2 months since we had a presentation, and we all were looking forward to it. We have our meeting next week and the following week is our sew days. We will see what we can get done. 

This morning, I was up and ready for quilters. I ended up waiting a little longer than I expected. We had a couple of them that couldn't make it, but we did get a new person. So, all in all it was a good time. 

Only 3 of them were sewing, the other 3 of us were cutting and ironing. 

This morning, I enjoyed sleeping in a bit. Not a lot but a bit. 

Yesterday was a long day with traveling in the airplane and airports. It's not my favorite thing to do, but it went really well. We did have to be de-iced before we left Louisville, because it was starting to snow. Then we waited a bit before we could take off. We were about 30 minutes late. Once we were on our way, it was nice. 

We arrived at DFW airport. OMG! That place is worse than any airport I have been in. I thought Houston ...

This morning, I really didn't do much. I was waiting till it was time to leave for the museum. We had a presentation for veterans today. 

Debbie and I arrived first, and the others where right behind us. I was surprised that so many of the group arrived early. This group of ours is so wonderful! They work well together, and things are going so smoothly. I can't believe how nice it is to do these presentations without drama!

They were Brandon Planert, Army, Laurel Boyd Maddox, Army, Cragg Parks, Navy, James Radford Inabnit, Marine Corps, Steven Keeling ...

 Today, I got ready for the presentation. Debbie called and needed a ride, so I picked her up. Then we went to Dutch Brothers for our drinks. Headed to the museum and it looked like there was stuff going on. We didn't mess with the "drama" as we were there for the veterans. 

Marilyn came down from Tacoma to help honor our veterans. She helped present the quilts. It was awesome. 

Kenneth Proske, Kathleen Powell (sister to Kenneth) are on the left. I can't remember the next 4 and the one on the end, but they were Lester ...