Latest lap quilt

Beautiful Asian fabric styled into a lap quilt for Lisa, my beautiful adopted daughter. Here is a sneak preview, Lisa, of your birthday/Christmas gift. Hope you like it.

Our babies

Sleepy heads on the front porch.

We found out that Chows love the water and we can't keep them out

of the pond!

They are minding us better now and

know their boundaries.

And we have learned to pick up and put away anything we don't want chewed up.

Teddy loves her warm water baths and expects them every evening. Bear reminds me of Eorye, "Okay, let's do it and get it over with."

Back up and running

After a bout of some kind of infection for several weeks, I am finally well enough to gather up my thoughts (and my laundry) and begin again. November is usually the busiest month of the year, besides the finishing up month called December, and now I am fall behind in my own expectations of what needs accomplished. This year has to be different though. Without my November sewing and deadlines other than personal in the 12th month, I have to realize that Christmas is the attitude of thanksgiving, with or without the homemade stuffings. My token objects (such as all my decorations) is still packed away, buried deep in boxes which were packed 3 years ago in anticipation of our California move, which didn't happen. The move will come about, when it is time for us to move, I guess. Sometimes I feel like taking a big sign and standing at a busy curb, "Loving Home for Sale," or maybe "Buy the house, we miss the grandkids." Of course the vehicles have signs painted on the windows "California or Bust."
So, after a gorging Thanksgiving holiday and an extra day off besides, Bob and I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving reunion of family members. God Bless You All!

We Have Dogs

Not one, but two. (Kind of like the potato chip commercial of years ago, "can't eat just one." We just got them from the pound so they are adopted, brother and sister Chow-Chow babies. No more empty next syndrome, you think? Of course the first day I don't know how many times I thought, "And we did this because?" They are staying in the laundry room until their plastic head gear can be removed but it didn't take long before they completely rearranged it, including curtains and anything else they could reach. We have to get child proof locks on the cabinets out there because they can get into them. Yesterday, even though it was Saturday, I had to work so after taking them for a walk I headed out to the car (sure don't leave via the laundry room anymore) and out they came running, full blast. The passed me and heading done the lane toward the road, me trying the best I can after them. By the time I got to the road I couldn't find either one in either direction. Now, we live on a little island so there is water all around us including across the road so I got sick thinking they were there. Out of the corner of my eye I did see what looked like 2 plastic bags in the pond. With closer look, there they were sitting in the water with only there cones with their heads showing. I didn't know they could open screen doors nor did I know that even leaving the glass portion ajar a few inches with the screen closed behind it they could get out. I am learning all about toddlers again. Any advise on puppies out there?

Yeah!! I'm doing this! I think. . . .

I have just started getting out of my 60's mentality (or technology) into a more modern frame of mind. Let's just see what happens as it happens. . . . .