Shell Knob Quilt-a-Thon

The trip to Shell Knob was great. I left in cold weather gear and returned to 85 degrees. Georgia and I quilted for hours and hours and hours. We spent most of Monday at her quilt guild workshop. The rest of the time we were working in her dining room. Both of us were pleased with what all we accomplished.

We did go out for meals, and for some shopping. The person in the photo below who is neither Georgia nor me is Kent, Georgia's husband. He joined us for meals and tolerated our taking over his house with great good humor.

Georgia and Kent live on Table Rock Lake. This is the view from their dining room. We had some pleasant time on the back porch enjoying the warm air and lovely view of the lake.

I made it home in time to unpack, dredge out the accumulated cat hair, and get to my class at 6PM. Toby and Carmen were quite glad to have me home.

Camera Success

The cord arrived and with some difficulty, I convinced the photos on the camera to get themselves onto the computer.

So.......now you can see Linda and me at play in the quilt shop. She knew most of the people in there since it was in her "neighborhood." Well, only 15 miles or so away from Hamilton. I think that neighborhoods have a different dimension in some areas. Anyway, she chatted and I bought fabric. Linda's thinking about her upcoming empty-nesting. She thinks that a bit of quilting might be in order with both boys gone from home next fall.
And then, of course, there had to be food. We had lunch at a pizza-cafe in Howard. I had corned beef and cabbage in honor of St. Patrick's Day.


You can tell that I was asking people to take our photo in each place. Imagine how embarrassed any or all of you would have been by that when you were teenagers!

SPRING??

Sandy is here for a spring visit. We might have done all kinds of fun stuff -- a walk in Sedgwick County Park, a visit to the art museum, take in a movie and THEN home to watch KU and K-State basketball.

But this is our first day of spring. So, we're inside hiding from the 12 degree wind chill and the icy streets. But we both have our stitching, and I rented a couple of movies in anticipation of the bad weather. We'll have togetherness, if not adventure.
Happy First Day of Spring.

Birthdays & Lessons

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOBY!
Another birthday, and today it's Toby's. He's 2 years old today. However, he seemed totally unimpressed when I sang to him this morning. He was much more interested in the can I was holding as I sang. I have explained that by now he's supposed to be an adult cat and should quit being so terribly ornery. I see no promise of that. He's still terrorizing Carmen and getting into things he shouldn't.

LESSONS LEARNED?
I was ready to post the photos from the Linda and Cheryl day yesterday and realized that they were unavailable to me. Why? Because the only way I have to get photos from my camera to my computer is to take the memory card out of the camera and put it into the computer. That's because in some past fit of tidying, I tossed the USB cord that would also do that. (Probably the same tidying fit responsible for losing the computer power cord.) SO......when I forget to put the memory card back in the camera, any photos taken are on the camera hard drive and unavailable for uploading.
And that is where the photos are that reflect the lovely day we had yesterday.
This is not the first time this has happened. Last year I lost the photos of Grandma and her cousins. She was NOT happy.
Lesson learned? How to go on line and order a new USB cord. It should be here in a few days and then you will see proof of our lovely outing yesterday.
Lesson previously learned? Label all stray cords. Unfortunately, I didn't learn it soon enough to have saved the USB cord.

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Comments:
I'm still trying to figure out how this blog thing works. And I am ever cognizant that some of you may be less interested than others. That is really O.K. I just set it up so that each of you will get an e-mail notification whenever a comment is posted. You can then choose to look at the comment or not. And comment in return if you wish. A little techno conversation devise that your old-style Mom/friend set up. Hmmmmmmm. Who would have guessed.

If you'd rather not have these e-mails junking up your In-box, let me know. I will not be insulted.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CALVIN!!!
It's his day, isn't it? My goodness, the fruits of my womb's wombs are certainly getting old! How can that be? Those of you close by must give him an Un-hug from Gammy. Un-hug, because I know how they hate to be hugged at that age. But the thought will be there.

I'm off to play with Linda today. I had hoped for a beautiful day to drive across the prairie, but it's another cloudy and semi-cool one. Maybe there will be some small hints of spring to enjoy. We've had unusually cool temperatures thus far, and spring is having a hard time getting here.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

It was true....
We really did go to the Garden Show. The person in the photo who is neither Barbara nor me is Joe the Lawn Boy. He is a neighbor of Barbara's who does lawn work in the summer and shovels show in the winter. He's quite entertaining as well.

This afternoon turned out to be a good time for shopping. The excursion was occasioned by the arrival of day light savings time and my clock failure. You see, it's one of those wonderful ones that beams out to the great timepiece in the ethers and automatically sets itself. But....it has been about 4 minutes off for several months. I've worked hard to convince myself that 4 minutes is no big deal. Its so automatic that there is no mechanism for manually setting the time. Last night I went to bed with the alarm set at the appropriate get-up-for-church time and confident that my clock would reset itself for the new time, even if it was 4 minutes off. It did not. Thus shopping for a new alarm.

It turned into a trip to the fabric store, a stop at Lowe's just to look, then on to Target for some specific items, then another stop at another Lowe's based on an inspiration I got from the first stop at the first Lowe's. Now I'm tired.

New Item:
These curly sticks followed me home from the Garden Show last week. They have replaced the sunflowers for a while. I have some other less interesting sticks that I used to put in the vase for a winter arrangement, but I didn't get that done this year. I really like the curly sticks. Unfortunately, Toby has been quite interested in them also. We've had a few sessions with the squirt bottle.

Today's committee meeting in Salina was cancelled. And even though I am now available, I think I'm going to blow off my WSU class this afternoon and enjoy a day for laundry, catching up on office stuff and quilting. Best of all, I can get by without doing my hair or face! Always a joyful occasion. Besides which, I think I'm currently experiencing a bit of politics/world affairs aversion. It depresses me to think of that stuff, thus I'm doing so less and less in recent weeks/months. I'm sure there will be a turn around some day.

We are cool and dreary, but sun and 60's are going to return next week. Spring??!!

Third try at this post.....I don't know what's been happening or what might be appearing on the blog, but things keep getting lost.

So, here's the cable guy busy at work under my desk on a Sunday morning. For the last week I was intermittently losing my internet and phone lines. Saturday night at 10PM was the last straw. They wanted to send someone out on Wednesday (!) but I convinced them that sooner was better. Now I've been connected for 24 hours, so I'm thinking things are O.K.

Do you know of anyone who has more repair people visiting than I do? Amazing how much stuff has needed attention here in the last 6 years. I would never have had time to keep this place functioning if I was working full time.

The pansies in the pots on my front step came home from the Garden Show with me. Just a bit of assurance that real spring will be coming any week now. Barbara, Craig and Joe came down on Friday, and we had a great day doing the garden show and touring Valley Center.

More later.