Plus, I researched hand embroidered ideas for the border, didn't like any of them, so may do my on free embroidered leaf border. I have enough color to knock the eyes out on the two sides, and some plain greenery may work wonders!
Today's work included talking to a nursing home recommended by a sister and a nursing care provider, making a doctor's appointment for tomorrow at the crack of dawn to talk about dementia issues that could cause serious sanitation and car accident issues, and how to approach it, to call attorneys who specialize in being able to pay for private care, etc., until I can get more advice on my dear sweetie's care, which I can likely no longer give, much to my sorrow. I don't look forward to the empty house, but I hope to take an active role in his future by giving him 2 or 3 outings a week, once his regular routine is established, if that is the decision the doctor and her fellows come up with. I will be there to remind her that how we came to look into his neurological problems started with him falling asleep at the wheel in 5 lanes of traffic each way from Hobby International Airport to Conroe, but me being quick to grab the wheel, wake him up and order him to the side of the road, carefully, without an accident, 2 years ago. We've battled the disease and each other, but the disease seems to be winning for now. If the doctor has an alternative plan, I'm going to be all ears. I really don't like the idea of being on 14 acres by myself. Tuesday, my sweetie shelled out $5800 to road gravellers for the second time this year, and they did the worst job of the 3 people he's paid to do the same job of ending our muddy road headache. I've decided it's a scam, because no matter what they do, the grass is more healthy in the road center than it was before the last scammer was about. *sigh* Since these people did it two hours before a drenching rain, the holes are back on steroids in the same places they were before. I've haddit with long driveway repairs, completed in 2 hours for thousands. I have to stop him from controlling the checkbook, because he can't say no to crooks. I can.
Oh yes, and the embroidery on the other side got flowers placed
Hope everyone has a great evening and dynamite day tomorrow. Prayers up for those who need them.
Love,
becki
Not very much eventful going on today, except I finished the last flowers and leaves on the upper right had corner of the bluebird square. That was a happy thing after catching up on the laundry for the last week. There was a lot of bedding and had to do quilts on the master bed twice in addition to bedding. <huff, puff, huff puff> On a good note, my sweetie is trying really hard to finish things he starts, he just has trouble remembering the things he's supposed to do while he's doing them. But he really was trying, I could tell. Most of us take initiating what needs to be done for granted. A person with dementia can't do that any more. I love that little flicker of him trying that I see when I see it, though. It's not seen very often, but is appreciated when it comes through, though.
Here's Mr. Bluebird with the upper right hand corner done. A tree branch seems it would be nice, and was wondering if maybe they might like acorns on an oak tree? Guess it's time to pull out the website that discusses bird diet. Now which one was that? Each website seems to contribute a little something you didn't know before about each of our winged friends per specie, and their diets aren't all that competitive except for what's in the bird feeder. The bird feeder! Oh, my goodness. Here it is almost Christmas, and I saw that they were empty while I was doing something else. Better put my shoes on and go fill them up for breakfast for the little ones tomorrow! How could I be so forgetful! I was gonna be Ms. Faithful this week and remember our winged friends who eat bugs and slugs and those awful cutworms that are killing the St. Augustine grass, which you can tell by the large brown splotches around. I know they turn into a moth, but why couldn't they like weeds instead of St Augustine grass!
They say if you keep the feeder full the birds will go after the cutworms destroying your lawn. *sigh*
Well, the pattern I drew on was symmetric on a 90 degree upper right corner on the light pencil marks that were made. All that experimenting around with different stitches and colorations and a flaw or two, and not so sure it looks so symmetric due to sundry anomalies, but some of the prettiest cottage gardens are fun because from year to year, different annuals colors are rotated if the designer takes into consideration the beneficence of rotation as augmenting the soil between nitrogen setters and plants that benefit from that the following year.
Pardon my yada yada yadas.
Hope everyone is having a lovely holiday. I'm just gonna pray on Christmas day for my beloved husband and his attempt to hang on to reality to please me. And world peace. And health for America's birds, people, and so on.
Love to you and your families, for healing miracles for our wounded soldiers, maybe someone will perfect growing replacement arms and legs for them from their bone marrow or special cells that could replace knee tissue for those with bad knees, a kidney, eardrums, or other parts and organs that got shot up by an IED or whatever. Wouldn't it be lovely if medicine could make them whole again so they could feel strong and able again? Oh, I have a long request list for our dear soldiers, whatever happened to them while they were fighting for America to be safe again.
Yes, It would be good to pray for the troops. I remember my mother once was talking about her friends who came back from WWII and their troubles, and she was fluffing the pillows saying something like "war takes our best men away from us," and I mean to tell you, those pillows took a licking and were never fluffier than they were that day after she took out her anger on her work.
Anger isn't always a bad thing. She knew where to put it, too.
becki
Thanks for telling us this story about how troops have inspired you to do what you have to do to keep on keeping on. It's so special to me to hear that our troops keep giving back to us their best and their all. Thanks, Sunshine! You just gave meaning to the lives of thousands of American soldiers who suffered the worst and most punitive war to keep America safe from terrorists.Not very much eventful going on today, except I finished the last flowers and leaves on the upper right had corner of the bluebird square. That was a happy thing after catching up on the laundry for the last week. There was a lot of bedding and had to do quilts on the master bed twice in addition to bedding. <huff, puff, huff puff> On a good note, my sweetie is trying really hard to finish things he starts, he just has trouble remembering the things he's supposed to do while he's doing them. But he really was trying, I could tell. Most of us take initiating what needs to be done for granted. A person with dementia can't do that any more. I love that little flicker of him trying that I see when I see it, though. It's not seen very often, but is appreciated when it comes through, though.
Here's Mr. Bluebird with the upper right hand corner done. A tree branch seems it would be nice, and was wondering if maybe they might like acorns on an oak tree? Guess it's time to pull out the website that discusses bird diet. Now which one was that? Each website seems to contribute a little something you didn't know before about each of our winged friends per specie, and their diets aren't all that competitive except for what's in the bird feeder. The bird feeder! Oh, my goodness. Here it is almost Christmas, and I saw that they were empty while I was doing something else. Better put my shoes on and go fill them up for breakfast for the little ones tomorrow! How could I be so forgetful! I was gonna be Ms. Faithful this week and remember our winged friends who eat bugs and slugs and those awful cutworms that are killing the St. Augustine grass, which you can tell by the large brown splotches around. I know they turn into a moth, but why couldn't they like weeds instead of St Augustine grass!
They say if you keep the feeder full the birds will go after the cutworms destroying your lawn. *sigh*
Well, the pattern I drew on was symmetric on a 90 degree upper right corner on the light pencil marks that were made. All that experimenting around with different stitches and colorations and a flaw or two, and not so sure it looks so symmetric due to sundry anomalies, but some of the prettiest cottage gardens are fun because from year to year, different annuals colors are rotated if the designer takes into consideration the beneficence of rotation as augmenting the soil between nitrogen setters and plants that benefit from that the following year.
Pardon my yada yada yadas.
Hope everyone is having a lovely holiday. I'm just gonna pray on Christmas day for my beloved husband and his attempt to hang on to reality to please me. And world peace. And health for America's birds, people, and so on.
Love to you and your families, for healing miracles for our wounded soldiers, maybe someone will perfect growing replacement arms and legs for them from their bone marrow or special cells that could replace knee tissue for those with bad knees, a kidney, eardrums, or other parts and organs that got shot up by an IED or whatever. Wouldn't it be lovely if medicine could make them whole again so they could feel strong and able again? Oh, I have a long request list for our dear soldiers, whatever happened to them while they were fighting for America to be safe again.
Yes, It would be good to pray for the troops. I remember my mother once was talking about her friends who came back from WWII and their troubles, and she was fluffing the pillows saying something like "war takes our best men away from us," and I mean to tell you, those pillows took a licking and were never fluffier than they were that day after she took out her anger on her work.
Anger isn't always a bad thing. She knew where to put it, too.
becki
I spent the first year on this med pump saying, 'I hate this pump, I hate this pump.' Then I thought of my patients with their mechanical limbs. The pump is just my mechanical lungs. So now, I say 'I love this pump, I love this pump.' If they can do it, I can do it.
Not much going on, except I've worked for a couple of days on neutrals, which I'd put off indefinitely before. I didn't have all the colors, but I got enough to start collecting patterns for horses and stuff.
I also found a collection of somebody's roses in an unfinished set that are so different, I'm not sure what to think, except this group may have been handed down.. The pinks are pretty similar, though, but some things about the work is inconsistent--maybe done at different times, but never finished. There were under 20 squares, but only 10 are finished, 2 are in process of being almost finished, and the rest are grossly faded shades of red and blue into the muslin, which isn't all that great a quality, but beggars can't be choosers, and I got it for the price of a couple of yards of muslin, which is less probably the same amount of ruined squares. I'm not sure I want to put all that much work into the leftovers, because the color of the pencils ran, so the worker may have used an office pencil red instead of an embroidery washout pencil, which likely wasn't to be had at the time this quilt top was started. I will say this, though; someone put a lot of work in what is here, so hopefully I can get a couple of charity quilts from their effort, for some little girl who likes pink.One of the finished Ebay rose quilt block "finds" is below. It doesn't show the white areas in the 10- or 11-inch block (didn't measure) but here it is:
Not much going on, except I've worked for a couple of days on neutrals, which I'd put off indefinitely before. I didn't have all the colors, but I got enough to start collecting patterns for horses and stuff.
I also found a collection of somebody's roses in an unfinished set that are so different, I'm not sure what to think, except this group may have been handed down.. The pinks are pretty similar, though, but some things about the work is inconsistent--maybe done at different times, but never finished. There were under 20 squares, but only 10 are finished, 2 are in process of being almost finished, and the rest are grossly faded shades of red and blue into the muslin, which isn't all that great a quality, but beggars can't be choosers, and I got it for the price of a couple of yards of muslin, which is less probably the same amount of ruined squares. I'm not sure I want to put all that much work into the leftovers, because the color of the pencils ran, so the worker may have used an office pencil red instead of an embroidery washout pencil, which likely wasn't to be had at the time this quilt top was started. I will say this, though; someone put a lot of work in what is here, so hopefully I can get a couple of charity quilts from their effort, for some little girl who likes pink.One of the finished Ebay rose quilt block "finds" is below. It doesn't show the white areas in the 10- or 11-inch block (didn't measure) but here it is:
My mom made me a pillowcase with those roses and it was wavy at the end and had different shades of green embroidery at the end. I got it for my 8th birthday. My sister thought I was stupid because I thought it was the best present ever.
