Last week of January

Sickness has fallen upon me, so be patient with me posting.

CIPRO: Ciprofloxacin is also known to cause swelling of joints and cartilage, and cause tendon rupture and chronic pain. --Don't know if the infection or the medicine will get to me first!

I'm still assembling my Mystery Quilt and trying to finish some charity quilts for our local guild. Will return to post a picture of my progress as soon as I get something finished.

Must have Dessert

I was asked to make a strawberry cheesecake as a trial-run for a wedding. The groom wants cheesecake for the groom's cake. Since it did turn out good'nuff'to'eat--is there really an ugly cheesecake?--I took a picture before it left the house.

.....AND...the wedding is in the middle of wheat harvest.

Mystery progress

The final mystery step was revealed and of course I had to do it different. The rail fence blocks are going into the border and I swapped their block for solids. The sashing also made the blocks stand alone more. There will be an inner red border and a wider blue outside one.


Something chocolate and very fattening. Mini-brownies with carmel Kisses. Easy snack that is devoured.

This is the sign that should be on the road I travel to get to the interstate. Luckily, the only thing that I left was burnt rubber on the blacktop.

I actually told somebody only yesterday that I wasn't going to get my front bumper fixed (somebody ran into me in a parking lot at the Tulsa State Fair) until deer and turkey season was over. It's already passed, but somebody sure needs to tell the deer!

Latest Purchase

This is the last addition I add to this house.....till I buy something else! These barstools were advertised in our local paper and my DIL called to say I should check them out. Glad I did (she gets me into trouble like that a lot), but they turned out to be a good addition to my kitchen/eating area. There are five of them and they easily fit across my eating bar. The lady I bought them from says that she purchased them in an antique store about 20 years ago.....so they're either 20 years old if they were new (at the antique store) or perhaps a lot older than that. They haven't been over-used or abused.....just wait till they're in my house for awhile!

This cabinet was one I had in storage. It's actually older than me but isn't wood--it's like pressed-paper with wood doors. Hard to describe, but it's a nice sturdy cabinet for a collection. I have a small Snoopy/Peanuts collection and it's being stored in it. The chair with the pillow case draped over it, is the one I showed with Troy setting it--probably two months ago--that I bought at a garage sale. It all fits together...eventually. The tall (weed) urn is now on the floor. It was a hand-me-down that I haven't figured where to set it yet.....

Dirt Work

What I listened to while sewing this afternoon....DH's tractor moving dirt for the yard. Hopefully, we'll have a decent yard by summer's end.

Rusty through the front-screen window.


This is my major accomplishment for today. 200 of these units made for the mystery quilt I'm working on. They all have to be cut apart and sewn into 3 1/2" hour-glass blocks.
You can see my two quilt-hangers who haven't found a permanent home yet.

These are the two baskets full of the mystery blocks so far. I've learned to pin bunches of 10 together so I can keep count how many have been made. ...yeah, I'm dense and can't count sometimes.