Rain and pain

 Rain, rain and more rain. I am getting weary of all this rain. Places in the area are flooded, but we have dodged the worst of it. As I write this, it is pouring down again. Poor old Penny hasn't been to the dog park in nearly a week! She's a good pup. 

Afternoon nap

It took a while to get to my CT scan...the rain obviously caused a bad wreck on the highway.

See the big black crack in the concrete barrier wall? When I went by later in the day, the entire section of wall had fallen and been replaced by metal safety rails. There was nothing on the news about it, but there was a semi and a car involved.

Yesterday, I sewed at Nancy's for a few hours and made good progress! Both Nancy and I finished our quilt tops. Hers is much prettier than mine, but I like mine, too. We both started new projects, and will work on them soon.

Here is my latest Kaffe BQ2

The maker and the quilt!

Nancy made this Garden Delight quilt top

Her fabrics are the same print in 12 different colorways.

Now, for the pain half of the equation. I had my CT scan and I have fractured my L3 vertebrae. Rats!! I have already had two vertebral fractures resulting in Kyphoplasty both times. My doctor has prescribed  some medication for the pain, but the ibuprofen and Tylenol seem to do the job better. Still, it was too painful to sleeping in the bed, so it was back to the recliner for me. I am contemplating giving up the longarm quilting when we get home and concentrating on the repair side of things. I don't think I can lift and pull like I used to.

The next step will be to get the pain under control and get home. I hope to be back in Georgia on the 26th of this month. Until then, rain, rain go away!!

Odds and Ends

 My back injury continues with no treatment plan in sight. I had X-rays 11 days ago and have not had a call from the doctor about the results. I have called the office, and they tell me they are waiting on a radiologist to read the films. I'll go on Friday for a CT scan, but I am not optimistic about anything happening after that. I did graduate from the recliner to the bed, after taking off the soft topper and puffy mattress pad. Now the bed is firmer and I was able to sleep with pain meds on board and the heating pad on my back. Enough of that!!

Nancy is making a Garden Delight top with fabric bought at the flea market fabric shop. Its going to be really pretty.

Nancy got 12 different colors of the same patterned fabric.

This quilt will be wonderful!

I took one of my kits over to Nancy's house and started sewing. I have the blocks sewn up to the last step, and then got rained out. It rained hard all day yesterday and I was unable to use the cart to get to Nancy's. Hopefully, I will get there today (it is still raining!!) and do some sewing.

This is what the finished blocks will look like. Some Kaffe, some batik and some Peppered cotton

The rest of the blocks are almost done, then it will  be sewn into a top.

On the fourth, there was a picnic for the residents here. I made cupcakes and seven layer salad.

If you have ever made one of these, you know how labor intensive it is. My Mom used to make it for special occasions. Now I know why we had it so seldom. It was yummy, though.

Nancy and I went to Donna to the flea market last Saturday. There were only a few booths open,and one is the fabric shop. I picked up two small quilts I had quilted there. This unusual RV was parked in the lot. I thought it was worth a picture.

I have to put the binding on the quilts, and then I will gift them to two little boys we met at the pool with their Dad. The Dad works for a company that sends him all over to work. Mama is the home school teacher to the boys.

The mowing man finally did the yard. It was good timing because the day after he did this, it began to rain and hasn't stopped!

The weather guy summed it up ...

Even the birds were trying to get out of the rain!

Penny was peeved that she couldn't go run with the other pups. 

We had to walk across the street to find a spot that wasn't under water so she could pee. I hope it stops soon. Next come the mosquitos...

Let's hope I can get some sewing done before we have to build an ark!