Oh My! I haven't posted in five days It seems like every day something else bizarre happens. I have been sewing at Nancy's a few hours a day and finished another top. We listened to all sorts of fun music, from Japanese Kodo drummers to 40s swing. Penny has had a couple of runs in the park, but the mosquito invasion continues. The park has been sprayed at night a couple of times, but then we have the monsoon rains and the mosquitos come right back. The heat continues, too.
Early on, Nancy finished the second block in her quilt and put them on the design wall. So nice!
I made a bunch of my blocks and also took them out for a spin!
There were lots of blocks yet to be sewn, so I was motivated to return the next day.
Nancy's workstation shows her progress.
On my way home, I snapped this picture of the decoration outside Nancy's door. She tells me it is motion activated to chirp when someone walks by. It was turned off when I spied it there. I plan to test it before I go home!
All the rain has been a balm to Nancy's plants. She has a cozy patio to hang out on.
Penny looks at the action outside, wishing she could go run and sniff.
Later in the week, Nancy finished the blocks and auditioned her quilt. I like the secondary pattern the pieced blocks make.
Not me...I was still sewing blocks!
At the end of another day, I left it right here.
Blocks finished, I sorted them into a pleasing arrangement.
And got them sewn together the next day!
The designs on the fabrics were cheerful and pleasing. My quilt has a secondary design of squares!
I found the pattern in a Fons and Porter Love of quilting magazine.
Nancy added two borders to finish her quilt with some pizzazz.
She was pleased that she had only a few tiny mistakes in it.
The lady and her jungle quilt.
Yesterday, Nancy and I took a road trip to Laguna Vista to visit a fellow quilter and antique quilt buff to see her quilts. Her home was beautifully decorated with furniture her husband made and lovely quilts to set the pieces off. It was a wonderful treat to see the quilts, meet the cabinetmaker, and marvel at his skill.
After our visit, we all went to Pelican Station for lunch.It is on the water just a bridge crossing from South Padre Island. During our delicious lunch, we were treated to quite a lightening show, followed by a downpour all the way back to Hatrlingen.
Fresh fish in the case at the restaurant. I had butterfly shrimp, scallops and calamari. Ooh la la!
Beach goers scrambled to exit the island once the storm was close enough to be a danger.
Back at home, it was happy time on Tuesday when Mr Wazoo stepped off the plane! I admit it has been a bit of a struggle here with my back pain and all the things that need to be done. He started right in on the yard, trimming back the grass with the weed whacker and pulling weeds. Rain showers slowed the progress, but the yard looks better.
I had to go to the doctor's office and pick up my records, and a truck threw up a stone, cracking the windshield in the shape of a tuning fork across the driver's side. It is about a foot long and right in the line of sight for the driver. Several calls later, we were deflated by the fact that it cannot be fixed until Tuesday. I changed our hotel reservation to Wednesday, and rescheduled my doctor appointment back at home.
We'll move out Sunday so my brother and his wife can move in, and stay elsewhere until we leave next Wednesday. After everything else, what are three more days?
If you are hesitant to get the vaccine for Covid, I strongly urge you to save your life and get it. The rise in non-vaccinated people getting the variant is scary and real. I don't want any of my quilting sisters to die this way. Please!! Everyone get your vaccine!
