Still gimpy! 12-13-22

A friend told me today that I am stubborn!  And she is correct, I just want to do things my way.  And sitting/laying around with my foot elevated is not something I choose to do.  So, I pay the price by extending my ailment - who knows how long.  I don't know how long my neighbors will indulge me and take KoKo for his walks.  That is a large part of my continuing pain because I have been walking him.  Not the full half an hour, but just up to the corner and back, so maybe half a walk.   By last evening I could hardly put my foot on the floor, which is a big problem when I have to make it to the bathroom.   Dear Tina walked KoKo today both morning and evening.  Thanks, Tina!

I had to skip the Surfside QGuild meeting today, which was one of the special meetings of the year.  Several members took over the photographers job, including the newsletter editor who will have many more pictures to sort through for the January issue.  They have sent me images of the members hard at work stuffing stockings and writing Holiday Greetings to go with each stocking.  Don't remember how many stockings, something like 160.  The members who did the acquisitions for things to go in the stockings outdid themselves and the excess will go to other non-profits in the area.  I hope we will do this again for future Christmas meetings.  

Everyone was stuffing away.  

As always the refreshment table was sooo appetizing.

While I was sitting with my foot elevated I finished the packages for the Book Group Christmas luncheon tomorrow.   I think I can make it from the parking lot to the restaurant especially if I get a handicapped spot near the door.  There are only seven of us now, but I always gift everyone with a gift card for Amazon or Barnes & Noble (their choice) and this year I also am giving them something I hope they will never need.  Since some may read this I won't say what it is until tomorrow.  

Gift bags from 99cent store for $1.29 - about 15" long. 

Made little sleeves for the gift cards using Grinch fabric from last year's after Christmas sales. 

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Christmas Countdown #3 12-13-22

 

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Christmas Count Down #2 12-13-22

 

You may notice I am fond of snowman cartoons!

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More rain 12-12-22

Up and out this morning for a 7:30am appointment to have the car serviced.  I left KoKo snuggled up in bed and I bundled up.  Not only was it raining it was only 44F.  So, we didn't go for our walk until about 9:15am and it had warmed up some.  We did okay on the walk, but by this evening I was really hurting and decided to see how the evening walk would go using the Rollator.  KoKo has experienced this before and he is careful to avoid being run over.  Not that I could go fast enough to run over anything.  It was a very abbreviated walk as holding on the the Rollator was hard on my arms and didn't help the ankle much.  This evening I called my "boss",  Deanne, the newsletter editor, to warm her that I might not make the Surfside QGuild meeting tomorrow morning.  It is a meeting that will have us all moving around, stuffing stockings for several non-profits in the area.  It will require lots of pictures, so she will take them if I stay home.  Hate to miss the meeting as I do enjoy seeing  all those lovely ladies and their quilts.  I need to leave here by 8am.  If I get up at 7am I can take KoKo for a little walk and see how my ankle does.  I have all the stuff I am taking to the meeting in the car already.  Wish me luck... and a happy ankle.

Sunset on a cloudy day.  Taken from my front porch.  

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Count Down to Christmas 12-12-22

 

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Quilt from TCQC 12-11-22

Another purchase from the SAQA 2022 online auction.  I do love these little bird quilts.  They are very nice hung as a group of four or six. 

"Stilts at the Seaside"  Sara Sharp - Texas  2022  12"X12"

Commercial cotton fabrics, rayon and cotton threads.

Fused applique, thread painting, machine quilting. 

Common shore birds, they run in groups along the waterline.  Their pink legs are distinctive.  Sara has done a nice job with the reflections.  

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Online and it is 11:30pm!

The AT&T technician came this morning and did all his work at the connection box near the sidewalk, didn't need to come in the house.  Seems to have found the problem - HURRAH!  

I ran across this site that shows quilts rejected by the QuiltCon jurors for 2022 and 2023.  Some are wonderful and one wonders if there just wasn't room, but most don't fit with the requirements or are just ugly quilts!  I'm sure some were rejected because of the photography.  All show submission must show just the quilt - no people, pets, barns, fences, trees, feet, etc.  I did not make it to the bottom of the pictures, stopped when I had seen enough.  Interesting that some were rejected in 2022 and accepted in 2023.  

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/quiltconreject/

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Not original to me, but my kind of Christmas tree! 

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