Are You Tired of Chickens Yet???

 Goodness...Tonight my SIL and Aoife returned home safely from Ireland...Whew

My daughter had a lovely restful time with her chickens and her sewing machine and her music...peace and quiet...now happy her family is home.

My girl has already started with her Halloween decorations!!!!!  Wonder what her live chickens think?

 

Guess the live chickens prefer the safety of inside on the carpet in the family room!! 

First chicken diaper made!!!  SOS  Emily called to say that the chickens do NOT like the diapers and refuse to wear them...hmmm   Now on to the U-tube special on how to put a chicken diaper on a chicken the happy and easy way.. hmmm

The quilts I made for Margaret's  twin granddaughters... Evidently Josie likes one of them better than her own bed..

Card pouch finished for Jackie...Hand and Foot card game, this laminate  pouch holds all four decks.

Secured with Velcro..

Lucky me went to my first Sit and Sew at the local library.  (first in 9 months) I added hardware to 40 key fobs.

I love the Charlotte Modern  Quilt Guild..Was so thrilled to see my friends and be out and about....I am quite wobbly and weak still....but zero hip pain.

Below, in a basket made by my daughter...sit the fobs that are ready for gifting:

Today was full.  Friends invited me to brunch here in one of our 5 restaurants; I read outside on my patio, another friend came by for several hours to discuss books,  philosophy and poetry.

Then off to play cards and to dinner made in another friends apartment...My goodness, Pearl was nowhere to be found..just a lovely day.

Back home tonight, a silly movie and my sewing machine.  I had a tiny bit of clothesline rope left...It was fun to fiddle with scraps making it up into a small rope bowl.  Not perfection, but it will still go into my box of gifts.

Thinking that since September is soon, I would start making some fall items.  I have things that need to be done, but improv is much more relaxing.  So preferring Want over Need.

Every day I am a tiny bit better.  Two physical therapists told me that a posterior hip replacement surgery could take up to one year, not 3 months.  Meantime the shots I had to take to lose the weight for the surgery have stopped.  This has left me with a huge destructive craving for sugar...Sigh...And so life goes on....Many  things to be thankful for, including the energy to write a blogpost.

An Update

Well, evidently I have been neglecting my blog!  The surgery slowed me down, despite the no pain thing.  My hip joint was so damaged, that the operation was the old fashioned way...thru the back muscle with 50 staples...taking much longer to heal.

Here  is one of Margaret's new twin granddaughters....on the small doll's quilt I made each of them...The twins are 2.5 months old.

Forever chicken pictures out of Portland:  Aoife felt her mother needed a chicken cuddle, so she ran around the  yard catching two chickens for her mother to hold......in the family room!!

 

A treat I bought myself at Trader Joe's....Stock..lovely smell...this plant grew in Phoenix when I was growing up.  Below, also the lavendar my girl sent me from  her yard in Oregon.    

Someone here asked me how I was....zero hip pain....but now I have to have a tooth pulled from grinding during stress...Jeeze Louize!!  My feet hurt, etc....but a friend told me that that was the OA virus...The old age virus..something always hurts.

Just when I was about to work on my key fobs and washcloths...the electricity went out...It locked my sewing machine into the updown stitch...OMG  I do not want to go thru all the effort of taking it in..to the shop for one stuck button...The electricity going out did it.  A  big tree had crashed the wires in our neighborhood.  I have to sew!!!!  The lady across the way from me...put my red Janome travel machine on a table for me...Whew...!!

I have lots of recovering to do after this operation...I hate slow, but I love pain-free!!

Goals for self:

bind scrap quilt

finish key fobs

finish wash cloths

make a child's quilt for the guild

start tons of new projects as my mind keeps discovering possibilities!!

The quilting life keeps me going.

My joy is to make things to give away!!

PS:  I am losing it. It took me an hour to set up the little red...remember how to do this and that...OMG  In this pix  just one key fob is sewn.  I had planned to whip out 20 tonight...no power; messed up expensive machine by the power outage...re-learning machine number 2..  .Now I am irritated...gotta do a gratitude list...or maybe just go to bed.

This picture says it all...Maybe my mind is going??  Maybe I  tried to do too much...Maybe I should realize that it is almost  12:30 at night..

Just ugh!!!  (Thank you for listening)