My Life in the Woods, Pandemic Style

"Love Chains" for the Guild outreach, snipped and finished and labeled, ready to turn in.

I asked the children to help me snip the threads.

Their daddy asked them to go on a bike ride.

Hmmmm....such a hard choice...with that, Grandma was left to snip her own threads.

Next up:  Aoife knocks a basket off a low shelf with last  year's candy in it.  Her mommy went two feet away for two minutes...New lesson....our Aoife is on the go.

No No No

RIP Roberta Horton.....This cannot be...one of our best quilters ever, twin sister of Mary Mashuta..

RIP  age 80

The Mugg Shot!!!!

This is me:  Locked in handcuffs at 73, isolated in my sewing room for being a naughty grandma.

When I tell them to clean the kitchen...in a loud voice...they call me....a Karen...OMG

Who in the world is in charge in my house.  They found my son's old things in the attic...Handcuffs!!!

Well, Grandma will no longer be able to cook, play cards...etc....They said that they threw away the key.  They insist that I am, indeed, their peer...God help me!!

Pandemic dress code: Seven pair of black or navy sweat pants and seven pair of sweatshirts with binding.  No one needs new clothes during a pandemic. 

After our visit tonight with our new pediatrician,  I saw how low things have become around here.

When we sat in the room waiting for the doctor, I saw Lynsey's toe stick out of her shoe, Dylan's soles were off and there was cat hair all over his hoodie.  My clothes also had cat hair...

OMG what a trip out of the isolation house will do!!! 

 Kids doing school in their jammies: grandma covered with threads.  We will be entering the world soon, again...the O'Quilts family must get a grip.

Lynsey has not been in a schoolroom for one year.

Little Aoife Cheers us so

Little Irish Aoife gets a new hat.

She also gets pink Irish cheeks from walks around Portland city.

People say that the Accuquilt wastes fabric.  I do not know.  Here are the left over scraps from the wedge cuts from one yard.  I am going to use these for the placemats we need for the CMQG outreach.

I love scraps. Evidently Stitch loves scraps too...Together, here we have set the top for a potholder.

another potholder top..

Wednesday night's Zoom on CQG was great.  Nice to see familiar faces.

Praying here for Tuesday's shot to come through.

A true light at the end of the tunnel.  Or a little light, at least.

This photo does not do justice to Linda's brilliant repro star top.

It is indeed stunning.

Another joy...Aoife crawls...six months..sweet Aoife is now on her way!!

In the darling cap her mommy made her from Liberty fabric...

Tonight my son and his children cleaned up the  kitchen.  He took them to the library to get my book...Oh, no...the library told him he could not get the book without an appointment...Dear me.

The sound of silence is emphasized by the end of a chaotic day. Poor Dylan hates zoom learning.  I do not blame him...but it is not Grandma's fault...sigh..

There is a possibility that he will go back to school part-time February 16. 

 We will see...With Covid, it always seems to change.

I think it was early December? that he went back for 3 weeks.  It was great for him because there were only 4 kids on his bus and 6 in his class. Many parents kept their kids home...Time will tell.

Poor teachers.