Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2021

Life is Just Movin' Right Along...

A painful goodbye, hoping to share the love of music with another family.
My husband's beloved antique piano. I just advertised it yesterday.  No takers yet.
It is over 121 years old.  It has belonged to my man for 50 years. I am giving it away with love. No one here plays music any more. It would be great for a church rec room, etc.


This morning Lynsey went to school, in person,  for the first time in a year.
She came in to tell me good-bye.  I wanted to ask her if she had had a good breakfast, or needed  me to take her to the bus stop.  She said her daddy had it under control.  I had wanted to help her pick out a nice skirt with tights and braid her hair.  But here came Lynsey, her hair in a ponytail, in sports pants and shirt to match. I wanted to ask if she remembered her bus number and how to walk home from the bus stop on the side of the road that  faces traffic.   Instead, I said, you look lovely, have a great day. And off she went to middle school.  And off I went, back to sleep.  Change can be startling.

Aoife on a sunny day in Portland in February.
She is smiling on the back porch...probably the first time she has ever felt the sun.

Today, I went on another adventure to a store.  It is very,very slowly that my walking is improving.  I  have decided to walk in stores, since the ramp is so slippery in all the rain.
Had a pot roast in the slow cooker for dinner tonight.  Lynsey came home from her first day back from school..hungry.  Very hungry..... She wanted to eat salmon (tomorrow night's dinner)  With butternut squash,  So, we made it to celebrate her successful day  Everyone ate up the yummy salmon dinner. 

 We played three rounds of canasta.  When I came back to the table from a break, there was our Lynsey eating a big bowl of the pot roast. 
I did not realize that as they grew, I would be eaten out of house and home???!!!!
Two dinners tonight...What for dinner tomorrow night??

TBTG Emily forgot to cancel the birthday Hello Fresh...Wahoo...Lynsey cooks tomorrow night. Another three days of birthday gift cooking is coming....
I think that getting out of the house after a year and walking is helping all of me..
If Grandma is happy, everyone is happy.


AD/HD  scattered brain, creative,,,etc..etc. I lose everything...everything and without my dear man, it is so much worse... He was so the string to my kite.  Above rotary cutters.  Last year I found an awesome deal on blades.  Of course, I bought 2 packages...Before Covid, when I could not find a cutter, but I could find a 50% off coupon, I would just buy another one...sad to say.  My son found these last night.  He said it was useless to have them without sharp blades.  He replaced every old and blunt blade.  Seven cutters all so nice and sharp.
Heaven.





 

Friday, February 28, 2020

Riding on a Wave

Happy Happy Birthday Dylan
Sweetheart boy is now 10!!!
Double digits...old enough to cut himself the first piece of cake.

The 27th of February is a momentous day for the O'Quilts family.
Darling Dylan was born 10 years ago.
Emily was married to Brian 5 years ago.
Mr. O'Quilts went to his last ALS clinic visit, 5 years ago.
He was dead 6 weeks later on Easter.
It is all seared into my mind forever more.

The World has changed and keeps on keeping on.
Amazon Prime...  24 soft measuring tapes for $8...WOW!!!
Starting to use them for fun ideas...Most of my friends sew...

So love our Charlotte Modern Quilt Guild
Check out our awesome outreach.

 Ellen's stunning place mats for meals on wheels.
And her husband takes brilliant pictures.

Diane Dos, below, has styled backpacks for homeless pre-schoolers
We will be putting a small quilt inside each of them....for the December holidays.
 Dos adapted the pattern from Caroline at Sew Can She
See how she has serged strong and solid parts of old jeans from the Goodwill..and embellished pockets.
There are about 40 of us..Making about 180...Guess it will be about 5 quilts and 5 backpacks each.

Guild Show and Tell...Linda's Improv. 
A real and true friend helps poor old grandma with organization.
It took us hours to just do the pinks..
I catch my breath with joy just looking at this neatness.
Thank you Linda.

Before Dylan's birthday party , my sister fixed one of
my hundred's of fat quarter drawers....I love it.
Getting along with a little help from my friends.!!!
`I am desperate for more room in this house for the important things.
You know...collections...etc..


Maybe I will ship Mr O'Quilt's 120 year old antique piano to my daughter's house, in Portland.
She is the only one who plays, now that my man is gone.

Then, Oh, then...I can buy some inexpensive IKEA furniture for the living room
It can hold the African Fabric, the batiks, the Christmas and Halloween..
It thrills my heart just to think of the possibility

Now...on to Friday...It is evidently "normal", whatever that is...to feel in grief, that you  have no friends.  Your loss is just too much.  Now, I can celebrate the gifts of friendship as they come.
Found this on my front porch after my afternoon nap....Love..


What cheers me more...this tiny 3 month white sweater with an Irish lamb..
Like new at a consignment store today.

Losing a Spouse is Tough on the Brain
Which is partly why, my focus is so off....
Actually...way way off....