More Blessings

Janet,  you are a dear.  Quilting things always bring me cheer!!

Look what she was able to let go of...How could she??  So grateful she did.

In the wash as we speak!  Awesome African fabrics.

My favorite flowers....Thank you Linda!!

And from Portland...Thanksgiving joy!!

OK   I see, we just  help ourselves xo  Good idea, Aoife!

Holidays are rough when grief seeps through the cracks.  Yesterday, my sister helped by bringing us a pre-made dinner from the grocery store.  Nice to have a  sister.

Turkey soup in in process now!! 

Kids are in the mountains with their mom and step-dad!

Three, Eleven, Twelve and Sixteen!!!

Took my new car on a spin today.  Twenty miles per hour...at first, then up to 40!!  How brave I am.  I had not even left the neighborhood when a yellow triangle light started its whine...OMG.  I waved  down a neighbor....He said that the trunk was not fully shut....My slow learning curve. 

Oh, well....Still pinching myself and grateful for my anonymous benefactor...made my world a better place. My sister came for the old car and it would not start..Now she is afraid to be stranded and will not drive it.

One of my favorite embroideries from  my  grandmother.

I have  had it for years and  years.  My sister wanted it.. I did not want to share, but it is way past her turn. I gave it to her.

Today is 2 weeks since my fall.  I was able to do way more things...I am still exhausted.

However, it is great to be up and at 'um...It is a blessing.

Little Things are Really Big Things in the Difference They Can Make

They call it progress, not perfection..So here is my progress now.

All the four patches are sewn together, not so the rectangles.

I wanted to stay in bed all day today, but kicked myself out and went to the pool.

For sure that was the right decision!!

For the past 4 months I have been crying over my inability to focus/organize/clean/ etc a room in my house that held everyone's stuff,  moved due to the flood and the upstairs carpet replacement.  Just looking at the mess gave me indigestion and grief.  Today, Sherry came over.  In one hour she fixed almost the entire room.  Really???  She is amazing. My spirit is lifted!

I had tried to hang this basket with the help of my Orkin guy.

Without Sherry, it was a disaster...too low. Today she fixed that too..

I am soooooooo lucky.

My favorite flowers I bought myself tonight...Well worth $5.

I want to be my own friend too!!

Dylan cut the grass. Lynsey did some sweeping and laundry. Lynsey got her second Covid shot...Thank you God!!!  She told me that if it made her turn into a zombie, her mother would be furious...Our lovely pharmacist reassured her that that would not happen.  Whew... With that over, I let them take a cart and go grocery shopping.  They LOVE  to do that.!!!  They always put the food away without being asked.  You do know that forbidden sodas came home with  us...Albeit , they were on sale.

I see them already in a secret place by their beds!!

Later Susan came over with a treat. I am so feeling the love tonight. 

Tomorrow I have to have some yucky scan....at 11:00 am,  There is always something.  Then, I will finish those three blocks and take a nap on my porch...So much relief tonight. Like boulders off my shoulders.  And, I do not feel so alone!!!

 

Doing the Joy Thing

I love a bargain...half price...my very favorite flower...a treat for myself as I walked the grocery store per instructions from physical therapy!!!

The above four patch snowballed into blocks...hope to set them manana.

Maybe I should limit my grocery store walks...Look!!!!

Already, my favorite Christmas ice cream...They will be sold out by Thanksgiving!!

Arriving home this morning from an outing...A family of deer..

I only got a picture of  one or two, but there were 6 at least!!

They are in the field beside me multiplying like crazy.  I live in the woods,

in the city...love..

It was freezing this morning...65 degrees F. I needed to wear a sweater for my breakfast on the deck.

So excited for my favorite season.

Our school system drops off free meals for Corona virus, stay at home children.

The school bus comes to the end of my street with the boxed food.

In the past few weeks, we have accumulated so many apples and pears.

The pears all ripened at once.  Last night Lynsey and I made pear crumble.

This morning it was gone...Lynsey had it for breakfast!!

Tonight, I had told her that I would do her kitchen clean up, if she would peel and core the apples.

It took forever to cook them down on the stove, adding a bit of sugar and cinnamon.

We had homemade apple sauce on vanilla ice cream.  Dylan's doctor said he could eat cooked apples.

But, he was afraid.

Above a lovely card and patches from Suzette...She has the most wonderful cards and the most wonderful heart..

I am going to make a patriotic potholder  or two!!

Last thing and the best thing...a visit...Linda helped me fold the last half of my white fabric.

She took snips and I discovered fabric that I had long forgotten.

Yesterday was a bit of a slump after PT,  but, a great faithful boost from my Orkin guy set me on the right and grateful path.  He is so nice.  He came to my husband's funeral.

Twice I have called him late at night to share that I found a big and ugly roach in my house...I leave a message on his answering machine that thankfully, he leaves turned off.

The next day he calls me...Was the roach dead or alive.

I say....dead.

He says, well....I can only kill it once...ha!!

Sooo lucky to have friends.. New friends never, ever replace the old.

According to Girl Scouts...One is silver and the other gold!!

OH...one last treat:  Aoife in Spokane trying out her new pacifier