Sorry for the Leave of Absence

Good afternoon a lot has happened since my last post. More ice and more ice and freezing weather. Today we will be back in the 30's and it is the middle of March. I am getting ready for the retreat in Branson Mo. 9 more days. I am packed and will finish up a few things here at home.


Andre and myself will fly to Sisters Or in July to join Steph and Kathy for a week of quilting and of course the quilt show. We are looking for flights now. Steve and I will be in Marble Falls in April and then on To Colorado Springs towing Hank's car for repairs. Don't ask I know isn't there anything closer?????


Have been really quilting and reading what to do in cold weather and putting logs in the wood stove.


Our health is good and we celebrated our 49 wedding Anni. on FEb 27th. whowho


We laugh a lot about getting older ( I am fighting it tooth and nail) As Steve says we sometimes wobble but we try not to fall down.


Hugs Patticake

More snow on the Way!

Good morning all, can you believe more snow and ice in less that a week and a half in South Louisiana. We are prepared, we split 3 truck lots of oak with the help of my wonderful son Michael. We were all stoved up last night, for you city girls that means stiff. WE will have wood heat even if the power goes out.


MY teaching job is the bomb for real they are little monsters. I am in week 4 only 2 more after this yepee!!!! What was I thinking crazy  girl. I spend more time punishing that teaching. It wasn't this way years ago. Society has hits a real low.


Quilting is great. Working on a special order for 2 matching twin quilts for an RV with pillow shams. Quilting a insane Y seam quilt, and having dozens flying through my head.


Steve is good, Hank and Michael are doing fine. Business is good. I have a new fun line called Thirty One I am selling really nice bags.


Ready for work!
Ready for retreat in Branson


Patticake

Catching Up

With a sad heart I am reporting that my dear friend Marge from Star Buck Washington buried her wonderful husband today. They had been married for a zillion years. He will be sadly missed. Ivan was a giant of a man but was as gentle as a sweet man could be. I plan of talking to her on Monday.

I will begin work teaching on Tuesday at the same little school that I was at last year. I will be at that position for at least 8 weeks. The last week in march is my retreat  in Branson so I will be at retreat. We are all fine, the weather has really been cold . This coming week we are looking at 19 degrees, way to cold for south Louisiana.

I am quilting and planning a mystery for retreat. House is in order and clothes are ready for work.


The cyst that I had surgery for last March came back. I wore new shoes in December and they rubbed the cyst and it became enlarged and during the night it exploded and disappeared. What a blessing. Thank God for small things.

Hugs and Happy New Years

Patticake

A Visit from Me At Last

Good evening all,  I have been away a long time. We followed the Durango Trip with a Georgia Trip with a quilt sale before at and after the trip. Lets just say I gave a lot of quilts away. Now I am working on matching twin quilts for a friend of mine. I cut them last night and will make a sample block tomorrow. We are leaving again on Thursday for the Saints facility and then I am following up at a retreat the following week. Soooooooooooooo busy.

I have a teaching position for the first of the year. I will be teaching an inclusion K class for about 3 months. I am looking forward to this as the school is just down the road. I have applied for my old job but I doubt the state of Louisiana will make the necessary arrangement for me to have it. I will take off for the Branson Retreat.

Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday

Hugs Patticake

I Am Still Around

Hello out there, I have been so busy traveling , quilting and doing nothing. I think I have covered everything. August is my catching up with medical appointments and staying inside after all it is Louisiana. Well all is well with the body. It is just old and not so tight. The family is great all working at present and my brothers 's house has been repaired. No leaks at present.

We went on an extended bus vacation for 3 weeks with friends to Durango Colo. what fun we had and I had a surprise birthday party out west. My first ever surprise party. Big 71 years old. who would have guessed. I didn't get to go out west to quilt and I miss my possie girls. Hope to see them soon.

Have a retreat to attend  Nov. 17-21 locally. My big retreat is in Branson in March. WhooHoo. Of course I am quilting up a storm. Steve has joined the hearing again, he got the top of the line aids for both ears and loves them.

Dixie is doing great had a great time traveling.

I promise to post more often.

Hugs Patticake

Happy 4th of July

We had a great day putting my new shelves together in the cottage to display my sewing machines. 2 didn't do it need one more. Next month I will invest in another one. They look so happy, now they each will get a spa day and a good lotion ingestion. I am going to catalog then and sell  3/4 of them. I know WHY WHY ?  It is time I am going to keep about 15 only, my favorites. The entire collection will go on sale as soon as I get them ready. After all how many can you sew on at once? Really!

I am going to sew today and the weekend as everything is done and in order, 12 more machines are in the store room and have to moved to the cottage, they can wait as I lifted many pounds yesterday and my arms are tried. My trunk is full of fabrics and quilt mags to pass on to quilting sisters, that's a another day.

Today is fun stuff, making giftees for the retreat in March

have a great weekend!

Hugs patticake.

Good Evening All

So sorry for our Florida Friends tropical storms are not fun. Take care and keep up with the warnings. We are having some summer storms this evening with lightening and thunder and of course hail and rain. Its summer time, been in the 90's for days and weeks, but after such a wonderful spring, I am not complaining. We will be staying home this summer unless there is a Hurricane coming in at us, at the point we will be on the highway heading to north Texas to visit our friends Ernie and Brenda.for a spell as they say down south.

Saw the foot doctor yesterday, not sure whats up with the foot, trying meds first. Put a spacer between toes and see what happens. He said the cysts is gone, the xrays didn't show it so moving along and will see what happens.

Quilting up a storm, making fabric out of scrapes really very modern stuff. It will probably become a purse in the future. Very "artie". I will put the y-seam quilt together at retreat next week. I am bringing some small quilts to quilt also

Steve is still working with Hank and Mike. Miss Dixie still has the job of  following me around and being in the way. Gotta love her, she is a keeper.

My garden is doing okay we ate our first 10 grape tomatoes this week.  Flowers are blooming and the ferns are crazy every where. I am using container gardening, no in the ground with snakes, I am on concrete.

Have a great life

Hugs Patticake