Another week of busy

 

This was Sunday night after a shower when we got home from St. Pete. I think Bear missed me!

Monday night Emily has an induction into the newly formed PAHS (Pageantry Arts Honor Society) at her school. Seven were added and she was one of 2 Juniors. The others were seniors. It was a nice ceremony. I get to do this again next month with the National Honor Society with her. She is the VP of the chapter this year.

I did 3 trainings at work Monday and pulled out some knitting. Easy to do while watching the screen. I also might have matched pairs of short houses with the fat houses for the Brimfield EPP that I had prepped. It's time to start stitching those into threesomes. Then I need to pick and prep the orange peels for their bottoms. The tall houses are all set to be added to attach those sets together.

Both kids are late today - one has a Tennis meet about an hour away, the other has guard practice. Thursday is a repeat of this and Friday is symphonic band MPA in the evening. Saturday is a Winter Guard Competition I plan to chaperone at in the Tampa area. 

Saturday racing with the boy

 The crew arrived home safe very late Thursday from the senior trip. Quite a few memories with the blizzard in NYC. Quite the treat for Florida kids who got to play in the snow in central park.

After midnight to bed, then A and I left around 9 to head to St.  Pete for the Indy weekend. Day 2 of racing today. Got rained out yesterday.  We have seen a few drivers and enjoying free Java hut drinks. The cocoa is really good. Trying the vanilla latte and hibiscus tea next trip. The trucks are racing today then a couple qualifying times. The Big race is tomorrow.  We get to walk by the cars on the grid this year. The boy is excited.

My FILs house is almost ready to go on the market. Painted outside, carpets cleaned and all plumbing is done. Just a couple things to do. The work there Thursday (we cleaned) had hubby having bad back spasms... so he is relaxing with the heating pad this weekend.  We'll do the last painting inside next week. Em gets the weekend off.  She got home after 8 every night this week and had a bunch of tests.

Next week she has color guard Honor Society induction, practices, SAT testing and symphonic band MPA.  Boy has tennis practice and a game. 

I added stitches to the cross stitch but forgot a photo.  Should get some stitching in tonight in the hotel. 

Pre mpa Wednesday. 

Friday.

Friday

Mazda race this morning.  He had me here for 8ish!

We had Jollibee for dinner last night. Pretty good. Phillipines cuisine.

Just wanted to post that I'm alive! Just enjoying the last 2 years of busy teens before they leave for college.

A UFO finish and some RSC blocks

 It's Saturday! I had an early start and dropped the boy to school this morning before 8AM for his Senior trip north on a coach bus with 79 other students and a handful of teachers. It looks like they might connect with a bit of a Nor'Easter... so that will be fun for the Florida kids! Mine is set with gear and should be fine. Lots of memories will be made before they arrive home Thursday evening.

 I ran a few errands after and got home 10ish. Walked the dog before it got too hot (crazy weather today close to 90 then a cool front goes through tomorrow and high maybe 70!). A good day to stay inside after another errand with hubby, and sew!

I did manage to finally finish the binding on the nine patch UFO quilt yesterday. It needs a wash, as someone dropped something on it at some point. I'm blaming the dog, as he loves to lay on it. It finished at 68 x 80, so a good size.  I just did walking foot machine quilting on it through the nine patches and outlined the blue border and did a three loop in the corners of the blue. Then a straight stitch in the white border and the flowered border. It should be enough quilting with the warm and natural batting.

I fixed the boo boo green house from last week and added a couple more. Here is what I have so far. I might add another couple this week. If I have the parts cut out, they go together well while sewing other things.

Figured I'd show the crew this week.

Peanut and Ollie.... I think they're around 8 years old now? Time sure does fly. Yes, Ollie is a good 5 pounds more than his brother.

This one has gotten much better on walks from years ago. There were 5-6 wild turkeys over there in the woods. I was able to easily tell him no and we turned around after he looked at them for a while. When we first got him - he would have been over the fence after them.

This one didn't go over the fence with his friends. 

The chickens are laying again, and I've got a slew of eggs on the counter in the rack. Guess I need to make a quiche and recipes with eggs this week. I like to hard boil a bunch and then it is a quick easy breakfast in the morning or on my salads at lunch. The girl is going to enjoy being the only kid this week and will be 'stealing' her brothers car with the senior sticker and parking in his spot this week. 

Off to get potting soil so I can plant the lettuce hubby has been growing in the Christmas gift he got me. With all the lettuce recalls, he got this device and it is growing some really nice lettuce! I'd like to plant these and start some herbs and more lettuce. I think there are 3-4 varieties.

Excuse the messy kitchen.... I need to put the clean dishes away. The egg holder is full, and I've got nearly another dozen in a box on the shelf. Since they are not pasteurized or washed, they don't need to be refrigerated. We have two chickens that lay green eggs, two lay light brown eggs and Buttercup the Rhode Island Red lays brown eggs. 

Linking up with the RSC. Lunch time, then sewing some green scraps.

Little House Sew Along

 I chose to do the two color block this week of the Indian Star block and love how it turned out! I just hope I have enough fabrics from my jelly roll for all 9 of the blocks. We will see. I might have to see if I can find another one or something comparable, just in case.  My blocks are finishing a bit bigger at 18inches, since I am using 2.5 inch strips to make the log cabin part. The inner block is still the 6 inch finished. 

Linking up to the sewing along with Melva Loves Scraps.

I'm having a lot of fun with these and remembering good times reading the Little House on the Prairie books when I was growing up. 

A new sew along start

 Little House Sew Along 2026 by Melva Love Scraps started a couple of weeks ago. I ran across it and then was thinking what colorways to use. I've got a few 2.5 inch jelly rolls and decided the purple one would be great for this project. I'm going to 'modify' stuff so I don't have to trim things up so my blocks will be a wee bit bigger. 

The purples are much more vibrant in person.

The first block is a maple leaf block with the surrounding log cabin strips around it. I might add the stem, I might not. We will see. 

Linking up to the sew along before the next clue drops tomorrow!

Nine patch ufo progress

 Looks like binding is the next step. I got this pinned yesterday. Machine quilted today. Ill be hand stitching binding dow later.

I do love days off work with nothing scheduled to do!

So glad I had made my binding already. It just needed pressing.

This was yesterday when I started.  I pinned it on the floor and could barely move last night with back pain. Thankfully it is much better today. Emily walked Bear today for me, since they are off.

I think I'll make sweedish meatballs for dinner, so I need to go get things for that.

Sunday

Today I'm pretending it is my 'Saturday' since I have Monday off... and was transporting a kid most of yesterday. I did get dinner made for me at the expense of hubbys back. Poor guy, he made dinner (steaks, baked potato and steamed broccoli) but was in too much back pain to eat :(. It was yummy though.

Yesterday was Solo and Ensemble MPA (music performance assessment) a little over an hour away from us. Emily signed up for one of each with her clarinet as it was a requirement to be a section leader next year. 

this was their ensemble. my kid is in the middle.

We got there a couple hours early, so I grabbed lunch from the concession area, went to the car and did a little stitching with the windows down. I did have to put a quilt up to block the sunshine a bit as it was getting a little warm despite a nice breeze. I got the four orange hexagons stitched and quilted. Oops, guess the flowered print needs the quilting added.

We stayed another hour or so and observed another friend of hers do her solo. She did good despite being extremely nervous. I saw this hanging up in the room she performed in and loved the saying. How neat to have this in a high school classroom.

I have made some progress on cross stitch when the dog lets me. 

This is where I was a week ago.

This is where it stands now. The counting and careful stitching of the 'neutrals' doesn't show up well, but it is making progress. I like the weekly comparisons as it shows I am making progress on it.

Joy kindly reminded me I have tons of UFO's listed on my Ravelry challenge and we are halfway through already! Yikes. That is my next project today. The dog has been walked, the chickens needed food so a trip to Tractor Supply happened, the kitchen got cleaned up, the chickens got fed and let out to wander in the back yard. Laundry started and moved..... time to go sew! Kids went to Grandma's house since they are off tomorrow as well for Presidents day.  Let's see if I can get a quilt pinned and start the machine quilting on it! I think I made the binding already, it just needs pressing.

Linking up with Kathy and the other Slow Sunday Stitchers. I've watched some of the hockey from the Olympics and figure skating and snippets of curling (I did live on the border to Canada for almost 40 years after all!).