Sunday

 It feels like Saturday was spent in the car. Probably because a lot of it was! Emily drove me over to her horse lesson and since they didn't even get on the horses until 11:30 (for their 11 lesson) we were running a little late. Something about 3 baby mini goats at the barn that took a liking to Kyra. 

The girls decided to ride bareback (no saddle or stirrups). Emily went with Goody instead of Doc as he can be a little unpredictable. The girl turns Sweet 16 tomorrow! She has a very busy week. Testing and late nights. Symphonic band late Monday. She made the All County HS band so practice is 5:30-8:30PM Tuesday and Wednesday across town and then all day Thursday together for the concert Thursday night. She informed us we'll celebrate next Saturday! I will plan steak fajitas for her birthday meal Monday at her request.

After a late lunch, hubby and I headed to The Villages Hospital to visit my FIL. He was much the same as Friday when he landed there. They are treating the UTI infection and will work on strength. We will head over in a few hours to check in and see what the doctors are saying. The hospital is a good 50 minutes from us.

I decided to lay out the 2 rows of QAYG hexagons I have been hand piecing. The first column is mostly attached, I just need to stitch the bottom set of 8 to the top. The second column is in sets of 4 except the purple and brown which are sets of 2. I was too lazy to grab the bag out of the car last night to work on while watching the Florida Gaters in the tournament. I hope to get a few of these connected during the game Monday night.

I'm a little late, but trying to clear the garden area up so we can try and plant a few things to grow for veggies. We will see.  It is Florida and pretty hot down here already (90's).

Linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

Progress

 I have a stack of these granny squares in a box and I have slowly been adding the grey border around some. Another one into the grey round added pile.

The brown hexagons got stitched and into sets of two. I just need to get these stitched together and then I'll start assembling my row of them for the next column. This is the second column of 4 that I am adding to the existing quilt.

I have the yellows and 2 of the green peels added to this bead block. I am using needle turned applique for them. There is something soothing about needle turned applique. I'm using my silk blender threads for the colors and a matching green Gutterman on the green peels.

These are the 3 that I did last year. I see I need to select a red and prep another red block so I have 2 of them, I'll also select another yellow while I am cutting so I have 2 of yellow as well. I envision 16 of these blocks to make a wall hanging - so I need 2 each of 8 colors.
Note to self, pink, purple, blue, teal, bright green, yellow, orange, red. Light and dark of each color if I can or brights. Mix up in the 4x4 quilt. Maybe a green peel border? 

I hope to get a little red play time in this evening. 

****Edited for a Saturday RSC link up.

It turned out after work (a little before 3PM) we got a phone call from the first alert company that has the wrist band on my FIL. He tried to get up and could not from his recliner (too weak) so he pressed the button. They sent the paramedics and called us. We waited an hour for the kids to get home from school and for the ambulance to get him to the hospital ER. Then headed over to the ER. UTI and very weak. We just saw him Wednesday when we took him to his eye appointment. They admitted him and started asking him about assisted living and we also gave the option of moving in with us. He was in the ER in January for the same issue. Sigh. He lives alone about 45 minutes from us. I see lots of driving to the hospital/reab in the next few weeks. Greg's medicine is making his head fuzzy, so I've been tapped to drive him the last two times. Thank goodness for a very flexible workplace for me! 

April fools stitching

 It appears I was in a hand work mode yesterday. Unfortunately, the special elections were not my district in Florida.

I added the grey surround on these two while waiting on my 20 minutes to stretch the sourdough bread. I let it double overnight and then formed it into my loaf pan this morning. It took another few hours to rise and I have it in the oven now baking. I logged off work as I was tapped to drive my FIL to his Dr appointment today. (Standard eye doctor appt as he has missed a year from being in rehab) Greg's head is feeling wonky. I had offered and he took me up on it this time. I'll work tomorrow morning at work to make up the hours. 

I had time at my lunch to stitch a few of these purple hexagons and then finished them off after work and got them into a twosie. I also got one of the 3 browns done. 

Then I opened the baggie with the string of bead blocks and the yellow had one peel attached. I added the other two and have the third one pinned, before I needed to make dinner and then pick up Emily from flag practice. It appears they are now prepping for a fun show the end of the month, so instead of 7:15 they only practice until 6 and then fold the floors for a 6:15 pick up. I have more of these bead blocks prepped - light and dark blue, light and dark pink and this yellow. I have one red completed and a light and dark purple. I believe I was planning 2 of each color and the outer 4 peels will be a consistent green. The four middle petals change to the color of the month. I saw this pattern back in the 1990's and loved it in purple and green. It only took me 30 years to finally give it a try! 

Dinners so far this week. Monday was eggroll in a bowl using some hot italian sausage and the leftover cabbage I had in the crisper. Tuesday was Crispy Parmesean baked Chicken and veggies. Aidan mentioned the shrimp in the freezer, so tonight I'll grill those up with various veggies and maybe some sweet potato fries.