A busy week

 It has been a very busy week in my house! I did get a few of my string of beads blocks prepped today and started some needle turned applique in red this afternoon. I hope to get the other 2 red peels added tomorrow.

If you don't want to feel exhausted, feel free to stop reading now. This was my crazy life this week.

Monday - the girl turned 16 today and was a late pick up at school with Symphonic band practice. Stayed a little later to help with drum major try outs playing some stand tunes. She requested steak fajitas so that is what I made. 

Tuesday -

I was tapped to bring her for her driving test as Greg's head was feeling off. It was 30 minutes in one direction away from her school. Then the drive to school (50 minutes away). I just continued onto my doctor appointment (infection) and then home close to 11:00. I grabbed lunch, called out the rest of the day from work and headed to the hospital (45 minutes another direction) to visit my FIL who was doing better. They did not let us know they did his procedure Monday evening to replace his stint, that was originally an outpatient procedure Monday, but he landed in the ER/hospital with a UTI last Friday.  He was tired so we did not stay long, and I dropped Greg home and then headed to get the girl. I had to pick her up at school (Aidan had NHS tutoring after school - the national honor society started a tutoring program Tuesday and Thursdays after school). Fed her and then drove across town (30 minutes or so) for her All County band practice 5:30-8:30.

Wednesday - I tried to work. Then did the girl pick up at school, fed people and did the ride to the same place across town for the All county band practice 5:30-8:30. Aidan was late for Chess Club. We got a call late Wednesday that they transferred my FIL to the hospital Physical Therapy ward.

Thursday - A very busy day. I opted out of riding today. Aidan had to be at school for 6AM. I got up at 5:30 to see him off. He was headed to Orlando with the NASA MUREP team to present their project to NASA and UCF engineers. His team of 4 took first place! They thought they did horrible. They did not. We were able to watch them present on a Teams meeting that I cast to our TV for Greg and I to watch.  Lets hope the Feds continue funding this program. 

I had to drop the girl to The Reilly Arts Center for 8:30 for an all day practice for All County Band. They performed for us from 6:30-7:30. Quite the program considering the little bit of time to prep for it. They all did a wonderful job. 

After dropping her off, I headed home and made myself a breakfast burrito. Then watched the presentation. They were 3rd to present, they started the presentations around 9:30 and finished close to 2 with a 10 minute time limit. They were around 9:50. Then I made the dog happy and walked him. We headed to the hospital to visit Tom for a bit. Of the 4 rehab facilities he has been in, I think we saw the most people coming in and out of his room here. They were giving him some iron as it was low on his bloodwork this morning and he had just gotten lunch delivered at noon. It smelled yummy! He was talkative so we were there for about 1.5 hours. On the way home, we stopped for a bite to eat at Cracker Barrel. I had a couple of hours at home to prep some backgrounds for the peels with their placement of the peels and cut some red ones for my second red block. I got to add a few stitches and then headed to go see Emily at her concert. 

Friday, I'm on tap to pick up the girl as the boy is headed to see the movie Minecraft with his friends right after school. She asked me to drive her to school Friday evening so she can do her interview for leadership in band next year. Technically she could drive herself, but she will be nervous for the interview and is not up for the first solo drive yet. 

If you made it this far, are you as tired as I am?

Then I was chatting with Aidan all about his presentation and he mentioned 2 bills that were just presented to the Florida House or Representatives. They want to cut the AP, Cambridge Aice, and Certifications from the High Schools. They also want to cut the Bright Futures Scholarships (both my kids were offered up to 30 K in their Cambridge Aice program for college), dual enrollment and technical programs. 

First, they banned books, now cutting education funding? Florida House Bills 1105 and 5101.

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.