RSC red houses

I was able to play a little in the sewing room this morning and finished off 4 houses so I have a set of six now to join the green and blue ones. I'll have to cut more chimney and roof parts so I am all set for next month's houses. Linking up with the RSC.

It feels strange to have nothing planned for the weekend. After a nice sleep in and a walk with Bear I enjoyed the puttering in the sewing room. I think I'll head back in after lunch and catch up on my Little House Sew along as I need to do block 3 still and I think block 4 is out as well now. 

 Next week has a National Honor Society induction (Emily) that Aidan has to lead as VP since the President has a game that night. It also is on the same day the Friends and Family presentation of the Winter Guard (not color guard this is more dance with the colorful flags, riffles and sabers) performances, since all competitions are at least an hour away. The final competition - FFCC Championships is next Saturday in Orlando and I'll be driving a bunch of the kids to the competition. The JV and Varsity teams are at different schools, about an hour apart but their time for performing and awards are spread apart so I think they can go to the others performance and awards. Just makes a very long day!

We had quite the wind gust at our house earlier this week that was in front of a cold front going through. We had 2 nights of freezing temps! In March in Florida! Unheard of.  It took the metal awning we have over my car for a whirl. Unfortunately, the metal bar scraped my driver's side door and pulled up the trim by the window on the drivers side. Hubby pulled it off and ordered a new one. Hopefully he will take the mirror off today and get the new trim piece on, so it won't leak with any rain. I can deal with the scrape later. They also need to put the new cover on the frame and put it back, right side up so I can park under it again and protect the paint on the car from the Florida sun. We don't have a workable garage. 

Since the kids were off this week and Aidan needed an oil change on his car and mentioned the grinding sound on starting and I noticed brake issues - it went to Honda for service and a check. We had them do a bunch and then took it to Meineke for the brakes as their labor cost was loads less. A $21 part and $700 in labor was a bit ridiculous I thought from Honda. So, $5,300 later the car should be good for another 100K miles! It has 190K now. The AC is working again and an oil leak is fixed, the grinding sound on start is fixed and the belt got replaced with the break pads and routers and a rotate on the tires and the oil change of course. Things got cleaned out and everything is running smoothly again.

Time for a quick lunch then back to sewing. Maybe I'll prep a quilt for quilting this weekend as well. We will see.