Our area had over 10 earthquakes on Tues. I was still awake at 2am and felt the biggest one. No one in the house felt it but me. I didn't mention it at first, knowing this bunch in our house would make fun of me, having something cute to say. Then this morning, the good old newspaper had a report about it on the front page yea, I'm not nuts after all. The weather here was beautiful over the weekend. We went to the OU red/white spring football game on Sat. and it was great weather. Rumors are now that we're in for a freeze tonight. We haven't planted anything, fearing this weather. Guess we will wait another week or two, it'll be May and surely out of freeze weather. Here's hoping you all have a wonderful week. Pictures soon.

Ice on the trees here today, limbs down, power out in some areas, typical January weather, oh wait this is April. I know I have been talking about my quilting, well, I decided I had too many projects going on, so needed to finish some. I recently made a beautiful, black, red and white with touches of yellow fairly large quilt and decided it was high time to quilt it. The pattern is basically, squares and strips so I decided stitch in the ditch would be fine. I made a sample piece to practice on and got my quilt ready. The sample stitches were great so I was on my way, wwwaaahhhh, it didn't stitch right. I then preceded to work on the machine for about three hours making myself crazier by the minute. I gave up and called the recommended sewing machine shop and will take it in tomorrow. Let's hope this 2 year old sewing machine doesn't cost me a fortune to fix. That's how my week is going. Hope yours is better.

Once again weird weather, its been in the 30's and raining for the last two days. I am in no way complaining as we need this so badly. The weather service says it is helping the water table remarkably well and may do away with our drought classification. We did have a really pretty Easter weekend which allowed the kids to play outside in shorts. The Durbins, along with the triplet family came for lunch, as did Trish. I have mostly spent the last week making hexies for a quilt. Today I did break away and do a block of the month, It was paper piecing and I did fairly well, only had to frog it twice. Lately, I have begun to enjoy paper piecing more and more. I especially enjoy them when the demensions are given for the blocks. Hope you all have a great week! <

Supposed to be near 80 degrees today and snow on Friday. Enough said!!

March,as usual, came in like a lion. We have had some really crazy weather. One day, its 80, the next day it flurries. Guess the whole country is experiencing this kind of stuff. We have had lots of cloudy rainy days so that helps the water table which they say is still low. Just hope we don't have an awful summer like we've had the last two. I had my six month checkup last week and for the first time in my life, my blood pressure was low, even had to lower my medication. I guess all the quilting I've been doing has helped mellow me.I did get a quilt sent off last week to be quilted, now just have to make the matching shams, but since I've started working with hexies, I can't stop. They are addictive, oh well, I was warned. Hope everyone has a great week, Spring is on its way!!

Quite a busy day. I made gumbo for our youngest granddaughter. This is her birthday week and she always wants me to make gumbo. Debra made her cute cupcakes and with a houseful of family, it was pretty festive. I went to get my hair done this morning so, after some months, I am a redhead again. I have had two respiratory infections and strep throat since Christmas, so my hair was certainly not a priority. Now that we can quit whining about flu, strep, etc., we can now whine about our allergies which come along with the wind "blowing across the plains" here in Oklahoma. Sure hope you all have a lovely weekend, supposed to rain here, and we aren't complaining.

It's March, I can't believe it. Another fairly mild winter for us here in the Midwest. It's been really crazy, some days 70 degrees and then the next day it will snow. The weathermen just can't seem to get it right. I haven't been doing anything of notice, mainly working on my quilts. I even got one mailed to the long arm quilter today. I can't wait to get it back. I started it in the late summer but when I had my hand manipulation and problems, the quilt went on the back burner. Now, I'm ahead of the game and have a gift that will be ready for Christmas this year. I also, have the blocks made for a quilt for one of our Granddaughters. It was to be a wedding gift in Sept. Maybe, I'll get it to her by their first anniversary. It's so hard to finish projects when new ones crop up all the time. The new spring fabrics are out and so sweet. I have to show restraint, as I haven't even finished the first quilt I ever made. I wish now that when I started to quilt that I had started a diary with fabric names and pictures. I have no idea how many I have made in the time since I started quilting a few years ago. Hope you have a great rest of the week!!