About packed ...

To say that getting ready to go to TX for a few weeks is a bigger chore than I thought is an understatement!  It's been a couple years since we went away for more than a couple weeks at a time, so I had to re-teach myself what to take and what to do around here before we leave.  I have notes pointing me to other notes!  But we're almost ready..  I did multiple loads of laundry today and dug out some summer clothes in hopes of warmer weather there.  Gotta be!

I have been working on some hooked and prodded lapel pins and am posting a step by step way to do them yourself.  Take a look on your right ...  I'll put a few steps on at a time.  It will be long but I hope informative.  Let me know what you think!

When I told a friend recently that we were waiting until now to leave she thought we were nuts but we had "stuff" to do ... places to be, people to see!  LOL!  But now it's just about in the bag ... literally.  This weather has been brutal since early December.  Bye bye IN!

I'll keep you posted on how our trip went and how we like Marfa TX!  Later ....

Happy New Year ...

It has been a busy first week of this new year!  Whew!  But today was a little less busy.  Wendell & I have been busy preparing to go to Texas for a few weeks to get out of this cold Indiana winter.  We're lucky to have good, close neighbors who will look after our place.  I think neighborliness has almost become a lost art, don't you?  There are lots of little last minute things to do but today was spent cleaning our vehicles.  We're taking the pickup but I don't want to leave my little car sitting with salt on it this winter, so it will get a good wash before we go.  This a.m. we cleaned up and cleaned out the inside of both vehicles!  Boy, was that job overdue!  I really need to put some sort of bin in my PT to haul around the odds and ends that need to be delivered here and there!  LOL!  I know you know what I mean!

This afternoon I got over to my work room and trimmed a quilt I made several months ago to send to a veteran.  I hope I'll have time to bind and mail it out before we leave!  As I was flapping it out to lay down on the floor, after trimming, I learned a hard lesson.  Don't flap things around my new design wall!!!!!!!!!  The quilt pieces will just fly off!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh, well.  I love to mess with this anyway and only "lost" about 20 pieces, all down low.  So it was fun putting it back up.  But lesson learned...

Tonight we're going to a flood risk seminar to pick up some literature, then on to dinner at the local gun club.  Someday I plan on taking the shotgun and shooting some clays!  Believe it or not, several years ago I won a turkey by being the closest to the target with a shotgun at a turkey shoot!  I was the only woman shooting!  Bet you didn't know that about me ...

Anyway, happy new year and my God bless you richly in this new year.