Sunday Dec 13, 2009

Hi,
It is Sunday morning. Last night I was making mashing potatoes and forgot and put the skins down the garbage disposal and guess what it got clogged up again. So, today after church I get to clean out the U trap. What a joy, Life is supposed to be better after you retire, no worst.... ! It has been raining here in San Diego all week, which I know we need but the dogs and cat are going nuts.
Tacocat especially, she wants to go out and kill, kill, hunt, hunt, kill and is stuck in the house as she hates getting wet feet.. The dogs, Freddie and Ginger also do no want to go out and I have to pick them up and carry them out to do their thing.
Last night I almost finished binding another quilt for a gift for Christmas... That makes about 20 quilts this year. If I sew my way out of the sewing room it should only take me another 20-30 years, unfortunately I will not be around that long, so I am making fabric packs to sell on Ebay of fabric. Lots and lots of Cat fabric.
Well I better get moving along to get on with the day.
Have a great Sunday. Do not get the sink clogged up.
Nancy

Monday Dec 7th, It is pouring rain. I am numb.... The dogs do not want to go outside because of the rain.
I worked really hard yesterday getting alot of different things done as I knew today it would be raining. The finished putting up more Christmas decorations, put away the boxes the decorations were in. Then I went to the apartment building and cleaned up the yard, empty my trash from this house. Vacuumed and mopped floors here. Cleaned the kitchen, brought wood into the house for the fireplaces. I really worked hard.
I know there are going to be alot of car wrecks today, people in San Diego do not know how to drive. I have to go to the bank to make a deposit and hope that I can make it there and back safely.
I would like to find and outdoor covered area where I can take the dogs to do their stuff. Close to where I live. No ideas come to mind.
I also intend to stay home and finish binding some quilts. Well I have so many plans for the day I had better get busy.
Nancy

December 6th 2009

Today is Sunday Dec 6th. It has been a month since I split with Mr. Man. I know that I did not do anything wrong. I have had so much time to do things I could not get done with him around because as you know when a man is around you have to entertain them.
After church today I have a long list of things that need to get done before I can go into the Quilt Studio and get to the real work of the day.
It promises to rain tomorrow so I need to go to the apartment building and pick up any trash left there today so that it will not be a muddy mess. I need to take my trash there and empty it, so the cans here will be clean.
Finish put up the Christmas decorations and them start clean up the storage boxes that I keep all that stuff in. The list goes on.
Yesterday I vacuumed the house, mopped the floor, dusted around the house, cleaned the kitchen, and then went and meet Andy my quilter friend. We really have fun talking about quilt ting and since he is married and happy there is no pressure.
Well is is 9:30 so I need to run to get to church. Have a great Sunday and wonderful holiday.
True friends stay by your side through thick and thin, the other ones are just passing by.
Nancy

Friday Dec 04, 2009

Hello,
Where did the week go? I have been busy all week, but just do not know what I have accomplished.
Everyone else on the block has their Christmas lights up, so Today I guess I have to get on the stick. I also however have to go pick up another quilt from the quilter. I had made this flannel quilt for my man friend, but then we had a parting of the ways, so now it is just another one in the stack waiting to be sold at this years quilt show.
My little dog Freddie is a special dog. I adopted him from the shelter when no one wanted him because he has a problem with his back legs. He is so sweet. At 8:00pm. at night he puts himself into bed. He usually wants me to come along, but if I am busy he just goes up the stairs that my friend across the street gave me and gets under the blankets. He also does not want to get up in the morning until it has warmed up.
All my friends now want to take Freddie home, he is very friendly and loves to kiss.

Have you heard the story about Susan Boyle, the underdog that turned out better than the winner. I have not got her album yet but intend to do so very fast.
well I have to get busy and get going, another day of sewing and oh ya getting those Christmas light up.
Have a great day.
Nancy

Thanksgiving 2 days to Go.

Hi,
Every have one of those months. Believe me this has been one of those months. If one more thing happens to me bad, I'll turn myself in to the psych ward.
!st. Coffee got spilled on the lap top, it is the one I have been using for months. The lap top got fried, so now I am back to the very old computer. It is full so I can not hardly do anything.
Can not upload pictures from my camera, so my camera is getting loaded up.
I took the lap top to have the memory retrieved,,,,,,$50.00 dollars later.... 2nd the Toyota truck needs a new master brake cylinder that is about another $200,00 out the door.

And the 3rd and final, the worst, the most bad of all, I broke off with my long time man friend who it turns out was just free loading off me....I knew it for a long time, but being a Woman, I keep trying to repair the relationship. Finally I just know it was a waist of time and effort and stopped taking his calls. If not for friends who have been supportive, as you know Braking up is hard to do. I had made him a wonderful Christmas quilt, but think it would be better to hold onto it. The other worst thing is he works in the same neighborhood where i live and I keep running into him. Each time I do it is like a fresh stab in the heart.
As I look back now I know there were warning signs that it was not good.... But I did not pay attention to them. It is very hard when you have to admit that your feelings have gotten trampled, stomped on and just hurt by a person who you through was your great friend who was not your great friend at all. Now I have to continue to live here and run into Mr. Man and see him even if I try not to.

So now I am waiting for Black Friday to go looking for another computer. No more Lap tops.
If you want to know if I am depressed the answer is YES... But I have been staying home and getting alot of sewing done, which is he result of not feeling like going anywhere.
Today after I go swim I am gong to clean floors.
I finished 2 Cowboys quilts. Both are very desirable and my friends have requested them. However, I am keeping my cowboy quilts for the spring sale at one of the local Quilt shops.
I know in the past I have complained about other people using their quilting blog to voice their problems, But it makes me feel better to have a place to post my dismay.
Relationships are hard and take constant work and communication. If one partner stops communicating that friendship fails and is fractured. I know I'll be fine in time, it is just how long...?
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Holiday season.
Nancy

Friday Nov 13, 2009 The long cowboy quilt

Remember I was working on the Cowboy scrap quilt. I just keep making cowboy blocks and more cowboy blocks, Now the quilt is so long I have to go back and remove some rolls. I think there are enough rolls to split it into 2 cowboy quilts. I'll do one for a girl and one for a boy.
I plan on selling the quilt on Etsy or EBay. Then there is always the Quilt Shows.

I also have to go out and trim the tree in the front yard today. The joys of being a home owner.
I can totally understand why people rent. There is a problem, just call the landlord and have them fix it. Close your eyes to everything else. I could have a full time handyman in this big yard just fixing t hings.

It is really cold here, Winter has hit San Diego. Well our winter when it gets down to 62 degrees, in the morning there are small rain drops. Even the cats do not want to go outside. The dog is in bed under the blankets.

Have a great day. Keep your friends close. Real friends stay by your side.
Nancy

Tuesday Nov 3, 09

If I could live as good as some other people I know I would: Say

"My personal life may be crowded with small, petty happenings, altogether insignificant. But if I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God..." Oswald Chambers...

I have been working really hard trying to clean up the Quilting studio. I actually have been that for a long time. It is insignificant in the world of everyone else problems. Often something that seems so large a problem to one person is nothing to the rest of us.
You cannot even image the fabric that I have found that I bought at some time in my life that I through I would want to do something with. Addicted to fabric, that is the only way to explain it.
All quilters need to go to a clinic for the addiction. Maybe that is what I should do start a quilters clinic.
Nancy

Sunday November 1, 2009

Holly Baloney,
Time just flies by when you are having such a great time with life. It has been 2 entire weeks and this is the first time I have sat down and looked at my blog. What have I been doing?
I started back working for the Quilting shop in San Diego. Whoever said "you cannot go home" knew what they were saying.
I have also been on a UFO train and it just will not stop to let me off. I have been wanting to finish up projects for along time. So I have been doing just that. NO New Projects! until a major amount of the unfinished ones are done.
I need a house keeper and a cook so all I have to do is sew, volunteer at the Animal Shelter and go work at the Quilt shop. I work Tuesday and Thursday at the shop. Mondays and Wednesdays at the Animal Shelter, Friday I try to clean house, Saturday I spend with friends, Sunday is church....
and somewhere in between all that sew.....my greatest joy. OH also I need time to play with my dogs and cats.....I have dreams of the future when we will be able to buy a robot double to help us do things and then everyone will have more time.... dream on. How about a assistant...
they can go work, do the animal shelter thing..cook and clean.

Remember I have been swimming for months, well guess what, in addition to dropping lbs, I have also dropped sizes, 1 in the pants department and 2 in the shirt size.
That means all the work feels great.
Well I need to run along. Have a great day.
Nancy

Monday Sept 14, 2009

Hi,
I have been on a mission to finish all my UFO'S as you already know. However, this weekend I went to a quilt shop, and since I want to finish UFO'S I have told myself no more fabric. I know quilters are addicted to fabric, i know some, not me quilters steal from quits shops. It is part of the fabric addition. Well anyway I did not, did not buy one piece of fabric, no thread, nothing, just looked. Wednesday night is the start of the San Diego Quilt show. I am not taking any credit cards with me. I just want to go look at quilts. This is the second year in a row that i have not put a single item in the quilt show. One year I put in 13 quilts. That was because the called me and said they did not have enough quilt to hang, then on the last day they got too many.
I have been swimming everyday at the Joan Kroc center in San diego, However this morning I over sleep. So not that it is 10:00 I have to get busy with other things. I'll try to go later and see if that works out.
I have one UFO on the design wall which is at a stand still. I really need to get in there today and take a look at it and finish.
Many many acts of love, and kindness, for they set the soul of fire and make it gentle.
Have a great day. Go sew.
Nancy

Sept 7, 2009 Labor Day

Hi, I am still around, but have been extremely busy with everything. I started working on cleaning my side yard, one day when it was overcast and not so hot. That laste about a week (5 Days). however as all good things come to an end, so did the overcast and then it was back to over 100 degrees in Spring Valley. I am about 15- 20 miles in from the coast of San Diego, so it gets hot out here. When it got so hot we started taking everything out of my kitchen and cleaning it, that was good for a few days until we found a ant nest under the kitchen cabinets and had to wait for the pest control to come and take care of it. So I had beed doing things around the house to stay cool.
Then I made a mistake that I had said many years ago I would never do again. I loaned a "Friend" some money..... Big, Big mistake, that started a 2 week war, he understood, I do not know how, that instead of paying me back in money I would let him come over and work it off...... NO!...but in the end to keep peace I had to go with that. Sometimes I think it would actually be better to live on a island all by myself and take my quilting material and just go quilt and sew and garden and play with my pets and be happy.
Today Monday Labor Day I am having friends, other friends over to dinner, everyone is bringing something so I do not have to cook all, and promises to be fun.

Oh I forgot I started swimming again to relieve the stress from the argument about the money.
After I started swimming 2 of my girlfriends joined in so that is one nice thing.
I have to go get the patio cleaned up before it gets to hot.For the BBQ, I made shreaded pork.... uhm good.
I'll be back again. sooner that later I hope.
Nancy