Goals for Week 19 - WB 05-11-14

Rhubarb.
Although mine right now is up and looking lovely - I did transplant it from this location (too shady!).
Have planted 2 more plants this year!

GO AND DO

• DONE Post office
• Canceled Hair appt (cancel?)
• DONE appointment
• DONE Lawn mowing (MUST be home for this!)
• DONE Dr. appt
• DONE Go to Vet and get diabetic kitty food - wet and dry
• DONE Ice Cream and cake with Lynn, Nathan and Sherry
• Worked on it Stashbusters quilt retreat (a Stay at Home retreat!) that begins Thurs or Fri and continues over the weekend (I extended mine through the following Monday!)
• NO Landlord meeting????
• DONE 3 meals a day
• DONE 3 snacks (part of each meal) - and mention

HOUSE - springtime decluttering - and freecycling

• PAPERWORK - a mountain of it! work on at least a half hour a day
• DONE 1 hour - Things to do
• DONE T
• DONE R
• DONE F
• DONE Sa
• ZONE 1
• Front porch
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• Side Porch 
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• Entrance
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• Back Stairs
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• Zone 2
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• Dining Area
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• DONE Zone 3
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• Laundry Room
• DONE Zone 3
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• Sewing Room
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• Study 
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• ZONE 4 
• BR - 
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• DONE WHB for LAST Fri

GARDEN - 

• Rake lawn
• DONE S - front and W side house.  Prepare seed beds - W. side house.
• DONESeed inventory - Complete this Sunday
• DONE Seeds ready to order - 

STUDIES - (NOTE - will work on week's assignments - Mon AM to update from weekend frenzy)

• RELIGION
• DONE Work on "Counting Omer" lapbooks 
• DONE Work on lapbooks (Thurs)
• THE EARTH
• TOL 
• DONE pp. 72-75
• EH - 
• DONE  31-34
• DONE Lapbook
• EXERCISE - week 5 (increase times and add a routine - date/3 + R)
• Yoga A wk 5 (date/3 +1)
• DONE 05/13
• Yoga B wk 5  (date/3 +2)
• DONE 05/14
• Yoga C (date/3 + 0)
• DONE 05/15
• MATH
• DONE 88
• DONE 89
• DONE 90
• RUSSIAN
• Continue Daily review
• DONE Lesson 8
• DONE Lesson 9
• HANDWRITING
• Book A
• DONE M
• DONE T
• DONE W
• DONE R
• DONE F
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Writing Strands 
• DONE 12-6
• LIFE SKILLS
• DONE Paperwork 

KITCHEN

• SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest)
• DONE Garden Vegetable soup - Version 1.
• BREAD
• DONE Challah
• DONE Whole Wheat
• DONE Apple fritters
• MAIN DISHES
• DONE Cheese and refried bean burritos
• DONE Deviled eggs
• DONE Fish croquettes
• DONE Pasta Mezzalune with Eggplant
• DESSERTS and SALADS
• DONE Tuna salad

QUILT  (Depending on what I finish today - I may add other projects!)

DONE STASH REPORT (Sunday)

DONE DESIGN WALL (Monday)

DONE BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)

DONE STASHBUSTER RETREAT (THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN, MON - I extended the times by 3 days!)

PIECE 

• More ARE DONE LE - Jamestown Landing - String  blocks
• Piecing
• Celtic Solstice
• DONE Borders!!!
• DONE Underground Railroad - Pieced sashing for quilt

Goals for Week 18 - 05-04-14

GO AND DO

• Post office
• Israel Memorial
• Big Brothers Donation
• Library
• Bills (ugh!)
• Open Sew 
• Lynne's Birthday

HOUSE - springtime decluttering - and freecycling

• PAPERWORK - a mountain of it! work on at least a half hour a day
• S
• M + 1 hour - Things to do
• T
• W + 1 hour - Filing
• R
• F + 1 hour - Bills
• Sa
• ZONE 1
• Front porch
• WHB on Fri
• Side Porch 
• WHB on Fri
• Entrance
• WHB on Fri
• Back Stairs
• WHB
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• Zone 2
• WHB on Fri - 
• Dining Area
• Zone 2
• WHB 
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• WHB on Fri
• Laundry Room
• WHB on Fri
• Sewing Room
• WHB on Fri
• Study 
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 4 
• BR - 
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• WHB 

GARDEN - 

• Rake lawn
• S - front and W side house.  Prepare seed beds - W. side house.
• M - front east side drive area - get sticks and brush hauled off.  N. car out of here. 
• T - East side house - haul sticks.  Front porch cleared off
• W - Trim trees and haul sticks off. Side porch cleared off.
• R - D group - feed and prepare soil.  Set up wood frames.  clear back fence.
• F - C2 group - set up framework. C1 group - set up framework
• S - Orchard - plant remaining trees, clean between trees and get plantings done.  mulch orchard and bushes.  
• Seed inventory - Complete this Sunday
• Seeds ready to order - 
• Greenhouse seeds - late season
• March seeds
• April Seeds
• May/June seeds

STUDIES - (NOTE - will work on week's assignments - Mon AM to update from weekend frenzy)

• RELIGION
• Work on "Counting Omer" lapbooks 
• SCIENCE
• World of Plants (WOP)
• Unit 4
• Lapbook Unit 4
• Coloring Book (college level) (CB)
• CB 10
• CB 11
• CB 12
• CB 13
• THE EARTH
• EH - catch up 
• EH - assessment 44-47
• Lapbook
• EXERCISE - week 5 (increase times and add a routine - date/3 + R)
• Yoga A wk 5 (date/3 +1)
• 05/04
• 05/07
• 05/10
• Yoga B wk 5  (date/3 +2)
• 05/05
• 05/08
• 05/11
• Yoga C (date/3 + 0)
• 05/06
• 05/09
• MATH
• 88
• 89
• 90
• 91
• 92
• RUSSIAN
• Continue Daily review
• Lesson 8
• Lesson 9
• Lesson 9
• Lesson 10
• Lesson 10
• HANDWRITING
• Book A
• M
• T
• W
• R
• F
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Writing Strands 
• 12-6
• 12-7
• 12-8
• 12-9
• 12-10
• 12-11
• LIFE SKILLS
• Paperwork 
• MUSIC
• ART

KITCHEN

• SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest)
• BREAD
• Challah
• Whole Wheat
• Pita
• MAIN DISHES
• DESSERTS and SALADS
• MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT  (Depending on what I finish today - I may add other projects!)

• STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)
• SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Wednesday) - 1 bag scraps (only 4 bags left!)
• FINISHINGS - Bindings, movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Thursday)
• OPEN SEW
• PIECE 
• LE - Jamestown Landing - String  blocks
• Binding
• Quilting  - as many as possible!  
• Bo-dacious baby quilt
• Both table runners Quilted and bound!
• Halloween
• Passover table runner
• Any remaining table runners quilted
• All about Hearts Valentine
• Snow people
• Optical Illusions - St. Paddy's day
• Thanksgiving
• Piecing
• Toes in the Sand
• Block 4
• Celtic Solstice
• Borders!!!
• Holy Toledo - 
• Sew blocks together
• Setting Triangles
• Border
• SEWING
• Cut 2-3 blouses

Goals for Week 14 - WB 04-06-14

And I'm STILL on the lookout for GREEN!
Even if the snow has almost completely melted!

GO AND DO

• DONE Library (books and DVDs return)
• DONE and WOW!  I did good! Citizen Police Academy (Sat - shooting range)
• DONE groceries for Passover (why can I never find potato starch or matzo farfel?)
• DONE Bills (ugh!)
• DONE Hair appointment 
• DONE Dr. appt?  check on this

HOUSE - starting on springtime decluttering - and freecycling

• PAPERWORK - a mountain of it! work on at least a half hour a day
• DONE M + 1 hour - Things to do
• DONE T
• DONE W + 1 hour - Filing
• DONE R
• DONE F + 1 hour - Bills
• ZONE 1
• Front porch
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Side Porch 
• Entrance
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Back Stairs
• DONE WHB
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• DONE Declutter
• DONE WHB on Fri - 
• Dining Area
• DONE WHB 
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Laundry Room
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Sewing Room
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Study 
• DONE WHB on Fri
• ZONE 4 
• DONE BR - WHB on Fri
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• DONE WHB 

GARDEN - 

• DONE Garden Design

STUDIES - (NOTE - will work on week's assignments - Mon AM to update from weekend frenzy)

• EXERCISE - week 3
• Yoga wk 3 (increase times) (Sun, Tues, Thurs) 
• DONE S
• DONE T
• DONE R
• Yoga wk 3 (Mon, Wed, Fri)
• DONE M
• DONE F

KITCHEN

• SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest)
• DONE chicken Rice
• DONE tomato soup
• BREAD
• DESSERTS and SALADS
• DONE apple fritters
• DONE cabbage-apple-raisin slaw
• DONE MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT

• DONE STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DONE DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• DONE BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)
• DONE SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Wednesday) - 1 bag scraps (only 4 bags left!)
• PIECE 
• DONE LE - Jamestown Landing - String  blocks

Sad News

Lynn's grampa is seriously ill and in the hospital.  things are NOT looking good and the family has been called together (yesterday).  Any and all prayers for the grampa are certainly appreciated.  Currently he is on medication to relieve his suffering.

This is so sad - he has been such a lovely vibrant man for at least as long as I've known him (2 years) and I know his family love him dearly.

Friday - YAY!!!! Weekend coming up! WAIWO 10-18-13

GO AND DO
Shop Hop with Lynn and Sherri.  We covered only 3 shops instead of 9, ate lunch at a pizza place that was fantastic!!!! in Shelburne Falls, MA - can't remember the name - but do remember where it is for when I go back sometime!  Pizza was fantastic and piping hot!  My tastebuds are only now beginning to recover!!!!  The quilt shop there was small - but CROWDED!  I got a FQ and puzzle piece for the mystery quilt  there when I had them stamp my "passport".  I bought 5 FQs which were a really great price and registered for just about every drawing there was!

Second place we visited was Southhampton Quilts - where they had a LOT of food - sandwiches, treats and just about everything! Wish I had realized there would be food - although I'm glad we had pizza!  I got a ruler for a good price that they were demonstrating - one I have been drooling over for some time!  Would have loved to get more fabric - but there were other places we were going to visit - although it was very doubtful we would be able to visit them all!

Third place (and the last one) was in Chicopee and definitely one where the line forms.  Of course we each recieved another FQ there and mystery directions.  I immediately found the 40-50% off table - and promptly fell in love with one fabric - with only enough $$$ to buy one yard.  So got that.  We then came back and said goodbye.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.  I'm not sure whether Lynn and Sherrie did though they said they did.  I do know Lynn had hoped to buy curtain fabric - but bought only a basket kit and a FQ or two.  Sherri didn't get anything.  I did enjoy going with them though - a lot!

As for next year - hmmm - I may go although I want to make sure I have some money set aside by then.  

At any rate, after saying goodbye, I came in sat down on my bed, took off my shoes.... and woke up about 930 PM!  Ate dinner and went back to bed!  Now WHY I should be so tired when all I did was walk through several buildings - I have NO idea!  Had fun though!

Two POSTS - what AM I thinking of.....

What! This is some kind of record here! TWO posts in one month! Maybe I should get a reward or something!

I miss Wendy and Vince something awful. I miss Nathan and Lynn too! (Wendy and Vince - back in Canada - relaxing after the visit last weekend - and having company this one! Nathan - in Canada on business - VERY late time getting home Fri night - and on call this weekend! Talked briefly to Lynn on Friday - which is when I found out about Nathan's hours! Short phone call so she could get some rest before picking him up)

Saw Dr. on Fri - and - YAY - I have PT prescribed for me now! Maybe with that my shoulder can give me a bit of relief! (and yes - he did offer me pain shots - No! that particular med is NASTY on the kidneys! and mine may need all the help we can get!)

Also made appt for cystoscopy in Sept. - It's during work rush season again - but I screwed up the last appt - don't dare miss this one! God willing it won't be anything major. But if it is - well, then, it is - and I will deal with it then!

All on hold in the adoption dept until I finish clearing up the remodeling aftermath and get some shelving up (so I can get stuff put AWAY!) and the cystoscopy is done.

Am de-cluttering like a fiend! Well - decluttering anyway! This is of EVERYTHING!

Still haven't worked on quilty stuff for a while - but I'm really getting itchy about it! AND I want to work on my fall wardrobe too!

Oh yeah - I have TOMATOES!!!! RED ones! And POTATOES (from volunteers!) BIG ones!

More later!

....And Now... It's AUGUST!!!! (Ta-da-da-dum! - drum roll here!)

aargh! And now I remember why it is usually a good thing to save my posts as drafts!!!

This particular post last week I tried to post 3 different times! And - my computer got them all!!!! Ugh!

Basically - I wanted to post about seeing my daughter Wendy - which was absolutely delightful! My work gave me the day off. So I had no really uptight time schedule!

We met Kathleen from Liberated Quilters - and then all of us went for pizza slices at the Pizza brick oven place in Simsbury! Was delicious! I will say though that I was really proud of myself for resisting the gorgeous batiks at the fabric shop there~

Wendy and Vince followed me home to my apartment - where we divided up the fabrics galore from Carole! (I still think Wendy came out short!) and then we all journeyed to Nathan and Lynn's where we all ate dinner and spent the night - and talked until fairly late! Next morning I headed back to work from there - and Wendy and Vince headed to Canada.

Friday we had a closing on the other apartment house! Exciting! (I saw the interior for the first time on Thurs night - Nathan had seen it before). Really liked it - and the lot is HUGE!

That's about it for now~

Okay - who fast forwarded my calendar to May???!!!!

Geez - it seems like April just STARTED!!!!!

This month my challenge is #9. Hmmm - there is ANOTHER stars and stripes thing - this time my kaleidoscope!!!

The monochromatic challenge according to Judy is Red! Good! That is something I CAN do!!!

Swaps I'm in - Charm around (just this week caught up!) Row by row (mine has to be mailed out! - Monday is THE date - though not when it was SUPPOSED to be mailed out! sigh!) AND I've already got the next row by row - and keep envisioning blocks to go into it! I know I shoulda written it all down - because now I've forgotten!

Oh yes - other swaps (see how I keep sidetracking???) - Jacob's ladder - which I HOPE will be in different colors! An advance block - Twinkling star which is NOT twinkling terribly well for me at this point bt had better best be by Tues or Wed when I'm mailing it out! Also a 4 patch ladder which I think wold be cute and fun and may use p some more scraps!

I found out about a quilt retreat this week - which sounds WONDERFUL - in New Hampshire no less! They retreat twice a year - once in May and once in November - this is a ski lodge, btw - so it should be fantabulous!!! Hoping to find a way to go!

More later.....

Just got back from dinner out with son and his girlfriend (who I like a LOT!) It was fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

At any rate Lynn and Nathan (son) had just gotten back from a painting party at my house in W. I'm so excited - but neither will let me see the renovations until they are DONE! - this means paint, cabinets - the whole enchilada! I'm very excited to see it - although the moving back in aspect does NOT thrill me - but then, I'll get over that!

Re shoulder - saw the ER doc - and trying to make an appointment with the regular doc re my shoulder. ER doc thinks it could be an injury to or torn muscles with the scapula. Oh joy! This however would explain the pain, that I can't lift my arm above shoulder height, the pain, and so on. I need physical therapy for this arm for sure! and lots of painkillers!

Oh yes - the big thing - my life has now returned to almost normal - that is, normal for me! No more extended hours, wierd schedule - at least until next month!

More next time!

Quilting retreat!!!

I had a wonderful weekend - sewing, slicing and dicing blocks and otherwise making a wonderful quilty mess! Didn't work on son's quilt - though I will - but have been going full steam ahead on the Underground RR quilt! Mostly cutting - but sewing too! Did discover that I left 2 of my fabrics (which I THOUGHT - quite erroneously - were together!!!) at home. One I know what it looks like (yes, it HAS been a long time since I worked on this one!) and essentially where it is. The other one??? well, if I can't figure it out - then that calls .... for a trip to Southhampton quilts!!!! (and you can see how I suffer when I say that!!!!)

Other than that - it has been very quiet. Son's gf came over yesterday - I really REALLY like her. Of course it doesn't really matter whether or not I do - only whether or not son likes her! And I think he does! She's a very warm, caring person - who also has no problem telling N. when he's coming on a bit strong. She also volunteers to chip in and help where help is needed and continues until the job is done! All very positive things!

Other news - acc. to son - Dennis finished putting down the subfloor this past week - and apparently will be working on setting up walls, insulation and the rest of it. Who knows - I might even get back home before the end of March - although I'm not banking on it. Cabinets though won't be delivered until late Feb/first part of March = and I won't have them probably until sometime in May - however it will be nice to get back home and to my own sewing room, etc.

Still have to get my garden stuff ordered - think I will work on that tonight - I'm kind of quilted out for the moment!