Goals for WB 12-01-13

GO AND DO

• DONE Post Office
• DONE Library (books and DVDs return)
• DONE Call Vet for Widget - Keep at 4 cc MAX 2 x daily
• * Celtic Solstice Mystery quilt Step 2!!!!
• DONE Class for Infinity Scarf
• DONE Vegetarian Lasagna night - Nathan and Lynn

HOUSE - 

• ZONE 1
• Front porch - Monday
• DONE Zone - esp clean around front door
• WHB on Fri
• Entrance - Tuesday  
• * Zone - esp hot spots!
• WHB on Fri
• Friday - lights
• Side Porch - also Monday
• * Zone - and esp clean around side door
• * Declutter - super fling
• * WHB 
• Back Stairs - also Tuesday
• * Zone
• * WHB
• Dining Area - Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri
• Zone - 
• DONE * ALL  hotspots on Tuesday
• DONE* Walls and windows - Wednesday
• * Put away stuff - straighten pantry - Thursday
• WHB on Fri
• Lights, fixtures - Friday
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• WHB on Fri
• Laundry Room
• WHB on Fri
• Sewing Room
• WHB on Fri
• Study
• Home office area - 5 minute room rescue
• DONE S
• DONE M
• DONE T
• DONE W
• * R
• F 
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 4 
• BR - 
• WHB on Fri
• Sheet change on Fri
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• Zone 5
• DONE* Dust tops of stuff -  door jambs, curtains, molding, and cobweb patrol
• DONE * Dust decorative items
• DONE* Detailed vacuuming session
• * WHB 

GARDEN

• CLEAR - all main areas 
• For 15 daily RAKE the lawn - and pour leaves into cordoned off side garden (which has virtually no top soil!)
• FERTILIZE
• OTHER
• INVENTORY seeds
• Make out seed order lists

STUDIES - 

• RELIGION
• Rosh Hodesh
• DONE Lapbook for Rosh Hodesh
• Chanukkah - 
• DONE* read and notes - This is My God - p. 101-108
• *  read and notes - 40 Things, p. 89-95
• read and notes - 40 Things, 96-105
• read and notes - How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household - p. 374-386
• read and notes - The Jewish Woman and Her Home - p. 219-231
• read and notes - Jewish Holidays and Festivals - p. 87-104
• Lapbook for Chanukkah
• Plan for next holy day - 10th of Tevet
• SCIENCE
• WOP (World of plants)
• DONE WOP 3 - graphic organizer
• DONE WOP 3 lab 3-1
• DONE WOP Plant ID
• DONE WOP 3 lab 3-2
• CB (Coloring book - college level)
• DONE CB 8
• CB 9
• THE EARTH
• Thread of Life (TOL)
• Work on mini booklets and catch up (am working on setting up lapbooks now)
• LOE 
• DONE Intro
• DONE 10-22 - Infin variety
• DONE 23-34 - Infin variety contd
• EH - 
• * Time Analogy - 36-40
• * Assessment - 44 - 47
• * Pangaea and continental drift - 48-53
• Sea-Floor Spreading Art - 54
• Cupcake Geology (just for pure fun!) - 55-59
• Ring of Fire - 60-62
• Faults - 63-67
• Seismograph - 68-70
• Volcanic Eruptions - 71-75
• Ancient legends about Volcanoes - 76 - 79
• Folded Mountains and landscape art - 80 - 84
• Assessment - 85-88
• TOL - Diversity, Continuity, and Change
• Time and the Rocks- 18-34
• Darwin - 34-53
• Force and Shape of Evolution - 54-71
• Shifting Continents - 72-78\
• Shifting continents contd - 78-90
• Nova 
• DONE Origins - Earth Is Born
• DONE Origins - How Life Began
• MATH
• DONE 70
• DONE 71
• DONE 72
• 73
• 74
• 75
• 76
• 77
• LIFE SKILLS
• Tasks
• * Zone 1
• Paperwork
• Organize Yourself (OY) - Chap 8 - calendars - p. 35-37
• Getting Organized (GO) - calendars - p. 19-20
• Flylady - online - calendars
• Totally Organized (TO) - calendars - 15-18
• DONE Menues
• * WHB
• Financial
• YOGA
• Week 1
• DONE S
• DONE T
• DONE W
• * R
• F
• CREATIVE WRITING 
• DONE 12-3
• DONE 12-4
• * 12-5
• 12-6
• 12-7
• 12-8
• 12-9
• RUSSIAN
• Lesson 19
• DONE M (and review lesson 5)
• DONE T (and review lesson 5)
• DONE W (and review lesson 6)
• DONE R (and review lesson 6)
• * F (and review lesson 6)

KITCHEN

• DEHYDRATE
• collards/ cole greens
• SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest)
• DONE* Turkey soup (from turkey carcass!)
• DONE Corn Chowder (from turkey soup and leftovers!)
• DONE Sweet sour Cabbage soup 
• DONE Lamb stew (made from leftovers!)
• PIE (fillings can be frozen)
• * Sweet potato pie 
• BREAD
• DONE whole wheat bread 
• Challah
• coffeecake
• DONE MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT

• DONE STASH REPORT (do Sunday)
• DONE and scheduled for Monday DESIGN WALL (do Monday)
• SLICE AND DICE DAY (Monday) - need 1.5" and 2.5" squares for Bow-dacious!
• DONE* Whites and neutrals
• MACHINE QUILT DAY - some every day this week and next!
• DONE* Baby quilt #1 - finish and bind
• DONE* Runnermania - thanksgiving Table Runner - and binding
• Hurricane Sandy quilt
• Bonnie Hunter re-play quilt cam day (Wednesday)
• * Start at the beginning of quilt cams again - My sister blocks
• PIECE 
• Wendy's QOV
• * Scrap Basket Blues - another border
• DONE Infinity Scarf Workshop
• Improv placemats - #2
• DONE Celtic Solstice - Step 1
• * Bow-da-cious - LE
• * B2S1 - re-cut and re-do step 4
• B2S1 - re-cut and re-do step 5
• Back to Square One - Step 7
• Back to Square One - Step 8, 
• Back to Square One - Step 9
• Back to Square One - Step 10
• Back to Square One - Step 11
• SWAPS
• * Secret Sister Swap
• Sampler blocks (eons old)
• * Christmas Block Swap
• SEWING
• KNITTING (Friday!!!)
• Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief

Widget....

Widget.... well, he WAS here!  Honest!

Widget - last summer - and definitely before his recent "diet"
- definitely NOT a skinny kitty!

Widget is for the most part doing fine.  Yes, he is diabetic and takes insulin - which I would say is NOT a big deal - however.....

He started at 3 cc insulin twice daily.  Went back to the vet's the following Monday where he was monitored - and they determined that he actually needed 4 cc twice daily.  He did well on that.  By that Monday - he had lost a LOT of weight (no between meal snacks! and I DID increase his food slightly - from 1.4 cup twice daily to 1/3 cup twice daily - 8 and 8 schedule).

He did great with the 4 cc - and so I wasn't expecting difficulties when I took him back the following week - but they increased his insulin to 5 cc twice daily.

Uh uh!!!  He staggered out of the carrier, drank water like it was going out of style and got sick again and again!  Because the vet was closed for the day and I wasn't sure what all they had fed him - if they had - I gave him the suggested amount of insulin (5 cc) and his usual food - although he wouldn't touch dry food and had to eat the softer kind.

He was sick all night long and all the next morning.  I called the vet!  and asked exactly WHAT they had fed him - and that it had made him sick!  They had fed him the same thing I feed him - exactly.  BUT as nearly as I can gather the technician who gave him the insulin increase did NOT observe him well.  I told them about that in spades - about his staggering and being sick - and trying to drink the reservoir dry!

Yup - he was probably not that far away from going into insulin shock!  TG he hadn't since I'm not sure what I would have done!  People yes - I know insulin shock and diabetic coma with people - and how to tell the difference - but not with kitties!

So - automatic decrease in his insulin - by half!  And to call the vet's office in a couple of days.

At this point he is still recieving less than than their last recommended dosage - BUT he is doing fine - eats, sleeps, drinks some water (although he is looking paranoid about that if I walk into the room!!!!).  He is ALSO not overjoyed with my giving him the shots - but then he gets his food separate and while he is scarfing that down, I give him a shot of insulin.  Insulin and his hypodermic are kept in the refrig so they won't spoil - and although I don't have to change the hypodermic needle every time (because only one kitty is getting the shots), it is changed frequently!  Still - Widget is periodically giving me the fish eye when he sees me walk into the room with his meds!  Understandably!  Poor guy!

All in all I think he IS better - much more so than he has been for a long time!  LOL he even tries to play now and then - which is great!  And his heart condition has NOT worsened so that is also good news!

Stash Report for Week 48

12-01-13 -Week 48 - 

Actually finished a couple of things - and nearly did some others as well!

Used This Week: 2.625 yard
Used This Month: 2.625 yard for November, 0 yard for December
Used Year to Date: 26.138

Added This Week: .583 yards
Added This Month: 2.583 yards for November, 0 yards for December
Added Year to Date: 40.923 yards 
  

Net Used for 2013: -16.827 = -14.785  yards 

Thanksgivingukkah!... and I rolled all the way home!

Can I say I ROLLED all the way home?  Urgh!  I DEFINITELY ate too much -  and it was all so good! Huge family dinner!  Everyone brought something!  In fact, everyone brought quite a few somethings!  LOL - especially Sherri - who brought enough different pies to probably feed all of Westfield without even trying!

Worst part is that I feel sooooooooo guilty!  I know there are so many folks - including here in Westfield - that have a hard time of it regularly anyway, let alone having the extravaganza that we had yesterday.  and know that there are so many who would have been glad of sharing even a portion of what we had.  Wish I had been able to do that yesterday!

However, while I can't share YESTERDAY's meal - I CAN and want to share today and tomorrow's meals - and think that several visits to the food pantry may be in order.  And maybe, when I can afford to do so, several visits to Doctors without Borders or a food distribution resource on an international level may be a good idea as well - maybe on a somewhat regular basis.  As for hard times re food - have BTDT - NO fun!  and in the process discovered how to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks - a couple of times.  And won't advise that either!  Difficult part now - is that I have the food - BUT it is home dehydrated food or food that I canned - and as such I'm not allowed to share that through a food pantry nor any food distribution resource.

Flimsy AND tablecloth and napkins done! Done! DONE!

Yeehaw!

Thanksgiving Table Runner flimsy!  Needs quilting still!  Will do that tomorrow!

Channukkah tablecloth and napkins - tablecloth fits a card table.  

Also done today - I worked on step 6 - Back to Square One - didn't finish - and not sure what I'm going to do - NOT happy about the square in a square blocks - and NOT happy that the borders are off - not by a lot - but by too much to ease in!  May widen borders - which should extend the width needed for the blocks.  Either that or chop even more of the points off the square in a square border blocks! which is probably what I shall do!  Borders are a total of 1" wider than the medallion!   Grrrrr!!!!

Design Wall for Week 47 - 11-25-13

Yellow Brick Road - needs FMQ - yup!  That didn't happen!

Back to Square One Mystery quilt - actually have an updated version - this is step 5
working on step 6

Thanksgiving table runner
Still needs borders - which COULD be an inner border of the gold and off white background fabric -
to kind of "float" the design - or I COULD use a pumpkin color for the inner border....  so many choices!
Outer border definitely will be the green.  The gold at the bottom will be the backing for it.  And maybe I will use a very dark green for the binding.

Channukkah tablecloths

Wendy's QOV

Swap - Santa blocks - 

Menues for WB 11-24-13

SUNDAY
B:Omelet with mushrooms, cheese
L:PBJ,on whole wheat bread (fresh made)
D:Stuffed quesadillas

MONDAY
B:Kasha
L:Chicken and Rice Chowder, salad, homemade crusty rolls

D:Crock beef sandwiches, cole slaw, carrots

TUESDAY
B:cottage cheese and peanut butter toast
L:Egg salad sandwiches

D:Red beans and rice, salad

WEDNESDAY
B:Poached eggs on toast
L:Cheese/olive or cheese/onion sandwiches (made with cream cheese) on boston brown bread (homemade)
D:leftovers

THURSDAY
B:toasted oatmeal with raisins, apples
L:Thanksgiving at Heather's
D:Sandwiches and pie

FRIDAY
B:Waffles and maple syrup
L:lo lunches
D:Asian Orange Salmon, challah, baked potatoes, greens,carrots

SATURDAY
B:coffeecake
L:chicken pot pie with veggies
D:Baked Rigatoni (meatless), salad (spinach?).

SUNDAY

B:Eggs goldenrod

L:turkeyburger or turkey horseshoe

D:leftovers

Goals for WB 11-24-13

Just a few blocks from my house.
STILL there is city all around!

GO AND DO

• DONE Post Office
• DONE Library (books and DVDs return)
• DONE Walmart
• DONE Grocery store
• DONE Vet for Widget - monitor insulin level - major probs!
• DONE Runnermania class
• DONE Thanksgiving dinner 
• DONE - most of step one! Celtic Solstice Mystery quilt begins!!!!

HOUSE - 

• ZONE 1
• Front porch 
• DONE WHB
• Entrance
• DONE WHB
• Side Porch
• Back Stairs
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• DONE WHB
• Dining Area
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• DONE WHB
• Laundry Room
• DONE WHB
• Sewing Room
• DONE WHB
• Study
• DONE Home office area - 5 minute room rescue
• ZONE 4 
• BR - 
• DONE WHB
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• Zone 5
• DONE Toss the trash (includes UNDER the couch, UNDER the cushions!)
• DONE Put away things that go in other rooms
• DONE WHB 

GARDEN

STUDIES - 

• RELIGION
• SCIENCE
• THE EARTH
• Thread of Life (TOL)
• DONE Work on mini booklets and catch up
• Nova 
• DONE Origins - Earth is Born
• MATH
• DONE 71
• DONE 72
• LIFE SKILLS
• Tasks
• DONE - some of it Zone 5
• DONE Menues
• DONE WHB
• YOGA
• DONE - well 1-2 days of it! Week 1
• CREATIVE WRITING 
• DONE 12-3
• DONE 12-4
• RUSSIAN
• Lesson 19
• DONE M (and review lesson 3)
• DONE T (and review lesson 3)

KITCHEN

• DONE - tomato soup for Mon, and turkey soup on Sat! SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest - portions)
• DONE MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT

• DONE STASH REPORT (do Sunday)
• DONE DESIGN WALL (do Monday)
• DONE SLICE AND DICE DAY (Monday) - worked on misc. pieces on my sewing/computer table - 2.5 hours!!
• PIECE 
• DONE - worked on it Improv - applique - the second one
• DONE - sime of it! Bow-da-cious - LE
• DONE Back to Square One - steps 6 
• DONE Runnermania - Thanksgiving table runner - class
• DONE Runnermania - Thanksgiving table flimsy!
• SWAPS
• Sampler blocks (eons old)
• *Christmas Block Swap
• SEWING
• DONE Chanukkah tablecloth and napkins
• KNITTING (Friday!!!)
• Uhhhhhhhhhhh........... I didn't! Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief

Stash Report Week 47 - 11-24-13

11-24-13 -Week 47 -  Well, I succumbed!  to the tune of 2 yards!  Actually what I purchased was WHITE - and since I needed white for Santas, for a Christmassy table runner, and for.... - well, whatever! I got 2 whole yards instead of just one!  And just when I was only a negative 14.8 with more bought in than used in a completed project!  Oh well!  At least it was ONLY the 2 yards and I turned a blind eye to all the other lovely fabrics the quilt shop had!

Used This Week: 0 yard
Used This Month: 0 yard for November
Used Year to Date: 23.513 yds

Added This Week: 2 yards
Added This Month: 4.75 yards for November
Added Year to Date: 40.34yards 
  

Net Used for 2013: -16 .827 yards 

Spent most of yesterday..........I

Part of Westfield State University - which is located not overly far from me

Yesterday I decided to work on my long neglected (and boy are they!) studies!

Picked up my math book and worked on that - NO PROBLEM! (actually this is the one that made me decide to Get Moving! - I have a new text that is On Its Way!  Next level higher!

My Creative Writing was doing fine (hmmm - Wendy is SUPPOSED to have sent me an URL for a writer's group online!  Hasn't yet so far! Hope there is no problem!)  and I was actually a bit ahead of where I had planned!  Today I start on a new assignement!  And this book is also on my gotta get moving because a new text is coming list!

Religion - yup - I'm behind!  WAY behind! It's an easy peasy course - just that I need to create these little booklet thingies!  (lapbooks) - and I have this mental block about it!  Probably the same one I have re quilting too!  Well, am working on that today and should finish THAT little job!  I think I need to figure out how to circumvent the "gotta be absolutely right" bottleneck and just go for the gold and GET 'ER DONE!  After all, that's my goal (well, that and actually learning what I'm studying!)

Science - OH MY!  So far way behind that I've almost lost sight of the potato wagon I fell off of!  However, I DID get moving - worked on the college level Coloring book! Not sure that I remember anything - but I did work on it and get my task done!  Am reviewing over this too - lots to remember!

It's the High school text I am running into problems with - and, of course, the content is very needful! It isn't difficult by any means - and should be interesting!  After all I do science experiments, research - and the activity is quite varied and very hands on - which may or may not be the problem!  And, of course, I am saving all I work on in the form of a lapbook which I am NOT uptight about working on (go figure!)

Maybe it's because I truly did NOT like High school - and this IS a high school level text!  which is silly on my part!  Need to think about this because I truly do need to get past whatever it is that is slowing me down to a standstill and then work like mad and GET 'ER Done!

the Earth course  - I'm still working on - slowly but it's going!  And the lapbook for the Earth (PreCambrian) is coming along!  Slowly!

Yoga - ummm - let's just say that it NEEDS to happen - so maybe I just need to SCHEDULE when I am going to do it - and then just DO YOGA!  Yup!  Sounds like a plan to me!

Russian - having some problems here!  OK - I am working on the new lessons - BUT I've forgotten some of the things I worked on last Spring (especially numbers, grammar - all the "good" stuff!) - so I'm also reviewing over and over what I've learned AS WELL as continuing ahead - approx. 1 lesson a week!  Geesh!  I remember WHILE I am reviewing, etc.  But is there something that says my brain cells have to atrophy after a certain age?   Because I sure as heck am having a problem retaining all the "good" stuff - that is, the hard parts!  Oh well - again - I need to just review AND proceed ahead and do it at a certain time DAILY! (probably right after - or almost after - I do my yoga that I haven't been doing!)

And, of course, I've been VERY CAREFULLY ignoring the part where I am supposed to be QUILTING!!!!!  That is the FINAL quilting - the part right before the BINDING!

And I've got swaps to do too!

Geesh!  Of course the quilting part - and the swaps - have to do with the "gotta be perfect" bottleneck - and mine sure isn't!  I need to remember this is SUPPOSED to be fun!  And most of all - to remember - that DONE is DONE and NO ONE can see the mistakes or crooked stitching as you go driving by at 60 miles per hour!

Yup - that's what I need to remember, all right!

Let's just say - I'll work on  it!

Whew! Have been working on.............

Back to Square One - am seriously SERIOUSLY behind!  In part due to my frustration with doing square in a square WITHOUT chopping points or coming up with wierdly shaped blocks!

So - I finally chopped some points, some I didn't - sewed it together - and will probably take it apart again some day in the far distant future (or NOT take it apart!  after all - done IS done!).

Step 5 - ALMOST completely done!
Picture is NOT accurate since the red is really a red -brown floral but it "glows in the dark" here!
And, no, we will NOT count all the chopped points!

LOL - I think I also need to remember to NOT take pictures against my blue and white bedsheets!  Maybe against plain WHITE bedsheets, though!

HAD thought I might have completed the chanukkah tablecloth and napkins by now.  Also thought I might have done the same with the 2 Christmas type fabrics I found and want to give away.

All of which brings up an interesting point....  and it isn't just limited to quilting.  It has to do with planning more than is humanely possible for 3 - 5 people in a very limited time span (one week in this case).  And I will persistently do it!

BETTER would be to plan just 1 - 2 things - maybe small things - and make sure I do those - then plan 1 - 2 OTHER things and work on those.

However - I seem to have a REALLY bad case of "want it all and want it all NOW!" - whether the house being done, quilting, my studies (which as you can guess - are definitely suffering - and I just got done ordering the next level up on some of my books!) (Oh yeah - son wants me to enroll in college for a course or two.  Hahahahaaaa!!!! WHEN?????  I AM in a learning program - albeit a VERY relaxed program!  I still hope to teach this year - IF this cough would go away!  and I am having problems scheduling in the stuff I NEED to do - like cleaning!  Oy vey! or remembering to make bread!

Well, maybe the answer is - choose just the one or two things and work on those - and as for the rest - just muddle along like the rest of humanity and hope that's good enough!

Design Wall for Week 46 - 11-18-13

Baby quilt - Yellow Brick Road
Machine quilting - Free motion quilting
Tues eve project (need to get it ready tonight!)

Back to Square One - Step 4 is FINALLY done!
Step 5 is ready for the outside corners to be added - and then both joined together!
Want to get Steps 5, 6 DONE then add in steps 7, 8, 9 if possible this week

Halloween wall hanging - the grinning big pumpkins as center
and then smaller "pumpkin-y" ones on the outsides!
The book gives some other ideas - 4" paperpiecing blocks!
Should be worked on Thurs

Improv placemat - this one has to be finished (hand applique and embroidery)
I want to work on the second one this week (different placemat and different design for applique)
To be worked on tonight while I listen to audio books and after I do a slice and dice session!

QOV - would like to get this done and on its way! - on wait and see if I have time list!

ALSO I have an additional border to add to another QOV - and then to check and see if there are quilters for the QOV quilts - otherwise they go in line to be quilted here! - probably Wednesday

Santa blocks - need 6 for swap - may do a lot more! - either today or Wednesday

Thanksgiving table runner - my channukkah (chanukkahgiving?) gift to Nathan and Lynn -
should also finish this one today - except final quilting (tomorrow?)

ALSO have last year's turkey hexies to find and finish up - first I have to FIND it!

Chanukkah tablecloth with 2 sets of napkins - want to get this one done today!

Goals for WB 11-17-13

Westfield Atheneum (public library) across from the downtown "square" park!
Children's library is around the corner!

GO AND DO

• DONE Post Office
• DONE DONE  Library (books and DVDs return)
• DONE Menues
• DONE Walmart
• DONE DONE Grocery store
• DONE Vet for Widget - monitor insulin level
• DONE Landlord meeting
• DONE Pineapple quilt block workshop

HOUSE - 

• ZONE 1
• Front porch 
• DONE WHB
• Entrance
• DONE WHB
• * Side Porch
• Declutter - super fling
• DONE WHB
• * Back Stairs
• DONE WHB
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• DONE WHB
• Dining Area
• DONE WHB on Thurs
• ZONE 3 
• * Bath
• Zone - 
• DONE WHB
• * Laundry Room
• DONE WHB
• Sewing Room
• DONE WHB
• * Study
• DONE  Declutter 5 minute room rescue
• DONE  Home office area - 5 minute room rescue
• DONE Super fling
• ZONE 4 
• BR - 
• Zone
• DONE Put away things not belonging in bedroom
• DONE Clothes pile
• DONE Straighten closet
• DONE Nightstand - declutter and clean
• DONE Declutter dresser top (plus one drawer as well, if possible)
• DONE WHB
• DONE change
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• DONE WHB 

GARDEN

STUDIES - 

• RELIGION
• * Rosh Hodesh
• DONE DONE   Lapbook 
• DONE Plan next section (2 days) - Chanukkah
• SCIENCE
• WOP (World of plants)
• CB (Coloring book - college level)
• DONE  CB 6 
• DONE CB 7
• THE EARTH
• Thread of Life (TOL)
• DONE DONE (LOE)  DONE (EH)  DONE Work on mini booklets and catch up
• MATH
• DONE 67
• DONE 68
• DONE  69
• DONE 70
• LIFE SKILLS
• Tasks
• DONE Zone 4
• DONE Menues
• DONE WHB
•  OY 
• DONE Ch 41, 193-196
• DONE  Ch 9, 37-44
• DONE Ch 24, 101-104
• EFS
• * YOGA
• DONE Week 1
• CREATIVE WRITING 
• DONE 11-2
• DONE 11-3
• DONE  11-4
• DONE 12-1
• DONE 12-2
• RUSSIAN
• Lesson 18
• DONE M
• DONE  T
• DONE W
• DONE R

KITCHEN

• DONE MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT

• DONE STASH REPORT (do Sunday)
• DONE DESIGN WALL (do Monday)
• SLICE AND DICE DAY (Monday) - need 1.5" and 2.5" squares for Bow-dacious!
• DONE Pinks (some)
• DONE Oranges
• PIECE 
• Working on it! Improv - applique
• Working on it! Bow-da-cious - LE
• DONE Back to Square One - Step 4 
• DONE Back to Square One - steps 5 (nearly done
• Worked on this for a bit Runnermania - Thanksgiving table runner - class

Menu for WB 11-17-13

SUNDAY
B:Apple fritters
L:PBJ,on whole wheat bread (fresh made)
D:leftover chicken pot pie with veggies

MONDAY
B:Toasted Bagel, scrambled eggs
L:Green bean soup (beef base), homemade crackers
D:Bulghur Pilaf with mushrooms

TUESDAY
B:Kasha
L:Egg salad sandwiches
D:Crock beef sandwiches, cole slaw, carrots

WEDNESDAY
B:cottage cheese and peanut butter toast
L:Cheese/olive or cheese/onion sandwiches (made with cream cheese) on boston brown bread (homemade)
D:leftovers,

THURSDAY
B:toasted oatmeal with raisins, apples
L:lo casserole
D:Red beans and rice, salad

FRIDAY
B:Waffles and maple syrup
L:lo lunches
D:Asian Orange Salmon, challah, baked potatoes, greens,carrots

SATURDAY
B:coffeecake
L:Chicken and Rice Chowder, salad, challah
D:Baked Rigatoni (meatless), salad (spinach?).

SUNDAY
B:Omelet with mushrooms, cheese
L:Hot dogs (turkey)
D:Stuffed quesadillas

Stash report for Week 46 - 11-17-13

Westfield park "square"
This was renovated just last year.
And yes, I'm STILL mad about all the trees that were removed.
However I DO like the square now - and all the flowers and so on.
Summer concerts are held here - just across from the public library.

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11-17-13 -Week 46 - FQ in!  FQ out! I had the last FQ to turn in for a swap - and of course, didn't have anything that I felt would work!  So I purchased a FQ - and sent that!  Not even changing anything!
Used This Week: 0 yard
Used This Month: 0 yard for November
Used Year to Date: 23.513 yds.

Added This Week: 0 yards
Added This Month: 2.75 yards for November
Added Year to Date: 38.34yards   

Net Used for 2013: -14 .827 yards 

Colors for the Mystery!

Someone commented how lucky I was that I had the colors for the mystery!  Actually one of the things I am trying to do is to NOT spend $$$ on more stash! and to use up what I've got!

The one color I didn't think I had enough of was orange.  And that would be very true - I DEFINITELY don't have enough orange!

BUT then I saw the colors are orange or RUST!  Rust I have!  Yeehaw!  home free!

And then greens - ummm - I can't say my greens are automatically color swatch whatever - but they ARE green - and they are the cheerier side of the green spectrum!  My muted shades I put away!

Yellows, strangely enough - and it IS strange, trust me on this! - these I have as well!  And definitely I have blues - navy is a bit tricky since I've made 2 quilts featuring a LOT of navy - so I'm down ALMOST to the nubbins on this - but I'm still ok.

Whites - yes - I have enough - and even for WOW - barely - but enough!   (I need to remind myself - the NEXT purchase needs to include some orange and definitely white!)

All this from FQ!  Yup!  While I had hoped to delve into my yardage - that didn't happen (excepting the blues and brown or rusts!)

Design Wall for Week 45 - 11-11-13

Mystery Block of month - catching up - I want to be DONE by Dec!
Catch up - hopefully 1 step a day! - or 2 days!

Improv placemat - applique - work on it a bit a day! one placemat a week!

Wendy's QOV - I need to put it together and put on borders.l  This week - see where it is - and put it together - by Mon eve?

Bowdacious - I need to work on the connecting blocks
 - probably LE style!

Eons old sampler - MAY have this finished by Monday!

Holy Toledo - MIGHT have this finished by Tuesday!

And then there's the Runnermania - the table runner I'm doing for Thanksgiving!

Widget and day 2

Our newly (last year) renovated park.
 This is where there are Concerts on the green and speeches, craft fairs and so on.
It's quite pretty - especially in the summer with the fountain going and all.
 (But I miss the old park anyway!)

Day 2 of giving insulin shots to my Widget kitty.  That part isn't hard!  What IS hard is NOT having open choice feeding like usual.  Widget has to be on special foods now and while his diet wouldn't hurt the other kitties - his diet kitty food is a LOT more expensive than theirs!

so - now I allow all kitties 30 + minutes to eat - then pick up all dishes and put them away!  Not a big problem in daytime.  BUT starting at 4 AM - ALL the kitties want to eat!  And I am NOT getting up for them at that time!  Plus Widget is supposed to be on as close to a 12 hour twice a day schedule.  So - that means 8 and 8 for him -and you had best believe, it is now the same for ALL of them!

So far, my Widgers has been shoved off my bed for patting me in the face - MANY times, despite my saying No in increasing tones of firmness!  Finally I shoved ALL the kitties out my door and went back to bed!

then I overslept by an hour!

At any rate all kitties have been fed, medicated (except for Chai who needs her asthma medicine!) and here it is only 831 PM!  Wow!  Whatever shall I do!

Menues for WB 11-10-13

MONDAY
B: Bulghur wheat
L: lentils - sweet sour lentils, tossed salad, fruit
D: Sweet sour lentils, vegetable plate, baked apples

TUESDAY
B:Couscous, brown sugar and butter
L: Egg salad sandwich, juice
D: Eggplant parmesan, raisin apple salad

WEDNESDAY
B: Omelet with a little jalapeno pepper, cheddar, onion, mushroom
L: Cheese sandwich - grilled
D: Penne with gorgonzola sauce, tossed salad, apples and raisins

THURSDAY

B Bulghur wheat
L lo casserole
D Chicken stir-fry (provided today I remember to get the cabbagey greens and broccoli from the garden BEFORE dark!), apples

FRIDAY
B: Apple fritters
L: leftovers from lunch menues
D: Grilled salmon, Potato kugel, carrot apple tzimmes, sweet potato pie, challah

SATURDAY
B: coffeecake
L: Chicken pot pie, applesauce cake, challah
D: Beef mushroom-barley soup, challah

SUNDAY
B Brunch casserole, fruit or juice
L Balogne rollups, fruit
D leftovers

MONDAY
B Kasha and yogurt
L Corn chowder, grilled cheese sandwiches
D Cheese Knishes - unsweetened filling, carrot-cabbage-apple-raisin slaw

salmon bisque, piroshki with cheese filling

Spinach cheese pie, sweet potatoes, fruit

Stash Report for Week 45 - 11-10-13

At Westfield State College!
I love the colors - red, brown, light and dark green, gold, blue
definitely fall!  And very Scrappy!  : D

11-10-13 -Week 45 - Nothing in!  Nothing out!  And boy was it hard!  would LIKE some reds - and whites - BADLY!!!!!  DO have enough for the Bonnie Hunter Celtic Solstice mystery though!  DID finish 2 swaps this week - but some comes back in as goes out - so I'm not even counting that!  It's just a trade-around!  DID get my Scrappy Happy Houses - but it's also just a trade-around - this is the part that comes back to me!

Used This Week: 0 yard
Used This Month: 0 yard for November
Used Year to Date: 23.513 yds.

Added This Week: 0 yards
Added This Month: 2.75 yards for November
Added Year to Date: 38.34yards   

Net Used for 2013: -14 .827 yards