Wed evening

Our dinner was great with home made flour tortillas...... I will make the recipe again.

31st... of May

Today has been busy.... finished Charm's quilt and am pretty happy with it. Hope she is... Now to clean up my mess and get another project started.  I have our dinner in the crock pot...Chicken Vera Cruz..I haven't made it before ... will see what it tastes like... 1 med onion, cut into wedges  1 # yellow sin potatoes (I used new and cut them in half) 6 boneless chicken thighs, 2 14 oz can no slat added diced tomatoes...q fresh jalapeno chile pepper, seeded and sliced..2 T. Worcestershire sauce...1 T. chopped garlic..1 t. dried oregano, crushed.... 1/4 t. ground cinnamon... 1/8 t. ground cloves and 1 recipe Parsley-olive topping. Place onion in slow cooker. Top with potatoes and chicken... drain juice form one can of tomatoes and discard juice... in a bowl stir together all tomatoes, the jalapeno pepper, Worcestershire sauce, garlic and spices... pour over all, cover and cook for 10 hours.
Parsley-Olive topping.... in a small bowl stir together 1/2 c. fresh parsley and 1/4 C. chopped pimiento-stuffed green olives.
The recipe came from a magazine for slow cooker recipes for a diabetic....

late Tuesday evening

I have just about finished Charm's quilt.... thought the bordered needed a more quilting, but after quilting a little extra I am not sure... Going to let Charm  decide.... besides it is bed time....

Tuesday May 29

We had a quite Memorial Day.... I did not do a bit of quilting. Went to Scrap Apple and purchased some fat quarters and a big of sale fabric. I worked on a tool for the long arm. I haven't seen anything like it anywhere and it is not costly. So, hopefully it will be a good idea and I can sell patterns or the case. I needed a flat surface to mark the tops of my quilts when they are on the frame.  It is so much easier and more accurate if you have a hard surface under the quilt top. I have come up with a idea that works.... I hope to have a step by step photo pattern and a couple made to take to long arm meeting on Sat. I will make sure it is OK with Teryl before I bring it though. As soon as I get the pattern ready and decide what I would charge for the ready made item I will post the info.... it really is pretty cool...
Today is a nice day... I  have cleaned the house pretty good....now time to get quilting.

Memorial Day

It is nice and sunny here in St. George.... I did to much yesterday and feel tired today. Candice is in NY visiting Megan. She has been gone since Thursday. Her dog has just started to miss her. She woke us up a couple times during the night. I think she wanted on the bed....not going to happen. She will probably get used to being with us and not missing her mom so much just in time for Candice to come back from her visit.
I hope to get the quilting finished on Charm's quilt. I have the background filler and all the ditching done. I have done one border and then picked it out... did not like how it looked.  I might just quilt a bit on the art quilt I am working on. There is room on the frame to put it off to one side of Charm's quilt. Maybe focusing on another piece will free my mind up to think about how to finish Charm's quilt. Sometimes my brain works like that.
We have soaked in the hot tub, getting those old joints warmed up. Now I need to get us some breakfast so I can get busy.........

Sunday May 27

It is a beautifully clear day here in St. George.... a bit chilly for the time of year, but very nice. I got the leaves and dirt cleaned up. It has been so windy that the roll up shades I put up to block the view of the 'stuff under the deck stairs' was torn up. I have to figure out how to put something like Lattice or something there.
Dave took his telescope out at 3:30 this morning. Candice's dog (Candice is in NY visiting Megan) came up at 3:30 and wanted out. Dave took them all out. The skies were clear and he usually gets up at 3:30. He decided to just stay up and look at the stars.
I need to quilt a bit.....

Saturday May 26

Windy again......Had another asthma attack last night.... haven't had this problem since we moved from SLC down here to St. George. Hopefully the problem will go away when the wind stops......Dave and I are going to breakfast, then I will get back and go to work on Charm's quilt.

 I need to try to get a new photo of myself on the  blog... I took this photo myself, in a mirror to use at a workshop I taught for the quilt guild on portrait quilts.. I really take bad photos...  Most I have of myself, I am making some face or have just closed my eyes...

Guess I ought to get something done..... wishing everyone a good day!