I decided to try the weekend to-do list again. Besides chores, I once again added "sew something" as a task. This time the sewing actually happened!
I was able to cut out part of the pieces for the Athena bag I want to make--I still need to quilt part of it before cutting. The cutting isn't depicted here. This was just all the supplies and stuff while I was trying to decide color scheme.
I made some flying geese units for the Unity quilt.
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| The red color is more of a raspberry in real life. |
AND...I sewed all of the pink/blue blocks for the Magnificent Mystery quilt. There was still a lot of ripping and re-doing, but I powered through and got them done. I'm not expecting the green/blue blocks to go any better. I think I have narrowed down the issues with these to 1. using two different sewing machines even though they are the same brand and use the same foot, and 2. the pressed-open seams on parts of the hourglass blocks are causing issues. I don't know why, but the intersections that have those seams are the ones that don't line up. Wow, looking at my picture, that pink block does not appear to line up at all. I really hope that's an illusion.
I also washed 20 yards of fabric to prep for a bed quilt project. I can hardly wait to press all this. 😏
Before I launch into the next round of drama, here are the quilts I worked on since last week. I quilted Fizz on Sara's quilt.
I stitched down the binding on Donna's quilt.
I quilted Diagonal Plaid Bias on Judy's quilt.
I got the binding made and attached on Maria's quilt.
I quilted Ginger Heart on Amber's quilt.
Marilyn selected Fall Foliage for her runner.
Toni picked Freehand Hearts & Loops for this one.
Boho Boxes got quilted on Linda's quilt.
Deb picked Bloomlets.
And Strawberry Fields was the choice for Linda's other quilt.
I have been busy. I'm also currently blessed with an abundance of work, so I will be very busy indefinitely.
Meanwhile, the strangeness: last Wednesday after I published my post, I heard the silkies carrying on and doing alarm calls. I also heard a baby rooster in the garage trying to mimic the alarm. 🫤 I couldn't find anything outside that would have gotten them so riled up, but I was surprised to see that Henry was up in one of the tanks in the garden expansion of the coop. I haven't seen him up there before or after. And I could no longer deny that several of the chicks were roosters.
Thursday I was going about my business when I received a notice from school that a suspected case of meningitis had been reported. I had a moment of panic before I decided I didn't need to worry about it. My son hadn't been around anyone for the amount of time it stated nor had he engaged in the behaviors listed. I continued working and then received a text from my daughter about coming down after work. I wasn't expecting her until Friday evening and we didn't have enough groceries. So I had to drop everything, make a meal plan and grocery list, and run out for groceries. Just as I was returning home I got a call from the health department. My son had been named as a potential close contact to the meningitis case. 😩
The health department lady said I had to call the pediatrician to get a prophylactic antibiotic dose and then report back to her. I was on hold with the pediatrician for over 30 minutes. When I finally got to the nurse, he said that the case hasn't been confirmed yet, the medical director said that isn't standard protocol, why are so many people calling, and so on. Ugh! I told him what the health department lady said and he still said that isn't protocol and my son has had all his shots, but he'd leave a note for our pediatrician. So I had to report back to the health department lady, who was a little curt and told me that they are following CDC guidelines. We were able to get the single dose of antibiotic from her.
Two of my son's friends also received calls. They deduced that there was a boy and girl in common between their classes that they figured must be the cause. I was amused that they did the detective work. Oh, and Monday morning I got a call from the pediatrician's office that they had called in the antibiotic dose. Ha. I definitely didn't have meningitis scare on my bingo card.
Friday evening my husband and daughter took the two rooster chicks back to the lady we got them from. She was rehoming them as promised, but she no longer has any other chickens to swap. The hen chick cried a bit after the roosters went away. 😢 This is the last picture of them.
That meant we needed to try to get her integrated into the coop with the silkies right away. They'd all done fine when we had been leaving the three chicks or just her in the run in the little cage, but once we tried to put her in the coop with the silkies for the night things fell apart rapidly. They are currently shunning her. 😭 It's also difficult to get her back into the coop at night. I'm not cut out for all this. We tried to get another hen from the farm where we originally got the silkies, but he sold out of pullets over the weekend. Too bad, because they were about the same age as the little hen, who we are calling Nugget.
Tomorrow is my son's last day of school. Graduation is next weekend, pretty immediately followed by college orientation. I'm not sure yet what date he will receive clearance to start his summer internship. He had to get fingerprinted for that over the weekend (see clearance).
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that we planted all the flowers we'd purchased and sowed more seeds in the vegetable garden. It rained most of Saturday. Sunday was mega-hot and humid and we were struggling just getting the plants into the ground, but it had to be done.Of course after we filled the rain barrel in the vegetable garden using the hose, we had torrential rain Monday. And all last night and continuing this morning. I'm hoping it didn't wash away the seeds we put in. We did not do any weeding of the lower garden. That lower garden is really bumming me out.
Here is the upper garden yesterday afternoon.
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