It’s Friday Again

Can you believe how quickly the weeks are flying by?  Every day   . .  every week . . just flying!   Yesterday I happened to look at the sticker on my car for the oil change and the last time it was changed was December!  And I’ve gone almost double the miles I should’ve gone.  I never ever do that!  The oil change guy is picking it up at 8:00 this morning and maybe Vince will never know how long it’s been between oil changes.

All the tomatoes for 2010 are canned.  All the jalapenos are canned.  I am not going to the Amish store this weekend.  Really . . I’m not!  Nothing to be canned and I think all my cooking for the weekend is done.  Know what that means?  I hope it means I’m going to be sewing.  Sewing all weekend.

There’s nothing on my design wall now.  Empty.  Just the way it’s been for about 10 days now. Empty design walls are not very exciting, are they?  I hope by the end of the weekend I will have made about 200 half square triangles and have all the borders done for my next quilt.

What are your sewing plans for the weekend?

I Spotted a Button

Tonight while reading blogs, and going from one to another, I found the Patchwork Times button on the Timber Hill Threads blog.  Thanks Angie!  You will be receiving a little Mighty Bright light. I love mine and hope you love yours too.  I’ll keep watching for those buttons and in a week or so, there will be another little prize.  Thanks everyone for having the button on your blog!

The Boat Builder

Last summer Chad built a boat.  He had no plans . . he just started building and it ended up weighing a ton.  They put it in someone’s pool for a few days but it eventually ended up being dismantled.

This summer he’s building another boat and he ordered a set of plans.  This boat will be for duck hunting and will be rigged up with some kind of camo covering.  Today, even though it’s hotter than heck, he’s out fiberglassing the boat.

He’s worked really hard on it and it’s looking great.

I won’t be going for a ride in it but it should do what he needs it to do.

Ruby said: Where’s my life jacket?  I’m going for a boat ride!

It’s Hot! Miserably Hot

Maybe I’m just old and having too many power surges but it is so hot this year.  Having lived most of my life in southwest Louisiana, where it never got very cold, it’s hard for me to believe we get this in the winter:

Or this:

Or these icicles:

Or the frozen fog:

Or Chad’s ice sculpture that made the newspaper . .

to this:

The 100° outside temp was the temp . . not the heat index.  Remind me to never complain about winter again!