grandmas-bits and pieces: ginger cats

Nancy thanks for the correction. Nancy said 25% of ginger cats are females and here I thought they were all males.

I had a long talk with Richard this afternoon which ended on a laugh. I told him to wash his hands as we signed off. He said where did that come from and I said from the past when you were young. I just wanted to sound like a mom. We both laughed over that.
He told me that Adam who lives in Louisiana has volunteered to work for the ALS society in Lake Charles La. I am so proud of him for helping Rick out from such a distance. I am very proud of all my sons who have come together over Richard's illness and are helping any way they can. Peter comes to Rick's house several times a week to help him and Jim drives down from Edmonton often to visit him.

We are getting ready today and tomorrow to fly to Quebec on Wednesday early in the morning. I am not taking my laptop as it is quite heavy and we have enough to carry. In light of that I was looking at a beautiful white iPad but had to turn down the offer to purchase it. LOL. Maybe another time :))

Weather Report: As we were driving to London Drugs we encountered rain sleet and snow, only the rain stayed LOL. No sun shine.

I am watching Antique Roadshow. It is amazing what things are worth. I wish I had some old stuff in my home LOL . Probably it would be just OLD stuff. Some great things on this show tonight, jewellery , furniture, paintings and this last one is a rocking horse from the 1860s.. Pretty shabby looking at the moment. After some repairs it could be between 1500 to 2000 Dollars.
One lady had a painting that was worth half a million dollars. Amazing as I said at the start of this paragraph.

I cancelled my newspaper. It is so easy to do over the phone, I like it when companies make things easy to do. That brings me to some of the companies on the internet that make it so difficult to purchase items that I just don't buy. If I have to go through pages and pages of instruction I get annoyed and just close it down.Sale lost!!

I do buy many embroidery designs on line and they make it fairly easy. I like Emblibrary.com the best and it has a great system for saving my designs on their server. So I can go intot he list and find what I want, it's especially great if you have lost one of your designs.

Download now as a pdf pattern

Indian Star is the name of the block . There are so many ways to make a star block but I like the purple , the way it streaks along the diagonal. I'll bet it makes for an interesting quilt.

Me too.... any room would make me happy LOL.

This little dog has attitude and that makes me laugh.

Paul Newman .. a needle and thread man and that makes him a man for all seasons . I always thought he was handsome and now I think he is beautiful LOL.

David, Catherine,Nancy and Emilie all in Quebec and we'll see them this week. I am looking forward to that. We haven't seen Emilie yet except in photos.Of course we won't be able tp talk with the children, they only speak French.