grandmas-bits and pieces: no time to sew

I really thought I could get some embroidery done today . Instead I had lots of trouble with the design I wanted to do and spent most of the day on my laptop and then the PC. I waste more time with these computers. it is a design with many stitches so I have to wait until I have a good chunk of time. My little embroidery machine is not a fast stitcher. I noticed that when Kathy and I went to our last class. Kathy's machine sewed a lot faster than mine did. Not really a huge problem but I need to start early when it is decision time for sewing. That is a weighty sentence isn't it LOL.
This morning Ray and I had to go to the hairdressers' for.... wait for it.... a haircut !!
Ray took my books back to the library, went up to LifeLabs for a quick delivery, to the bank for money for both of us and for the house cleaner, Lynn. So he had a busy morning running around. Then we had to come home to open the door for Lynn.
We decided that we didn't need to have her every week, we are not that unclean. So it is every second week now. Let's see if that works for us and for Lynn.
While Lyn was working Ray went out to spend money, $1200 to be exact. That was for his automibile insurance and licence for the year. So ICBC has even more of our money. It is really expensive to buy insurance any kind of insurance.
After Lynn left we had a call for Adam. We talked about a lot of things one of them about the way children are raised these days. I feel old when I do that. It is so different from the way we were all raised. Of course we talked some about Richard . Adam wants to come up at the end of March and I wanted to go to Calgary then too. So Adam suggested we drive there. I wonder how the mountains will be at that time of the year. I'm sure they will be cleared but it is a concern.
So now it is time for dinner TaDa we had Eggos for dinner LOL. We have not eaten them for years and it was a compulsive purchase yesterday . What happens when you get old, you seem to go back in time to have the things you had when younger. Not young because there was no such thing then. My mom used to make her own pancake batter and cook them in the frying pan. I used to love watching the pancakes bubble up through the batter. Funny the things that amuse you!

Dinner , time for the news and Gerry called.. That is Ray's oldest sister. In his family only the oldest and Ray the youngest in his family of six kids are left. So it is good to hear that Gerry is still active at 84. Bodes well for Ray.
We finally got to eat and they were as good as we remembered. None left though as we bought a small box.
I'm still hungry.

Baton Rouge - the capitol of Louisiana.

Nice block. Download now as a pdf pattern

Bears Paw, an old one. It was one of the first blocks I encountered when I started quilting but I have never made one. But I would prefer this in brown, a beautiful brown with a cream background.

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Oh he is so pretty ,what a heavenly blue. The colour of God's eyes.

Another gorgeous colour . red is so attractive. Siamese fighting fish are a beautiful species, not only for their magnificant colours but for the spectacular fins and tails. Too bad they are put in little plastic cups and sold that way to be kept there until they die. Another thing we humans do to other helpless species. I am on a roll tonight.