More Binding...

It has been a long week! Just really tired and a lot going on here. Anyway, I've been doing a little walking, which is good for me but I hate it. It really burns in my hips and makes my legs hurt but I guess that it what it takes to get my legs stronger.

Mom had her MRI yesterday and goes back to the surgeon tomorrow to see what needs to be done. She is still having some pain and we are having trouble making her keep her sling on! Hopefully we will find out more tomorrow. Her appointment is at 8:30am and I will be going with her.

Yesterday, Hunter had a dentist appointment in Ashland which a little over an hour away. All went fine with his appointment, then I took him to the mall for a haircut and a comic book. Just in and out at the mall I knew there was no way that I was going to try to walk around in there!

After the haircut we had lunch at the Golden Corral, he loves to eat there. Stopped by Hobby Lobby again while I was there. Here's what I got....

I bought the dark grey from there, thought it would look good for a border on the horse fabric that I got the other day. The other two fabrics were bought across the road from where I have to pick up Richard's sawmill blades. The green is 2yards and the blue is 1/2yard just for the stash.

Also picked up these for the stash, just some background fabric. The lighter one is a 1/2 yard piece and the Christmas fabric was on the remnant table 1/4 yard for .40 so I got it too.

Here is the quilt that I just finished the binding on. It is called "A Coat Of Many Colors" it is lap-sized. Still have several more that needs binding.
I'm thinking that I might try to get the borders on that horse fabric this weekend sometime and try to get it on the frame. I figure that if I can walk a little easier now then maybe I can stand there long enough to quilt a lap-size quilt. May get Richard to help me pin it on, that would help some. Well, just have to wait and see how the weekend goes. We are having Lexie a birthday party on Saturday. The weather is supposed to be nice so hopefully we can do it outside. We are planning on a small cookout.

And now, I want to leave you with a photo of Donkey and Jazz. You don't see them together often so I had to snap this photo! Smokey was in the recliner with Richard, Smokey doesn't like either one of them! :)

I guess that is all for now, got to get supper done.

Kristie

The Story Of Jazz's Return

I know I posted this photo the other day but just wanted to show Jazz again! I have had several people ask for the story of his return. November of last year he followed Ida Belle (our black lab) off. Here is the post from last year. We were all so upset and missed him so much, he is such a sweet little thing with lots of energy!
If you read the post from last year you will see that we looked and looked for him and even went down to the main road and ask around at the houses there. Don't know exactly what happened about that because......here is the story....

About a month or two ago, I was talking to a friend, that is the 1st cousin of my SIL and also a teacher at Hunter's school. She was asking me if I wanted a Basset hound, she was trying to give it away to us because she knew that we had plenty of oustside space for it to run and play. I told her that we didn't want it. She said she wanted to keep him but she lives with her mom and they have their Yorkie inside and her mom didn't want another dog. So we started talking about Yorkies! I was telling her about Jazz and how much we missed him and all of that. She said "Kristie, I know where your dog is!" It was cold during the nights when he left so we figured he had died or someone had picked him up. Of course, when she said this my heart started pounding and I asked where.

So the story is...he showed up late one night at a house down on the main road, half starved and had a cut on his foot. They kept him for about 2 weeks and gave him to another teacher at Hunter's school. Now the house he showed up at was also a teacher! How weird is that??? Anyway, I really didn't know what to do or say, so I had to think about how to handle the situation. So I contacted her, not to really ask for him back, but to see how he was doing. I just didn't feel right asking for him back after they had cared for him for almost a year. So I gave her the link to my post from when he was missing. She was very nice and said I will call you back in a few minutes. She called back and said that she had told her children (teenage) and they thought the right thing to do was to give him back to us! She said that if it had been her dog to start with and had went missing she would hope that they would give it back to her. So she asked if we could meet her in about an hour. Of course we said "yes" Now the boys did not know anything about it because I didn't want them hurt if she didn't give him back. So we met her and she gave him to us, and his toys that they had bought. I really felt bad, because they were all crying but my family had been upset too. She was very nice about it all and everytime she sees Hunter at school she asks about him. They had cut his hair because it was tatted real bad while he was lost. But he was fine and they took great care of him.

When we got home, I brought him in the house and the boys went wild! They knew instantly it was Jazz! Jazz was so excited and happy, he ran right over to where we always kept his toys trying to find them. It was a good day and it is nice to know that there are great people in this world!!

So that is the story! He was gone for almost a year and is back home now!!!
Kristie

A Little New Fabric

Mom had her doctor's appointment this morning at 10:15am. It was an hour drive so we left about 9am. I hate riding in the car that long, makes my legs hurt. But this trip was for mom so I tried not to complain, I know she was in pain too. Still don't know anything more than we did before, still waiting for them to schedule the MRI. He said he could tell more about what needed to be done after he gets that. Also her BP was 162/120!!! I could not believe that they let her walk out of that office and it that high. She is on BP medication, they said it could be from the pain but still that is just too high. She said she didn't really feel bad but I was freaking out over it.

After her appointment we stopped by The Golden Corral to eat. Let's just say we ate toooooo much. I was miserable. Right beside the the Golden Corral was Hobby Lobby! So we HOBBLED in there for a minute. Neither one of us felt like looking around much, so we just went straight to the fabric. I picked up a few pieces. These are all 1/2 yard cuts just to add to the stash, except for the Thomas The Train fabric. It is for my 2yr old nephew, thought I might try to make him a quilt with it, he likes Thomas. I have some solid red fabric that I thought I would just add a border to the train fabric and call it done. Nothing special, but didn't really want to cut up the trains since he likes them so well.
I also bought a couple of yards of this fabric! I fell in love with it when I saw it. Thought it would make a nice Christmas time throw for the kids. I will probably just add a border to it and call it done too. I really don't want to cut this up either.

So we made it back home and I went straight to bed around 2:30pm and did not get back up until 6:30pm, I was pooped and my legs were throbbing.

Not doing anything tonight, don't even feel like sewing so I will probably head back to bed in a little while...

Kristie