T Stands for The Past Week's Highlights

 Hello and happy T day. 

I hope everyone had a great past week. It ended up being a fairly busy and productive week for me. I managed to get a few things on my to do list accomplished, walked with my group one morning, and  I actually went out to lunch one day last week (wow). Well it was take out eaten in my car. I had allergy shots one morning, and the doctor's office is near my husband's office. So I called him when I got out, and he was having a bad day, so I drove over, picked him up and we went and had take out burger's from 5 Guys. 

I like the color reflections in the aluminum foil wrapping of my burger.  The bad thing is now my car smells like burgers-ha ha! Not  an exciting lunch, but fun to hang out with the hubby a bit during the work day.

This past weekend was very cold with winds up to 40 mph. With the winds it felt close to zero (degrees F or close to -18 degrees C).  I had to pull out my new heavy duty arctic winter coat which I bought on markdown last summer and had hoped I could keep it in the bag all winter.  No such luck. I felt bad for the birds and the empty feeders so I ventured out into the cold to fill them.

Good thing we had the wood stove going inside. My daughter was home Saturday. She and I spent the day at the table near the heat working on a puzzle.

This photo is my ticket to T day as you can see my Diet Coke as well as our snack when we got frustrated with how the puzzle was going. 

Stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog to see what the T gng has been doing. 

This puzzle was really hard, or maybe it is just that I am not very good at puzzles.

We did manage to finish it.

Or at least the best we could as a couple of pieces went missing between start and finish. 

The puzzle board underneath is something my husband made for me many years ago.

I also started sewing my wall quilt together. I've been working backwards  and cut a bunch of triangles out of my hand dyed fabric. I finally got around to working on it (nice since my sewing machine is near the woodstove), and I sewed the triangles together to make diamonds, and then I laid the diamonds out on my bed to get an arrangement I liked.

Sorry, it's a bit hard to see on my plaid duvet cover.

I then pinned these triangles and went off to sew them together. Now I need to cut some more triangles to square off the sides. 

My biggest issue is that I am not good a getting all my triangles sewn to be the same size, even though they started off the same size. And even though I made my stitches the same size. I'm just not good at being exact, but oh well. That's why I will never be a traditional quilter.

I was excited because after my burger lunch last week I stopped at Joann's fabric to get some more white thread to sew these pieces. I found a piece of batting in the remnant bin. Even better all remnants were on sale for 75% off, so I got a big piece (about four times the size I need) for under $4.00. Thread was also buy 3, get 2 free, so I was able to stock up on that too. I haven't visited Joann's Fabric in months, and my quick visit felt like a big outing.  Smile.

More to come with this project. 

The other good news is my mom got her first vaccine last week with no side effects, and my husband is getting his this week.  It will probably be several months before my turn, but once he gets his second shot at least it will take a bit of worry off of me.

That's all for me on this T day. Hope yours is a good one.

Thanks for visiting. 

My Week-Friday Good Things Rambles

 Hi everyone.  

This past week I managed to keep myself busy. I have been a little worried about being home  this winter-what with covid keeping life low and this being my first winter retired.  Luckily it was a fairly mild week with temperatures around freezing  and no snowstorms.

Today I have a lot of photos to share. 

 One morning I took the dogs and went for a chilly beach walk. The beach was almost empty, so the dogs even got a little off leash run time too.

 Here's some lobster traps broken off their lines and washed ashore

The dogs don't seem to mind the cold water.

 I don't know what this metal pipe stuck in the sand is, but the orange ball that  Pete is off to  inquire about looks like some type of  broken off fishing marker.

 There was enough energy in the water that the waves were pretty good sized and even left lots of foam. 

I also managed a couple of walks down my road. My driveway is a disaster to get down to the road, but the road wasn't bad.

Here's my driveway. It's a bumpy skating rink.

And here's  a couple of playful pups too.

You can see it looks wintery here.  Pretty though.

And look at the size of this flock of wild turkeys I came across one walk. 

I also got this beautiful holiday card from CJ in the mail. Thanks again CJ.

I  spent another morning cutting out triangles from my hand dyed fabric (you might remember the posts from last summer and fall). 

The plan is to make a smaller wall quilt. I have a definite idea in my head what I want but nothing on paper yet. I know I am going backwards but I thought I would die cut these triangles while I was in the mood to do that. My next decision is if I only want to use this fabric for my background or buy a small amount of something else to intersperse between these. Hmmmm.

I think I did OK this week.  

How was your week?