Ever write a complete blog and it just disappeared on you?  It just happened to me.  I have been having trouble with my blog for a while and finally thought it was all sorted out and then, poof, I lost one again. Tried saving it to draft, but it didn’t work.  So here I am again pounding down on the keys hoping what I write  won’t disappear into the netherland again..

I will write a shortened version right now and fill in the dots later.  I had a recipe for you that I will now share later, but here is what I baked yesterday.  One of David’s favorites.

It is called Fruit bar cookies, but no fruit in it, just golden raisins.

We had three inches of snow and it is very cold outside so church was called off this morning.  I was all dressed and ready to go when we got the message.  Going to be cold in the single digits all week.

bad picture, but my Valentine’s Day tree I decorated with felt hearts and quilted cats that I made a couple of years ago.

 

This is one of the cats.  I got the pattern online, but I can’t remember where at the moment.

And Ibought more fabric.  Told myself I was not going to buy anymore for a while, but I lied. Saw some Tilda fabric I could not resist.

Honestly, I don’t know how they keep designing prettier and prettier fabrics, but they do.

I will write more next time, I promise.  Just a little leery about losing this blog so Bye.

I have been having trouble with my blog for a couple of months now and still don’t know if this post will go through, but I am going to try.

Since I wrote my last post David has had some health issues to take care of. He has had this red spot on his neck for over a year and finally went to the doctor to have it checked out. Had to see a dermatologist that he saw today and he has basal cell carcinoma, a slow growing cancerous growth that he will have to have removed. In April he has an appointment to have it done. They will remove the growth, look at it under a microscope to see if they got all the cancer cells and if they didn’t, they would cut out the rest. All under local anesthesia. Please keep him in your prayers because that isn’t all he may have done. He has had a pain in his neck, and it’s not me, for a while and had it checked and will see a neurologist this week to see if he will need surgery. I really hope he won’t need surgery, but we shall see Friday.

Other  than that,it has been a very calm year at our house. After the rush and business of the holidays,I really enjoy January to just chill and do things I want to do, which, of course, involves quilting. I have been working on a Christmas present, yes, I’m crazy, but I think of Christmas all year and if I can make some of the presents, all the better. I really wish I could show you what I am making but I can’t

What I can show you are a couple of little quilts I have made. I joined a group on Facebook where we are challenged to make a small quilt from this particular quilt designer, Kathleen Tracy.

Here is my January quilt. I used reds for Valentine’s Day. The pattern is called Friendship Star. I made a bunch of pot holders before Christmas and I sent two to my best friend who lives in Oregon. I sent her one with the Friendship Star on it. She sent back a really nice letter and pictures of her grandchildren. I .ove getting letters, but it is becoming a lost art.

This is the one I finished for December. And the book I got the pattern from. I have several of Kathleen’s quilt books.

now I am working on my February quilt and will show you when it’s done.

I got on a Facebook group called Find your Doppleganger.( Lookalike.) I put David’s picture up. Guess who they thought he looked like?

If you said Santa Claus, you are right! To a person that’s who they said he looked like. One lady even wrote it was the sweetest face she had ever seen! What a compliment! And he is sweet to my sour. I won’t even show you the picture I put on and not one person could name anyone I looked like. At least they didn’t say the Grinch!

we finally had a good snow in January. Indiana hasn’t had a good snow for years. I keep wishing for a blizzard like we had in 1978 when I was a young mother with two small boys and a baby. It was an adventure. David went out with the Guard and we were snug as bugs with plenty of food because I have always kept our cupboards and freezers well stocked. David did have some Guardsmen bring me some milk although I didn’t really need it. He was gone three days. He told me the snow was so deep on the roads he was driving above fence posts!

Today we have rain which we need to fill our reservoirs and wells. Speaking of reservoirs, wasn’t it terrible that reservoirs were empty in California when they had those fires? I cannot imagine losing everything like many did. And of course, there are those people in North Carolina who are still living in tents or campers. I really pray they get their circumstances worked out.

Hope you all are keeping warm and well this Winter. The groundhog told us only six more weeks!

 

I wanted to write several blogs in the past few days but I could not get on my site. Someone had hacked it! I didn’t know this until my computer savvy son did some checking and discovered it. He thinks it is fixed now so I will be able to play catch up. I have several pictures to upload so I will get that done and write a longer blog next time.
We had a wonderful Christmas and had a couple of big snows in the past few weeks. I just love to see the snow piled up especially since I don’t have to drive in it! We haven’t had much snow the last few winters so it’s been nice to see it. The year had a sad start as my cousin lost his wife quite suddenly. She got food poisoning and had surgery and passed away. My cousin and I are the same age. I was born a month before him. Another cousin was born three months before me. Three sisters all pregnant at the same time! We planned to go to the funeral, but it snowed all day and the night before and we weren’t sure about the roads

David got a pain in his shoulder and his fingers in his right hand were not working properly so the doctor sent him for a cat scan and he found out he has something called Saturday night palsy! Never heard of it and looked it up and it’s where someone sleeps too hard on their side after a night of carousing! We laughed about that because David doesn’t carous. Anyway he may have to have surgery. He was told to call the surgeon’s office to make an appointment. He did and was told they would call back. They never did so today he went to their office to make an appointment and was told they couldn’t make the appointment. He had to call the number they gave him and then another person would call him to give him another number to call for his appointment. Sounds very odd to me. He may or he may not one day get a number to call for his appointment. Sounds like a spy ring to me, not a doctor’s office.
He also had a biopsy on a sore he has had on his neck for about a year. I hope this is not what we will doing all 2025, going to doctors. Oh, yes, and I had an appointment with my eye doctor to check my eye for histoplasmosis. I haven’t had any shots in it for several months now.
And every doctor you go to see wants you to come back in three or six months whether you are sick or not.
I made over forty potholders to give away at Christmas. I had it in my mind to give every lady in our church a potholder. I still have some ladies I haven’t got to, but I have the potholders ready. I also sent a couple to my friend who lives in Oregon. She and I were best friends in elementary school. We kind of lost touch in Later years, but started writing letters to each other after we were married and I got to visit her several years ago. We hadn’t seen each other since school, but it was like we had never been parted, we had such a nice visit and I met her husband and children. He has since passed a way and she is now a grandma. We share the same birthday. Our mothers were even in the same hospital room when they had us. I can’t remember which one of us is the older.
I’m going to finish now, but I hope to be back with pictures. I’ve been making things as usual.

Happy New Year. Hope it started better than mine has. Bye