Every 15 Minutes

This program is going on today and tomorrow at the high school where I teach. The program apparently targets juniors and seniors.

There is one particular teacher that I certainly hope was outside watching the "event" taking place on the street in front of the school this morning. At the beginning of the year, she's the one who went through the hallway bragging (or maybe complaining?) that she got drunk only two nights that week.

Snow. . . . about time!

No, this is not a skinny Hawaiian Applique . . . .

Thought we were going to be missed by snow altogether this year. We got dumped on last night. But no shoveling!! Hurray!! I had my share of shoveling after snowstorms in the Midwest and on the East Coast. I did have to clean my car off this morning -- a little layer of ice with blobs of fluffy snow on top. But no shoveling!!

School was two hours late. That's OK. I went anyway and had a nice long, morning work session before students arrived.

Hummmmm, why couldn't that be a Hawaiian Applique . . . . .

A Good Iron

I had one of those expensive irons for years. The thing would never steam. It had a burst of steam -- a burst of cruddy stuff coming out of the vents. No amount of "cleaning" helped. I put up with it for 7 years!

Then I got the Seven Year Itch. . . .

So now I have an iron that looks like the iron my mother has had for decades. It's heavy. It gets HOT. It steams. And I love the way my quilt seams looks when I press them.

Time for Quilting

The quilt top that was the mistake -- last year about this time, I made one heart block for a block swap. Me and quarter-inch seams just didn't know each other very well then. The block turned out waaaaaay too big. So I made another block, an accurate-sized one for the block swap.

What to do with the one heart block that was to big!? Make three more that are too big!

So today I'll pin the layers together. Hopefully I'll go to my quilting friend's house on Thursday and start quilting.

It's a new day!

Welcome to my blog!

The BearCat also says hello!

He was a shelter cat from Indianapolis. Maybe he is a Turkish Van -- kind of looks like a small version of a Maine Coon cat. He has been here for about 8 years now. He was an abused kitty. Had to have his partially cut ear stitched up before he came to live with me. The scar hardly shows. It took him about 4 years before he purred. He is now also quite the QI (Quilt Inspector).