pet quilts, old pics, and a few funny ones...

When talking about quilts recently, I was reminded of how I began quilting years ago. I decided to make 'pet quilts'... little small quilts that cats and dogs could lie on (and possibly save chairs and sofas from the accumulated hair). I made several of these for family and friends.

                                                                   

They were fun to make and a good way to start quilting as they were small and could be put together quickly.

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And then... since I was going through our old desk top computer looking for pics, I found some of my two oldest grandkids pics when they were youngsters. 

She is now 19

he is 21

Where did the time go?

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Also came across this cartoon... which is so me.

(forgive the shape of the pics as these are all 

'pics I took of  pics' 

off the desk computer. Gives them all a strange angle.)

And this one that I'd forgotten about

but it made me laugh...

Also DH and I saw a snake when getting out of the car in the driveway the other day. He was black and about 2 feet long. I was going to take a pic of him, but he slid under the concrete where there is a hole going under the garage. But we think he was a Rat snake. We have Copperheads and Water Moccasins too, but see more Rat snakes and Garden snakes than those. 

pic of rat snake from the web

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Quick question: 

Do any of you do Ancestry DNA? If so, you know that it's constantly changing... not your dna, but the report. Apparently as more people send in their dna (or spit into the tube), the more accurate your report becomes. DH and I did it a while back and although I never seem to have enough time (not sure why this is) to delve further into it, it is interesting.

This is my latest report:

The +2 more are France and Spain.  I think this is probably the most accurate one so far as although my dad and his family came to the States from London, his grandfather was from Ireland (O'Regan/Regan). And this is the first time the report has mentioned France (which should be there since my mom was French - D'Aquin).

Anyway, I was just wondering if any of you have tried this...

Closing this now... it's been a strange day, but not going to go into that now. I will say the weather for the first day of Fall has been awesome. I think it was in the 60's this morning!

Hugs (virtual),

Rian

at long last...

 

My reading list is back!

(And I've no idea of why or how...)

So... I will spend the next day or so catching up and leaving comments. So sorry to have burdened you all with my woes. I just figured someone out there may know how this happened and what to do about it. 

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Now I could complain about other things that have happened this week... like people sending out the wrong service people to do a job, then setting up another service call for the wrong job a second time, then no one showing up the third time, and finally a service call that started at 6 pm and lasted until 10:30 at night.  But I won't...

or why my blogger won't "left align" today. 

But I won't...

I'm just happy to have both the service call finally done

and my reading list working again.

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Saw this on Facebook this morning... and had to share!

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hugs,

Rian

the tale of the streetlight...

streetlight... not ours, but similar

We have a huge streetlight right off our driveway in the front of our house. If you picture a T... picture our house in the middle of the top where the 2 lines touch. Our street is the horizontal one and the vertical line is another street that ends in our driveway (if you don't turn left or right). 

Anyway, there's a huge bright street light that sits there next to our mailbox. We love it as it lights up the whole area where we park our car and the front of our house. We also have a video camera on that driveway, and even though it has night vision, it works so much better with the light. 

Well... the streetlight went out a few nights ago. Talk about black! I was surprised at just how dark it was without it. So we called the city... actually you go online nowadays, find your area, find your streetlight, and check off the problem... which was "out!"

Said it could take a few weeks (whatever). Well, the very next day when DH and I were out shopping at Central Market, we get a call from our next door neighbor saying the city was out to fix the streetlight and while doing so, they knocked over our mailbox. Since no one was home, they left their card with our neighbor and told him what happened. 

We were overjoyed that they had fixed the light so quickly that we didn't care about the mailbox... and said so. We would take care of it. But lo and behold, that night the streetlight never came on. Apparently they didn't fix it. They did however, tie a yellow ribbon around it...?? 

The next day we called the number on the card they gave our neighbor and reported that the light was still out. They asked if we wanted them to fix the mailbox, again we said NO! WE WANT THEM TO FIX THE STREETLIGHT! They said they would look into it. 

That was a few days ago.  Still waiting...