Love Buzzard's Crafts & Life

I was thinking today about all the fabric that I have and probably a hundred or more yards are not suitable for quilts so I should probably get it out and try to sell it, give it to someone, or take to the thrift store.  And in addition to all the fabric not suitable for quilts, I have gorgeous fabrics that I have bought over the years to make special wall hangings or quilts for myself.  However, at this point in my life I doubt that I will ever get the items made.   Maybe quilting something for myself should be the first thing I make.  Then I could make several baby quilts that I owe and then make something else for myself and keep repeating that until I have a few things make for myself.  I do not have one quilt that I have ever made for my own use.  Well there is the Dresden Plate quilt that I made in junior high school but Brian “adopted” it a few years ago so I no longer have it.  I do not care for that quilt pattern and it was in fairly poor shape so he is more than welcome to it.

Tonight after dinner, Brian and I were sitting at the table talking and I was talking or should I say complaining about all the fabric I have and how I need to get busy making quilts.  He asked me what I would do if there was a fire tonight and nothing burned except all my fabric.  Of course the first thing out of my mouth was that I would probably say, “Thank you Lord.”  His comment then was, “Well why don’t you throw it away or give it away?” Then he asked me if I made quilts because I wanted to or because I felt I should.  Told him that I make them because I want to.

He then asked my age and when I told him seventy-one, he decided that I probably did not have another thirty years to make quilts so I should make a list of the quilts that I really want to make and decide how long it would take to make each one.  Then when the time passes and a quilt is not made, simply mark it off the list and go on to the next one.  I think he might have a good point there.

When I got up this morning the DSL was not working and I called Brian to have him walk me though the needed steps to get it working again.  However this time it did not come back on.   I told him that he could just fix it when he came home from work.  I finally decided to call technical support and was told that there was an outage in my area and service would be back at 10:36 A.M Saturday morning.  I laughed and asked if they could be so specific with the time.

I went to Wal-Mart this afternoon to pay for the extra yard of fabric that I was not charged for yesterday.  Of course there were no motorized carts so I walked to the service desk and the young man there told me that I would have to go back to the fabric department and have them measure the fabric and give me a new ticket.  Since the fabric department is in the back of the store and on the other side I could not walk back there without a great deal of pain.  I was a little miffed and told the guy that it seemed to me he could just take my money for a yard of fabric.  I left and decided to drive to the east door and check on carts.  As I expected, there were no carts there either so I just walked back to my car and drove to the gas station at the edge of Wal-Mart’s parking lot to fill my gas tank.  More frustration for every bay had two or three car either filling the tank or waiting.  I just left and drove to the library.

I am now at the library using their computer and waiting for time to pass so that I can go back to Wal-Mart and try to get gas again.  Should not be that crowded at six o’clock.  I am also going to try again to pay for the extra fabric.  I am an honest person and it gripes me when people make it so hard to do what I know should be done.

On my second trip to Wal-Mart I was able to pull right into an empty space at the gas station and then when I went inside Wal-Mart there were actually three carts available.   I hopped on one and headed straight for the fabric department.  The lady gave me a ticket listing what the price should have been and then she made a ticket just for the extra yard of fabric.  She and I both thought it would be better to give the service desk person the ticket for one yard.  Good thing too for when I handed it to the lady she looked at me with a blank look and asked if I wanted to pay for it.  I then told her that I had gotten fabric yesterday but they had given me a yard more than I was charged and the ticket I handed her was for the extra yard.  She looked confused but rang up the price, took my money, and gave me a receipt.  If I buy fabric again I will make sure the amount is correct before I leave the fabric department.

With the extra fabric finally paid for I went to my car and backed out of the parking space.  Before I could change gears and drive forward a BIG SUV backed into me and smashed the right front light cover.  The young girl that hit me kept apologizing over and over.  I wrote down her insurance information and gave her my information and then I had to tell her what to do for she had never had to deal with an insurance company before.  Since it was late evening, I told her she would probably have to wait until Monday to contact her insurance agent.

This was not a good day and I am glad that it is now time to go to bed and listen to a really good book on tape until I fall asleep.  I did not even have the fun of being on the computer for it will not be on until tomorrow morning.

I went to Monroe today and while there I went to Hancock’s and Hobby Lobby but neither had any fabric with airplanes.  Well Hobby Lobby did have one with Air Force planes and the AF logo but I did not think that fighter planes were appropriate for a baby quilt.

Stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home and to my surprise and delight, they had fabric with several different airplanes on it.   I bought enough of the airplane fabric to make a quilt and then I bought all on the bolt of another juvenile fabric that has several different machines on it which will also be used for baby boy quilts. The lady printed out the price ticket and attached it to the fabric.  As I was leaving I saw a floral print that I could not resist so I bought a yard of it and the lady pinned another ticket on the floral fabric.

When I got to the checkout register, the girl scanned the one yard piece of fabric that was less than five dollars and started putting all the fabric into a bag.  I told her that there was another ticket for the other two pieces of fabric and that price was almost thirty-three dollars.  I still did not think that the price was correct for when the lady measured the largest piece of fabric, she said there was 5.875 yards and I had counted six plus but I thought maybe that I had miscounted.

When I got home I measured the fabric and there was an even seven yards so I had been correct in my counting.  There is always an extra inch or so but this lady measured closer than some for there was only four and a half extra inches in over six yard.   Now I must make a trip to Wal-Mart tomorrow to get this straightened out and pay for the extra yard.

Received the book, Embracing Your Second Calling by Dale Hanson Bourke, from BookSneeze today.  I have glanced through it and read a little and it seems as if it is going to be very interesting and informative.  I am more than halfway through another book that I want to finish and then I will start on this one.

This morning I actually woke up an hour before the alarm was to go off but of course I did not get up.  I just lay there and listened to a book on tape until the alarm did go off.  After I hit the snooze button two times, I finally got up and got ready for church.  As I was leaving I asked Brian if he would like to have lunch with me today.  He was half asleep and mumbled that he did not know.  Told him if he wanted to then to be up and showered and dressed when I got home.  Believe it or not when I got home he was in the shower.  I played on the computer waiting for him to dress and find all the books that he needed to return to the library.  We each drove since he was going to Monroe after lunch and I was staying at the library in Ruston.  We ended up having lunch at Fox’s Pizza Den and the best part is that Brian paid.

I learned today that my friend Johnette’ s younger daughter is having a baby in August.  So, another baby boy quilt to add to my list.  It seems that every time I turn around, someone is having a baby and I want to make a quilt.  Brian keeps telling me that I do not need to make all these quilts and I tell him that I know I do not NEED to make them but I WANT to make them.

I spent the afternoon in the library in Ruston and was on my way home a few minutes after six and the car was shimming and I just thought that it was the tires out of alignment. Then I heard a noise that no one wants to hear. I had a flat. I pulled almost off the shoulder onto the dirt for the cars were flying by at sixty-five miles an hour or faster. I called Brian and asked him to come change the tire for me. I can change a tire but since hurting my shoulder a couple of years ago, I cannot get the lug nuts loose without a lot of pain.   I had just closed my cell phone and opened my book to read while I waited for Brian and at that moment a pickup pulled off the road ahead of me. I was quite surprised to see my Sunday school teacher and one of his sons walking back toward my car. I opened the trunk of the car and one grabbed the tire and another got the jack.  Working together, Joey and his son Brian had the tire changed very quickly.  As soon as I knew who had stopped, I called Brian and told him that he did not need to come.  Makes one feel good to know that there are still helpful people in the world.

I went to bed about midnight and the last time I looked at the clock this morning it was ten minutes before seven so I got up and prepared Brian’s lunch and then went back to bed.  I was still awake when Brian left about eight but I finally fell asleep and woke up a little after one.  That really shoots a hole in the day.  But if I don’t get at least seven hours of sleep I will end up sick.

Someone sent me an email that asked the question “What is your quilty name?” and that seemed to get me started down the road to wasting a lot of time this evening and night.  I went to the Blogthings website and took a bunch of their silly quizzes.  You would think that I would have learned from the last time that I did any of the Blogthing quizzes.  At least this time I did not put them on the sidebar of my blog.  I just wasted time answering them.

Last night I joined BookSneeze and today I got an email saying that I had been approved to do book reviews on my blog.  I immediately ordered the book that I wanted to read and review.  Now I wait a week or so for it to arrive in my mailbox.

This evening I tried and tried to put the BookSneeze widget on my blog but just could not figure out what to do.  I called Scott and asked him for help and he told me exactly how to install a widget.  After about an hour of pure frustration, I still could not put up a widget so I emailed Scott and asked him to write down word for word what I needed to do or if he wanted he could just put the widget on my blog.  He chose to put the widget on my blog and then emailed me to say he had done it but did not give me any more directions.  I went to the blog and tried again and was I surprised to learn that I could now put widgets on my blog like a pro.  I think he did something to the site and just did not tell me.   Whatever he did was fine with me and I emailed my thanks for helping his partially computer illiterate mom.

Now that I had widgets mastered I did a bunch of those silly quizzes on Blogthings and even put a few of them on my blog.  Then the more I looked at the way they looked on the blog the less I liked them so I deleted every last one of them.  Besides most of them are just plain silly and I think most are aimed at the twenty and under crowd.  But at least now I can put on a widget if a neat one comes along.

Today when I went to the post office I was delighted to get a card from my friend Trisha who is a missionary in Honduras.  It was such a sweet card that it made my day and almost brought tears to my eyes.  She had included pictures of her when she first opened the quilt and also pictures of her daughter on the quilt.  Anyone interested in seeing the entire quilt can click here.

I think it is safe to say that Trisha was surprised.

The smile says it all.

Madison looks as if she is wondering where Regina is putting her.

Madison the beautiful baby girl for whom the quilt was made.

This morning in church all the mothers were recognized and given a small gift.  It is always nice to be recognized for our contribution to society.  Then the pastor delivered a very good sermon on Christian mothers using Second Timothy, chapter one, and verse five as his first reference.

Late in April when Brian and Christy took a mini vacation, he bought something for me but when he realized that Mother’s Day was in a couple of weeks, he said I had to wait.  Today I reminded him that I had waited patiently but now I would like my surprise.  Knowing how much I like Elvis, he bought me an Elvis CD.    Brian tends to give similar gifts on all occasions so I just may end up with all of the Elvis CDs, which will be fine with me.  Scott and Brian gave me the CD set of gospel music by Elvis for Christmas and I listen to it at least twice a week.

Brian was going to take me out for lunch today but he was still under the weather so I went alone to Fox’s Pizza, which is probably my favorite eating-place.  I was a considerate mom and brought lunch back for him.  I am used to eating alone and it does not bother me at all for I always have a good book with me.

When I left the restaurant, I put my cell phone in my pocket so that I could get to it in a hurry for I expected Scott to call.   As it so happened, Scott did call but I was listening to a book on tape and by the time I heard the phone ringing and managed to get it out of my pocket, he had disconnected.  As soon as I got home I called him and we had a nice chat.  It would have been great if he could have been home for Mother’s Day but he was here three weeks ago and that counted as his birthday and Mother’s Day visit.

Last night I was reading the latest post on Scott’s blog and read about book reviews that he is doing and then posting on his blog and a commercial site for Book Sneeze.  After reading the information on the site, I decided that I would join and do book reviews also.  Hey as much as I read I will have no trouble doing a review since they want the review to be two hundred words or less.  Should be a piece of cake, especially since I like to write and to voice my opinion.