I am glad for the Iphone. Verizon has changed options and so we now have unlimited internet access for the Iphone and lap top computers but not the desk top. Our desktop has been sitting idle for a year and I wonder if a spider or something has taken up residence in the works................we have not been able to get on the internet via the desktop. We have spent innumerable hours with the tech support trying to get on the net and we thought we had it licked when she said they would send us a new modem since the one we had was four years old. so they sent us a new modem but to no avail. We have now conversed with three techs and each one of them speaks English with an accent (I do NOT have an accent) and it is hard to understand them and to get this thing working right. so I am using the laptop and Verizon hot spot which is now unlimited (a great step up from the 2gig that we had for the past year in Maine) to catch up on the blog.
I went down to the bird seed store to get a bag of seed to attract birds to our feeder. So far only one lone bird has ventured onto the feeder. I guess his friends sent him in to test the seed and see if it is good seed. If he gets sick or worse yet dies, then they will not be feeding from our feeder. Before we left for Maine, we had loads of birds at the feeder and even in the winter we had a lot of birds at the feeder. Perhaps they have all gone into hiding because the weather man said we were in for a BIG storm but the system passed us by.
I have been cutting fabric all day and dulled the blade on the cutter so had to break out a new one. My it does make a difference when you get to use a new blade in the rotary cutter. I have started work on Lyla's Queen size quilt. It has 42 x10 inch squares that are in the shape of flowers. The color scheme is multicolored and looks like a scrap quilt but the predominant color is purple because she loves purple.
I guess I like purple too because I have so many fabrics from light to dark that have purple in them. I have rounded up my blues and greens for Oliver's quilt and it is the next one to be cut. I plan to use my "Twist and Turn" template to make his quilt. I am also going to do one in Red for Ethan. I used to have a lot of red fabrics in my collection and may still have that many but as yet have not dug them out. I have decided to use fabrics from my collection for these quilts. Fabric has gone up in price to $10+ per yard and I am over stocked with fabrics already. Connecting Threads sends out a flyer each month and the temptation is great. I have not decided the pattern to do for Ethan but the Log Cabin block might just be one to suit him.
David called up and has arranged to come up home for the last weekend of October. I guess he will want to go to the pumpkin patch out at what used to be Young's farm. He can take it back to the valley whole and they can help him cut it open down there. He also put in his order for food to eat when he comes. He is very excited to go with us to Nebraska for Jacob's PhD graduation and hooding.
I guess Monday is a holiday in Nebraska because the Friest family and their friends are going to Mahoney State Park to a cabin there for Sunday night and all day Monday. Sara has to work on Tuesday at the High School, but Ethan and Oliver and Lyla have the day off. Must be nice to have a day off here and there.
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