First, Xoco went into heat the day she was scheduled to be spayed, so no spaying yet.
Second, I had to drive to Texas on a busy holiday week to get my sister's banking information so I can start sending her money until her husband either finds a job or gets old enough to collect SS. Since he's 3 years away from collecting SS, that means I'll probably be sending her money for at least 3 years. I gave her a lump sum for the car, but haven't been able to afford the title transfer yet - that'll have to wait until I get my tax return. The lump sum will catch them up on bills.
You'd think my sister would be glad I bought the car from her, but the whole time I was there (overnight), she kept going on about how I didn't "love" the car as much as she did, and wouldn't I rather just fix my Hyundai instead? And then she'd mention how she thought of that car as hers for the last 10 years (it was Mother's car) and how hard it was to "let go" of it to some stranger (what am I - I thought we were sisters!) who wouldn't love it as much as she did.
And then, after making me drive to her place to get the banking information, she almost wouldn't give it to me because she "didn't trust the online banking transfers". Well, sorry, but I'm not mailing check via the Post Office when I can safely transfer funds from my bank to hers and know she got it and have a nice traceable trail for that money. I've sent her checks before that she says she never got, and when I point out they were cashed, it's always, "Oh, yeah, I guess I did get it." Direct transfer will stop those games.
Gah! Sometimes I wish I was as rich as my family seems to think I am.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Feast yesterday. We all ate too much and we still have plenty of left-overs. This year we went to my In-Laws house and we had a brand new member of the family. This is my niece's baby -- Ryder.
From the turkey and stuffing to all of the fixin's... Who's cooking your Thanksgiving dinner this year? What dish are you most looking forward to?
This year's Thanksgiving, as usual, will be at my sister Myrna's house. Today she and my other sister are getting the meal ready. I have spent my typical Thanksgiving Eve baking the pies. This year we have mince meat with an orange ginger crust,
pumpkin with cinnamon and spiced rum crust,
pecan with a brandy and vanilla crust,
and this year's wild card pie is apple cinnamon with a cardamom crust.
The only jobs left for me to do are to get these pies over to my sister's tomorrow and then eat myself silly.
Black Friday is known for its deals and steals. What items are you hoping to find in the stores this Friday?
Sponsored by Best Buy. Find holiday gifts for everyone on your list.I don't shop for anything other than groceries between November 15th and January 5th. My biggest holiday during that time is Cookie Day. The past couple of years have been plagued with disasters preventing many of the long distance cookies from reaching their destinations and I'm hoping that streak ends this year. I have some old favorites and a couple of awesome new ones to make.
Black Friday is known for its deals and steals. What items are you hoping to find in the stores this Friday?
Sponsored by Best Buy. Find holiday gifts for everyone on your list.
Absolutely none. I stay as far away from the stores as possible on that day. In fact, I have quilt camp at my house most every year, this year included, on Friday and Saturday. My big holiday shopping day is the Monday after Thanksgiving. The stores are empty of shoppers, the merchandise selection is still excellent, and the store clerks are still energetic and polite (or as polite as they are going to be). Most years I'm done with my shopping by lunch time!
As soon as this quilt is finished, I'll be ready to write all the instructions for my horse book, then it will be finished! I'll post pictures of all the quilts once I have good photos of them all.
Here is another little project I just finished. I didn't get a "before" picture, but this poor thing had badly peeling paint and the spindles were broken. It was one step away from the trash can. The only thing that saved it was the fact that it was stamped GERMANY on the bottom. So I bought a new dowel and cut new spindles, then I drilled out the holes and glued them in place. Then I spray painted it black.
I have a lot of paper cut blocks that I stitched up years ago laying around and I decided to turn them into real quilts. I hung a curtain rod on my wall to display the first one. It's a frog pattern. Now I'm finishing several more and making all the quilts the same size so I can change them out if I get tired of looking at this one. Here's a close-up image showing more detail:
I found this poor lamp at a garage sale years ago. I had grand intentions of fixing it, but it ended up tucked away in a box for about a decade.
