Old photos...old memories

The Lorelei is here now, so trying to hurry and do a post to get the previous one moved on down the page...in the hopes that if I do forget and open my blog with her around, it won't show up!

These have all been posted before...

In December of 2013.  How I wish we could go back to that time...but at least we have our memories.

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I have searched and searched trying to find if I posted about a little drive we did in snow and ice.  I think I told but cannot find it if I did.  I have searched under the labels of snow, and searched all kinds of words.  Anyway, it is one of those memories that I hold dear, but always makes me laugh till I cry.  And one we think of it quite often.

It was a day about like the above...snow AND ice was abundant.  We had headed out on our drive and was going a familiar route.  This route contains a downhill curvy road.    It is the leg part of a 'T' intersection...when our road comes to the other, on the other side of the road is a steep bank DOWN to creek bottoms...and there are fairly good sized trees...at least 7 or 8 inches in diameter are there.

We were turned down that road...we always like to go down it because we used to see wild turkey there often.  So we get to the downhill part, and we don't seem to be slowing down...I tell Roger to please slow down a little bit.  He says 'I have had my foot on the brake ever since we started downhill.'  I am getting tickled...but it is not a laughing matter...the road gets pretty steep...and at the bottom it is a sharp turn either right or left and you can't see if anything is coming from one direction...but the rate we were going, we would not have made the turn.

There on the right side is a little house with a fairly big front yard.  The end of it ends in a steep bank too.  Probably taller than me...it goes straight down to the road.

Roger was at his finest...instead of going over the bank he makes a quick turn into that yard, and just circles around and goes back out the way we came.  There was nothing to hit in the yard, and it was so frozen it would not have tore up the yard....probably barely left tire tracks!  But we always wondered did they see us...did they see our tracks.  Did they realize it was that or a bad wreck?  We would have stopped if we had hurt anything...

But any time it snows, and several times through the year we laugh about that day.

The quilt daughter made is finished...

I got the binding finished today....and by finishing I mean I did most of it today.  I had tried the previous two nights to settle down to doing it and just could not get a good start  I did one corner and part of the side...so NOT even one side finished.  Today I was determined to get a good start on it and ended up finishing it.  I do need to wash it.  And either she or I will need to go over it with the lint roller and try to get all the strings.  I just simply cannot stand in a chair any more and do anything...I tried to stand in one to get the whole think in a picture and just could not do it.

Our daughter came the past two weekends and did the machine quilting...but travels next week.  That was why I ended up doing the binding.

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I can still go up and down a ladder though!  Yesterday we worked on cleaning the gutters of the garage.  Roger has extra sections of the hose part of the shop vac and has a part that hooks over the guttering to clean it from the ground.  Since his stroke he just cannot look up much without getting dizzy and if he does look up for more than a very few seconds, he needs something to hold on to when he looks down.  He had to try it though...but just cannot do it.  It is not worth him falling.

So I did the front gutter with shop vac because the ramp is too steep to use a ladder on it....but we got out the big ladder and I helped Roger stand it up to the garage...he held it while I went up and down it...we  still have one end to do...but by the time we got the end and back side done, I did not think I could go up and down the ladder one more time!  But it feels so go for us to work together and do something.

It is raining now...started this afternoon.  and I think rain the next day or two.  But we may have a couple clear days at the beginning of next week with temps not too bad.

A bit of this and that...

This is Lorelei's Otti dog  (Otto)  He is aging so much...

Bubbie takes over my lap at some point most nights....lays on the computer...on me...whatever it takes.

I cannot put out wrapped gifts because he would not leave them alone.  See that ornament above his head?  He will decide to send it flying.  Or will take a run and go and try to slide under the tree shirt.  He does not understand why he does not slide on carpet...which is what he will do the towel in the bathroom with the tile floor.  Oh, I forgot the part that he will pull it off the rack...he will try to get under it...may walk away and then come back and slide under it.

This quilt top now has another border on it...but I cannot seem to get motivated enough to finish it...

This was a tree near my daughter's house in Terre Haute.  Isn't it a beauty?