A finished table topper....

 This is not the greatest pic...maybe I will take a better one at some point.  Again, on this computer it looks quite a bit darker than it is in real life....

Just popped in to post it.  Not much else to write about...

Fun sewing...

 First of all, let me say that on one computer, these look much darker than they are, and the other one shows them pretty much like they were. They are not super bright, but on this computer they just look so dark...  Anyway, I have been wanting to play with making leaves but had just never taken the time to shows one side and below is the other side of the same leaves.

I cut the heart leaf and the two simple leaves free hand..

These two I found a simple drawing.  Normally I can at least draw leaves, but sometimes my hands get shaky when I try to do something like that now.  

Just thought I would show a close up of  one.  I used Heat & Bond light to fuse two fabrics together, then I cut out the shape and did the stitching around the edges.    I have ideas for making a bunch of these but I don't know if it will ever get done.

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Daughter continues to recover from Covid.  I am glad they did not all get hit so hard.  She is starting to feel more normal, but still having headaches and only has partial taste.

I just cannot get up the nerve to try to blog again...maybe I will start posting every now and then.   

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Following are a couple videos of Copper reacting to a spider he seen on the ceiling.

I hope you enjoy them...they crack us up.

Good-bye...

 What I/we have dreaded for a long time now came to pass Thursday of last week...not even a week after Sarah got out of the hospital for Covid...our Otto no longer walks this earth...but he has left tracks all over our hearts.  

Every time I see these photos I want to giggle...

As you can see, he was easy going...

From the time Lorelei could walk, she has snuggled with him, climbed on him, 

and sat on him...

And a few times he has sat on her...

Sarah had a certain quilt that if he saw it on her, on the couch...he knew it was okay to join her.

There are so many funny, happy memories associated with him.  When Lorelei was young and they lived in Indy, when we would go over to visit the first thing he would do when we got there was to run and grab his blanket and come dragging it to us.  I know he was telling us he would share if we would just stay the night.

I have told all the stories at one time or another...such as the time Sarah had him on the leash and walked across the street to get Lorelei off the bus.  When he heard all the kids, he almost dragged her on the bus to get to them.  Something similar happened when Sarah took him to show and tell for Lorelei a year or two later...as they were heading down the hall and he heard the kids he could not get there quick enough.   And there was the time he got on the UPS truck because he was ready to go for a ride!

I have loved other dogs as much, but I don't think I have loved one any more.  He was just the perfect dog with kids.  He was just good with whatever was happening.