I have been sewing but not quite ready to take a picture yet. The nine blocks are together, but want to add borders. I have some strips sewn together for that...I am hoping to get to sew more on that tonight.

THIS post sure made me think about my mom. She always wore an apron, but only wore the kind without the bib. I have no idea why she didn't want them. Maybe they were hotter. Till I was about 8 years old, mom cooked on the wood burning cook stove. I remember sitting by the stove in the winter mornings, but I don't remember much else about it. I do know she was glad to have the electric stove to do the canning and jellies on once we got one. But everyone always talked about how much better food tasted cooked on the wood stove.

She also always had to have pockets--even in her dresses she wanted pockets. But it was almost a sin with her if someone made an apron that did not have pockets. (Maybe this is where I get my love of pockets.) One of the things mom used her apron for was to gather things in...if we went to the garden and she decided she wanted a mess of something, she would just gather up the end of her apron in one hand and pick beans or okra and drop into the apron. An excellent way to do in my opinion.

In fact, I carried it on in a sense when I worked at the orchard...if I was out checking varieties of apples, and wanted to take some back to the house for everyone else's opinions, I would gather my t-shirt tail up in my hands and pick into that. Of course I had to watch that cause it would gradually stretch the neck till it was almost down to my bra!

We went car shopping yesterday--next weekend by this time we should have a brand new Rav4! Does anyone out there have one and how do you like it? I am so excited to be getting something besides a car. I prefer just a plain old truck in a lot of ways, but since we have the grandkids sometimes and can't quite the bigger sized truck, I am perfectly willing to settle for the Rav4.

I spent the afternoon with my daughter and Nick selling popcorn for cub scouts, while my husband went with Nate's boyscout troop to go check out a park and learn a few trees, etc. After the popcorn stand closed, we stopped by the grocery. My daughter picked up a rotisserie chicken, frozen veggies, chicken broth, half and half, and canned biscuits. She made this fabulous chicken pot pie from this. It was a real hit with all of us!

I hope to get back to my small quilt that I am making with leftover blocks from the last top I worked on. I have nine blocks left and have those sewed together to make three rows of three. And I have the sashing and cornerstones made and pinned to go the other way. It would not take long to sew these together but not sure time will permit tomorrow. But we can always hope.

Today has been a roller coaster for me. I put the kitties to bed around midnight, which is sort of early for me. And I had a wonderful night of sleep. I even managed to sleep on my stomach for just a few minutes, a feat in itself with just having that biopsy. Speaking of it, I must say I wonder does everybody's breast itch after you have this done? I am not sure if it is from the surgery, or from the strips they put on the incision....to begin with it definitely feels like it is from deep within, but I don't know if that is possible.

I tried to process my Connecting Thread order; I could not sign in in any shape form or fashion. I first deleted temporary files and the cookies, closed browser window and reopened and tried again. I had to call customer service and finally finished that order.

Next, I tried to get my order together for Hancocks of Paducah. I had to call customer service twice there. I did finally get the job accomplished, but not before wasting my whole morning. Here it is after 1:00 p.m. and I have not accomplished anything else. I had wanted to get those orders placed and go sew, and now I am not much in the mood to do anything.

I do need to go down there though and attempt to do something. I think once I start I will be okay.