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I didn’t win – so sad – but it wasn’t because of you. Thanks to everyone who voted for my block. The winning block was right next to mine and I have to admit it was one that appealed to me ( almost as much as mine did).

You can see the winners at this link.

Adam sent me a photo of Caleb with Blueberry the Monkey that Caleb picked out when we took him to Build a Bear last week. The photo wasn’t the best so I played with one of my new apps, Camera+ to apply some special effects.

It took me a little bit to figure out where I was with these socks … Started quite a while ago but perfect for working on while I sit here with Chesty. I have missed my knitting – not sure why I haven’t worked on anything in a while. Probably because of my focus on the embroidery. Seems I can only focus on one other activity at a time along with my quilting.

I don’t know where this last couple weeks has gone. I feel like I’ve spent so much time running around that I haven’t had a chance to enjoy my time here at Big Canoe. I’d like to stay another few weeks and enjoy time on the deck looking out over the lake and trees but we’ve just got a couple more days.

I should have known better but the Craftsy site is very well put together and I decided to take a couple classes on Art Quilting. Unfortunately, I just cannot sit through the videos. I need to stick to my “book learning”. The pace of the videos is much too slow for me and I don’t have the patience to get through them for the nugget or two that I walk away with.

We all learn differently so I want to be clear there’s nothing wrong with the content and I’ve never been one to take a class to learn something I can teach myself by reading a book so I shouldn’t be surprised that the online classes don’t suit me.

Thank you for all your concern and suggestions. Unfortunately, Chesty has always had allergy problems.

He’s gone through testing and treatment, is on meds routinely, and a strict diet. Even with those precautions, there are times like this where his allergies flareup and we have a difficult time controlling them. We use the cone, increase his meds, and I spend more time trying to keep him from biting and scratching.

When he was tested his vet told me that he was basically allergic to life so I guess we’re lucky that they’re under control for the most part.

Just hoping we can get this episode under control without a round of steroids. We avoid them whenever possible and they are a last resort but there are times they are just unavoidable.

When we moved to Minneapolis we put our mountain condo up for sale because we felt we wouldn’t use it often enough….of course the housing market promptly tanked and after a while we took it off the market and began spending more time here when we came to the Atlanta area to see the kids. We’ve been slowly making it ours again (we’d removed everything that wasn’t going to be sold with it) and this trip I added a sewing machine. Since we’re here weeks at a time I really wanted a machine here for piecing.

I went to the local sewing center and found a BabyLock Grace in a cabinet that will close up when we’re not here. It’s similar to the cabinet I have at home.

The dresser in this room is the right height for cutting too although it’s kind of dark at night, I can get by with task lighting.

I bought fabric to sew a Quick Strippie just to test it out. Next trip I’ll kit up a couple projects.

In addition to the sewing machine, a king size bed was delivered Friday, and we hooked the wireless back up. It’s just like home again!

And he learned from the best!

Keith and I celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary today or as Chris would say, we all celebrate the anniversary of the day we became a family.

My wireless is up and running so I thought I’d share a couple photos from the other day before going to run some errands.