I laugh at Chris because he’s very into playing pickleball which is usually a sport played by “older” adults but he convinced Keith to play him when they were here last time and he was surprised when Keith won all the games … Keith doesn’t play racket sports now but played a lot of tennis growing up in Florida. They played again today and while Chris has improved he still lost all 3 games to his old man!

Rae was cheering for Chris so she was disappointed when he lost but she still agreed to pose for a photo with Pop!

Chris did comb and even blow dried her hair before we left but it was really hot so while the guys were playing their second game, we walked over to the play area so she could cool down.

When I can’t sew, I shop … and this is the result of the break I had to take for my RAI treatment. On one hand I know I have too much fabric but on the other hand I do hope that I’ll be sewing for years to come and consider it an investment!

And I do eventually get around to using my purchases. These were significantly discounted 2.5 inch strips from Connecting Threads and I’m getting ready to pack them up to take to Maine to bind the Happy Block quilts that I’m going to work on while I’m there. I used them on both the quilts I made and a pieced binding looks great on them.

I’ve got visitors coming … someone always knows when I need a visit and they’re coming on Friday! And isn’t Becky the best daughter-in-law EVER to let them pop down to see me?!

For the most part I’m fairly organized … in that I know where things are and what they’re for but these last few months, I’ve realized that if something were to happen to me, Keith would be lost. Besides the fact that he has no idea what is in my sewing room and what I would want to happen to it all, he doesn’t have access to our accounts and wouldn’t have a clue which bills (most of them are ebills) are due or how to pay them.  He certainly  wouldn’t know how to post a note on the blog or who would need to be contacted if something happened.

The night before my last surgery I wrote up and printed some quick notes but knew that I needed to sit down and write up something more formal … that was in June and nope, haven’t done it yet. And our wills are out of date too … another thing we keep putting off updating.

I was reading Judy’s blog today and saw her using these name tags to organize her knitting projects … I have a few projects in bags that could benefit from a label and more importantly, if I labeled all the finished tops in my closet, I’d be sure that Keith would know what to do with them if something happened. I have tops that belong to Mom, tops for donation, and tops that are meant to be gifted to a family member or quilted and kept.

I know some people have quilting friends that would take care of their sewing room but how about the rest? Are you the one in your family that handles all the finances? Do you have it all organized and ready for someone else to take over? Are your wills up to date?

Biking on the weekend from our townhouse in Minneapolis to the Chain of Lakes … spreading a quilt by the water, kayaking, eating lunch at the Tin Fish restaurant.

I just read that the Tin Fish is no longer operating at Lake Calhoun … maybe one of these days I’ll go with Keith to Minneapolis and we’ll rent bikes and check out the new restaurant.

We love football season and even though it’s a challenge to follow our teams from a distance (our games are rarely televised locally) we usually end up watching at least part of the game at a local pub.

The Vikings managed to eek out a tie against Green Bay but the Redskins lost – at least he still managed a smile for me!