Saturday Things.....

Normally I have my prayer and quiet time sitting up in bed with my coffee,

but this morning I decided to go outside. 

The birds, the breeze and the sunshine plus coffee, prayers and hymns - that was a good way to start my day. I saw on Facebook that my next door neighbor, Olga, did the very same thing!

After I came in and was preparing breakfast, my Sister Luann called and we had a good phone visit.

She calls members of her church and checks in on them and decided to call me before she got started on her list of people. Luann is such a caring people person. 

I told her how proud I was of President Trump and that I prayed for him every day as well as Doctors Fauci and Birx. She made me laugh out loud when she said that she and President Trump had something in common. No filter. They both say what they think.

Isolation is hard on everyone but especially if you live alone as Luann does. She doesn't let that stop her from doing what she can where she is. Calling and chatting with others is right up her alley.

She is also cooking some special Easter food and taking care packages around to her neighbors.

While I took a couple days off from sewing masks - I did sew today.

I don't know of any other denim quilt that has taken me so long to make. 

I started it in November and then the holidays arrived.

Then I had to take Christmas down and clean the house up before my knee replacement surgery early in January. Then I was in recovery mode. I had just finished the quilt top completely when all this Coronavirus mess started and I went into deep clean mode. By the time I got to the sewing machine - it was to make face masks.

Finally! 

Today I pinned the top and backing together and then laid out the batting and pinned that.

I opted to do a stitch around and turn it inside out. Louis Dean helped with that part.

He pulled the whole quilt through that small slit!

My next step will be to tie it then I will wash it up and it will be ready to give to my favorite firefighter - and that would be Stephanie's son.

I truly meant thought I had made him a quilt either when he graduated from Marine training or when he came home from Afghanistan. 

He will have one now even though winter is over and it will be awhile before he will need it!

It's a good size for a TV quilt so he may get to use it for that.

I meant to do some more house painting but it was 90% chance of rain today.

While it did rain a few times, it was more like a shower!

Instead I filled up 5 weeks of medicine for us in our little boxes.

Alas, I was out of two medicines - both over the counter ones - but both need to be taken on a daily basis. So I suited up in all my protective gear and ventured out to Walgreens.

It's scary to go out.

There are now 111 cases of Covid-19 in Irving.

I saw a few people in the store wearing masks but I was the only one in gloves as well. Some people acted like nothing was going on and went leisurely about their shopping.

I went in and got what I needed and got out.

Came home and washed my hands, put my mask in the washer and wiped down my packages.

This evening I made it out to the den!

As in to clean it!

This room was not too much work as it just needed dusting, vacuuming and picked up.

I lit the candles and watched a movie while I was working.

I missed this one when it was in the theaters.

I tried watching it the other night with Louis Dean but he wasn't interested.

That's too bad bcause it's a good movie and he would have liked it.

He asked me not to delete it so he may give it another go.

Here he is singing a Roger Miller song.

He has really enjoyed hearing me read him the comments.

And he sounds so cute when he asks, "Do you think they will like it?"

He just loves attention!

It's early (just a few minutes after 10:00) but I am already in bed writing this.

Sleeping has become somewhat of an adventure lately.

I figure I will read until my eyes get heavy......

Louis Dean just got a second wind but he is going to have to blow all by himself.