Thursday Tidbits

 Last night was our weekly Wednesday quilting get-together.  Last week the gals who didn't get to go to Chicago wanted to hear all about it.  There was a lot of talking going on.  Anyhow last night the talk was about a couple of different things.  First of all, the quilt retreat this weekend.  We're excited!  Secondly there was the sneaky secret passing of pizza boxes to the pizza box coordinator DW.  One at a time we'd give her a pizza box and we'd get another one back.  If you haven't guessed some of us are doing a Row Robin. 

 

 It's just like a Round Robin (create a centre block and each person after that adds borders) but with rows of stuff.  Could be applique stuff and/or piecing stuff.  Whatever you want to add is fine as long as it's 48 inches long and between 4 inches and 12 inches tall.  Those were the only parameters we decided. After we all get our original pizza boxes back we can then decide how we want to put the rows together.  With sashing in between the rows or not. That sort of thing. You know what I mean.

This is extremely top secret stuff so I can't show any pics as some of the other partipants read my blog.

Remember I mentioned things were crazy around here lately?  The trend continues.  At my house on Tuesday morning were the following people:

1. Roto-rooter man to fix the pipe under the sink.  Dirty water was backing up into both kitchen sinks.  Turns out the clog was someone in the pipes in the basement
2. Manitoba Hydro to mark where the natural gas line was buried in the front yard
3. The contractor who here all day and was doing some work for us (related to #2 and see below)
4.  The AC/heating repairman who needed to tweak our new AC system
5. The treadmill repair man
6. The plumber was on call in case we needed him if there were problems (related to #1) 

  So I thought I'd show you what going to be happening around the QGB house.  Ready?  Here's some clues ....  

 

                      

Did you guess correctly?  Our house is becoming a construction zone!  Some prep work was done this week including installing  new fence for the front yard for Winslow and dismantling the fence in the back yard.  We also rented on of those "pod" containers to store some junk stuff from the garage as well as 20+ years of junk stuff from the house.  Of course my sewing area is not included in that description!

So you wanna see some real construction pics?

 

A view of part of the back yard.  You can see the "pod" on the right side of the pic.

 This was Winslow's reaction to this sight (remember the back yard is his territory)  Poor guy, he's not happy at all.  But he has a nice fenced area in the front yard with lots of shade. 

Life is good, right?  Until next time...