Poodles and Quilts

I had this written and forgot to publish it! Guess I should add that to my get it done list! 1-I did get all the blocks for the Irish Chain Star quilt finished and they are sewn together into rows!   Sometime this week I plan on getting the rows sewn together. Border may have to wait for next week! 2-I also managed to sew a bunch of Kaffe blocks This week have November's to sew. Mine come at the end of the month so always a month behind. Did not get anything else on the sewing front done from last weeks list. 3-Adding this week-table runner and maybe placemats! Cooking-yes to the chicken corn noodle soup. Made some was eaten and the rest in the freezer. Need to get out the dehydrator and do up more chicken snacks for our girls. 4-need to finish with the Christmas decorations! That is probably enough for the week! linking up with Judy at Patchworktimes

As much as I have to admit it my parents were right-the older one gets the faster the time goes by or seems that way! Here we are the last month on 2018! Hard to believe! November was a busy month for us. We took off on several day trips looking for birds that were migrating through our part of Texas. And deer season started the first Saturday of the month. On the weekends Galen joined his friend in Brady I was able to stay here and sew. That is always a plus. We did have a trip planned for Rockport the week after Thanksgiving but Galen has a chance to go with another friend in early December birding in the Texas Panhandle region. We changed the dates of our trip and this past week has been spent decorating for the Christmas holidays! My sewing-finished all the blocks for the Irish Chain Stars. This is a picture of the first 5 rows on my design wall. Taken before anything was sewn together. there are 9 rows all in all. This was a block of the week posted by Debbie at Piecing the Pa...

As you see I am now adding hope to get done, not plan to get done! 1. I did manage to get more blocks of the Double Irish Star finished. Good thing too, the final blocks and finishing came out today! I finished 5 thru 10 and 11 and 12 are started! 2. the Kaffe blocks are still waiting to be made 3 I still need to get busy on a baby quilt 4. Still need to get the binding on a small quilt that has been waiting for a few weeks! Cooking: plans are the same chicken corn noodle soup cinnamon beef noodle soup Not sure I even want to mention dealing with the upstairs but as I said that is an ongoing project! There are no plans this week to take off for a day here and there. That happened last week. Ended up taking 2 days to go places. And I am certainly not going out to the black Friday sales except maybe the grocery store since they will be empty! Get it done at Patchworktimes

A friend of mine, Judy at Patchwork Times is posting her want to work on list for the week and asked us to join a long if we want! Like New Year's resolutions I have never been very good at lists but will try!   You can see Judy's post here Quilting- 1- I got a late start on the Double Irish Stars block of the week from Piecing the Past.     Week 4 came out this morning, I am working on week 2! Each week is 4 blocks and multiples in         each block.                                                       Blocks 1 - 4 2-Still need to get October's blocks made for the Kaffe mystery. 3-There is a baby quilt that needs to be started 4- A small quilt that needs binding 5-And a kit started that I cut out this past summer. I got 3 of the 4 made that I had cut, but stalled out on probably the simple...

As usual the all good intention to keep the blog up to date has gone by the way side. Guess that is good, means we have been busy! The week we had all the rain in central Texas, Galen and I were at South Padre Island. The weather there was not great but better than here at home. Had hoped he would get out fishing with his friend there but they decided to save it for another time. However he did go to the birding center just about every day and was able to get some new lifers plus updated pictures for this year. In the mornings then again in the evenings when we were in the hotel I managed to get 4 quilts bound. They were the 4 made from the string blocks I found in a container.  Once we got home I had more quilts to bind. Managed to get 2 more done for Quilts of Compassion. Those were 2 my friend Joan sent me to add backing, get my friend to quilt and then I would bind them. She sent more than these 2 but they will go in the next shipment along with quilts from another...

This is our last day here until the next visit early in 2019. It has been a good trip. A drizzly day today although Galen did go out this morning for a little while. This afternoon we decided to go for an early mid-afternoon dinner. Went to Daddy's. We have both been hungry for scallops. And we did enjoy them along with the margaritas, cold boiled shrimp and sides. We did skip dessert! We decided to make one last stop at the convention center to see what was flying! Turns out it was a good idea.                                                        Female Hooded Warbler Grey Cat Bird Black Throat Green Warbler Great Blue heron Great Blue heron hiding in the grasses Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill, Black neck Stilts and Mottled ducks Roseate Spoonbills Short - billed Dowitcher ...

 I think they are all labeled correctly. Galen will correct me if not! Galen goes to the birding center in the mornings then we either go to the convention center grounds in the afternoon or take a drive.                              Immature Tennessee Warbler   SPI Convention Center grounds                            Reddish Egret-SPI Convention Center grounds boardwalk American Oyster catcher-Zapata Boat Ramp Laughing Gull-Zapata Boat Ramp Short- Billed Dowitcher -Zapata Boat Ramp Black Neck Stilts-Zapata Boat Ramp Great Blue Heron - Pier 19 SPI Willets-Pier 19 SPI Jack Rabbit-SPI Convention Center Grounds                                         ...

We are in South Padre right now. Not spectacular weather wise-no fantastic sunsets or sunrises this trip. In fact non to speak of unless we see something tonight or tomorrow! But only one day where we pretty much stayed in the motel. Galen has been able to go across the street and get a lot of pictures of birds, especially warblers. Some were new lifers for him. the ones we came to find that were usually not in this part of Texas were chased out by the weather front that arrived when we did. So we missed out on those.  We did however have an Eastern Whip-Poor-Will  in the grassy area by our motel. Galen took a picture and we discovered he was still there the next day. He was hurt, think he had a hurt wing. Galen knows someone who works at the SPI Birding and Nature Center just across the street. He came and got the bird. It spent the night on the Island then the next day it went to the raptor rehabilitation center at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville.      ...