Poodles and Quilts

  Last Week of January!   poodlegirls     Daily Happenings ,  General Sewing ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Our Girls ,  Quilting ,  Travels ,  Uncategorized     January 27, 2025   1 Minute I took a break from my blog for a few weeks.  Sometimes when I get out of the habit of writing it it takes a little while to get back to it! And I was busy making bandanas for my friend’s 2 grooming business.  Lisa, my friend, was going to be here from CA for a few days.  I wanted to get as many done as I could to send back with here. This is what 84 look like,  xxsmall to medium! This is just a few of them. They were mostly for Valentines Day but also included some for every day. Will start working on a few more for them in February. I bought templates from Linda Winner designs.   With the no move material on the back I xan cut through 5 or 6 layers of fabric with no movement. http://winnerdedigns....

  January Temperature Swing We have been enjoying pretty nice first week of 2025. That ends this week. High Sunday 69 low Sunday night 27! We are supposed to be in the 30’s and 40’s during the day and high  20s at night. We start warming up again by the end of the week. May have a little precipitation in the middle of the week but nothing like our 2 bad winters 2021 and 2023. We did take off Sunday morning and headed back to the Granger lake area. It was overcast and as my Mom would say, it was spritzing rain. Stopped at the dam overlook, too cloudy to see anything. Had decided to turn around at the next intersection.  Then we saw a grouping of white pelicans at a sand bar. The black birds are double  crested comorants. The skies were clearing so we continued on our drive.  The Burrowing Owl was in his usual location.  Wish it was a little closer to the road for  better pictures. Fortunately Galen has a long lens on his camera. Ever wonder how a Red Ta...