Monday, June 17, 2024

Catchup - June 1st-8th

June 2nd

Ohhhh it rained enough the other day for some water to collect in their pool for splashing! Dahli even joined in briefly!



Weird! I was texting Taunya and both jumped onto the couch looking out the window. Then immediately jumped down onto my lap! 😀



DAMN DAMN DAMN I hate lightning followed immediately with loud thunder plus increased slanted downpour! DAMN heart racing!!!

UPDATE: Owner emailed that fish are OK without the fountain so I feel better. The surrounding trees are shedding and thus would need constant cleaning to keep it aesthetically pleasing. Good to know!

Oh oh!!! Not sure what's happening but this was the lovely goldfish pond that I love to sit and listen to its soothing sounds while feeding them, taken May 30th. Today it's barely trickling and I'm very concerned. Needless to say I've a call in for the son to come see and he says he'll clear the blockage! I hope so! At least they've had fresh rainfall!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

May 30th lovely musical sound.

June 1st quite a bit less

June 2nd, barely a trickle.  YIKES!!!

June 4th

Dang, first off I don't have Amazon Prime and no intentions of paying just to have better customer service, which should first no matter what, so please no comments on that.

I finally gave in and ordered footwear and was thinking outerwear too but glad I didn't. I was totally shocked at the return postage for the sandals as per Amazon Return items instructions. No I didn't go through all the clicks to read the return policy before ordering, it shouldn't be so convoluted to begin with. Once contact with Amazon afterwards I'm in volleying contact with the seller who now says I could have returned it to their local store (not sure Winnipeg has one) free of charge! I flipped out - that should have been the FIRST item under Return Item!!!!!!!  

So will see in 3-5 days of what the result will be. BUT for sure I'm not ordering ANYTHING online anymore unless it does not need sizing, like books etc!!! I don't care what kind of savings online is!!!!! I've learnt my lesson for sure!!!

UPDATE:  Purchase price has been returned and the other day received confirmation that my return postage will be refunded soon!

June 6th

Yeah I've finally sewn the blocks in rows AND I think it's as planned.



Yeah the rows of blocks were sewn together too! It measures now as 43 x 54.5" - I had added in 10 extra varied blocks of original ones to fit. I really can not believe how evenly this had sewn up together, lots of bias edges, lots of pinning and step by step pressing to help in this end result. There will be 3 borders yet to be cut and sewn on. It's soon going to be finished. I love it and good as this is MY BABY for retreats.


Once again I bought an MPQ Quilt Reflections 2025 Challenge Quilt wall hanging kit! AND not two hours home my idea percolated and Googled inspirations saved with notes on how it might evolve and fabrics etc! This brain will probably not rest now, but want to get started on it! Ohhhh the theme is Transportation but I'm skewing this quite a bit!!! Here's the kit fabrics (can add 5 more) and talk about coincidence, I've the bubbles fabric in various colours to play with too!


June 7th

OMGG!!! I'm tickled pink as Leanne called to chat about our joint vacation in July 2025! The plans are falling into place and dates locked in and they are booking both excursions and all transfers for us to ensure we're together. As soon as they have the costs I'll square up! 😉

July 8th - they arrive from Australia in Calgary

July 9th - I travel to Calgary

July 10th-13th - we're in Banff sightseeing including a bus tour of Mountain Lakes and Waterfalls 

July 13th-14th - on the Rocky Mountaineer Adventure, gold level, overnight in Kamloops

July 14th-17th - we're in Vancouver together sightseeing 

July 15th - we're ferrying to Victoria for a City and Butchart Gardens Tour 

July 17th - I return home

July 18th - they return home

OOOOHHHHHH I'm getting excited and this time I'm taking my two stronger walking sticks!

June 8th

Ohhhh I've missed posting some pics!

June 5th enjoyed music from this bird, the fish even a pelican in the local pond.




June 6th MPQ a few of the quilters' display that caught my scrappy ideas eye and the blue one is 2025 Quilt Raffle prize.






2025 Quilt Show Raffle Quilt

June 7th OMA's Fire Hall Outdoor Quilt Show, just a few that appealed to me. A lovely day for this outing with Sylvia and Edna, ending with Peking Chinese in Edna's new apartment!

This one has quilted bees.

This was quilted with variegated thread and butterflies.

I'm making this one too but in scrappy look - awesome in planned colours. 

I've this one on my agenda too - but will try to reduce to smaller mini sized.


WOW!!!

Triple WOW!!!

Love it!!!

Very striking!!!
Didn't think of using solids!


Interesting!!!

Love this one too!


Way too intense for me!

No comments: