A Little of This; A Little of That!

Two and a half weeks since I posted?  I can't believe it!  

I really have been doing a little bit of quilting, really I have, but nothing I can show yet.  My APQ quilt top, with its pieced border, is finished, but not yet sandwiched.  I'm trying to decide (again!) how to quilt it.

I got sidetracked from it last week when the church quilters finished that wild Stack and Whack quilt.  Since I hadn't quilted very much on it, I agreed to do the binding.  I have about 75% of it whipped down, and should complete it in a day or two, maybe tomorrow if all stays quiet on the home front. 

Ruth has inspired me to at least begin a string quilt soon.  I've thought about one for years, but I'm such a procrastinator.  Her beautiful quilt gave me the nudge I needed.  At least I'm beginning to plan a little. (Hmmm---does one 'plan' a string quilt from scraps?)

I found out tonight I have another friend with cancer, and my heart is saying I need to make a little quilt for her maybe.  I just don't know what to do about that one.  Need to decide soon I guess.

Someone mentioned Christmas today!  I'm so far behind on that plan I had at the beginning of the year!  Oh dear!  I'm still trying to figure out what I've been doing with my time lately!

A few days ago I went outside and almost stepped on a lizard that has raised a family here for several years.  He was as stunned as I was, and just froze long enough for me to come back in the house and grab my camera.  Believe me, there is no end to the menagerie around here!  A day or two later I saw two baby lizards about 2 inches long.  The one in the picture is about 8-9" long.  I do see the larger ones often, but this is the first picture I've been able to get.  I have talked to them around here for years, and they sometimes twist their little heads as if trying to understand what I'm saying to them.  I love to watch them! 

Then a few days later I looked out the sunroom windows, and there lay a neighbor's cat under the birdbath in the rose garden.  He stalks the dove in my yard almost everyday.  Now I do love cats, but don't have one because of the birds that I love more.  This cat is definitely a pet that lives nearby; he wants me to pet him everytime I go outside to run him off!  He doesn't run!  But he has killed some of my dove; I found the remains as evidence! He needs to stay at his own home!   (Those roses look a little sick, don't they?  They are finally forming more buds now.)

Okay, I promise --- no more blog posts until I can include a quilt picture!  Have a great quilting week! 

---"Love"