Jesse Turns 30

Ballloons

Another busy weeks, so far. Sunday, we celebrated Jesse’s "Big Three Oh” here at the Yellow House. I made chicken and dressing, at his request. His mom baked him a delicious chocolate cake and brought ice crease to accompany it. It was lots of fun, and we all ate too much.

After the festivities, Andy and I watched “The Wife,” starring Glenn Close and a male actor whose name I can’t recall. It was a truly excellent movie, with Ms. Close giving an amazing performance as the wife of a Novel-Prize-winning novelist. That’s all I’ll say since revealing the true premise of the movie would give away too much.  I will add that the movie made me angry, but I think it was supposed to.

On Monday, I delivered “Gypsy” to Lena for quilting. We decided on straight line vertical channel quilting with a very pale peach thread. Lena promised to have it ready in plenty of time for me to bind it and add a sleeve and enter it in our quilt show. My sister Ramey went with me to delivery the quilt. On the way home we stopped by our favorite thrift store, and I found this beautiful red transfer ware plate (photo below). I collect red transfer ware. The ballon couple figurines were my mama’s. 

Red Plate

Yesterday was all day laundry day. And today should have been too, as I only got halfway finished. But I’ve been moving very slowly so far today. I did make to to the drug store to pick up some prescriptions. When I returned, I threw a load of sheets in the washer, and that has been it. I sat down and perused a new Connecting Threads catalog, checked my email, went on Facebook, now here I am. I’m not sure what the rest of the afternoon will hold. I have vowed to give the sewing room a good cleaning before I work on any more projects. But it won’t happen today. Maybe tomorrow.

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On 04/04/2019, Barbara Anne said ...

A slightly belated Happy Birthday to Jesse!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In a couple of weeks, our baby will be 35 - yikes! Where did the time go?

Well done in getting Gypsy to your quilter and I love your newly acquired transferware plate. It is lovely!

As long as you get those sheets into the dryer and push the start button, they won't stink! ;)

Enjoy resting up. Hugs!
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