Minis Done

Spooky - 1For Kathryn--her nickname is “Spooky," and she loves cats and Halloween.


Spooky - 1 (1)“Steg” is for Cait, who works in paleontology at McWane Center in Birmingham (in addition to writing novels and short stories). Her love of dinosaurs dates back to childhood.

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As you can see, I’ve finished my mini quilt gifts for Kathryn and Cait. Put the last binding stitches in last night.

The red couch will be delivered today. Then I can get my living quarters back in order and settle down for a calm, quiet Christmas (I hope). I decided to cancel the family soup supper. Thinking back to Thanksgiving, I remember how awful hard it was. Everybody who has commented says I’m doing the right thing. I think, at least for some of the family, it was sort of a burden to have one more thing to have to attend. And I know darn well, for me, it was a burden to have to host. I enjoy having family over, but these days, the work is just too hard.

Although today seems a bit better than the rest of the week. The pain is manageable, and I don’t seem quite as tired as usual. Thank you, God.

I have some gifts to wrap--or, rather, bag. I don’t wrap much anymore. And Andy is coming to help me cook whenever we decided to have our immediate family thing. So I’m going to try to take it easy for the rest of the holiday season. My boss at Oxmoor House used to call it “petting Susan.” So I’m going to pet Susan for a while and see if I can get this body to calm down.

NOTE: I have just noticed an error in the “Steg” mini. It’s very small, so maybe no one will notice. Do you see it?

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On 12/22/2019, Barbara Anne said ...

How wise to cancel the soup dinner and save yourself the exhaustion and probable pain the preparations would cause. Perhaps after you've recovered from the 2nd procedure, you can have a Glory Hallelujah party to celebrate bing pain-free. Hope that will be true.

I look forward to seeing your cheery red couch (as opposed to me spelling error yesterday when I typed "cherry" red couch!).

Nope, I don't see the mistake in the Steg.

Hugs!
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