Guess what tomorrow is – DIRTY DOZEN DAY! Your number for August is ONE! Number 1. That’s means you’ve got the month of August to finish your #1 UFO. Can’t wait to see what you finish!
This bottom row is Gloria’s #7 from last month.
This picture was taken in the early 90s after we added on to the original quilt shop. Is anyone reading right now who is in this picture?
Watching the Fever game. Over and out!
Mary,
I watched the Fever game last night as well.
Was very overcast most of the day here and then around 4 pm we got a downpour. Rained about an hour and we really needed it. Early this morning I picked 7 buckets of flowers and made 14 bouquets for a wedding reception. Of course, they picked the flowers up during the rain! They turned out beautiful i think.
Pulled out a stack of ten inch square solid fabric for my next project. But I’m not done with the current project. I am hoping for incentive by seeing the new fabric! Lol, whatever works!
Picked up a few birthday cards while out today so I’m ready to send one to the next recipient! Meanwhile, still praying for Jeanines daughter!
I remember as a kid going to my grandparents house and my grampa would be sitting in an armchair holding a small radio while listening to the Tigers baseball game. He would turn the radio off during the commercials! He said he wasn’t buying anything and didn’t want to listen to the ads. As a kid i thought it was goofy but he was an old curmudgeon always !
Have a blessed Sunday everyone. 🌻
Sunflower – why didn’t you show us the bouquets??!! 14 of them? I’ll bet they were gorgeous!
It was cool, windy and drippy here! I thing my joints predict the weather better than the weather men!
I haven’t been to any sports events in decades, but I do have a happy memory of going to a Los Angeles Angels baseball game with my Dad long ago. It was fun to be in the stadium in the early evening, with its green grass, and to be part of the crowd. (This was before the games were on TV; you could only listen to radio.) Someone must have given him the tickets; our family always had enough, but we had to be careful with money.
And, in college, the basketball games were my favorite – packed into a crowded noisy place with all the other students.
Sending a hug to Jeanine’s Rhonda.
I was also a Twins fan growing up in Minnesota, but we never had a TV, so we would listen to WCCO radio out of the Twin Cities. My favorite player was Harmon Killebrew, and I liked Bob Allison as well. I had a signed 8×10 b&w picture of Bob, but who knows what happened to it. My grandpa was a big Twins fan as well, and his birthday was August 13, so a couple times we went to a baseball game around his birthday and sat in the outer field seats. A long way from the action unless there was a homerun or deep hit ball. I think those seats were $2.00 back then, and we didn’t have much money, but saved for that important day. When my Grandpa was in the Nursing Home, if you visited him during a Twins game, you better be quiet and watch with him. His kids and some of the grandkids went together to buy him a small black and white TV so he could watch the games. Those are some wonderful memories. My Grandpa had 10 or 11 boys in his family, so they had a baseball team just in their family.
We had just over .1″ of rain again overnight. It is a cool 67* this morning. Our son came from Ohio yesterday and is working on the house again today, and will go back home tomorrow. He is such a blessing to us during this time, and he loves doing it. It’s a 9 or 10 hour drive for him to come.
I also might add that our daughter, Rhonda, had her first taxol treatment this past Thursday, and did not get sick from it, so is able to do a little until she gets tired. We are so thankful. Lots of people are praying for her. She has 11 more treatments, and they are weekly. These are the treatments where she has to keep her hands and feet in ice during the treatment to prevent getting neuropathy.
Jeanine, my prayers will continue for Rhonda. What a blessing your son is to make that long drive to help you.
So fun to read about your Twins memories. They are in town and beat the Mariners last night. I am a big ⚾️ fan but this year has been brutal for the players and fans…
They have forgotten how to HIT!! I still have hope!😊
Thank you Vickie and Dot. It has been a long, hard journey for her since her double mastecomy on April 15, but she has a strong faith in God, and He has helped her along the way.
Vicki – I love the sound of a baseball game but they take so long – during the summer months when I need to work outside. I wouldn’t miss the playoffs and World Series though!!!!
Jeanine, prayers for Rhonda from me as well. I had never heard of keeping your hands & feet in ice water to prevent neuropathy. How wonderful that this works! This has certainly been quite a journey for her. Prayers really do work & love her strong faith!
Jeanine – we’re all praying for Rhonda! I can’t help but wonder why the ice water keeps her from developing neuropathy –
My c/o about sports is the NFL. They have made the price of a ticket so high the average person/family can’t afford to go anymore. The cost of food/ drinks at the games are outrageous. $15 plus for a hotdog! I have been a Buffalo Bills fan since I was a kid; member of the Bills Mafia also. The cost back then was around $25 which was very expensive for a kid, but my brother and I worked for it to go. Now, nosebleed tickets are $700 plus if you even can get them because of the costly lottery just to get a ticket! Stop paying the players the ridulicus salaries they are getting just to play several games of football. IT’S JUST A SPORT !!!! Make the preseason games tickets for kids $10. Those tickets are as much as the regular games at present. I refuse to support the NFL’S addiction to money and won’t pay to go to a game as much as I love the sport. Will just go to a local bar to watch it and have a beer and some chicken wings instead.
Barbara – oooohh, I’d rather go to the bar anyway, I think, although the excitement of being on site would be fun. I really had no idea of the cost – living in Iowa I’m not very familiar with NFL except on TV.
My dad loved all sports and I would join him sometimes to watch tv from a young age. I didn’t become a baseball fan until I saw my first game in person with my husband in the early 80s. We went to Candlestick Park and watched the Giants. It was so cold! To have that full live view of the park was really fun and gave me a different perspective on the game that has never left me. Route for KC Royals, my closest team, and watch their games on TV. It’s a good sport for hand piecing!
Roxanne – yes, hand piecing would fit the pace of an NFL game – which I swear takes 4-5 hours! Basketball, on the other hand, takes 2+.
I confess to not being a huge sports fan, I do love basketball & soccer though. Where I grew up we didn’t have football teams at that time. It was & still is a farming community & just no money for all the equipment needed for football. At that time we’d never heard of soccer! Mid 70’s we enrolled our very active son in soccer here. It’s a great sport to take care of all that energy! He continued to play for many years & also why he’s had a knee replacement! 2 of his kids are avid soccer fans & played through HS & played select leagues. And yes, I love the game, too, especially if my grand kids were playing! We are finally getting some much needed rain. We arrived home from the lake late yesterday afternoon & it’s so good to be home! I love the time spent at the lake, but there’s nothing like sleeping in your own bed! The new flooring looks great & much better than carpet when you have pets. Everyone have a great weekend.
Alice – having grown up in the 50s and 60s in a farming community, we didn’t get football until 1966 when Rick and I were seniors. In the very first game Rick separated his shoulder and my dad had to take him to a dr – on a Friday night! I’m not much of a football fan but I watch whatever’s in season, I guess. Soccer is not big in our community so watching the World Cup was somewhat of a mystery to me.
Enjoy being back home!!
Mary, soccer is really big here & I can’t say I would have paid much attention to it if my kids & grands hadn’t played it & loved it. It’s amazing how many soccer fields there are in this area! They have to play Sundays just so everyone can get a chance to play. And I didn’t watch much of the World Cup. I had too much other stuff going on at that time!
When you said the game is on it reminds of my Mom who was an Orioles baseball fan. I would call her and she would say “Games on” and then hang up. So if it was important I would watch the game and wait for the commercials but give her time to go to the bathroom and then call or better yet wait till the game was over. She has never been to a professional game and I had a friend who wasn’t using her great seats so I took her. She kept asking why people ere walking around and not watching the game. She always wanted to see what they did during the 7th inning stretch. So as we were leaving I asked if she would like to come again and she thanked me and said, “ that’s ok I can see better on tv”
Angie / oh my gosh, what a great story!!! My mom was a Twins fan and she’d would wear her Twins tshirt during the games. I have been rude to people who call or stop when I’m watching a game – I slipped something in your envelope Pam cards
Angie, I agree with your mom. I can’t understand why anyone would pay thousands of dollars to sit in the crow’s nest seats for any sport. I don’t know if that idea formed after an uncle of mine took myself and his daughter to a St. Louis Cardinals game back in the 60s. The players looked so small. Or maybe because I grew up so poor that I just think it’s such a waste of money. My maternal grandmother was a huge Twins fan. I remember her, well into her 70s-80s, sitting on the edge of her recliner about 8 feet from her TV and either cheering them on or being discussed with them.
Martha – you could be describing my own mom watching the Twins. Even when she went to the care center she wore her Twins tshirt during games!