Let's do this! Old Town & Walker's Wedding quilts on the docket (& a photo-dump)

 

Behind-the-blogging scenes, Bonnie K Hunter's Old Town 24/25 mystery quilt has been seeing some leisurely activity recently...

But today, Walker's Wedding quilt needs to be #1 priority.  Tick-tock, tick-tock... #OnADeadline!

... a photo-dump from this past week's FRIGID week; #NoSchool on Monday nor Tuesday. 
Whoop-whoop.

Sure... looks like a great morning for a run!

DECEIVINGLY beautiful sunshine

The struggles of long-runs in Wisconsin;  after mile 5, no more hydration - LOL.

no running outside for Monday, though!

YouTube to the rescue!  A 45 minute run through Arizona ensued

Tuesday - #anothersnowday (*cold day) - Wine bottled and racked

Sampling is a given!

Three different flavors bottled; kept them all dry for a change of pace.

Root/Wine cellar restocked

Cold Quilting!

I'm working away on the quilting of Blue Ridge Beauty.....after one pass, I realized that my fuzzy socks alone weren't going to keep my feet warm, so I went upstairs to find my slippers. Then three or four passes later, I had just about enough! Gah! 54 degrees----no WONDER that I thought it seemed a bit colder than normal! We don't heat the downstairs, and recall that I purchased a little space heater for my quilting room, BUT the quilting frame/machine is in a different part of the downstairs.

We have enough of these black $1 thin gloves in our glove-stash. The girls don't wear them much (unless they've misplaced their thicker heavy-duty-play-in-snow-and-don't-get-cold gloves.) The sacrifice made really did make a difference.

reply to a post update
Cindy writes:

Ok...I don't want to sound smart, but couldn't you unplug the portable heater and move it to where you are? Of course if its plugged in behind lots of stuff, this wouldn't be feasible.

Cindy

Yes, I thought of this as an option, but the heater is rather small; for a small room. The space where my frame is is very large, very open and I'm moving back-n-forth along the frame; never really in one space. I didn't think it would be a great solution; simply too much space to heat :0( Thanks for the suggestion, though!!!!!!!!








Company update:
SIL headed out (alone) this morning to travel to her grandpa's house. Our house is a good "inbetween" location. Besides, by stopping here, the cousins can hang out as well as DH and his brother. They just took off for a couple hours of ice-fishing with a couple of kids in tow. Cassie and Candace chose to stay behind with me, though.

A funny:
As I was trying out the new gloves, Chessa (niece) came down--already bundled up, ready for fishing-- and asked....
Chessa: "Aunt Amy, what'cha doin?" (She's 5, BTW).
Me: I'm quilting
Chessa: Why are you using the thread that way?
Me: To keep the quilt sticking together.
Chessa: {{a few moments of silence}}........why don't you just staple it together?


**giggle**.....

I DID give her a response after my giggle subsided.....and said..."Well, I don't think it would be snuggly with staples in in." To which she said....."Oh yeah! Okay Bye!" ....and off she went upstairs

Brrrrrrrrrr!

My Lovely WeatherBug buddy is flashing the current temperature to me....

-13.3 degrees F (that's -25.2 degrees C). Thankfully, the wind has died to virtually nothing! But tomorrow is another story.....

Forecasted HIGH tomorrow: THREE DEGREES F! (That's -16 C!---for a HIGH!) We are going to be dipping into forecasted WINDCHILLS of 40-50 degrees F below zero tomorrow; does it REALLY matter what that is in Celcius????----Seriously! Once the temps reach MORE than 10 below......(or...umm...do I mean LESS than 10 below??) *giggling at the math-pun!*
anyway.....it's FRIGID, ARCTIC, BITTER, GLACIAL, NIPPY, NUMBING, SHIVERY, SNAPPY, WINTRY, INVIGORATINGLY PIERCING COLD! (YUP....found a thesaurus online!)

BTW---Thursday's forecast doesn't look much more promising.

I'll say this for sure.....MANY of us are awaiting the "SNOW DAY" call tomorrow AM (or at least a 2-hour "LATE START.") I could just IMAGINE staying snuggled up in the warm bed! But....I have to play it safe and get my butt to bed, JUST IN CASE the call doesn't come in........

Angela----wanna change locations for a few days???