Windy Monday

 It was windy and rainy yesterday, and windy today. Like, 50 mph winds! Our trash cans blew all over the place windy.

 Baby Boone! That bow! 

Heather brought me beautiful roses for my birthday, they smell so good!

 Someone else had a birthday! Huckleberry was a year old on Valentine's Day! She had a party Saturday with 4 other puppy frieds and some two legged friends also.

I didn't have the TV on all weekend, I can't stand hearing about Prez Musk and the First Felon. Just too disgusting and enraging. Sigh.

 

It's my birthday!

 72 today, yikes! How did I get so old, so fast?

Last night my niece Samantha gave birth to Boone Oehrl, 6 lbs, 3 oz, so a teeny one. I asked my brother about the name, he said it's French for good, but a different spelling.  Being Mike, he said Boone is short for Baboon. Smart aleck. 

Squeaky in her cat bed. They also have a cat teepee that I sent a while ago, so she and Storm each have a hideout.

I have to get some thinner yarn and try to make these for Baby Boone.

 

I finished this yesterday. She's an automatic read for me, her books are filled with humor, romance, families, and pets, and a little smut, LOL. 

We got about 5 inches of snow, followed by rain, and it'll be 50 today, so melt that white stuff!

And President Musk and the First Felon are trying to melt our government, and the spineless Republicans are letting him. I just hope the First Felon keeps shoveling in the cheeseburgers. 

February

 

I'm front and center, because it's my birthday month! I was almost a Valentine! And it will be Baby Girl's birthday month, her mama is probably being induced the night of the 11th.

 This was on Deals and Steals, so I sent it to my Seattle grandkitties. Manda said Squeaky has taken up residence in it.

 April's pic was just released, these are so adorable. My pattern should come next week.

And February is again/still/yet filled with rage. I feel like I'm watching a slow moving train as President Musk gets ready to steal from all of us, and the First Felon fiddles. And yet so much of the country thinks it's just great. Sigh. 

And for even more fun, there were fraud charges on my credit card statement, which led to a half hour on the phone, cancelling the card, a refund, and a new card being sent. Sigh.

February!

 January lasted soooo long! Especially since President Musk and the First Felon took over and are trying to dismantle the place. Every day it's some new felon.

I gave up on Canalboat, it just wasn't doing it for me.

 I started this one over the weekend. 

I bought a new Kindle, which should come tomorrow. I traded in my Kindle Oasis, which was 4 years old, had terrible battery life, and took too long to change pages.

This morning I had a foot doctor appointment, and we dropped off books at the library. Of course we got re-routed by construction. 

At least the snow is all gone. Finally. 

Finally!

 January has been 3 years long, at least. I have the TV on in the background, talking about the awful crash in DC. So terribly sad, and so preventable. I'm just waiting for the First Felon to blame it on Joe Biden. 

I have watched the news in very small doses. I'm so sick of the fecking republicans, such a spineless group. The decisions that President Musk and FOCUS are making are so awful, and the republicans smile and pretend they don't know what's going on.  And so many people are defending the cruel decisions- no wonder I'm still full of rage.

Anyway.

 Canalboat is the name of the baby afghan that I've started. I'm having some trouble getting into it.

 Our county library is running a craft supply swap! Such a great idea! I have a bunch of kits and materials that I will donate, and I don't want anything in return. Since I don't think I'll live to be 300, I guess I have no chance of using up everything I have. And I had brought a lot of things home from Mom's house.

Warmer today

 It's going up to 42 today! Melt the rest of this ice! 

We just got back from errands. Haircuts for both of us, Aldi, and paid the property tax for this quarter. 

 Ralph hung this for me this morning. For years it hung in the family room, til we had it painted. The old hanger was in poor shape, so we got a curtain rod yesterday and he hung it up. It's one of the favorite things I've made. If I remember right, it was done with thangles. 

I also went thru the box of things for the midarm and put them in a drawered cart. 

I was a slug all weekend, no crafting. I think I slept half of Saturday, and read the other half.

99% done

Brrr, another cold one- 5 degrees this morning! But it's going up to 32, a full ten degrees less cold than yesterday. 

  The denim and flannel quilt is 99% done. I just have to run a row of stitching all around the edges so the fraying will be controlled. Snipping the denim will be done by Eddie, Steph and Jules- I haven't told them yet. It's shown on my queen bed, and Eddie has a full bed, due to space limitations in his room. The plaids are leftovers from my late dad's flannel shirts. I'm happy how it came out. I did units of rows of 3, sewed them together, then sewed the two units of 6 rows together. It was like wrestling an alligator! So heavy and unwieldy. My Janome 6500 handled the thickness like a charm, with the aid of a jeans needle. 

And I still have stacks of denim squares, and denim/flannel squares! I'm not ready to tackle another one. Maybe when Garrett, who's 9, is a teenager. 

 Canalboat is the baby afghan I did the first row on last night. I actually had all the colors needed! 

Ralph is at breakfast with the Veterans. When he gets home we plan to make a Sam's Club run.

Are we really only on day 4 of President Musk and the First Felon? My despair has been overshadowed by my rage at this point. I can only watch the news in about ten minute spurts. I'm trying to not let them keep me up at night, but it's hard.