Three Weeks Gone

I can't believe it's been almost three weeks since I last posted.  Time is moving much faster than I am these days.  Hurricane Michael came and went leaving a swath of destruction in it's path.  I was fortunate to have minimal damage on my property. The plant where I was worked was not as fortunate and frankly we were luckier than most.

Work was shut down for a week.  I was able to go back a little earlier than some.  My boss kept me out of the major cleaning because of my asthma.  I did go back after five days to do all the environmental swabbing and other testing that needed done before we could start up.  The blanch line started up after 8 days. Dry roasted line took 10 days to get going. Peanut butter line took 13 days. We have been running all out since then.  We need to get caught up on orders.

As I said, home only had minor damage. Some slight roof damage and siding damage. The insurance adjuster will be here on November 3rd around noon. They are that busy trying to get things appraised etc.  He was very apologetic about how long it was going to take.

The real hardship for us was not having power for a week.  No power equals no water since we are on a well. Also no air conditioning, which makes sleeping very difficult in 90 degree heat with 90% humidity.  We were more fortunate than most. My daughter,TK, had power so we moved our freezers to her place as well as our washer and dryer. We lost some food from the fridge but we could have lost so much more.

I have done very little in the way of quilting these past 3 weeks. I did get the half square triangle blocks cut apart and pressed but that was about it.  I turned the binding on the two quilts but haven't stitched it down yet. It was way too hot to sit with a quilt on my lap when I was off. Then I have been so busy at work working 10-14 hours that I haven't felt like it when I was home. Plus we have a lot of clean up to do in the house. On top of that I am in an asthma flare. Which is good and bad.  My pulmonologist had not seen me in a flare and I had an appointment scheduled. So that finally happened, which is good.  The bad is I have no energy to do anything. Everything takes so much energy when you aren't breathing well.

But I am feeling much better and am getting back to work on quilts.  I am behind on my goals this year but I am still working on things and that is what counts.

How are your goals coming?