What Happened to February?

When I was little, I never understood how time could fly for my parents but take so long for me. But now that I am older, I find that time moves at the speed of light. I seriously don't know where February went. What I do know is that I was always on the go, working long hours for both my job and church and got sick to boot. I just can't seem to catch up on anything.

Let's see I last blogged on 2/2/2020 and here it is 3/1/2020. A whole month later, what Have I done with this month?.  I'm not really sure, it has been a blur.  I was doing fairly decent at the 30-30-30 thing. I may not have done it everyday but I was managing to do it a few days a week that first week.

On the 8th, I got re-certified in First Aid and CPR. I've kind of lost my excitement over that since I've been certified since I was 12. We had our Family Fun Day at Church and I think it went well. 

The following week I worked a long day on Monday, spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the hospital with Miss Betty while she had a TAVR done. Turned around and worked 2 more very long days at work. Then went down to some training for Family History in Tallahassee for half the day.

Miss Betty is doing well and she has my Perigrine there to help her not overdo. It has been two weeks without my maid and I really miss her.  My 30-30-30 has been more of cooking dinner-taking care of animals and making lunches. I also miss Perigrine because while she doesn't quilt, she's great sounding board for ideas.  She is very artistic and has a good eye for color and pattern.

The following week was full of long days. I should clarify what I consider a long day. Any thing over 9 hours I consider a long day. Remember I commute and hour each way. By the afternoon of the 15th I had a head ache I couldn't get rid of, which turned into a nasty cold. The next week was full of long days and surprise changes in management at work. Both the Sanitation Manager and the Operations Manager were let go. Which led me to working half a day on Saturday 2/22. After which I went to bed for the rest of the weekend.

This past Monday, I went to work with no voice. I even resorted to the cough syrup with codeine because I felt so miserable.  By Friday, I was feeling better. But as of Saturday, I believe I am relapsing. This past week I worked no less than 9-1/2 hours. In fact, that was the short day. Most were 10-1/2 hours. Plus I worked 4-1/2 hours today.  I am not expecting this next week to be a whole lot better. So I'm not sure how productive I am going to be at home.

So where in that mess did I get any work done? Well the house is a mess but we are slowing chipping away at it. Killian and I are doing quite well taking care of each other.  Quilting wise I got a little bit done. 

So while I was at the hospital watching over Betty, I did make some Hexies.  I actually did quite a few Hexies. I love the Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern and I was really pleased with my progress. I am even going to cut out some more. I've already cut strips and marked them for 3 other fabrics. I just need to cut them out.

The thing with hexies is they really are a good project to take with you places.  I just need to figure out a better toting system.  The little bag I have now doesn't have a closure on the center compartment. I may just put some Velcro on it but I haven't decided yet.

I finally got all my half square triangle blocks trimmed up. I finished them up yesterday.  There for a while I didn't think I was ever going to get them done.  It seemed to be taking forever. In fact, I had even decided to start up another project in the mean time.

You know how I told you that the thing I like most about quilting is the piecing.  I was fighting some depression and decided I needed to piece instead of trim.  So I got out a set of charm packs. I figured I could do some chain piecing and feel like I was getting something done.  I chose a very colorful charm pack called Church Ladies Aprons.  So while my daughter TaKayren was chatting with me I laid it out on my bed.  I was going for a throw size quilt. I had it all laid out and picked up by rows.  But then it was time to get some rest.  This was when I was starting to come down with the cold.  The next day I was looking at the picture and decided I needed to cut all that color with some thing else.  It was just too much. I pulled all the bundles I made for the rows apart and sorted them by color. I am going to turn these into 4 patch blocks. So now I am trying to decide on whether to use a light ivory charm or a gray charm. I know that I have 4 pack of each of those colors. White would be too stark and black to dark.  So that is back on the drawing board.


One thing I did discover this month is I am doing better with my stitching accuracy.  When I trimmed up the HST blocks I was getting very little off.  I had made them with 4 inch blocks instead of 3-7/8 inch blocks so I had a little wiggle room.  Here is a sample of some of the trimmings. As you can see very little came off any of the blocks.  I was so pleased with my self.

Well it's past bed time and I am beat.  I am still struggling with the cold and work is promising to be hectic this week.  I hope I can get things caught up both at work and home. 

How are you doing?