Evening Edition: Free Kindle Book & Solo Retreat Time!

Our Pineapple blossom class was fun and full to the gills today. The weather continued to be beautifully perfect outside of our second story windows…..oh, I loved seeing those palm fronds just out of reach through the glass!

More workshop pics to follow in the morning– I’ve got a plan for tonight—I’m going to sew!

But first, before this freebie expires:

Asylum by Claude Bouchard is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

Book Description:

Managing Director of the Montreal Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Doctor Matthew Russell, has always put his professional responsibilities ahead of all else…

…That is, until he one day realizes he is losing his wife, Cassidy, and his two children, Stuart and Jennifer…

With only his family in mind, Russell takes an adventure-filled, impromptu vacation of indefinite duration, leaving all else behind and stopping at nothing to show how much he cares for his loved ones in an effort to win them back…

…But, will he succeed, or…

Will it prove to be all too late in the end?

Get it while you can – it sounds like a good one. It was still free for me a few minutes ago!

THIS is what is happening for me tonight! I brought my featherweight. I brought my Florabunda pieces. I brought my new IKEA clamp lamp ---see how it fits right on the FW extension table? Perfect!

I’m just back from a 4.5 mile walk/jog. That’s 9 miles on my record for this week. This girl is getting back into the swing of things and plans to be in the best 50 year old shape that she possibly can. WE are going to ROCK 50, ya’ll. That’s all there is too it. I’m down 5 lbs in the last 2 weeks.

That means better choices when traveling and eating out which is not easy – but my fave jeans are loose enough I have to keep pulling UP on the waist, and that’s a good feeling.

Tomorrow is my “off” day. It’s the day I transfer from Fort Myers to Naples. I’m being picked up at check out time, so I can sleep in in the morning --- NO ALARM CLOCK! I may get another walk in, I may sew some more blocks. I may not even decide until I find myself awake and needing to make a choice.

And that’s all I know for now!

Cathedral Stars in Fort Myers!

I woke up this morning to a very dead phone. How it even had enough juice to set my alarm off, I don’t know…because it was deader than the proverbial door nail.

Why are door nails dead, and why do we use them as analogies anyway? I guess I could say that it was as dead as the proverbial armadillo on the side of the road – it’s the same thing, same effect.

Except – whhhaaa --- this is my phone! My phone is my right arm, and I need it to be. I know there are those who say they want their phone to BE a phone, not a camera, not a computer – just a phone. But I don’t want to carry around all of those things that I’d have to if my phone were just a phone.

Yesterday I even brought the charging cord with me to class because I noticed it was not keeping a charge. It was fully charged last night when I went to bed, and dead by morning. This is NOT a good sign—*sigh* I think this afternoon we may be finding ourselves an AT&T store to find out what’s going on –whether it’s just the battery, or if it’s time for a new phone.

In the mean time- ---I’ll be plugging myself into every public outlet I can find!

Yesterday’s Cathedral Stars workshop was a lot of fun! I only have a few minutes this morning to give you the run down :)

What a great bunch of ladies! They came with fabric strips already cut and ready to go!

THIS I love to see! Some came with 4 patches already filed and stacked and drawered and ready to go!

Take some time and visit with us and see what else we got up to during our day!

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Today we are doing it all over again with Pineapple Blossom!

And this is the view from my balcony this morning --- it’s going to be another completely beautiful February Florida day!

The Sun Sets in the West ---

And I almost missed it!

My goal was to finish my walk and wind up on this pier to watch the sunset ---BY SUNSET.

But I wasn’t counting on the trees that would obscure my view, and how the sun would go down quickly behind them and I’d miss the whole thing.

There’s the pier! Can I make it?

I hurried the last half mile or so ---cutting through the hotel parking lot, around the buildings, over the grass, past the picnic tables and the shelters as the sun continued to sink lower, faster than I had thought it would.

There she goes --- the end of a very long, lovely day. I don’t know what that red splotch is on the picture…..angel kisses maybe?

Sinking lower, and almost, almost gone ----

I caught the last of the evening’s glow from the comfort of my 4th floor balcony ---Speechless. And Humbled. And Grateful for so much.