Springing Forward–And Falling Behind!

There has been a little of this going on here.

And when I say little…I mean LITTLE!

It kind of gets this way when I’ve been gone for 10 days, and I only have a few days to play catch up before heading off again.

I leave for Chicago tomorrow. 

With the time changes between California and here, and then springing forward another hour overnight last night – I’m in a bit of a kerfuffle.

So this is my notice right off the bat – Quilt-Cam is going to have to wait until I return from Chicago.  At least I’ll only be adjusting backwards an hour tomorrow morning!

NO QUILT-CAM TODAY.  I'm sorry.

There I was yesterday with the whole day laid out before me, and everything was supposed to fall into place, but the one thing I can’t live without is my cell phone if I am going to photograph, blog, communicate, not to mention run credit cards at book signings…MUST. HAVE. PHONE!


I’ve babied my Samsung S7 for more than the past couple of months – the battery just wasn’t holding a charge.  Overnight, while plugged in (and yes, all programs are off, location is off, Bluetooth is off, all of those things that drain are OFF – I’m not inexperienced in cell phone maintenance and battery life.) it only reached 16%.  And drops 1% a minute.

It was a nice try, but this didn’t work either!

We were hopeful it was the battery.  $70.00 later (while I wandered an antique mall for 90 minutes while it was being fixed – WITHOUT a phone to take pictures!) we were hopeful that the new battery would hold the charge.  It didn’t.

By the time I had stopped for lunch and groceries it went from 50% to 23%.  With NOTHING running.  We even tried a factory reset.  Still didn’t help battery power.

Late yesterday afternoon after dealing with all of this I gave up and got a new phone. 

There was nothing else left to do but plunk the money down, pay off the old phone and start new.  It bothers me how disposable electronic gadgets are these days..and I guess right around 2 years is all you are going to get out of a phone before it is too outdated for the operating system upgrade.  

Planned obsolescence.  What a concept.  I feel so guilty about adding more JUNK to the landfill piles.  Dear Samsung S7, you will make a good backup camera should I need one.  You’ve been pushed aside by my new Samsung S8+

Mama! Put the new phone down and pay some attention to me!

As I went to bed last night, I realized she was right.  

I need to take TODAY off and just do what NEEDS to be done so I can leave for Chicago with a clear conscience.   It’s another fairly long trip, I’ll be home Sunday night after a 3 guild tour.

While I was away in California there was an episode with the WN's (Wing Nuts) next door. The story was related to me by Jeff upon our drive home from the airport Thursday night.

It turns out that the OTHER neighbors (Not the WNs) got upset that the WNs had locked their dog Piper up in the front yard to "play" with Chip-in-the-pen.  We assume that Piper has since been relegated to her OWN property, and is no longer Piper-at-large because we just haven’t seen her around.

Sadie, escape artist that she is, got out one night past 10pm, and after 2am, Jeff still couldn't find her. 6:30am, he caught one WN heading off to work - turns out they brought Sadie into their house and kept her overnight! He read them the riot act. They don't have our permission to keep her when she was to use her doggy door to take care of business and come right back in.

There is now a padlock on the WN's front gate! (I guess they don't want folks to reclaim their missing dogs?)

Poor Chip in the pen was looking mighty lonely yesterday, but keeping other people's dogs locked up in your own yard is just a wrong thing to do. And it's weird.  They just need to get their own second dog instead of borrowing other people's dogs.

Back to Friday night’s sewing episode:

Have you experienced this?

I received some gifted Jelly Roll strips, and while folks tell me to “measure by the inside V’s or outside peaks” when stitching with these, I just can’t.  Can you see that there is overage on BOTH sides of this strip?  There is no way sewing with the pinking will work.

We had this issue during our Wanderlust workshop at Asilomar as well.

I trimmed off THIS MUCH to get this strip to measure 2 1/2’’!

Pre-cut strips do not necessarily measure what they are supposed to, and need to be cut to proper size before sewing if units are going to come out the right size!

If working from pre-cuts, I much prefer 10 inch squares that can be cut precisely to the sizes that I need them to be avoiding loads of frustration and loss of time.

The next time I see Jelly Roll strips trying to make a place in my strip drawers, I’m going to grab them, cut them in half and toss them into the string bins to be dealt with!

I’m feeling very sad about having to postpone Quilt-Cam until I’m back from Illinois, but this day is already a bit short-sheeted with the time change. 

I need to repack the trunk show, type up invoices, pack my own suitcase and include needed class supplies that weren’t shipped ahead and be ready for zero-dark-thirty airport departure.

A short excerpt!

But my most important job for today is finishing up the comb-through of book manuscript sent in by editor Debbie.  It was supposed to be given a good start yesterday, but phone fiasco happened.

You’ll find me at my desk reading and re-reading instead of at my machine!

But at least I’m here for it instead of trying to do it from a hotel room on the road.. 

And so happy to be in my studio, sitting at my desk, my Pandora on my Enya channel for a bit of background relaxation music – and enjoying this day at HOME.

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Today the time moved forward, and so can you!

Happy SPRING!