It was a slow day yesterday. We went to church and I didn't sing. Those who know me, know that I love to sing the hymns in church, but refrained from attempting this yesterday for fear that coughing fits would overwhelm the entire congregation.
After church, I baked all the ham balls and added the glaze. We had a nice lunch and then I packaged and froze several bunches of ham balls. I did the church bookkeeping that needed to be done and then settled in to finish the binding on the Marbled Cheesecake quilt while watching football with the hubs. His team was playing. We joined a football group last fall and every member was given a team. For every point your team loses by, you owe 10 cents to the pot. I had the Carolina Panthers and I was the BIG LOSER for the season, owing the most money. At least my team is done losing money now. David has the Buffalo Bills and they won yesterday and are looking like a good team for the Super Bowl. Now, you would think this would be a good thing, but if your team makes it to the Super Bowl, you are in charge of organizing the group activities and hosting the Super Bowl party next year. So, this is one of those instances when striving for mediocrity is a good thing. I am starting to get very concerned about his team making it (I know they would have to defeat our beloved Chiefs to do this, but I think there is a strong possibility of this happening.) to the Super Bowl and I don't want to have to host the party next year.
Mabel joined in trying to support the other team.
I finished the binding on Marbled Cheesecake and didn't even see the end of the game because I promptly napped under the newly finished quilt. Hey, you have to make sure it's a good one, right!
All of the blues are batik scraps. Most of it came from leftover jellyroll strips. I especially love the quilting pattern called ocean waves. My waves are running up and down the quilt since I loaded it in the longarm sideways................no, it wasn't all the medication I was taking, that was the actual plan.
After my nice long nap, we made some supper snacks and watched an episode of Home Town. Then, since I was so well rested, I made a batch of banana bread and went to the sewing room to start cutting Randolph & Rudy. I cut the backgrounds for all the heads and then cut enough to make 3 of the Randolph (bear) heads. I think I will sew those up first and then cut some more. There are about a million little pieces in this quilt, so it might be easier to keep things straight but cutting a little at a time. And no word yet as to the mystery piece of mushroom fabric.
David is taking all the recycling to town today (I don't know how 2 people can make so much trash), and then he's going to smoke some cream cheese for me. I only need a couple of blocks and it seemed a waste of good smoke not to do more, so I sent a query out to my guild on facebook and now he's doing 16 blocks which I can deliver at guild tomorrow night. This means a quick trip to Walmart this morning to pick up more cream cheese - yes, and the big question - will Walmart actually have 16 bricks of cream cheese? You'll just have to wait and see!
Piano lessons are resuming today. I hope I'm up for it. And bell choir is starting this evening. I'm guessing I'll be snoozing in the recliner this evening.
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