Okay, well maybe not "triomphe" yet, but close.
It looks like I'll need 194 arcs for this quilt. If anyone has made one and wants to check my math, that would be great. It's 7 blocks by 6 blocks. I have 146 completed and another 24 half completed. They really do go fast when you have everything prepped. Unfortunately, I have to stop and cut fabric again. 194 arcs takes a lot of 2.5" squares and I'm trying to be careful about variety. I looked at arcs the other day because there were some I liked better than others. I ended up setting aside the darkest and lightest squares. I love mediums and this is a chance to let that flag fly.
We're thinking about background now. This is the original brown I had chosen, but Rob is thinking maybe a gray, so I'm going to lay some arcs out on a couple of different grays and see what he thinks. I think he's thinking of something a little less traditional.
We both had Monday off for MLK day and then Rob was home Tuesday due to icy roads. We had "snow", but it didn't cover the whole yard. The ground was still too warm for it to stick most places, but it was more than willing to melt on the road and then re-freeze.
The only drawback to working from home is there are no snow days. But, when I weigh that snow day against all the days I don't have to go to the office, it works out. Believe me.
We had the greenhouses all snug as a bug. Everything thrived. We uncovered everything Saturday as we're not supposed to have freezing temps this week.
I don't post pics of Bella often. She's been "old". But, she is getting more curious and more active. She's having more trouble jumping places, but for the most part, we enjoy watching her play with Dottie. They look so vicious jumping and leaping at one another and wrestling around. Bella is 15. Dottie turned 1 last week.
I'm sure we all spent last week waiting for the nightmare to get really scary. It hasn't. Yet. And, still we wait. Some of his nonsense will be impossible to enforce (I don't know about you, but it's always going to be the Gulf of Mexico to me). Some, he may not be able to pull off, like mass deportations. I suspect they'll round up some criminals and that will be that. Token service provided. So far, what I'm reading on social media is the solution to high egg prices is no eggs are available. It's not a problem he could solve in a week. We all knew that. But he SAID he could solve it in a week. And, he didn't.
He did give us another 'nasty woman' to look up to.
Still have it in my head that we'll survive. Going to do my best. And, if ICE asks, I don't know and I don't remember. I watched a video provided by a law firm a couple weeks ago. A very respectable older couple of attorneys giving advice. One would spell out a situation. The other would tell what to do, and what they said do in every situation was to "shut the fuck up". Passive resistance. It was hilarious because it was like watching your Grandparents use the F word. But, it was real.
Everybody have a great week. Live up to your higher potential. We win this by sticking together, no group left behind. That means you might have to stand up for something you find personally distasteful. Bite the bullet. Only compromise your beliefs for the right reasons. Find something to ground yourself in.
Lane
3 comments:
I hadn't seen that Johnson post before. I'm glad that you included it. I didn't have much respect for him before, but for someone to claim to be a Christian, it just shows he is worshipping the wrong person. I also liked the commentary for the Bishop.
I admire your quilting. Thanks for all you share.
Your arcs certainly look triumphant to me! It will be interesting to see how they look on gray. My husband and I both loved the quip at the end about the man who bought a newspaper daily, looking for an obituary. We can relate!
It hasn't gotten really scary yet for you? Well, I guess that's good. One of my siblings was supposed to be transferred and that is frozen now: Has a federal job and has been working in a different state for 3 years, was supposed to move home to live with spouse and kids in 3 weeks and so just let go of out-of-state apartment. I work entirely on research funded by the National Science Foundation. Late yesterday, it was announced that all meetings to award new funding are on hold, and we can't even tell whether previously-awarded grants are allowed (as in, will NSF transfer the grant money that was approved 5 years ago?). Some NSF grants were cancelled on Friday. Cancelled! In Year 3 of a 6-yr program. That doesn't happen. All the people I know at various DEI programs of federal agencies/offices are on administrative leave. They can't be hired into other positions because of the federal hiring freeze, and they expect to be terminated as soon as the government can process that paperwork. Last time, their incompetence meant none of this type of thing happened till the last 6 mos of the administration. Now? It's Week One operating procedure. I'm not evening mentioning anything that I don't personally know about, and all this is professional/work-related. It feels plenty scary to me for being only 8 days in. Okay, well, I'm going to go repair my dog's winter coat because that feels like the best use of my time and effort for this moment! Best to you and yours, Lane. I know you'll find things to keep your hands busy too.
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