Golden Canada

My goodness once they got over the "own the podium" hype they got down to business. 14 Gold medals. Not bad.

Our own NS son Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal in an OT hockey game against the US. I think everyone was glued or in close proximity to a television.
Good Job!

On a roll?

I wonder if the Canadian Olympic team is on their roll now. A gold last evening for Woman's hockey and a Bronze for Woman's figure skating.
There may have been more medals yesterday but I am not glued to watching the events.

This will be a sewing day it is raining buckets and any snow should be gone by the end of this storm.

I hope to finish a quilt top that has been in the works for a long time. I was ready to put the borders on last night but decided to change a block which was not in keeping with the rest of the top.
It would be a real plus to actually get the top sandwiched and basted, but I don't want to be too optimistic.

I have also made some little fabric boxes, I found  this tutorial on a blog and the embellishments were from Jenny of Elephantz, here.  She has lovely ideas.  I have used them to showcase FQ's. They look much better than plastic containers.

George and Gracie

Here is a photo of the two pups, this was shot last week just before Gracie had a facial and we discovered that she has two eyes. They are growing in leaps and bounds.

At the moment they are trying to figure out who the dogs are that are seen in the door of the stereo!

It is a conundrum for them that is for sure, but whoever those dogs are, they seem to be friendly.

Falling behind

I definitely am Not a good blogger, it has been months since I posted anything. What can I say?

Well in October we had a family wedding in Toronto and then another celebration here. That was lots of fun. We had visitors from NZ and Italy,and various Canadian provinces.

November we recovered from the wedding and celebrated year 42 of wedded bliss.
And I had to do something for Christmas, like buy gifts, send cards, wrap gifts. all that stuff that we put ourselves through.

December our poor old dog Jake was quite ill and he crossed the Rainbow Bridge the week before Christmas. My that was a hard time, his heart just gave up pumping. We certainly miss him.

January came and so did two new puppies George and Gracie. They are 12 week old Shih-Tzu mainly, but George appears to have some other breed in him. I guess there was hanky-panky in the porch 'cause both parents are Shih-Tzu.

February is training, and washing piddles off floors and training and washing floors. You get the picture.
When I remember how to post a photo I'll upload one.

Meantime I have been sewing and quilting and now I am taking a Trapunto Machine Quilting course. That is fun.

Hopefully I'll post again before another month.