Accomplished this week's goal!

I am finished!  My goal this week was to clean my house thoroughly.  That hadn’t been done since before my knee surgery.  Needless to say, I am exhausted.  Both my knee and hip are hurting like crazy.  Time to sit down with some ice.

I also became a plumber while cleaning.  My toilet wasn’t flushing like it should.  I talked to Kevin and Renea, and they made a few suggestions.  I came home tried what they told me, and AHA it worked.  My toilet is flushing like it should.  Y’all really needed to know that didn’t you. 😊

In between cleaning I have been going down to the She Shack.  By the way, I also cleaned that room thoroughly.  I am in the process of finishing Christmas presents.  I have also been sewing, not embroidering, a few things that I have needed/wanted.  Now that the house is clean I plan to spend more time at the She Shack.  I have more projects than I know what to do with.  I will probably be dead before I’m finished.  And….I keep buying more.

I am so far behind on my phone calls.  Next week is phone calls and shopping.  I have two lists which are very long.  I also have three bags of stuff to take to Goodwill.  Apparently, I will be busy next week also.

The brick/step guys are here today.  They built the wall along the side of my patio.  They are now building the steps out of both front doors.  I cannot use those doors/steps for 24 hours.  It’s a good thing I have a back door.

This is going to be filled with river rock.  Not sure what else I will put there.  I keep changing my mind.

My front door.  These steps will get a railing which Kevin will install.  Just have to decide what kind of railing.

This is the door to my living room which I have been using through all this construction.  There will not be a railing for just this one step.

Now that the steps and wall are finished, the next two big projects are finishing the front of the patio (that is being discussed) and cleaning up the front yard.  Contractors sure are messy!  I also need to weed my azaleas and clean up the mess in that area.


I bought a program to convert pictures and other items to PES files so I can embroider them on my machine.  I did a lot of research and picked the one that said it was easy to use, etc. etc. etc.  Well, I have been trying to convert a file, and am having no luck.  I have been working on it every evening following their instructions/directions.  I am getting very frustrated.  Apparently, I am not as computer savvy as I used to be.  I guess that happens when you haven’t worked on computers for almost twenty years.  Now it is just email, blogs, facebook and that kind of stuff.


I have been taking some quilting classes on the internet, and I am learning a lot.  I am also enjoying myself.  I have a lot of ideas and plan to be busy quilting this winter.  I would like to find some classes for my embroidery machine.  There are several things I would like to understand better.  I am having a couple of problems and don’t know how to solve them.  I asked the folks where I bought my machine, they made a few suggestions, I tried them, and they didn’t work like I wanted.  If I take classes at the place where I bought my embroidery machine I have to take my machine with me.  That would be okay except it is so heavy I can’t lift it into the car.  Kevin isn’t always around when I need it done, so I just don’t sign up for the classes.