Hope Everyone is Well

Still spending most of my time at home.  I have finished the two lap quilts I have been making. I did the quilting myself with my regular sewing machine.  No one around here is doing long arm quilting right now so I had to improvise.  Didn’t turn out too bad.

This is mine:

This is Jana’s.  I actually took a picture of both sides of Jana's.  I forgot to take a picture of my reverse side.  It is also Christmas design.

I have started working on my Twelve Days of Christmas wall hanging. Here is a picture of what I have done so far.  I took it with my phone and I am not very good at taking pictures with my phone.  

I watch a lot of videos on You Tube and then I improvise as to what I want.  I don’t always follow the directions.

I have several other projects in the works, but I can’t tell you what they are. It’s a secret.  Christmas gifts.

I am almost finished weeding the azalea bushes.  I have one more area to tackle.  It is mostly those vines.  I keep putting it off, but I guess I better get it done. A couple of days ago Kevin and Renea went to Lowe’s.  While there they bought me some potting soil and flowers to plant in my containers.  Now I just have to get that done.   

Still ordering my groceries from Kroger and picking them up.  This works just fine.  Last week I had to get gas (I hate their new pumps).  Worked out well.  I wore my mask and gloves.  I noticed most of the women pumping gas did the same.  The men not so much.

I had my six month checkup with the cardiologist yesterday.  Nothing has changed.  Still have the same problems, but they have not gotten any worse.  Of course, you had to go through a check point when you enter the building.  They have one door to enter and one to exit.  When you enter the nurses there check your temperature, ask a lot of questions, then ask why you are there.  They then put a wrist band on you with the information as to who you are going to see.  Everyone had on a mask and practiced social distancing.  Worked out quite well.

I noticed while driving to and from his office that there was a lot more traffic, and a lot more businesses were open.  The restaurants were still drive thru only.

I stopped at the bank to make a deposit.  They had four lanes open, and all were busy.  You still could not go inside.  Next stop was Walgreen’s to pick up my medicine refills.  I was shocked that it only took me five minutes to go thru their drive thru.  I had planned on at least an hour.  I have never gotten thru there that fast.  Maybe because they were allowing customers inside.

Still attending Mass online.  Our church has not opened yet.  I even checked their sister church and they are not open either.  That church is St. Joseph and located in Ft. Mitchell.  There were several Masses listed on their website, but it didn’t say they were or were not open.  Not sure if any of the other Catholic churches are either.  I do know that several Baptist Churches and Landmark Church is open.  The all have to abide by certain regulations.  The Archbishop in Mobile has said the Catholic Churches can open, but must follow certain regulations.

Stay safe and healthy y’all.  I sure am trying to do so.  The only people I see on a semi-regular basis is Kevin and Renea.   No hugging though. 

Still Doing Self-Quarantine

I decided it’s about time I get back to my blog.  Enough of this self-quarantine.  Well, sort of.  I am still not comfortable going out and about.  When I do go anywhere I wear a mask.  The only places I go is to Kevin and Renea’s (no mask).  I do not go there if they are having anyone else visiting.  Also, they come to visit me.  They have been checking on me this whole time.  I also have been picking up my groceries from Kroger.  I order online and then they load my groceries into my car.  I always wear a mask.  One other thing I have done is pick up an order of Zaxby’s at the drive thru window.  Again, wearing a mask.  So far so good.

I did go to the doctor last week.  That was interesting.  I had to wait in the parking lot until the nurse came out to get me.  Everyone wore a mask, including me.  A nurse came out to the car and took my temperature (by ear).  All went well.  I am fine. 

I haven’t physically been to Mass since the middle of March.  The church I attend here in Alabama (St. Patrick’s) does not have Mass on the internet.  The first two weeks I attended Mass on the internet by going to St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in Cincinnati, OH.  Since then I have been attending Mass at St. Jude’s which is in Bridgetown (Cincinnati) OH.  I even attended all the Holy Week Services at St. Jude’s.  This is the sister church of St. Aloysius where my sister attends.   I really like Father Jim.  Not sure when they will start having Mass here in Alabama, or how it will be handled.  I may be attending Mass online for a while. 

We had several weekends of bad weather, i.e. tornadoes, hail, wind, rain, etc.  Had to spend some time at Kevin and Renea’s (both Penny and me).  Scary is too mild a word, but we came thru just fine.  Lost a lot of tree branches, but that was about it for us.

I have been doing a lot of quilting these past two months.  I have made several sets of placemats and two lap quilts.  I have been watching a lot of You Tube videos, and have many ideas for more projects. 

The weather has been nice lately so I have been getting outside.  Every couple of days I water the trees and bushes that Kevin planted.  These are trees and bushes we get from the Arbor Society.  I have also been watering the ones we transplanted when I had the new patio poured.  Most of them are doing fine.  Out of the three Franklin trees it looks like only one survived.  This is the last time we are going to try these.  I also lost one of my tulip trees.  I was surprised because the other two are fine.  Not sure what happened.

I also started weeding the azalea bushes.  I can’t believe they survived.  However, once I started pulling the grass and weeds from around them I could see them and they are starting to look good.  My biggest problem is there is some kind of vine with little thorns growing through them.  Hurts like heck to get them out.  But, I am succeeding.

That’s about it for now.  Hope everyone is healthy.  Stay safe.