I LIKE Thursday #270

 

Shared from Tiny Buddha!

I didn’t post last week. So I’m answering both questions this week. 

Feb 19 2026

what was your favorite subject in school... elementary, high school, or college... or did your favorite subject change over time? what was the teacher like? do you still have an interest in that subject?

I liked school! I liked English mostly. Elementary, I’m sure it was reading, High School it was English. I was in Advanced Placement English and Math. But dropped the AP math my senior year. I didn’t go to college but took some adult education Bookkeeping courses.

Feb 26 2026

what is the most adventurous thing you've ever done? 

It’s a tie between snorkeling in the Caribbean and taking a motorcycle trip from Wyoming, ferrying across Lake Michigan on to Niagara Falls, back to Indiana to a Gold Wing Rally then home to Wyoming. 

Neither one very adventurous!

This week’s likes were sort of fun. My birthday was Monday. I received two handmade cards from 2 friends. 

Mr Busy bought me flowers!  These are my favorite. Lilacs, purple, and no scent because they are paper. 

I received this gorgeous bouquet from my local granddaughter and her family.

We had some warmer temperatures this week, but there was some wind. Sun and wind takes the snow away. And along with it the icy roads and walkways. 

Just tiny bits of snow left. 

This week I’m working on my Stay At Home Round Robin. Photos this weekend. 

Reading a new book!  For my F2F Book Club. 

I’m just getting started. I think it’s predictable….we will see!

Tuesday night we decided not to watch the State of the Union Address. Instead we watched Song Sung Blue on Peacock. Starring Hugh Jack and Kate Hudson. It has been years since I cried watching a movie. This one brought tears. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful

I LIKE THURSDAY #32

 I Like linking up with LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color to share the positive likable things that surrounded me lately!

This week's things are random as they happened. And my camera roll recorded them! 

Tuesday was my birthday!  In the mail,  this cup and key chain arrived!  From my ex-DIL!  That was unexpected. She and our son have been divorced for 5 years. 

The key chain says. "Beautiful Things come together One Stitch at a time!"  And then it also has tiny charms, a sewing machine, a scissors and a quilt block. So sweet of her to do that!

I got the quilt done for the newest great nephew and it is on its way to Minnesota. It should arrive today! 

Front is Wiggle Time by Cynthia Brunz and the back is a panel from Connecting Threads. 

I'm sure some of you are tired of seeing this. But for me to do a quilt, start to finish in one month is rare!

We got our 2nd Covid vaccine. It was so easy!  The process was well orchestrated by our County Health Department and the Emergency Management Department.  And we had little or no side effects. 

My family that relocated to Florida just one year ago this month, sent this beautiful cheery bouquet for my birthday!.  Then "just us girls and the great grands" Zoomed for over an hour. They sang Happy Birthday to me and we talked and talked and talked!

While we talked on Zoom. Mr Busy worked on the Dogs Galore puzzle.  He did peek in on the Zoom meeting a little, because the great grands, asked. "Where's Pa?"  After lunch we finished this challenge of a puzzle!  Hooray! This picture shows 3 pieces still to be placed, but it is DONE!

Mr Busy said I didn't have to cook Tuesday night, so we ordered Applebee's Carside to Go!  That was nice. 

And then our son called me and wished me Happy Birthday too!  It was a very good birthday. 

We washed the car yesterday. It was chilly but the roads are all dry, so it seemed like a good time to get that Equinox cleaned up.

The dog puzzle came apart and went back in the box. It will be shared with my friend and her husband as soon as he is ready. He is recovering from foot surgery, so he has been busy with puzzles.  He's much better at them than Mr Busy and me. I wonder how long this one will take him?

We are watching Everwood on Prime.   And the new season of  For All Mankind on Apple TV+.

Mr Busy finished LONG RANGE by C.J. Box and is waiting on the his new release. It's not available on LIBBY yet!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Finished or Not Friday Feb 2020

Linking up with Alycia's Finished or Not Friday! 

Even if today is Saturday!  LOL!


I have a photo of my garlic knot flimsy, if by chance you haven't already seen it 17 times already! 

And a completion.  A book pillow aka tablet pillow for our young great granddaughter. They are leaving our area, moving to Florida. Her older brother has one and I thought this might make a loooong car ride a bit easier for all.

It's not like she doesn't like books, here proof:

reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to her mom over the phone. 

but she does like learning on the tablet too!  And there will be lots of hours to fill! 


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

ps: last Sunday was my birthday, I have to share this card from my sister:

my friends would laugh if they knew I was a blogger too!

Finish It Up Friday and Finished Or Not Friday 11-2018

I am always glad to have a plan.  I was hoping to have lots of photos to show on this first Friday of the month post.  You know what they say about best laid plans.

We traveled the first part of October and visited our son and daughter. Our son had a milestone birthday and is by himself. So of course I made him a quilt. He lives in Phoenix, a may not really need a quilt.  But now he has one!

We were home for one week and I was planning lots of projects for a 4 day retreat in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming (it's my home state and only 60 miles from home). We always have lots of fun and usually accomplish a great deal. But the Friday before the Monday of our first day, they had a water well or water line problem and had to cancel. Because they also host hunters and hunting season is in full swing in this area, we could not reschedule right away.  Now we are looking at a couple of option in the coming 3 months..but driving is "iffy" in Dec and January.  It could be lovely, but it could also be treacherous. I am not sure what we will decide. We meet on Wed the 7th for our regular monthly get-together.

One of my project to do at the retreat was to have 8 blocks complete for CiL Block Drive.

These are Grown Up  I Spy blocks. You can read more about this project here and  here. They have been sent off to Kat.   The new block drive is in full swing and I am gathering fabric for it.

The last Friday of October, my sister lost her husband of 31 years. He had been failing for a while, but boy is it hard!  I want to "hover" and "be there", but she is 2 hours away and hates to be "hovered over"  So I will be available to talk, to text, to support her in any way I can.

And now it is November and there are lots of new challenges to keep me busy. My new One Monthly Goal is to get HALF of Rick Rack Nines put together.  You can see my post about that one HERE. 

I have a local challenge due to be revealed on the 18th of this month at our Quilt Chicks gathering.
It is this quilt and it is done.

The stripe binding is laying on the top in this photo but it is quilted and bound. I know I have a photo of it complete, but I can't find it this morning. I will take a picture at the reveal day and then I will have one.

binding the Magnolia Quilt

My project #4 for the All People Quilt UFO challenge is to make a heart shaped large pincushion. It is ready to go.  I have had this fabric for maybe 15 years, it's time to use it!

Sew it's time to get busy and finish up some projects. And Christmas is only 7 Fridays away.!!



Stay Busy and Stay Happy

I'm linking up with Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts, Finish It Up Friday and 

Myra at Busy Hands Quilts, Finished or  Not Friday

OH, and I finished reading the Storyteller by Jodi Picoult and The Dry by Jane Harper.  Both really good. 

September One Monthly Goal and some other challenge goals.

This month is going to be busy!  A new One Monthly Goal, A New Color for RSC18, A new block for Sept-Oct for CiL, a new project for All People Quilts UFO 2018 Challenge, a trip to Phoenix for our son's 50th birthday, our great grandson's 5th birthday, Mr Busy's 74th birthday, Oh My!!!!!!!!


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1.  One Monthly Goal for September:   My Thursday Stitchers group has decided to do a traced design exchange for Christmas. So far there are 8 members participating, but I am sure a few more will jump on the bandwagon before too long. So that means I have at least 7 copies to make of this design I downloaded from Jenny of ELEFANTZ's  Craftsy page.

I'll need to make 8 if I want one for myself to stitch in 2019. We will exchange the "traced on fabric" designs in early December. We have a few members that travel for the weeks around the holiday. Our only criteria, is to make sure the design is free, or that you have permission from the designer to share. We do not sell or profit from these stitcheries.
So my September OMG is to get 6 of these traced. Then I will have another month or so to catch up, before December.
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2. The new color for RSC18 is Dark Blue or Dark Neutral ( meaning Black or Brown, I think). Not started yet, but I am making Slab/Crumb blocks.  So it will be ongoing for the month.

3. The new CiL block is an Adult I spy block!  Check out Kat's post here!

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4. APQ UFO Challenge 2018 for September:  Project #2 was picked. My challenge list #2 is to make 2 wall hangings or small quilts from 2 Christmas panels I purchased several years ago with the intent to gift to my son and DIL and my daughter and SIL.  They, unfortunately ( or fortunately, however you want to look at it) are now both divorced. So I will make them anyway, gift them to the son and daughter! I planned to use the Sidelights pattern shown here, but I have not yet purchased or looked for coordinating fabric.

I am linking this post up with Patty at the OMG-September Link Up. 

So..........................
Stay Busy and Stay Happy