Week with snow, not much work, and visitors

The beginning of the week we had a visit from a little girl named Story, who brought her parents and her little brother Weston, who looks amazingly like his second - or is it third - cousin Evan.  Story lives on Martha's Vineyard, and was checking out the area since her mom had a great opportunity for a job here, and it looks like they will move here sometime in the summer.

We worked - although it was not overwhelming.  That's fine too, sometimes it just works that way.  It gave me a chance to visit a customer, and assure him that the quality of our work hasn't changed, like he thought, it was a flaw/fault of the material.  I was glad I could fix that misconception.

Saturday we had a visit from Andrew, who was here for the first time, and Evan and Jackson, and they brought their mom - ups, I just remembered, Andrew was here before!  My mistake.

And I worked on table runners.  Lots of fun and lots of work.  I got it in my head to use all the embroidery stitches of my sewing machines.  I had bought a 'jelly roll' of fabric I liked, I had some left over, and off I went cutting strips and sewing them together, then embroidering on the seam.  I really like the way they came out.  I made 10" by 2" strips, sewed them together first, then quilted them with the embroidery stitches directly onto batting and backing.  Lucky me, it worked out, a real quilter is probably aghast at my slap-dash method.
I started a new project as well, originally I wanted to quilt 'broken dishes', but somehow it didn't work with the fabrics I selected.  So I'm going with - I have no idea what it's called - windmills?
Anyway, what appeals to me with quilting is the random fabrics, not the pre-planned look so much.  Maybe I'll have to run the list first.

 Fun, right?

and Andrew, although he smiled a lot during this visit too, I was just far too busy admiring his smile to grab the camera!

Below one more Easter table runner.  I love them!

Oh, and before I forget, Frau Bruellen had a great idea last week, about what bloggers did all day.  Yes, I had intended to participate, but my week started with a doctor's appointment (routine), and I'm not near the Internet during the day, and too busy/tired at night to blog/tell about my day.  So I just enjoyed reading the blogs that participated.

Not so hot

I haven't been feeling on top of the world.  Plus it's been very busy.  My back is somewhat better, but not all the way yet.  We can't even find time to go to the  chiropractor.
I had pink eye!  Conjunctivitis, yup.  Woke up last Sunday with a goopy eye, it was shut, and I knew immediately that I had to go to the doctor.  Plus the cold.... Anyway, it's over, I'm better, and we actually went hiking yesterday.  And loved it!
I spent a lot of time with the new baby the last two weeks, and I enjoyed it.  I even left the camera in my purse, and just enjoyed holding him, getting him to find my face, and then smiling that big gorgeous baby smile!
Michael had an accident, that wasn't very much fun, except for the fact that he walked away without a scratch.  Car was totaled.  We already have the replacement, and it's lovely.
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A week or more later ....................

Better.  Well enough to find out way into the woods today.  The weather was/is lovely.  We changed the clocks last night, and it's already 5:20 - I hate the time change, it messes things up, it takes me a long time to get used to it.

We visited the baby and his family yesterday, everyone is fine, and he is getting big!

 Anyone remember an angry babies face?  My mother called it the 'poison dwarf' (Gift Zwerg)

Michael rough housing with two happy little boys

And Andrew with me and Michael - isn't he big?

Today we went back into the woods.  Tough hike, uphill in the snow and ice, lovely once there, but a very tough return down the mountain, we were afraid to slip and fall.  But oh so satisfying to have made it.

And before I leave all you hanging more time, I'm off on the couch nursing my sore muscles.

So sorry

Apologies for the long silence,
As always, life keeps happening.   At the moment I'm sick.  A cold, my hurting back, and to top it off, this morning I woke up with a crusty eye, which means I have pink eye or conjunctivitis.  So off to Urgent Care we'll go in a little while.  Three times weekly visits with a chiropractor are already scheduled, he told me I have an inflamed muscle in my back, and that takes time to heal.  In other words, I'm a mess.

I got a couple of questions about the dish of food I showed when we were in New York at Carmine's. that was the family style appetizer (meaning for 4 plus peaople, or for the table) of fried zucchini.  It was absolutely delicious, and flavorfull with breading and parmesan cheese.

We were invited for dinner at Nicole and Greg's last night, and it's just lovely to see the kids.  The baby is growing so fast!  Evan' vocabulary is amazing, and Jackson loves school.
We also facetimed with Noah and Katie, and it was great, the two of them are a delight.  Always smiling!

So, a lot of other things went on, but I'm busy getting better at the moment.
More next time!

Visits, snow and on and on

My back is somewhat better. Michael's daughter came Sat evening with her daughter, and both of us were 'damaged', she had a dogbite on her arm, and I had a sore back.  But we still managed to go to NYC and we saw 'Annie'.  It was great. 

Here is a photo of the stage.

And Times Square. For dinner we actually got into Carmine's, which normally requires a reservation.  Family style food, which means the portions are huge!

Such a good time and we returned tired but reenergized, the city has that effect.

Lincoln Tunnel on the way out.

Snow, the couch, and company

The couch is what I'm sitting on, I hurt my shoulder.  No idea how, it just hurts.  I am using the heating pad, taking painkillers and have a pain patch.   I cannot sew, which is the biggest upset.  I would like to finish my started presents quilt, and work on my rediscovered garage sale top, which I finished.  

But no.  I can't.  I move only a little I have to get back to the couch and rest.


Yesterday our big snow storm  started, we had winter warnings since last Monday.  Luckily we only got 10 to 12 inches, which is quite a bit, but not as bad as in Connecticut, where the governor closed all the roads.  All of them, only emergency vehicles can go anywhere.  My friend Linda called, they had 30 inches of snow.  (She lives in CT)
Michael's daughter and granddaughter are on the way here to visit, and so far it looks like all is good.  The airports were closed since yesterday afternoon, but their flight is still scheduled.  On top of it, M's daughter got bitten by a dog and had to go to the emergency room.

On the bright side, we have tickets to see 'Annie' in New York tomorrow.
As you can see, it never gets boring.
Oh, btw, I post photos  on instagram under newjerseyoma, if anyone uses that.
Signing off for now.... Stay warm!