After scheduling several groomers that cancel last minute or no show, I finally found a recommended groomer at my daughters shop. Poor Argus pulls his hair put when it’s long and has made so many hot spots he had to be cut really short so they would heal. You don’t realize how skinny he is until you cut his hair. Now he loves his blankie. Here’s his before and after.

With the help of friends basting, I was finally able to finally finish a few quilts for the prayer quilt ministry. The heart bargello and red bird 4 patch posey came out much prettier than I expected. I hope they bring some comfort to the recipients.

Here we are almost half way thru 2025 and once again I kind of forget I have a blog. Honestly I don’t think my life is exciting enough to blog about and that is likely why I don’t remember to do it. If you aren’t interested in quilting or pets, I likely don’t have much to offer the average reader.

Our saddest news of 2025 is our sweet Kiljeadean (aka Killy) went over the rainbow bridge 2 weeks ago. She was one of the best cats I’ve had and I hope I gave her the best I could for 13 years or so. I think the boys miss her as much as I do. They spent days looking for her around the house.

You’re probably thankful now that this is my last update. The ladies at church had a bake sale couple of weeks ago to raise funds for the angel tree. The angel tree provides gifts for children that might not get much at home. I wish more thought of Christmas as more than gifts for people. I made cupcakes and brownies and I’m told they sold pretty well. Not bad for a non-baker haha.

I think I have covered most of the year all in one day of posts lol. We did have trunk or treat at church and I took my pirate car again. Brenda and her hubby came and helped hand out candy. We even took my skeleton and I named her mistress Marilyn. She got a lot of rave reviews but you know you’re a hit when the pastor comes by to give you a kiss. Brother Joe with Mistress Marilyn.

I think I left out the hurricane. We are truly blessed that we only got the outskirts of it as it would have demolished our areas. We had main highways flooded over with water and unusable for days. Power outages that lasted 5 and 6 days. Many people in our neighborhood had flooded homes and water that didn’t dry out for 3 weeks and more. Many places were so bad they had to be pumped dry. Pinellas county had areas that were completely gone but we are thankful more lives weren’t lost. Things can be replaced. Took us about 3 days just to clean up the yard debris. This was just the first pile but we are not complaining. Many had tress in their house.

Not much else going on but we did have a very nice Thanksgiving. Robert smoked the meats and Shannon and I cooked the sides. Wouldn’t you agree they cooked way to much for 3 people? But hey, we didn’t have to cook the rest of the weekend. it was a nice quiet holiday.

Oh and the weather got cooler so the dogs geared up in their jammies. Don’t ask where Merlin is. That little emo drama king won’t wear jammies, or anything for that matter. He’d rather freeze.

I have given a quilt to Marilyn, Claudia and Brenda and this one was for Pam. I am not a fan of pink but it is her favorite color so I used pink. And wow. I absolutely love how the quilt came out. As much as I dislike pink, I go back and look at the picture often. Pattern wasn’t that well written but I still think I’ll make another one day. When I finish it I’ll show you what I made with the leftovers.

This one I made for myself. I don’t love making half square triangles but I loved the look of this pattern. It now hangs above my bed as a headboard.

These are just some that were finished this year. They were prayer quilts for church members or family of members. I have 4 more waiting for quilting that I hope I get to before the end of the year. That prayer quilt list is getting longer. I hope they are all loved.

I made a hexagon in the past using this fabric line and someone asked if I could make another they could buy. Rather then redo something similar, I used the same fabric but decided to try the new trend of adding a panel to the center of a one block wonder. I don’t mean to sound like I’m bragging but I absolutely love how this turned out. My son in law did as well and since the fabric was no longer available, I gave him the second set of fabrics I bought to make myself one. He is almost finished with his. The lady that ordered it was very happy.