A Busy Week

I haven’t posted anything here in a week, but I’ve been super busy with a variety of things. I had a goal for last weekend to get the logging on quilt finished piecing. I think it was my January goal from one of my UFO lists. I was able to finish it Sunday.

I wanted a piano key border, but I didn’t have enough strips left of the pioneer woman fabric, so I came up with a way to make it work. I think now I would rather have the strips on the top left and bottom right corners, but I’m not changing it. Now to get it quilted. 

On Monday and Wednesday, I got a couple of customer quilts finished. Quilted and bound.

Kathryn had her senior prom last weekend. She wore the dress my daughter wore to her junior prom.

I can’t believe it was long enough, but surprisingly, I didn’t have to do any alterations. This may be the first year I didn’t have to make modifications. We have been looking for a picture of Julia in the dress, but we haven’t been able to find one. ☹️

On Tuesday, I worked at church with my sewing group. We only worked until noon, and for the life of me, I can’t remember what I did in the afternoon. It may have been yard work. There was one day that I got all my weed and feed put down and watered in.

Wednesday evening, I cooked tacos at the church.

I also made charro beans, Kim made Mexican street corn, and Mary made homemade bean dip. A lot of people brought desserts. It was our last Lenten meal. Next week is Holy Week, and we don’t do a meal then. The Easter season is a beautiful time in the church calendar, and I really do enjoy it. 

Thursday I took a friend to Sugarland for a medical procedure, and that was an all-day affair. I was so tired when I got home, and I was still tired on Friday, so not much got done. I did go to the International Festival at the university on Friday evening. My mom went with me and we met some friends there. 

They had a nice variety of food. I can’t remember what all I had, but there was a rice dish from Africa, a bean salad from Peru ((really good), egg noodles with mushroom gravy from Germany, empanadas from Spain, and some kind of little fried rice balls from India. I can’t remember the name of them, but they were served with a cilantro sauce.

I couldn’t get a picture of the food without holding up the line. 

There was a pretty good turnout, I thought.

You can go to each individual station and learn more about the country. The countries correspond to the international students who are attending UHV. These handsome boys are from Mexico.

There were also some performances. These girls, I think, were from one of the South American countries. 

And, this was a mixed group from India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. 

I made a small video of them dancing, but I can’t get it to load. Sorry about that. 

So, it’s been a busy week for me. I have tried to keep up with laundry and housework, but I have failed on both counts. There’s a load in the washer while I’m working on this post. I will get up in a minute and move it to the dryer. I’m hoping I can finish vacuuming today and get the floors mopped. That’s my main goal.