End of Week Update

Life has kind of been getting away from me lately. There’s not enough time in a day to do everything I load my plate with! I had an opportunity to go with some friends on a quilting retreat, but it was four days, and I had to back out because I really didn’t have time right now and I had made other commitments. I have been in a workshop for the last two days working on this:

These are the fabrics I picked out to make mine from:

From left to right is the outside, lining, and contrast (handles and piping). 

I am going back tomorrow to continue working on it—it’s slow going. I wish I could have gotten the pattern prior to taking the workshop so I could have gotten the pieces cut out and quilted. If I could have done that, there’s a chance I could have gotten it finished. I hope I’m not creating another UFO. 🤞 We’ll see!

I took my stepdad to the neurologist in Lake Jackson Tuesday, and he got a good report from his blood tests, so we don’t have to go back until December! It’s such a relief to get good news from any doctor. The doctor spent about 45 minutes talking to us about how to preserve your brain health. I’ll share it here in case anyone is interested.

1.  Healthy diet - primarily vegetarian, although he recommends eating cold-water fish six times a week.

2.  Adequate hydration.

3.  Ketogenic meal replacement once a day.

4.  Eight hours of sleep each night.

5.  Daily exercise such as walking or bike riding.

I’m not sure about the vegetarian diet—maybe I could move more in that direction, but I don’t think I will ever totally give up steak and hamburgers. I’m also not a person who is capable of sleeping eight hours a night. I have always slept about five to six hours and generally feel fine with that.

As much as I’ve been out of pocket lately, I did manage to get a quilt finished.

It’s quite large. Made for a recent high school graduate with squares depicting his interests and some squares from his late grandfather’s jeans and work shirts.

I made a flange binding from solid black and solid brown. 

Other than that, it has rained every day this week. I’m tired of it, but I’m trying not to complain since we have needed the rain. Water is standing in the backyard, so the mosquitoes are awful, and the dogs are tracking mud into the house. Oh yeah, I wasn’t going to complain. LOL.