My sweet Archer, who passed away from diabetes and congestive heart failure back in December, loved blankies … especially little quilts that his Mommy made for him. I had made him a new one using Moda’s Oh My Dog! line, but he passed away so unexpectedly I didn’t have a chance to get it quilted before he died.
And here’s a close-up of the one of the little doggies in the fabric. To me they look like little dachshunds!
While straightening up the office this afternoon I came across this fun old picture of our first apartment in Tiffin, Ohio … What fun to think back to that simpler time!
If you’ve watched the photos in my little photo gallery (over to the left of these daily posts), you’ll see that Toby is the black & white dachshund. We’ve been able to stretch out the pain killers to every 3 hours on Sunday and yesterday. Today we’re hoping to stretch that out to about 3½ hour intervals! He’s still getting the muscle relaxers 3 times a day, the anti-inflammatory twice a day (2 each time), the nerve medicine 4 times a day, and the increased level of Pepcid to help protect his tummy.
My maternal grandmother is a turtle collector. Well, not the real ones, but every other kind … plastic, rubber, cloth, etc. etc. etc. Her latest acquisition is a 2 foot tall figure that “watches over” her front garden bed. The neighbor kids, thinking it was real, even asked if they could bring a camera and have their pictures taken with it. So when it came time for me to make a gift for grandma for her birthday in December of 2006, I found a fun block on the internet called “Not Your Mother’s Turtle”. This is my look back project of the day. Considering the recipient, I took the liberty of changing the name of the block for this one item to “Not Your GRANDmother’s Turtle”. You can’t really see it in the picture (you can barely see it on the fabric itself), but I did use one of the pre-set stitches on my Bernina to create two circles to act as the eyes of the turtle.
What a cute little video that everyone has been passing around. http://b-quilts.com/blog/?p=798
Maybe now that my computer situation is on its’ way to being under control, I can start posting my daily pictures of quilts that I’ve made. So today’s look back in time is to my Nickel Pinwheel quilt that I did back in October of ‘08. This is just the top, it has not been quilted yet. This larger-than-lap sized quilt was done in 1930’s nickels that I had been collecting. Outside of the pinwheels I added a white border, with a blue border and an additional white border to finish it off.
I finished transferring the files from the old hard drive to the new. So today I spent the entire day checking everything, and backing up stuff that hadn’t been backed up. B-O-R-I-N-G, but necessary.
Friday night and ALL DAY Saturday were spent transferring my files off of the old hard drive over to the new hard drive that the tech. guy installed Thursday. The good news is that I was able to retrieve just about all of my files. The bad news is that I lost ALL of my email and entire address/contact book from Outlook and all of my AOL stuff (which was a ton of stuff). Uggh!
Toby had a fairly comfortable day yesterday until we hit about 6:30 p.m., and then he was suffering a lot. :(
It’s never a good thing to get the “blue screen of death” … but that’s what happened a couple of days ago. So my main computer has been out of service for the last few days. The tech. guy installed my new hard drive yesterday afternoon, and last night and today I’ve started slowly but surely putting “Humpty back together again”.
Toby is still in incredible pain … He’s now on a cocktail of Tramadol, Pepcid, Methocarbomol and Prednisone.
