Quilts and Dogs

 The one on the left in the photo is the cornea replacement. Can you see the stars in my eye???? Here’s the story.  He opened my eyelid stitches and left them open!!!  I can see!  Like ...

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 Finished with my eyes appointment. He opened the stitches holding my eyelids together and looked at the surface. He is very pleased because the membrane has integrated with the Eye beautiful...

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 Had my Dr Heigle appt at the crack of dawn this morning At 7:20 AM. He was very pleased with the condition of my eye.  I still have a pretty nice black  eye!  He said the swelling is less th...

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 It was a chaotic week, getting baby time in with new grandson Briggs, physicals with various doctors and meals at my favorite restaurants.   On Wednesday Nov 11, 2020 I rode up the elevator ...

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  I got woken up this morning at 7 AM by a voice saying  “This is your call!” Got the cornea transplant surgery scheduled for next Wednesday  Nov 11, 2020 Now it gets real!! My...

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 (The photo with the phone in it is a comparison between Sawyer and the new baby.) Carrie arrived at the hospital around 12:30 am. Got admitted, moved to a room and prepped.  ...

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 I have a new project putting together a Tshirt quilt for a friend’s daughter.  I should have my head examined.  Look at that sexy new look!  This is the mask I bought at the Walter An...

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 ANOTHER storm?  Give me a break.  Really, give me a break please. Meet Hurricane Zeta....

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 Swooze (aka Suzette) asked me what I bought!!!   Well.....sit back! I got a cat mask, a cat cup, a cat poster, a book on wildflowers from the Walker Anderson Museum.   A cup from Walter...

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 Me and three of my quilting friends headed to Ocean Springs on Monday last.  It was the trip that was rescheduled from Hurricane Sally.  We had weather so perfect there was only one cloud ...

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 Just to let you know that we had 6 inches of rain on Thursday night which caught everyone around here by surprise.  We had no problem but there were some low areas flooded in the city, And nea...

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 Dogs are at the vet for their protection. I can’t see out of that eye except for light and dark. If we needed to evacuate in the dark I would have a lot of problems.   It is so quiet here wi...

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 Delta. We ran out of names. It is the 7th hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast.  And a Cat 4 to boot.  Definitely not a normal year.

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 They are going to induce labour on the 3rd of Nov unless baby starts getting g too big too fast.  

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I got the flu shot two weeks ago. And the first shingrex shot yesterday. The flu shot had me aching all over for three days. The shingles shot just made  my arm have a quarter sized red spot....

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 They are talking about 20+ inches of rain in areas that are built to take rain and hurricanes.  But you can never build strong enough or high enough. So many are without power, probably near...

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 Thanks everyone for getting the shingles shots!  And thinking of me again!   I thought I’d give you a view of the Atlantic this morning. And a view of the latest Hurricane Sally track.......

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 While it is not expected (at the moment) to turn into a Tropical storm Sally. And they are thinking that Mobile will get 4 inches of rain. The place we are heading is just before Mobile in Miss...

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 Three friends and I have rented a beach house in Mississippi.  We are going to take a week for ourselves and just sew and play on the beach.  We each have our own bedroom and the common ar...

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You probably know by now that I’m fine and we missed the storm.   However, there are FOUR, count em, FOUR more storms behind that! Lordy, Lordy!  So I made ribs.  Who cares about chole...

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I SAW A MEME YESTERDAY THAT SAID NEW ORLEANS WAS MAD ABOUT THE STATE WIDE BAR CLOSING SO THEY WERE OFFERING 2 FOR 1 HURRICANES!   I wish they would stop that!   Marco came and is now out of ...

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 Even though it has been four years, it feel like yesterday.  On Tuesday we had about 3 inches of rain in an hour.  I know we needed the rain and it wasn't going to flood, it still felt like t...

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Stephanie's amazing hand work.  Started at the Festival of Quilts trip to England we took in 2019.    Don't get me wrong, it is blasted hot out there.  The thermometer reading in my ca...

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YOU CAN DO THIS FROM ANYWHERE IN THE US....MAYBE EVEN THE WORLD! AS YOU KNOW I HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE’S WORK IN THIS ORGANIZATION WORKING TO PROMOTE SPAY/NEUTER AND ADOPTION.  I HAVE SER...

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I am sorry I haven’t posted in a couple weeks.  I’ve been in a rough place lately.  My eye was bothering me again, and I seem to be having issues seeing, so I scheduled an appt with my eye ...

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