A soft looking quilt

Hi everyone!  I finished this quilt!  Kind of 1930's, and florals mixed into it as well.  

I have the binding all ready to go as well.

 I got a squirrelish idea to make some flags.  I was off to the races and here is my progress in less than two hours.  Wow!  How fast these are to sew!!

It is deadly hot here.  My garden is turning up its toes!!!

Julie

Lots to tell!

Lots of sewing going on around here, in-between crazy other things!!!  About are my basket blocks.  All put together!  Hurrah!  Kitty is rearranging them how he thinks is best.  I am so glad for good help.  He takes a long nap in the daytime afternoons, so that is truly the only time I can lay out a quilt.  Otherwise...he thinks all things are for his enjoyment and playtime.  Isn't that true?

This is sideways, but hey.  It is done.  My hot pads are burnt up rags, so I made this one out of a leftover block and two layers of batting.  

Well, on the left side is our feral kitty Moustache Cat.  Three raccoons.  and one possum.  All having dinner together without the slightest tiff.  Plenty of food = good friendship.

 I am playing with Jacko lanterns!!!  Not quite that time yet, but it is coming fast.  So....I am making some fun ones.  Happy ones!!!

Now for the drama:

My car.  2009 Rav 4.  I loved it...good mileage, cheap to ensure, and paid for.  Sounds good, right?  Until it would not start.  Replaced the battery, and took off some ignition thing that was burnt up, and I thought all was ok.  Then?  I was driving it over to wash it at the car wash, and go to the store, and was just stopped at the light, to turn down the hill.  The car started shaking!  Hard!  Every warning light in the universe went off on the dashboard! Sputtering, a bit of smoke, and the power steering failed.  The brakes failed!!  The light turned, and I was able to turn it using super nursing powered arms.  Ha!  No kidding, I have strong arms, (turning and lifting patients did some good for them!)  and was able to steer it.  But no brakes, and I was going down the hill.  Why did the brakes fail, by the way?  No explanation of that.  Anyway, the park was coming up, and I was able to screamingly wheel into there, use the emergency brake and stop. I was definitely looked after by a higher power, as there was tons of traffic both before me and after me.  CRAZY!!!! Rush hour on a main thoroughfare.  

Tow truck was called, and they took it the Toyota dealership.  Water pump is leaking, although it had plenty of water left.  Alternator is burnt up.  I tried to jump it and somehow the jumper cables melted.  NO kidding melted!!  Total repair bill is high, in the thousands, plus 5 recall things, as well, which I had no clue of.  

In the end, they would not accept it as a trade...too old. too sick.  Poor little blue car.  I went to a lot of dealerships and drove Subaru, Honda, Prius and Toyota. Considered expensive cars, even...luxury things...SUV's...all the options.  Jeeps too.  The 17 miles per gallon stopped me there.    In the end, Toyota won out, and I bought a newer version of the same car I have had since 2009.  I actually bought it in 2008.   I am glad to have be safe with a safe car to drive again, although I will not like the payments.  Overtime shifts, here I come.

*********************Nurse's Notes********************************

I have been working ICU, which I adore.  I had a darling little twenty something-year-old girl come in, with a vague heaviness in her head.  MRI revealed a goose egg sized tumor in her brain, actually compressing her ventricles and causing left to right shift in her brain!!!

A brilliant girl, just finished with her master's degree in data analysis, and just working a year out of school...this was terrifying for her.  Alone in our country, her parents being in India.  She ended up having emergency brain surgery.  They got the tumor, encased, with no ominous tentacles of astrocytoma down deep.  Friends and community have rallied around her!!

She recognized me immediately after surgery!!  Smiles and sweetness.  I love happy endings!!!

Julie