First, here is the little Superbowl Sunday quilt, completely finished.
It's so pretty, thanks to the Moda Charm Square pack.
I did learn a valuable lesson, though. Don't write out a quilt label while you are messaging with the Beach Girls about March appointments for haircuts. You WILL put the wrong date on the label.
I figured it was close enough that I was not writing out another one.
BIRTHDAY!!!
In the middle of a pandemic, I managed to have my 65th birthday yesterday. Yay me!!
As I have been saying for months, YES, I had Bailey's in my coffee (and a little Kahlua, too 😉). I waited until 10 a.m. and celebrated with the Beach Girls on a video chat. The super-special part was an in-person gift dropoff, which was in addition to the extra bits that came early in the mail.
I also had a long-time customer drop off a gift a few days early, with explicit instructions to wait until my birthday before I opened it. Hah. This made me laugh out loud!
Where on earth she found that notebook... ??? She is well aware that I have a penchant for shoes so this did not disappoint. 😁 The bottom of the shoes are covered in sparkly stick-ons, so now
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes is stuck in my head. Love Paul Simon 💗. I called and left her a slightly drunken thankyou message, which apparently made HER husband laugh. Sigh. Oh well. I've embarrassed myself in worse ways.
My standards have really dropped with Covid lockdowns, going on a full year now. My request for birthday dinner ... Swiss Chalet. Hah! DH and I worked together this afternoon and made a cheesecake for dessert. We didn't kill each other, and the cake is extremely good.
My first retirement project is all lined up and paid for...it's a 6 week writing class, starting the end of March. If I manage to learn something, maybe there will an improvement in the quality of my blog posts. Fingers crossed.
COVID-19 UPDATE
There are a couple of gals from somewhere around here who are booking quilt trunk shows/lectures and running them on zoom, so I paid my $10 and spent 90 minutes watching Victoria Findley Wolfe. Well worth the money, since we can't go anywhere..
WORLDWIDE: 113.9 million cases, 2.5 million deaths, 369,000 new cases Feb. 13/21
USA: 28.5 million cases, 512,300 deaths, 73,000 new cases yesterday
CANADA: 870,500 cases, 22,000 deaths, 2,068 new yesterday
ONTARIO: 305,000 cases, 6,960 deaths, 1,147 new yesterday.
HAMILTON: 10,457 cases, 283 deaths, 28 new yesterday
