Sunday was a good day!

My husband is not a avid sports fan but he did watch the Superbowl today and so I had a quiet afternoon to sew. I made another fur baby dress for a lady on my poodle forum. It is a bit different from the other two and I still want to add some pearls or something to it so I will post a photo later. Sassy hates it when I sew as she cannot sit beside me or in my lap, lol.

I love canasta and I have a friend near Chicago and we play several games a night and on weekends we play afternoons. I love playing on Pogo.com and like the sounds as the cards are shuffled and played. We played a lot today. It is so relaxing.

If you drop by my blog here, be sure to look at my little fur baby dresses on my other one. I will be adding more soon.

http://caninecouturesfromsassys.blogspot.com/

My day was not how I planned it. My fibromyalgia and arthritis have been worse due to more snow in the mountains just behind us. So, I decided to sleep in and then bake some pies. My thought of doing a good house dusting and dog grooming today went out the window.

Apples are very available here in the "apple valley" in Yakima. We get all we need free year round. I also have frozen peaches that were locally grown and I have not had peach in some time. My husband loves apples but is not that crazy about peach since he picked peaches for spending money as a child. I decided to make one of each.

It smells to good in here and I can't wait to slice into that peach pie. Pull up a chair, sit yourself down and share a piece of pie with me won't you?

Tomorrow I will catch up on what I didn't get done today. For now I am just going to relax.

Friday

Friday I have to get busy and sew again as I have an order for one more Valentine dress for a beautiful little poodle.

I am having so much fun with this. Although I have always sewn I never thought of desiging, lol.

Today I got my laundry and house done so that I can just devote my time to this project Friday.

Today I finished that little fur baby dress that I had so much hassle over the sewing machine with. This one is for my secret Valentine on a poodle forum that I belong to.

Ever have one of those days?

Have you ever had one of those days when you started out just knowing you were going to accomplish great things and then everything went down the tubes?

Today was one of those days for me. Some time back I "thought' that my sewing machine was out of time. I have not gotten out in the cold to take it to the repair shop but NO problem. My sister-in-law gave me hers as she does not sew and said she never wanted to see it again. So fine, I have an alternative machine and I have to finish the project I am working on for my secret Valentine on a poodle forum I belong to so that I can mail it Tuesday when we go into town.

I sat up my table and my iron, everything I needed to jump right in. I have my project about 3/4 done so I am thinking this is going to be easy. Wrong! At the first stitch my SIL machine (now mine too) decided that its wheels are going to lock up solid and that is that.

I worked on it, my husband worked on it until we were both blue in the face. At this point knowing mine has not worked in months I decide that I will try it one more time. By this time 3 hours have passed. So, I drag everything out of my closet to get to my sewing machine and get it set up.

A little voice goes off in my head, "Look at the manual, just perhaps you have it threaded wrong." By this time I am nervous and frantic but I get out the manual and sure enough, all these months all that was wrong with mine was one tiny misplaced threader I had not seen.

Tomorrow morning I will finish my project and the next time I will certainly read the manual. And we say men don't read directions, lol.

Winter 2008-09 in Washington State

I love the snow, always have. When I was younger I loved to walk in the deep snow even during a driving snow storm. I don't do that these days, but I still love the snow. If it is going to be wintry, dark and cloudy then I say let it come! These days I'd rather sit inside in my comfortable recliner not far from the wood stove and just observe.

We've had quite our share in Washington state this winter already and at last it was beginning to slowly melt away. But, this morning we got up to freshly fallen snow and more is on the horizon later this week.

I've posted some photos to share for those of you who are interested and for those who love it and are not living where they can enjoy it.

This was Sassy in her first attempt to go outside. I think she was excited because as you see she jumped straight up into the air.

The snow is quite deep in our driveway as you can see from our Jeeps. The other photo is the view from my recliner near the window.

My wonderful online friend, Michelle!

I have a good friend that I met online playing canasta on Pogo one night. We have so much in common although she is about 22 years younger then I.

Since then we have met online almost every night to play canasta. Sometimes we play until wee hours.

We do a lot of chatting while we play and have such a good time. They are trying to plan a trip out next year to visit us. I sure hope they get to come.

I have met and made so many wonderful friends online over the years and have gotten to meet several of the women in person and even had them come to visit me.

If you read this Michelle, you are the best! You have become a very important part of my life since I am mostly homebound during the winter months. You are the next thing to a second daughter to me.

Luv ya!