I've been busy as a bee

the carpet was installed yesterday.  

I've had a migraine since Monday.

The weather is a changing so I'm expecting the headache to leave SOON

I've been moving furniture, rearranging furniture and trying to get everything to cooperate.

and the washing machine timer went last week...we ordered a new one and I did several loads today on the last one there came a loud thumping sorta noise...oh brother, can't wait to tell Paul when he gets home.

And somehow, some way I got poison ivy just a little on my leg and my wrist and under my chin.  Sheesh.

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On Memorial Day we went on a long bike ride to The Flight 93 Memorial

It is starting to look really beautiful.  The first time Paul and I went a few years back there wasn't much there, a chain link fence to keep you away from the site, I flag marking the impact area, people left momentos on the fence.  

It was just as emotional then as now.

The weather was beautiful and we were out for about 6 hours; rode with Paul's sister and her husband and one of Paul's friends from HS who just got a bike a few years back.

Me and Paul at Rt. 30 overlook

I've finished a couple quilts, thought I was having trouble again with HQ but I 'pretended' to quilt with it for about 5 minutes and no stalls so now I don't know what to think.  The last pass on this quilt it kept stalling and then I'd have trouble starting it again.

I think I'm going to load a small quilt and try it and see what happens.

Notice the cement floor!  I wanted to get this one done before we had to dismantle everything AGAIN for the carpet installers.

close up of quilting

and Otis inspecting my work!  Haha.

I'm still here

I think I've been sucked into some kind of time wasting vortex. 

Vacation feels like it was 2 months ago instead of 2 weeks ago!

 Time flies, apparently whether I'm having fun or not!

I did start quilting again on Libby's quilt-that I had loaded and quilted one pass on BEFORE we left for vacation.

border peek

all-over feathers

If I can get myself out of this black hole of paperwork and what feels like a to do list that's a mile long. It really isn't but cement is in my shoes or so it seems. 

I would have posted sooner, I do have things to say/share. But I was having trouble getting used to the new computers' photo editing software. 

 I think this one is actually better than what I had on the old computer, it's learning how to use it and remembering the next time I upload that is making me more nutso than I like to be on a daily basis. For example, last night I uploaded the 2 pictures above and this one too.

There were 2 other pictures from a weekend bike trip we took.  But when I put the card in my computer,  I must have clicked on a different wrong button for 'where' to upload to. Because it then took me an hour to find them. And actually I didn't find them I juststumbled on found the right place and re-uploaded them. 

And now I can't seem to locate the bike pictures anyway. 

(I can hear the swoosh of the black hole of time coming to envelop me again...ahhhhhhgggggg)

Then I stayed up until 1:30 making folders for the nearly 3000 (OK only about 2700, I tend to exaggerate!) pictures that I transferred from the old computer. Sadly, most of them now have a date stamp of August 2 2011, which is the date of the transfer.  I'm sure I screwed that up somehow when I did it. Although some of them will show the correct date when I click "insert date" but the majority say "8/2/2011". So weird. 

It has sure made it NOT FUN to try to find a picture. 

I made folders for My Quilts, Customer Quilts and OBX Vacation 2007 and 2011.  As you can guess the quilt folders are what took all night to do.
 And to think I only have maybe 1000 1500 pictures yet to go.
 And why did I do vacations 07 and 11 but skipped 08 and 10? (we didn't go in 09) WHO KNOWS.

 This is what I mean about the time wasting vortex.
 I'm not being my usual organized, OCD, list making, list crosser-offer self.  I'm starting to think I'm sick or maybe it's all the walking we did on vacation and we've kept it up here at home.

That would just be my luck: regular exercise makes me lose organizational skills! 

 Maybe it's stored in the belly fat I carry around!  And I thought it was just a protective layer of flub cushioning my wash board abs. (You know the abs you can't see because of the protective layer...)
 We all have them some of us just don't like to flaunt them.

Fun times, fun times...Life is Good.