Another day gone by.

Oops - another day has slipped by without me posting. And almost didn't post now 'cause Blogger is insisting I change to Google Chrome - don't want to.
I've been working with the stained glass a lot the last couple of days. When I get started time just passes and before I know it it is evening.
Also sewing the blocks and strips on my quilts.  Now I have to pick out the border and backing materials for them. That's the hard part.
Today it got warmer out but had lots of rain. Good for the lawn.
Tomorrow we are supposed to get some landscaping help in the front. Not sure how it will look. Will have to take before and after pics.
Of course watched the NASCAR race Saturday night. Really enjoyed it. Go #18 - and his brother and his car won Friday night. Good weekend for KBM.
Another month gone already. Don't forget to back up your computer files if it isn't done automatically. Have learned about that the hard way.
Still haven't got the lights to come on when they are supposed to - try again tomorrow I guess. And thinking about making empanadas tomorrow -
That's it for now......

Camera, Recipe for Paella and Rain OH MY

A cold rainy Saturday morning.



Lots of thunder and it is supposed to last off and on for seven days. Depressing.
This is a good day to spend in front of a nice fireplace curled up with a good book/nook. So instead I’m on the Internet – go figure. At least the Internet is working with the Verizon MiFi – with HughesNet it would be out by now.
Lets see  - what to say first. Okay my new camera, I guess I’m going to keep it. Still like some of the features of the old one better, but now I can use either one depending on what I want to do. The new one is a Fujifilm. It has wide angle lens, 24x zoom, a view finder so I’ll still be able to see what I’m aiming at in the bright sun. It has a feature where it will take one picture without flash then one of same subject with flash. Takes panoramic pics. But I prefer to use AutoStitch (free from the Internet - http://autostitch.en.softonic.com/ ) One thing I’m not sure about it takes four AA batteries –don’t know how long they will last. Think I’ll get the rechargeable kind that way I can have a couple of sets that are always ready to go.
A recipe for the paella – I used this one from again, the Internet. But I leave out the seafood and throw a couple other things in it – what ever is in the refrig. But it is pretty good. We picked up some saffron while in Mexico – it is so expensive here!
http://www.oduamy.com/traditional_paella.html
Bill has made an addition to our houses sign out front. Around here lots of people “name” their homes: Gnarly Woods, Oak Haven, Serendipity etc. so a while ago we named our house Fantasy Manor and Bill made a sign for out front. Well he has now added Art Studio to it.

Life’s little irritations. We have big old street lights out front at either end of the driveway that go on and off at dusk and dawn – or at least they are supposed to. They’ve been coming on around 5:30 p.m. and going off who knows when. I guess all the power outages around here has screwed them up. So for two days now I’ve been trying to get them on the right time. There are FOUR pages of directions and so far the lights are winning. Will try again later.
Watched the Nationwide Race last night. Finally KBM’s car managed to finish a race in one piece. And even WON it. YEAH! KBM is Kyle Busch Motorsports – and his brother Kurt was driving the car. Quite a night for the family. Now if they can both do okay in tonight’s Sprint Cup race.
Worked on my colorful quilt while watching the pre race shows. It is coming together pretty nice. Have several of the blocks and strips sewn together. Now I have to decided on the border and backing – of course I’ll have to go buy some material for that. And I just found out there is fusible batting now. No more zillions of safety pins holding the front, batting and back together.

Bill has been busy too – lots of Wood Spirits waiting to be finished.

Fantasy Manor Art Studio work shop

Added three new ones to the web site this morning. Two have fur hats and one a snake skin hat. Very colorful.

Thursday a.m.

Playing with the computer this morning. Had to add a couple of necklaces to my jewelry web pages. Both were started in Mexico – one last year and one this year. Pretty slow in beading lately. Then had to republish a lots of other ones cause in the mean time I’ve changed computers and the pictures couldn’t be located! http://www.beadedcustomdesigns.com/necklaces7.php the last two on the page. Sometimes I have a love/hate relationship with the web.
And Bloggers new design - I couldn't even figure out how to get in to make a post - well eventually I did - but it took a while. LEAVE THINGS ALONE when they work. New isn't always better!
Kept busy most of yesterday. Have all my quilt squares ready to be turned into triangles then need to decide how to place them.

Mentioning quilts I’ve been thinking about entering my big quilt in the quilt show this year. Not for judging – it’s not that good – but for exhibit. We’ll see if I have the nerve. I call it Brown County Autumn

Got my stained glass piece kind of soldered. Forgot how much the flux and solder stinks! Phew. When I finish it I'm going to do a hummingbird. I hang them in the windows on the front doors for the changes of the seasons. Just took my bunnies and Easter eggs down. And it's not time for 4th of July yet.
Bill worked out in the yard with the cleanup crew yesterday. Looks so much better now with most of the big weeds and downed branches gone. We were supposed to get a storm last night but it didn’t show up – all of it was north of us. And tomorrow it is supposed to get cold again. Low 50s during the day.
Then he made some crepes and carmel sauce. Yummmm.....The carmel is just condensed milk boiled until it hardens.

Watched Real Madrid get beat in their soccer match. So now neither of the Spanish teams will be going to the Europa Championship. And it was predicted they would be the two final teams. Oh well. The consensus is pretty much that both Spanish teams were tired/worn out. As they both played two important games in the previous seven days.
Tonight is a charity race for NASCAR drivers in Richmond. Will watch that. Hope my driver has a better race than he's been having this year.
Then the library notified me that an ebook I’ve been waiting for was in. What a great system. All done on line then loaded into my Nook and I’m good to go.

A busy day at home

Wednesday a.m.

After mentioning the radio station KORN I discovered we don’t have a radio in the house. Never thought of that before.
And the visit to the heart doctor went great. He pronounced Bill fit as a fiddle and doesn't need to see him for another year. Yippee!We had a really busy day yesterday. No, really we did. Bill finished up four new Wind Spirit of Brown County pieces. We got some faux fur at Hobby Lobby the other day and it really adds a cute woodsman look to them.

Brown County Wood Spirit

And I was doing laundry – I hate it when I let it got for a week. How do two people generate so much laundry? It was neat in Mexico when we just dropped it off and picked it up again all ready to be put away. And while loads were doing their thing I was working on my rainbow quilt. The light on my sewing machine is burnt out so I am using a clip on light. I think so far it gives me more light on what I’m, doing.

All the colored strips are together now so I have to decide how to put it together. The blocks will be shades of pink, yellow, blue and green.
We had company for dinner last night two couple of our friends from here. I fixed Paella.  We don't put seafood of any kind in it, just chicken and Italian sausages. Turned out pretty good.

Paella

In the afternoon we watched the soccer game – Barcelona lost!!!! It was the semi-final for the European championship! Chelsea was playing one man down almost the whole game but Barcelona just didn’t have their act together yesterday. Today Real Madrid plays a Bayer Munich (sp?) for the other spot in the final game.
Been playing around with the camera – liking it better now. Took this out the front window of the Jeep on the way into town. Turned out pretty good. Like driving through a park.

Helmsburg Road Brown County, Indiana

Again playing around with the camera. Checking out the wide angle and flash and other parts of it. Took this pic from the computer room looking towards the living room. Bill built the bookcase – It takes up the entire wall. Can just see the stained glass windows in living room. I made the quilts a long time ago. In fact the one on the left is the very first one I made in a class at JoAnns in Vegas.

And then Bill picked the camera up and took a picture of me just after he told me he wanted more changes of the web pages.

What thoughts are going through my mind?

Blogger has changed it's format again. Why do companies keep doing that? Why not leave things that work alone!?