KatyQuilts

Once again, it has been an awfully long time since I have posted. Life has been busy as usual. But today, things should be necessarily slow……due to inclement weather once again.

Yes, it is March 23 and the schools are closed due to snow. They say we may get up to 10 inches by the time it is all said and done.

So I am sitting by the fire, drinking coffee, snuggled in an afghan, reading a good book and writing a blog post. Feels good. I mean, I hate snow but if you have to have it, get snowed in and enjoy it!

In other news, one month to the day we lost our Daisy, we brought home another cocker from SAFE, the same rescue organization we had gotten Daisy from. Here’s Lucy!

Lucy is now almost 16 months old and pure cocker. Pierre is still not too sure about her; though, she loves him!

But he does seem to like my new quilt magazine!

Next time, a few quilting pics. Until then…..

4-1-2002 to 12-20-2010

How does it happen?

I am not a dog person. But I knew how badly my girls wanted a dog so we brought home a Bichon puppy named Pierre,  in the summer of 2001. A couple years later, we decided my father in law needed a dog (he really wanted ours!). We found Daisy, a two year old chocolate brown cocker spaniel at a SAFE rescue event at our local PetSmart store. We brought her home but he didn’t want a brown dog….so she stayed with us. She and Pierre were constant companions for more than 6 years. She was my youngest daughter’s shadow. She waited outside Hope’s door for her to come home from school. She was gentle, smart, kind. She never whined. Over the last year, she developed a number of health issues. On December 20th, it was time to let her go.

I knew it would be hard for the girls, especially Hope. I knew Pierre would miss her.

I had no idea how much I would miss her. 

Did I mention I am not a dog person? At what point did she work her way into my heart when I wasn’t looking? How did this happen? I thought I couldn’t wait until we were through with the dog years but I admit, I miss her.  More than I ever expected to.

She was faithful, loyal, and good. She loved us. 

And I loved her too.

This past fall, I started a new job. I am working as a library assistant sub for the Saginaw Public Libraries. I am spending a lot of time here:

Sorry for the bad pic. But isn’t the building beautiful? Actually, this  is the main library and there are four other branches where I have also been spending a fair amount of time. I had lots of training this fall for my work at the reference desk. I can honestly say, this is the best job I have ever had! I am loving it!

It has gotten me back into reading which has cut into my sewing time a bit and obviously, my blogging time has suffered as well.

I do have a few new things (fiberwise) to share though and hope to get back to more regular blogging now that it is January.

Until next time….

….the sacrifices made for our freedom.

May we all fight to the end to retain what was so valiantly won for us.

Long may she wave.