Your Eye Test For Today

 What is up with all this California rain?  It's definitely reducing my patio time as the wet stuff gives us a really good soaking.  We need it, I know ... but ... but ...... it does require lots of towels when the kid comes back in from getting in the grass.  The good news is the 50 degrees that comes with it.  YAY ... I'm not freezing, nor am I am even wearing a coat INSIDE.

In case you were wondering, my Christmas present to myself was to turn the heat up to 70 degrees ALL DAY Christmas Day.  It was WONDERFUL!!

With all the craziness of Christmas now being over (not really, there wasn't much crazy here) I took down all three of my decorations and headed to the garage.  Somehow my box disappeared.  I'm not sure why it is so easy to get distracted, but the mess of stuff stacked up hit a nerve.

I started moving things around and getting rid of junk.   Before I knew it, I had spent two hours in the cold garage.  It didn't look any better than when I went in the door, but I did finally find that box.

That's when Cooper discovered this toy for the second time.  I'm absolutely positive I threw it 389 times.  He would retrieve it and place it on the couch beside me for another throw.   We did that until he finally spotted the ball.  I should have hid it better.  

Oh look ... the toy matches the quilt!  I've been reluctantly sewing on this on and off, and now it's time for the eye test.  You know, like when you go to have your eyes tested?  So here's MY test of the day.

Which one is better ..... A

Or B

THIS

OR THIS!!!!!

There's a lot of this kind of thing going on in quilting.  We are always moving stuff around, trying to balance out the colors.  I'm having trouble with this one since I'm not thrilled with either the design or the fabric.  Maybe it's just all the rain and the fact that I never got that LAST GUTTER cleaned out.  I was waiting for the flower bed to dry out enough to set a ladder.  

The good news is the Painters said they fixed my leaky roof.  I was gone that day, so I can only hope they did.  The wastebasket is still in place under the pipe, just in case.  I think I will leave it there for good measure.

The rest of the evening was spent watching the Indianapolis Colts lose to the Chargers.  Not that football is my thing, but there was nothing else on TV worth watching.  The Hallmark channel with it's wonderful unpredictable movie endings (that's sarcasm) has decided you must pay to watch.  I passed.  Instead I soaked up murder and mayhem, after which I walked around twice and made sure all my doors were locked and the alarm turned on.

I'm watching the weather reports like a hawk since I'm leaving soon and really don't want to drag a big trailer over Tehachapi pass in the snow.  Or even worse, drive over the Grapevine and through L.A.  I don't even like to see snow on the mountain tops when I'm towing.  In the meantime, I'm starting the big pack for the rally.  No, I still haven't heard about the ice cream.  I've got all my fingers and toes crossed.