PUPPY PRINTS

 Well here I am sitting at my computer crying once again.  I would tell you what I did yesterday, but I don't remember.  I DO remember feeling sore from the Sunday's run, so I tried to come up with something else to do.  I had nothing.

I finally posted about Cooper on Facebook, whereupon my neighbor responded with lots of pictures.  She sent these to me right away.  You see her puppy Halo and Mr. Cooper used to run around like crazy in my front yard.  

They would play racehorse all over the front lawn together.  You can tell because both of them are panting for air!  

Halo loved Cooper so much that when he was let outside, he would make a beeline for my front door and peek through the window to see where Cooper was.  He would bark and cry until I went to the door and let Cooper out to play.  They were Best Buds!!

I did a couple loads of laundry and wandered around the house before deciding to do a little cleaning.  You know it's pretty bad when I drag out the vacuum cleaner.  That's when it really fell apart.  Everywhere I went on the hardwood floor, I saw Cooper's footprints from coming in every morning with wet feet.  I'm never washing these floors again so I can always have him with me.

Kitters has become a pain in the buttinsky.  I suppose she knows something is off, and she just will not leave me alone.  

She is in my face constantly, and if not, she's stalking me.  She used to stay outside most of the time.  Maybe it's just because the temps are up in the high 90's now.  She's right behind me at this moment, just like in this picture.

I finally decided to give my longarm another shot.  Did I mention the first time I tried it after the maintenance/repair, it froze up and gave me motor errors?  Pretty frustrating since I just paid a chunk to get it fixed.  I wasn't feeling like a hassle, but I turned it back on and tried to finish off the row.  Surprisingly, I got that one done.

Little did I know, that the BACK of the quilt where I had the previous problem, had wads of thread so bad that I had to take it out for several inches.  Getting the machine to go back to the exact point and restitch that section was harder than I thought.  At last I figured it was done, but when I took it off the longarm, I discovered this little section that I missed.  Oh well .. it's not all that noticeable, and it can't be fixed now.

I'm disappointed since I liked the borders on this one so much.  I'm not sure it's going to be given away.  I doubt anyone will notice since when off the frame, it took me a while to even find it.  If nothing else, it kept me occupied for a couple of hours.

An hour later, I came unglued just sitting here alone.  I called my Elks girlfriend and went over to her house for the rest of the afternoon.  Thank goodness for good friends.  

I've got Bingo tonight and another five quilts to quilt, so maybe I can keep busy enough so I don't have a meltdown.  I never imagined it would be this bad.