A couple of quilting blocks and other odds and ends....

I made these two blocks for a baby quilt, they were foundation/paper pieced. A lady I know through another site is having a baby, and asked if anyone would like to make some blocks and she would put them all together to make a baby quilt. We each had to donate a block. I made two, just in case she was short. She doesn't know if she is having a boy or a girl, but I was drawn to these colours, so maybe my gut is telling me she is having a boy? She already has three girls and three boys, so I am guessing it won't really matter if its a boy or a girl, as long as the baby is healthy?


I finished the book "Seeking Catherine Cookson's Da," by Kathleen Jones, it was an easy ready and was really good. One thing I do know from this book is Genealogy is not as easy as it looks. However she has a lot of good tips about finding people at the end of the book. It turns out her dad was a bigamist. He left his wife in poverty with three kids, had an affair with Catherine Cookson's mother, the result was Catherine, and left her, and then "married," another woman and they "adopted" a girl and brought her up. Quite the story and quite complicated at times!!!

Molly is a whole lot better already and its only been two days. She has more or less stopped the scratching and has totally stopped the chewing. The only problem is she can't be on these pills at this dosage for ever more, as they do contain a mild steroid in them. We will be dropping the dosage slowly over the next few days so will monitor to see when the chewing starts back up again.

Otherwise things are quiet around the Acreage. Still have cluster flies {SIGH}, still finding the odd ladybug {{SIGH}}, but haven't caught anymore mice {{{YEAH}}}, so hopefully the two I caught last week, were just stragglers from the other week!!