This N That

 

Hubs got a new small appliance. It's an indoor smoker.

You feed it wood pellets and it cooks and smokes your meat. Here's a nice tri-tip roast he made. 

It's a very slow cooker but has no smoke at all in the house. The roast was delicious!

This is a throw blanket I got for the holiday gift from my employer one year. It's soft and nice, but why does the binding ALWAYS come loose on these kinds of things?

I got this sewn back on, so there's at least one thing done!

It was Arts Fest down town a few weeks ago, so I packed up Dilly and we went to town.

We looked at quite a bit of art, but he was a tired fella after a block or two. So we headed home.

He decided to sit on the porch, carried his rocking chair out there and had a good little sit down.

And as always he is busy in the yard.

I switched out the baby swing, he's getting the hang of it a little bit.

But Sunday he pulled the baby swing out and wanted it hung back up. 

Then he spent at least an hour figuring out the snaps that secure the straps. He climbed in and hopped out like a champ. Too hot to stay outside too long. 

And did I mention he's learning to pedal his bike?

He's getting the hang of it pretty well.

The bike has been inside and outside and I have to keep an eye on him or he'll try to ride it off the porch steps!! That's all caught up for this week!
 

Way Back in September.....

 So, WAYYYY back in September, I had a bunch of squares leftover from another quilt I made. This one-which I do like!

SO I put them together to make a little baby quilt. And then I set it aside, because I really didn't like it very much.  But I do have a problem with keeping things around unfinished. Sooooo

I loaded it up on Freddie and released the Quilt Path equipment and free motion quilted.

A good old meandering with hearts here and there. I used to do this quite a bit on my regular sewing machine back in the day (AKA before Freddie).

It took a minute to get it flowing again, but I still got it!

Here it is all finished! On the porch, it was a little bit windy.

But it looks great! I don't know why I didn't like it for so long!

I used a bit of fleece-one of the last things I bought from Joann before they closed-and it looks great!

Nice and cozy-far too hot for a day like today!

And of course I've been busy with this little guy.....

He's drinking dog water....

He's pushing Ringo out of the way so he can get his head in there.....

I hope those are the good kind of dog germs.

And he's learning to use the big kid swing-I took down the baby swing. And he can climb the fence-I can't wait for the escape!!! (HUGE eyeroll)

And he got a big bunch of magnetic letters from sweet Liesha and her boy. 

This was before he threw them all over the place!

Educational......ok. 

It's Spring

This little fella was here last week when it was 70 degrees outside!  He's setting the rocks free through the fence wire...I told him he's going to have to pick up those rocks!

And no matter where he is he takes his shoes off.

And the first swing of 2025.

He had a great day! 

Then on Friday we got this! A new Refrigerator! Look at this post from 2009, You see how long our last fridge lasted and it was still going pretty well. But I felt like if we waited too long we'd be paying A LOT more, and the people, who think they know. say a refrigerator should only last 15 years max, and we're past that so it was time! I was torn between the Whirlpool and the LG, but chose the Whirlpool. Partly because of the way the political climate is, I wonder if I could get parts in the future for the LG. Heck I might have the same issue with this one, but it is what it is!

Look at all the space for all the stuff!

I chose this Whirlpool model because it has the ice maker completely in the door freeing up another shelf in the freezer. And the water filter is in the top of the refrigerator side, so I don't have to get on the floor to change it!

I kind of shoved all the stuff back in the new freezer, because I didn't want it to start to thaw!

I like the ice and water on the door-once you have that, you'll never want it anywhere else I think!

She's a beaut-and the delivery was great. I ordered it on line from Costco-so delivery and set up and take away the old one,  was included. Now the secret- There's a dent in the back of it. Our delivery fellas said they unpacked it in the truck and saw the dent, so they asked us if we wanted to refuse it or call Costco and see if they'd knock off a little from the price. 

Well by then I had my counter and a big cooler and then some, full of food waiting to go into it's new home! 

Here's the dent.

It's at the back at the bottom.  We talked it over and decided it would not affect the operation of the refrigerator, so let's see if Costco will give a a little deal.

This little dent saved us $200, so the fridge was on special for $999.99 so with tax it came to  $1059.97. Minus a $200 dent,  we got a deal for only $859.97.