Chase isn't a real outside dog. She does like to lay on the deck in the sun once in a while but is happy to be in the house. However she also doesn't like cats, never has. At our old house we had cats pooping in our front yard. We'd tell Chase there was a cat and open the door... Okay don't yell at me, she never caught one or even got close. All she did was run out the door barking which made the cats run to the next yard. Chase would stop at our border and give little barks, like she's saying "take that"... I could go out yelling at them to leave and they'd just stand there.. Chase was so quick and I never had to worry. I really haded going out to clean the weeds and grab a handful of cat poop and at that house we had a lot of flowers to weed. Anyway the neighbors behind us have a cat that likes to crawl under the fence now and then and it just ticks me off. It kept poking it's nose and paw under the fence so I just opened the sliding door and quietly told Chase there was a cat out back. she was at the back door sniffing the air... a couple seconds later she was across the yard barking at the fence, than meandered back to the house and her bed. My tough girl.

Spring is here...

This is a patch of Daffodils in my back yard. Funny thing is it's under a tree where the grass doesn't grow, mainly because when it's full the sun can't get too it. So we have the flowers for a little while. Pretty neat. With all the snow and other bad weather that's been happening in the East, we have had daffodils blooming all over Eugene the last month or so. It sort of lifts the gloomygus' around here who are tired of all the gray skys. Me it only means that the heat is coming and I can wait for that.

Busy time off

Well, this was suppose to be my vacation and I was going to clean out the garage but I decided to catch a cold instead so that sort of put a stop to being out in the cold garage. It's funny the left side of my nose and throat is running and sore. I'm fine then all of a sudden I get this tingling in my nose and it starts running. So instead of the garage, I worked on my quilt room.

I had a large cabinet in the corner but couldn't get to the fabric so decided to take it out and put in shelves. Plus I needed to go through the fabric again and get rid of the stuff I really wouldn't use. Still holding on to some of the stuff a friend gave me.

this is the before shot. The other stand under the moose had craft cabinet that held my rulers. Think it's on the sewing table for now. I was using it for a catch all so it was time to get rid of it too. I guess I'm in one of those purging moods. I just want things to look clean and neat and easy to get too.

this is the after shot. I put shelves up again; put my Halloween fabric on one shelf and Fall stuff on another; moved a small stand in to put my quilt books; moved the set of drawers from beside the TV to the stand for a better access. I also moved the little love seat we bought from a co-worker last summer from Ethan's room to here. Figured it would give me something a little more comfortable to sit on in the evenings when I was done sewing, plus a more comfortable place to sit when I'm doing hand work like bindings. It gets a little uncomfortable sitting in my office chair all the time. Of course, now I have company with the dogs and they are both jealous when I'm sitting with one beside me...not room for two dogs and me.. They do both get up there while I'm at the sewing table. The cabinet under the window has stuff one shelf for stuff like tape and fusible stuff. I also have my solids and then a bunch of misc. stuff.

This corner had a book shelf that had my quilt books, notebooks and all kinds of stuff but not quite wide enough shelves for fabric. So I decided to put shelves for the fabric. It's a couple feet off the floor for the plastic boxes to sit underneath. I went through all my fabric again and tried to place the different piles that I would use as often. I still need to go through the cabinet under the window and pull out other stuff so I'll have easy access to it too. My sewing table is still full of the extra little things that I'm still going through.

this is the TV corner. I put the little shelf next to the TV to hold stuff like the remotes, and movies I bring in to watch. It also holds whatever... I put the Christmas fabric up on the shelves since I won't be using any of it for a while. When I want either the Christmas or the Halloween or Fall stuff from the other shelves, I'll call Ben or Ethan to get it down. I'll have them down while working with them, then move them back.

I think I'll like this new arrangement a lot. I figure if I can see it more, I'll maybe use it more. I've also wanted the love seat up there since we got it but hadn't figured out how to do it. It will be a little tight when I put up my cutting table to pin quilts but I'll make do . We'll see how it all goes once I get another project going. Can't wait....