Please Don't Eat the Yellow Snow.....

Camouflage!

....cause that's where the Huskies go!  LOL  McGee has found the joy of yellow snow.

We had snow again last night.  Started out with a light misty rain, then the sleet came.  When the streets were wet enough the temperatures cooperated and plunged to the upper teens.  Then the snow mixed in with the sleet and we had intermittent floating bits of snow and the heavier sleet particles.



This morning we woke to a white blanket of what is more like ice crystals than the fluffy snow of the last snowfall.  I guess people who live in snowy places have names for all the types of snow.  We just are amazed at snow...period!

Keep in mind, we are in South Louisiana!






And all on my BIRTHDAY!  I had big plans for the day, most of which is up in the air as to whether it will happen. 











Frank revealed the final gift of the Birthday Week Celebration.


Cheetos! Literally, my favorite food! 
I shall partake later today.

And of course with the snow and interstate shutdowns, the city has cancelled the huge celebration and parades they were going to hold for my birthday. 

I did play with the scraps in the bag Judy gave me.  I am going to have to come up with a name, or even a nickname for them.

I added leftover solids from Sawyer's quilt so the color distribution will be a bit wider.  However I do not have the yellows from that top right block.  I might have to dig a bit further in my stash to grab some of those sunny colors.  But I think I will wait to see how the other blocks play together to see if I want to dump it, make more or use it as a focus block somewhere in the quilt.

I am glad that you want a turquoise added in the La Virgencita.  She has a turquoise blue dress that I toyed with pulling out.  But the colors looked so warm I decided not to throw a cool blast in there.  I will do that today and retake the photo. 




At night I am sleeping under an additional quilt.  The colorful one is from my mates of SSOBB during the flood.  It was quilted by Valerie Purple Boots in Nova Scotia.  And the leaf quilt is appropriately named The Forest of Frozen Sorrows.

I had it packed to finish it at a February Retreat a few years ago when the temps dropped so low that the pipes at the Retreat House broke and flooded the place.  We had to cancel the Retreat of course.

Hence Frozen Sorrows.  It is one of my visual favorites. 

Bad Dog Day Afternoon

It was a Bad Dog Day for sure, all afternoon I was fighting with McGee.  He actually crashed into the dining room, found where I keep my Cheetos stash and ate two bags.  One at a time he snuck by me and brought them into the back yard.  And DiNozzo told on him when he refused to share. Oye!

Too bad I can't get any of his antics on tape and send it to Funniest Home Videos.  That would certainly make him more likeable today.  Oye!

There he is, hiding in the far corner of they yard after I yelled at him.  He is watching me pick up bag shards and leftover Cheetos. Oye!

I got nothing done in the way of quilting today.  I went to three places that do repairs on phones and found 1 no longer in business and two just plain closed even though their doors said they should be open.  Finally I found an open one run by a nice couple who was really sympathetic about the cracks in the screen.  Watch now, my iPad will be sold in China tomorrow and my accounts compromised by morning.  Oye!

I am going to work on my Bonnie Hunter Grand Illusions tonight.   I need to finish my #1 pieces and
work on my #2 pieces.  But first I have do draft them down to fit the #1 pieces.  Oye!

This is McGee trying to suck up with his cuteness.......but I am not buying it.