Drew Brees' Knees

Last year Frank bought me that Laser Christmas Light Show.  Last year we were (unhappily) living in the camper, if you will recall.

Who knows where it went after Christmas was over.  I had even forgotten we had it.

Tonight Frank comes in with the laser light, but it is somehow violently detached from its stand and has no clicker to control the various displays.

So it is stuck on the green/red show, which is fine.  And he screwed the light to a stake and stuck it in the ground.

So this is what we look  like now.  One long string of lights, one laser light show and one backlit Swissy Christmas flag.

And I am happy.  We have Christmas lights at least.  I guess next year we will have to put up a tree for the grandbaby.

Tomorrow is the CAAWS Volunteer Appreciation Party so I will be consumed with duties and work. 

 I met my cousin Karen at Middendorf's (my favorite restaurant)  an hour away.  She lives in Destrehan and we meet in fried catfish heaven every month or two.

She is an acupuncture vet and has cats.  One of her cats is Drew Brees and the other is Deuce McAlister, both Saints players.  Drew is black with a red collar.  And golden eyes.

Here is Drew Brees the Cat Bird.

I don't know if the real Mr. Brees has problems with his legs, but true to my stable of birds, my Drew Brees had problems with his legs.  Can you spot the problem?

Lordy, lordy.

Saturday we are meeting with Frank's cousin.   THAT ought to be interesting......

And love birds are coming for the love starved Julie.

I Totally Suck at Pantographs!

Yep!  I have to admit that I am not doing a great job on the first quilt

Sometimes I do OK

And sometimes I am way off

on this thing.  The machine has a totally different feel from the other one.  The camera is sort of a fish eye view and distorts what you are seeing.  If you hit the wrong button you get a backwards or upside down view and that REALLY throws you off. When I got all the ups and downs sorted out, I realized it will just

take a bit or practice to get used to the view.  If you are prone to motion sickness, this may not work for you.

I just grabbed one of the quilts from the top of the enormous pile of tops because this one had the backing already made.

Loaded it with no problem, threaded the machine with the new trick the Margaret lady showed me and set up a pantograph on the shelf. I easily saw the line I was to follow on the monitor from the camera. But......no laser pointer.

The night before, Frank had attempted to set up the laser light for me.  He told me there was no place for the light to plug in now that we had the camera in there.  I showed him the schematic and he looked and looked and looked.  No dice! I trusted him and went out today and bought a $45 laser pointer.  After I jury-rigged it, it worked for a little while then went out.  I could not get it to stay on, and ended up taking it back.  When I got home, I was still thinking I really didn't understand why I couldn't use the laser pointer system that came with the machine.

So I got back there behind the machine and WOW, I clearly saw a hole to plug it into.  So I plugged the laser light in and just set it in the hole in the little camera system platform and VOILA! it worked.

Now why do you suppose Frank could not have done that last night? It would have saved me not one, but TWO trips to Office Depot today........just sayin'