No more mouse in the house

Our weather is finally cooling down, mostly in high 90's now and best of all cooling down into the 70's at night. So we are going to try walking on Saturday - should be around 75 at 6:30 a.m. with a breeze. They are still working on the sewer lines out in the Wetlands, be interesting to see how much damage if any, has done to the park. 

Bill and I got out one day this week and went to the big Mexican supermarket just up the street. Always interesting to see what they have. Look at the shine on the concrete floors. Bill is asking about something he was looking for. Very helpful workers there.

Just happened to notice the Coca Cola in glass bottles. Made in Mexico.  The white sticker is Nutrition Facts. 

And of course, the bakery. Yum.

Happy face cookies. 

Most of the week though I've been working on a couple of quilts. This one is one of those things you wish you hadn't started. I thought it was cute, but didn't realize all the work it would entail. But I stuck with it and the front is done now. Going to a great granddaughter in Lake Havasu. Will be sending four of them there to the four girls. Let their grandmother sort them out. 

It is sewed together and I have the backing for it. Now just have to quilt it. But think I'm going to have to use my old machine to do that. The new one doesn't like bulky things. Also I want to try out some quilting templets I got and the new machine doesn't like them either. The only thing my old machine will do is quilt free motion quilting now. 

Also have the backing for the butterfly quilt. So need to finish it too. 

Just took this because I liked the shadows on the mountain. Took it through the kitchen window so isn't as clear as I'd like it to be. 

About the mouse. When the pest control guy came last week he gave us a couple of huge traps with poison in them. He said the mouse would go in the trap eat the poison and then go somewhere to die. I didn't like the somewhere part of it. What if it was under the stove or in a wall. UGH. Well he did die and did so in plain sight. Except neither Bill nor I saw him at first. This rug is right outside our bedroom door. Both of us had been in and out of the bedroom a few times that day. See him?.. 

I was coming out of the bedroom and wondered what was on the rug, it looked like a big piece of lint... OMG it was the dead mouse. How neither of us didn't step on him we'll never know. Can you imagine stepping on him with bare feet.......!!!!! He kind of just blended in with the rug.

Today we go to cardiologist for test results. Then week after next Bill goes to new neurologist. He doesn't specialize in ocular myasthenia gravis but does treat MG. Hope Bill likes him. And I hope the MG isn't spreading.

Sewing, sewing, sewing - all about learning my new machine

Our weather has been hot and humid - unusual for here. But this week it has been lower only 98/99 and starting today the humidity is going away. It really hasn't bothered me as I've been in the sewing room learning my new machine. Have figured out a lot of things. Here it is set up for embroidery. I am doing the rooster pattern. There is a little X on the picture that shows where the needle is and where it is going. This machine has smaller hoops than my old machine. And the presser foot has to be manually raised and lowered. The other machine was automatic. Need to get used to that. 

The finished rooster, needs to be pressed. And I learned after it was finished I should have changed the bobbin tension. Oh well. 

Got into some serious sewing this day. Took over entire room. 

I did take breaks once in a while. Saw this road runner in the back yard. He was watching something. Maybe a lizard. But he lost interest and left. 

Back to sewing again. This time I set the machine up right. Doing the balloon. The squares under the picture are showing me the thread colors and when to change them. 

Took a picture of the machine doing the rooster. Fun to watch the process. 

The finished balloon, not pressed yet either. Did a better job with the tension set right. See the detail on the basket. 

Oh My Goodness I finally lucked into figuring out how to connect my laptop to the sewing machine via WiFi. I have hundred of embroidery patterns on the laptop from when the old machine worked. 

Sent this from the laptop to the machine. So excited...

Yes, every once in a while I left the room, once to check out a sunset. Kind of pretty. 

Back to sewing. Have this quilt almost done, Well the top part. I started to play with some of the decorative stitches I discovered. Used them on the small yellow strips. 

Hard to see but there are hearts on the top one, small flowers on the middle one and bigger flowers on the bottom one. 

Now I'm trying to decide how to quilt it. I saw some stuff on line I might get to help with the quilting. 

Today Sphere.  They are going to show the old movie The Wizard of Oz inside the Sphere. I guess they have added some AI features to it. WOW in row 9 the tickets are $294 each for tomorrow night. People are crazy!!!

Our little house mate the mouse is still around. When I was at my computer I heard strange noises. At first I thought the printer was updating. Then I realized it was coming from my waste basket, Moved the shredder and sure enough there he was looking at me. I went to the kitchen to get a trash bag to empty him into and when I got back he was gone. No idea how he managed to climb up the sides and get out. Haven't seen him since. 

Bill is having a hard time with the prednisone so we need to get it in smaller doses. Have called primary doctor and left message. Also have located another ocular myasthenia gravis doctor. Will call there next week to see if we can get him an appointment. 

Confused.

 I received my new sewing machine on Tuesday, early evening so just unpacked it and set it in sewing table. Of course nothing from the old machine will fit with the new one. This is a sewing and embroidery machine. So should be fun once I figure everything out.  The embroidery attachment is sitting on the table behind it.  Of course I have to buy a new insert for the sewing table so I have a flat surface to sew on.   The old insert doesn't fit.  Called the company and ordered a new one, boy the price for it went up. Will get it in three to four weeks. It goes around the opening in the sewing cabinet and fits right up to the machine so there is a big flat surface to sew on. 

The embroidery unit. Still haven't touched it. 

Started to play with it Wednesday morning. Yep, I still have that same look on my face.  The major difference for me is the presser foot went up and down automatically, this one I have to raise and lower it. That is the major nuisance, cause I just sit there waiting for it to come up. Lots of other difference with threading and bobbins and etc., etc.  It also has a touch screen - well many, many touch screens...and it connects to WiFi. Little by little I'm figuring out a few things. Can finally sew a good 1/4 inch seam. Well most the time. I kept forgetting to write the touch screen setting down. So would have to start all over again. Wrote it down this morning. One needle touch button has 29 different positions for the needle?????

We are heading into monsoon season and might have rain the whole next week. Or might not. But there have been some nice sunrises and sunsets. Sunset two days ago. 

Looking out back towards the Wetlands. Still lots of work going on back there. This machine and another one just as big are parked right behind our house. All of our plants are desert plants, so no matter the heat they bloom all summer long. 

Again The Sphere, I though this one was a little strange, cute but weird. 

In a video this one was amazing. 

Not walking at all, it was 90 by 7:30 this morning. Hopefully next week it will start cooling down a little. One of our neighbors went out early walking in Wetlands and got this photo of the bobcat.

Second person living here that's got a picture of him. I hope he is still around when it cools off enough to walk out there again. 

This guy has been hanging around our backyard lately. 

So that is it for us. I've taken my calm down break and will now go back to the sewing machine and see if I can figure out the embroidery part.