A Happy Saint Patrick's Month to All

 Got all my Saint Patrick's Day stuff out. Celebrate the whole month, why not. My pillow covers. 

I've had the placemats and napkins and other stuff on table for a long time. 

Also this hanging decoration. When I put this up it made me really miss my embroidery machine. I probably could get the embroidery mechanism fixed $$$ - but I no longer have the program with all the patterns. It was on an old laptop (think Vista!) that quit working. And it will not load on my Windows 8 or 11 laptops. Oh well. 

I got a text on my phone saying Verizon was offering me a $40 decrease on my monthly bill. It had a link to click...Well...nope not clicking the link though it really looked like Verizon. So I called their customer service number and much to my surprise it was real. So thanks to customer service, very nice lady, we now get $40 a month off for the next year. For being loyal customers. Works for me.  

I like to put up stained glass sun catchers in my kitchen window to go with the season. I only had two for Saint Patrick's Day so I needed two more. Went on line and found a couple of patterns. The paper pattern I downloaded is on the left. The glass I cut out is on the right. Picking out and cutting the glass is the first step.

This is the second pattern - on the left. On the right is the roughly cut glass, it is under the paper pattern I made from the original pattern. 

Next step is grinding the glass pieces so they fit the original pattern, then each piece has to have copper foil put around all the pieces. 

Then they get soldered together. That is the hardest part for me because of my shaking hands. But managed to get it done. Just have to add the hangers and polish them. 

I haven't been sewing lately. I have my three Easter throw pillow covers already done and waiting until next month.

Bill is still having a hard time with his eyelid. Sometimes it is up and he can see fine. Other times it is half closed and he is looking through his eyelashes which tends to make him dizzy. Other times the lid is completely closed. He says he does not want to have any thing else done to it.  I did read it takes 5 to 6 weeks to completely heal. We are hoping by then the swelling will be gone and it will stay up. 

Yesterday he made a BIG batch of spaghetti sauce. Just some of the stuff he used to make it. 

Chopping  everything up. That suncatcher in window is one I've had for years. 

All kinds of things chopped. We were waiting for a WalMart delivery to get a few more things he needed.

Like I said a BIG batch. Smelled so yummy cooking. I package it in freezer zip lot bags. So we have it when we want it. As an aside - the pan on the right was my mothers, she had it as long as I can remember. The pan on the left is what is left of a set of  "waterless cookware" My first husband was a salesman for them. Um...66 years ago. 

Our weather has been weird' either way above normal or way below. In a below normal stage for a few days. Even got some rain and more snow on the mountains. And along with that came big winds. Sure hope those dead pine trees have deep roots and hang in there until they get cut down. Haven't even been walking. I miss it, but don't like to go alone. And this time of year it isn't very pretty in the Wetlands. Everything is brown. 

A couple more pictures of Sphere. 

For the most part we are not going any where so an exciting day for us is when the pest control guys come and then the cleaning ladies show up both on the same day. (Bless our son.) Pretty bad huh.

My new sun catchers up. The one on the right and the second on on the left. I haven't done any stained glass for a long time, forgot how rewarding it feels to do something I can use. 

We still haven't heard from management about how we made out with the 4-sided inspection the end of last month. Usually hear the next week. Don't know if that is good or bad. And that's it for now. Hopefully next time I write I'll have something interesting to share.