Special Friends . . .

We made a lap quilt a while back for some special friends, Angie and Tom. As soon as I saw the fabric, I knew it had to be for them. I made the quilt top and my DH quilted it. The Lord fills these two people up and that love flows out to everyone around them. Our family is blessed with their love and  friendship. Thank you guys!

Cross Quilt Beginnings

Cross Quilt Beginnings

I don't always plan out the quilts that I make, in fact, I rarely do but generally have an idea of what design I want. However I started some blocks just to keep busy, not having any idea what I would use them for.

A friend, who knows I quilt, gave me some scraps someone left at our church.

 There were lots of brown, green, yellow and teal pieces of fabric.
I cut three inch strips  and stitched two different colors together on two sides then cut them diagonally, flipped them and stitched together. It takes a LOT of three inch blocks to make a quilt!!

 I forgot that I had already packed my quilt books so I searched the internet for patterns  but didn't find anything that struck my fancy.

I remembered a picture I saw several months ago and saved it - now where did I save it?? Finally located it on my desktop (among the hundreds of other pictures on there).

 

I had enough blocks to make the center of my quilt but will have to wait to finish until we get moved - I already packed my fabric as well!! Anyway, here is the start of my quilt.

Magdalena Michael

I have been remiss about posting to my blog for several months. We have had a lot going on and the next few months may be pretty busy as well, depending on how some things work out but will try to put inputs in now and again.

 Magdalena Michael

 

 

Beautiful Family!!

 Magdalena Michael, our newest granddaughter was born August 19th in Bulgaria. She was pretty small but healthy and welcomed by Mom, Dad and big sister Kalina. 

There was much speculation about what her name would be. When asked what her new sister's name should be, Kalina (our three year old granddaughter) replied "Broccoli".  Our son and daughter-in-law called her "Plus One" until she was born and gave her the name Magdalena Michael.

They call her Maggy. Her great grandmother (my grandma on Dad’s side)  was called "Maggie" as well as one of my cousins.

It will be awhile before we get to see her in person but are getting picture updates and hope later to see her on Skype. She is a beautiful baby!!

Still on my soapbox - ANGRY with HP and Microsoft. . .

I have a perfectly good dependable HP1000 Laserjet printer with an almost new print cartridge in it, THAT I CANNOT USE!

Because these two companies got together and decided not to have a printer driver available for use with Windows 7. This printer is UNSUPPORTED. I am not the only one with this issue and do NOT understand why these companies will not do something about it.

I just bought a new printer to run on Windows 7 and IT IS NOT AN HP PRINTER!!

Gu Ru

Guru

We have been doing a bit of work at our church in the last few weeks and it has generally gotten around that we do some computer work. One Sunday, an elder announce that our congregation has some new computer "guru's". 

Several people have asked if we are the guru's - I don't know about that - we both just like working with computers and have learned quite a bit. One member is so convinced she calls . . .

Me         - Gu                                                    

and  Him        - Ru

She knows who she is!!

WE ARE GOING FOR ANOTHER 100,000 PLUS MILES!

It's back from the shop with some transmission repairs and a new clutch. AND IT'S QUIET.  It doesn't sound like rocks rolling around in it now.

We are very happy with the shop who did the work. They pulled the transmission and sent it for repairs as some gears showed some wear. Got it back, put it in and it was not right so they sent it back. Got it in again and the noise was still there, coming from the clutch. The replaced the clutch and it is very quiet now.

We recommend AAAA Transmission for their work and honesty. They treated  us right! They said it was a learning experience for them working on this diesel truck. The mechanic said he learned a lot and it will help him with future customers.

He also mentioned that the repair shop told him after looking at the transmission that the owner (my DH) really knew how to drive and take good care of that truck. With that many miles on it, it is in really good shape!

Computers

We bought a new Acer computer for me last October at Fry's Electronics. It quit on me in June - would not even boot. I had an extended warranty, even though it was still under manufacturer's warranty. Fry's said they would send it to Acer to be repaired. Four weeks later, Fry’s called and said it could not be fixed and Acer issued a store credit to me.

We went in and found that all the computers now had Windows 8 on them. I told them I did not want one because none of my software would run on it. When asked about a refund so I could get one somewhere else, I was told (after they supposedly spoke to a manager) that Acer would not do a refund - I had to use the credit in the store. We're talking $400!! They said I could use it on something other than a computer!! I told them I needed the computer.

Finally went back to the computer department to look around and found a different salesman. He found one computer that had Windows 7 on it and it was not an Acer. I had to pay more for it since it was not on sale like the first one. They did give me a small discount on it. When we got home I looked for warranty information on it and couldn't locate it so my DH called to find it does have a 1 year warranty. I did not buy the expensive extended Fry's warranty on it since it was a waste of money on the last one!!

Since I was upset about the whole deal, I posted a note on Acer's Facebook page and was told that they did not issue store credits - that Fry's did and if I still had the computer they would fix it! Hmmm, makes me wonder what really happened to my computer. Someone is not being truthful so I will choose carefully who I give my business to from now on.

AND my DH bought a new Dell laptop two years ago at . . .you guessed it . . .,- Fry's. For some time now the screen would go all squirrelly with lines across it. But it was so random we figured they would not be able to duplicate it so we did not take it in. We had purchased a 2 year warranty on it, thinking, we had plenty of time to take it in if it did it more often. More often showed up this week and we discovered the stated 2 year warranty was actually one year with an expiration date of June 2013!! DH did some research and found that Dell has known about this problem for some time and has done nothing to fix it.

At this point, we are NOT happy campers!!