Alli and I walked into this explosion of yarn yesterday - good thing it wasn't an actual project, just a ball of yarn! 

Once again, I was overly optimistic about replacing the dryer.  Since I have solar panels, I decided to replace my gas dryer with an electric dryer, with the assumption that I would generate as least some of the needed power myself.  Turns out that electrical outlet for my dryer is non-operational.  Who knew?  I think we replaced the electric dryer in 2000, not long after moving into the house, and it looks like "someone" cut the power line in the attic above the laundry area.  Bless my "on-call handyman".  Mike came out yesterday (yes, on a Sunday!) crawled around in the attic and found the issue.  He's planning on picking up more wire (the original connection was cut too short to wire back up) and drop by between other jobs to fix it for me.  Hopefully I'll have a working dryer tonight.  In the meantime, I have jeans drying on a rack in front of the fire.

I started another quilt project - I know, a surprise, right?  I got one quilt completed - the Cockadoodle quilt - but since I have no dryer, it hasn't been washed yet.  I have the Candy Cane Lane quilt on the quilting frame, ready to quilt, but I need a different color thread before I can start it.  I have two "block a month" quilts starting this week, though one is a block a week, along with the local quilt shop's "block a month" starting on Saturday.  That should be enough, right???  Still, I started a quick quilt called Casa Grande, and it is just that, large houses.  I got all of the house blocks completed on Sunday, so now it's just adding the boarded to it.

 

I missed posting the last week - Happy New Year!  No big reason for not posting except my routine was off.  Alli came down with a GI bug, so was home from her Day Program most of last week, which shifted my routine.  Luckily she's doing much better, but it wasn't a fun week.  Adding to the fun of that, my dryer died - on New Year's Day no less.  The new dryer is being delivered and installed today between 10:00 and 1:00, so laundry is on my afternoon to-do list today.  

On a side note, I bought myself a bulb from Trader Joe's during the holiday (I got one for Pixie for Christmas, and just happened to pick up two...don't judge!) and it's blooming!