This Day//

With two large snow storms this week, plus Christmas, there hasn't been much traveling going on.  It's still snowing here and the wind is blowing the roads part closed so I'm not taking any trips to far lol!  We're down to about 1 cup of milk, I've got to remember to pick up an emergency box of dry milk!

I'm adding new tabs to the top of my blog.  One for quilts that I have quilted for customers and one for my cats :) 

 We have three cats now! Two kittens were rescued the end of August by my nephew...the "animal whisperer"...honestly, if there are any animals wild or tame in crisis, he manages to come into contact with them and bring them home, much to his mother's dismay LOL!  We've seen everything from baby coons to falcons with broken wings to abandoned pups and these kittens who were about to be shot.  That's how these kittens came to us.  I have no place in my heart for that kind of cruelty! And no lectures please, because I'm a country girl and I know all about the necessity of when and how some animals have to be put down.
  One was at most 8 weeks old..it was apparently still on it's mother because we had to heat warm milk and teach it to eat watered down wet food.  The other was about 10-11 weeks and could eat on it's own, but very skittish.  She was adopted immediately by my son....a mutual choice as they took to each other immediately.  She's a beautiful tortoiseshell my son named Liara and she's brought balance to our cat family since she and my son moved in Dec 15.

The littlest kitten my sister nursed(SPOILED!!) for a month, trying to find it a home.  In October, he came to live with us.  He's part coon cat, large hairy ears and long fluffy tail. He's named Louie but we call him Lou most of the time.  He has been a hoot and been the cause of many sessions of downright belly laughter lol!  I don't think there's one piece of furniture in our home that he didn't consider to be a cat jungle gym :) And fearless lol...even pint sized he'd tackle our large 12 year cat Misha, who just considered him a nuisance, not worth the time of day and gained at least 5 lbs trying to eat all the kitten food (I think the plan was to starve him out lol), but the Lou persisted and finally won him over.

It's been like having 2 two year kids in the house the past weeks.  Lou had to be rocked, yes rocked!, to sleep twice a day(MY SISTER'S FAULT!!!)  Ever try to longarm quilt holding a kitten who sat at your feet squeaking-he never meows-to be held! We managed, he and I, to make it through lol! He wants nothing to with rocking now and I kind of miss it :(

Welcome the new members of our family...

  Liara with her gorgeous golden eyes-6 months

 Misha,my babycakes-12 yrs and Lou, check out those eyeliner peepers--4 months  They are both my "talkers" :)
  Quiltingly, Shelley

My New Word for 2013!

Well,  2012 is almost over, just a few days left. 

 A big ole "Hello a'gin my friends"! from this delinquent blogger...what can I say but that work got too busy and by the end of my work day, I was just too tired mentally to form words to write and even to tired to browse.  I did manage about every two weeks to read a few blogs so that I wasn't completely out of the loop!

I want to continue blogging so here I am, getting an early start on a New Year's resolution to do better.  I know, I know...I've said in the past that I don't believe of two spits worth in New Year's resolutions but this one is more of an intervention lol! 

 When you start your own business at home, there is definitely a learning curve in how you will now manage all the doings and responsibilities of your life.  I've been making adjustments and have discovered it's not good to work 7 days a week, 10 hours a day and leave no time for the very things that keep you centered and sane. 

 That's changing in the New Year...My word for 2013 is BALANCE !  What's your new word for 2013?