Tuesday To-Do #22: Two-For-Tuesday and An RX for No Sewing?

It's the last Tuesday in July!

Hoorah!

It's been a little rough around here and

I'm really ready for a new month.

First, let's join in the others over at

Texas Quilt Gal's Tuesday To Do link up

and then we'll see how my week went...

I mean, despite little mishaps and such.

Check this stuff out:

  

1) Load Spring Dresden and quilt.

DONE!

I think this is my favorite of the nine.

It is so darned cheery!

If I hadn't already made up a label with Spring Dresden

on it, I would have named it A Bowl Full of Cherries.

(The backing and binding is all cherries.)

Still kind of regretting not remaking that label...

2) Bind and label Winter Woodland

DONE!

I didn't get many pics of this one.

And remember, some nice day I'm going to be doing

a photo shoot with all of them and then I think I'll

post a virtual trunk show so you all can see what

they really look like.

3) Make HST blocks for Waves

4) Make leaf blocks for fall quilt 

No progress on either of these.  See the

"What did I do?" in my golf section below.

On to other things, I have another garden-fresh recipe.

I always try to get the most use out of our produce

while its fresh and full of vitamins so our current menu

is focused on tomatoes, peppers, onions and carrots.

This recipe for Maple Glazed Carrots is so, so good with

home-grown carrots (taste nothing like the store's).

I cut back quite a bit on most of the ingredients because

in my mind, that's how you can still taste the carrots.

(Otherwise, that's a whole lotta butter, syrup and sugar!)

The important thing is to saute them up hot in butter

so they get a nice outer coating on them and then do

the thing.  I toss the oregano sprigs in while they cook

to give it a small touch of that flavor.  In the pic above

 I used thyme just to switch things up a bit.  We like our

veggies crisp-tender so I cut the time in about half.

Cutting them into "coins" switches things up, too.

In the golf part of my world, these two babies are finally

part of my bag.   For some reason, the wedge took a couple

months to show up (?); the other is my "heavenwood" which,

thankfully, came within a week.  It's a toss-up what I'll be

working on next.  Hybrid or putter.  Hubs is pushing for the

putter; I'm leaning that way too...once I can play again.

What did I do?

The short story is I slipped down a few stairs and my back

(with my full weight on it) landed on the "point" of a step.

A couple days later I tried to golf anyway

(because really, I was just very sore where I fell)

but hobbled off early in the round when one

particular swing took it all out of me.  I've been in a

world of hurt since, wincing and shuffling around like

a 90-year old woman.  I can take pain but I hate

not being able to do the things I need/want to do.

I've since learned it's a slipped/bulging disc.

With a history degenerative back issues (surgery & hardware),

this ain't my first rodeo and you can be very sure I'll be doing

every exercise prescribed to stay off that operating table.

I just wanted to explain why I'm not supposed to sit

for any length of time...as in, no sewing.

(Need I add that standing hurts my other back issues?!)

Will I squeeze a little here and there?

Probably so.  And when I do sit, I'm supposed to do my

exercise (currently only one) every time I get back up,

along with every hour on the hour so you

can see very little will get done.

Such is life, eh?  I will make out my list and go on!

1) Quilt Christmas Grace; finish?

Finishing requires sewing on binding.  We'll see.

2) Maybe progress on other two projects?

As my mother would always say: 

We should never take our health for granted!

And I'd like to add:

Once you hit 50, start hanging on to stair rails!

Hopefully things are cheerier next time!

Happy quilting!