This is the new quilt top I made at the quilting retreat with Donna's help. The quilt will probably not be done until after the first of the year. We have to have space to set up the quilting frame. It will give us something to do after the holidays are over. David is here now and except for a couple of trips back to Alaska, he will be here until the middle of January. Thanksgiving will be wall to wall people. It will be fun. I like living this way much better than being in an Assisted Living Center. My sister, Elsie, loves living in her Assisted Living center in Lake Stevens. Those places are made for people like her.Now on to other happenings. We were coming back from the Quilting Retreat on Sunday, Nov.6th. I had decided we could use my new car to go to the retreat. It was dark when we were getting back and we heard a rock hit the car. It did not really sound that bad but the next morning there was a large crack in the windshield. I just bought the car in July so that was upsetting. We got the glass replaced at the Auto glass place here in Sequim. I only had a $50. deductable on my insurance. This is only the second new car I ever bought. My other new car was the Kia Rio. It was only a little over two months old when it had a mishap. In November we had a bad wind storm that year and half our roof blew off the house. I always parked the car in the garage but I had to park it in the carport because we needed the driveway to the garage for the big dumpster to put all the shingles, etc in. We had a very icy New Year's eve that year and during the night someone took out part of our chain-link fence and part of the fence fell on the side of the car. It left a huge scratch that had to be fixed. Body work is so expensive but the insurance covered most of it. Then after we moved to Merrill Gardens my Kia was parked in their parking garage and a lady backed into it. Not a lot of damage but it did have to have body work again. All the eight years I drove the Kia I did not even get one ding in my windshield though.
Donna and Laif bought an auxilary heat pump for the downstairs. The installers came yesterday. One person put the unit in and the other was the electrician who had to do all the wiring. Yesterday was a miserable, cold day. It poured rain from time to time making it worse. Anyway, the guys were supposed to be here at 8am and were not able to get here until about 10:30. When Donna ordered the unit they said it would take 3 hours to install it but it ended up taking almost 6 hours. They had problems with wiring for one. The guy who was installing the unit had to leave for awhile because he had an appointment at 1pm. The truck he had was a large and tall truck. He drove it down the driveway so he wouldn't have to carry the units so far. When he was going back up the driveway he took out some of the the trim from the house that hangs over which was a pretty good size piece. I think I saw two big pieces on top of the garbage can. Donna said he was just about a quarter of an inch from taking out the gutter. Of course, they are going to fix it. He says it will look just like new when it is done. I hope so. Donna and Laif were not too happy about it. David missed all the excitement. I was going to go with him to see one of his friends in Port Haddock but I didn't want to go because the weather was so miserable so I just let him use my car.
The happy ending to yesterday is that everything is working great and it is so comfortable downstairs I can hardly believe it. This auxilary heat pump is supposed to take very little electricity. Last winter I just wore sweaters and used my electric throw to keep my legs and feet warm. I'm not even wearing a sweater now.
I think I will even be able to raise the dough for Cinnamon rolls downstairs, which I found out people are expecting me to make for Thanksgiving.
