Energy is wasted on the young

Sorry, I didn't know what else to put.  It's the truth, though.  If I had the energy of a 3 year old, my house would be spot less and I'd have a small UFO quilt pile.  As it is, I went for a pedicure while hubby went for a haircut yesterday morning and I think we both took a short nap once we got back home. 

I did manage to start working on the next block of my Shabby Fabrics fall BOM ( from last year).  This is block seven out of nine, I believe.  I'm pretty sure that month ten is when you put all the blocks together and add the buttons, etc.  I traced, roughly cut out the paper back fusible and ironed it onto the backs ( well, except for one piece of fabric).  Thank goodness, I've been saving the 'leftovers (some are too big to be called scraps in my opinion) and I found a piece to match the one that I accidently fused the webbing onto the front of.  Disaster averted!

Late yesterday afternoon, we made a spur of the moment dash into Lansing to check out Menard's.  On line, they had a really great deal on a patio table with umbrella and four chairs - less than 1/2 the price of the set I'd been looking at on Walmart.com and Amazon.com.  We wanted delivery because I knew the box would be heavy and I didn't want the two of us trying to figure out how to get it out of our car without causing major physical damage to one or both of us.  There was some 'confusion' as to delivery fees - I had printed out a copy of the picture of the patio set but not the page with delivery fees - bad move.  It should have only cost us $40 at the most ... at first they wanted $79 and I kept telling them "No, not when I saw that it should only cost $40".  The gentleman whom I'm assuming was the dept. manager finally dropped twenty dollars off and I said, "ok, I can accept $59" only because I couldn't bring up the page from their website on my phone.  And at the bottom of the receipt was information on how to receive the rebate - 11% of purchase price... works for me.

Anyway....it arrived about mid morning after I received a call wanting to know if it would be alright to deliver this morning instead of in the afternoon.

Hubby just HAD to set it up; I was really worried if he was up for it.  He did let me help and the hardest part was assembling the table.  You really needed at least two people for that.

 Of course, Buddy had to check it out.... 

Not a great pic, but if I stand where the deck rails aren't in the way, then I'm too close to the table.  Hubby says he doesn't care for the new chairs; he likes the old ones better.  I told him we can probably get cushions for them.  They're not fancy or expensive chairs; I think they're comfortable, but he's an old fart who has to find SOMETHING to be unhappy about lol.

Just before dinner, I finally managed to get back into my sewing room and get the applique pieces fused to a silicone sheet so that I can just lift it onto the background and not have to fuss with getting pieces in the right places.

Tomorrow, I'll get it onto the background and start stitching it down, but first, I have to bake cupcakes to take to my family's reunion on Sunday.  Not fancy cupcakes like my friend, Katie, makes, but still good... lemon with a surprise lemon curd filling and lemon frosting ( all from a box and two cans lol).  It's about all the energy I can muster food wise.

It's after 9 pm and I'm heading to bed....

take care....

ttyl....