Bits and pieces.....

Here is a post that is bits and pieces of various things.....a little of this and a little of Pat (like the blog title says).

First of all, today we are going to meet up with our daughter in northern Delaware to get our granddaughter for 5 days. Jessi is 4 (will be 5 on June 1). She has been counting down the days until her visit and helped clean her room yesterday AND do her laundry in preparation for her trip. It's nice when they are still young enough to look forward to seeing the grandparents, isn't it? She will come back once more during the summer when it's "swimming weather". We have a lot of fun when she is here and I know we burn extra calories, too, as we get VERY tired!!!
The picture above is of a cute pincushion I made for a gift. I had a pattern for it and made it from wool felt. I hope the recipient will like it...I might make more for a few other gifts, too. I finished it yesterday as I know I won't have much sewing time with Jessi here. (My sewing room is her bedroom when she visits and, also, I like to spend as much time as possible doing things with her since we don't see her that often.)

Last night I was a bit "bummed out". We had been invited to a garden party at the home of a friend. He had as a guest at his home Ted Keegan who was one of the leads in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and he was going to sing at the garden party. I had really been looking forward to going to this as it's not often the chance presents itself to meet someone so talented in that kind of a small setting. BUT....my sore ribs were really quite bad by late in the day yesterday and there was no way I'd have been able to go stand around outside (in the damp air) for a couple of hours without being in some serious pain. So I had to cancel going at the last minute...tried to convince hubby to go alone and report back to me, but he didn't want to do that. I was sad about this. HOWEVER, I consoled myself by sitting for a short time on the screen porch on the glider and listening to the windchimes and the crickets and thinking about getting Jessi today and the fun I'll have with her here until Thursday.

I will try to post each day Jessi is here with pictures of her and tales of our activities, but I may not be able to read blogs as faithfully as I usually do or reply to comments here, but I know you all understand.....just don't want you worrying if you have no comments from me for a few days. Blogging friends are the BEST, aren't they? It seems like we really understand each other!