Quilting Block #2 or Project #7

Yay!  I finished block #2 a couple of days ago  :)   I still need to trim both of them down to 12.5" squares and I've already started block #3.  This one was a "wonky pound sign", up next is a "Balkan puzzle block".  I'm working on my first triangles! 

 

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It's Gonna Be A Loooong Winter

Snow day  :)  There was already accumulation of 8 inches when I got home and it's a Friday - I only work 1/2 days on Fridays while school's in session.  w00t!  I love it!  OK, it totally sucks when there's a lot of traffic out and people insist that 3 lane roads are still 3 lane roads (really, there are only 2 lanes open on a day like today), but it's otherwise quite lovely.  I don't know what it is, but driving through some nice dense fluff like today just makes me happy.  

The Moose averages about 15 hours of sleep a day, including sleeping through the night.  Thank you baby for that!  She is so sad when she doesn't sleep that well and gets little baby bags under her eyes.  Yobo said she didn't sleep at all today with the blizzard & people ploughing all day.  Ah... the power of boob.  She was fussy at first, but finally ate well; then she was fussy again, but has been sleeping soundly for the past 2 hours  :)

When I typed ploughing, I got a red squiggly line in this text box.  So I went and looked it up - apparently I've been spelling it the British way, plow is the American spelling LMAO This whole time I thought plow was a misspelling!  The same thing with doughnut / donut.  D'oh!

Quilting Day 3

My first ever block is DONE!!!!!!!!!!

Ode to the Orange Asterisk

Oh orange asterisk block,
it took many a trial and err
before you took your current GLORIOUS shape.
one can barely notice
where your seams were sewn together,
then callously ripped apart, and, once again,
sewn together, and then sometimes,
ripped apart and sewn together AGAIN!
Oh orange asterisk block,
you are still not done,
not until I cut you into 
a twelve-and-a-half-inch square.

Wordless Wednesday

the Toothache Plant

Holy Toledo.  Let me tell you about an amazing plant, the paracress, or, as we lovingly refer to it, the toothache plant.  Yobo found this plant not long before the Moose was brought into being; he said, "hey, let's try this out - the toothache plant will cause your mouth to go slightly numb, the leaves are a salad green, the flowers are spicy and also known as "Szechuan Buttons", it's totally safe, and works great on teething babies."  How could I refuse?!  

Acmella oleracea, aka Paracress, "toothache" plant

 

The Moose absolutely adores it - since before tooth #1 erupted, she has learned exactly how to work the plant for specific needs.  It is absolutely amazing!  Sometimes she just chews on a leaf for a rather mild numbing effect and smiles; other times she meticulously pulls apart the individual flower hairs and, literally, stuffs them into a single area of her mouth, steadily applies pressure for about 30 seconds, and giggles in utter teething-pain-relief.  Absolutely amazing.  She has learned to climb the "Gorilla" rack we use for the plants in the living room.  She climbs to reach the paracress's lower branches, doing her best to take down a leaf or flower.  Or occasional whole branch.  We have encouraged her free-range access to the plant; Yobo even put up a wooden rail on the front edge of the rack so she can't pull the plants down (anymore! LOL). And when she doesn't hurt, the Moose can usually be found grazing the rosemary or searching for ripe Tiny Tom tomatoes  :)

Oh yeah, and it totally cures dry mouth.