Almost Ready!

Peggy over at Hidden Haven Homestead had asked a while back if anyone wanted to have Norm the Garden Gnome visit and of course, I love visitors! Norm arrived today. He and Speck are getting acquainted! Since we're all going to be spending 14 hours in the car together in just a day or two, we all need to be really good buddies! I think they've bonded and we'll be fine. Norm will be traveling with us to Louisiana. I mentioned that we would have to stop at the Welcome to Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana signs so Norm could get a picture and my family isn't so sure about that! :) I'm almost ready to start packing! I had intended to get the tires checked on the car but that isn't going to happen. I did get to the vet today and got Speck's nails cut and got Advantage. We don't have fleas here so I don't normally use Advantage but in south Louisiana, there are definitely fleas! In the last week, I've quilted 6 tops. Thankfully only two were custom, two were pantos, two were meandering stars. I've finished piecing two tops that were started and pieced one from start to finish and . . I am tired! On my goals for this week, I have two listed to add binding but I hope to get binding on three so I can take them all with me and do hand work at night in the room. I have slept about 4 hours each night for at least a week and I'm going to be in bed before 10 p.m. tonight! Speck loves to get in the batting that hangs down from the machine. This is why he isn't allowed in the quilting room when there are customer quilts on the machine. This was my own quilt and this piece of batting was extra long because there was already a hole in it (more Hobbs quality control) so I didn't mind Speck laying on that since it was going to get cut off. I thought this day would never get here but it's almost time to leave and now . . I'm going to pack! Judy