A Trip Down South

With the great weather today, I decided to take a trip south right on MN HWY #4.  The Old Alley Quilt Shop will have new owners on January 2nd of 2020.  There was a window before Christmas when the current owners were having the coffee pot on.  Today was my day.

With the changing of hands, Sharon and Becky were also having a 30% off of anything and everything.  That was my window to purchase a new cutting mat.  My Olaf cutting mats are over 20 years old.  With Rotary cutters, there comes a time when the grooves and valleys on the surfaces are hard on the rotary cutting blades causing them to be replaced more often than necessary.  Things just don’t cut quite as smoothly as they should.  I have my eight point pinwheel blocks being completed and as of this afternoon, I have the backing and the batting for a time when I complete it.  My goal is to totally quilt this one on my own.  Today totally felt like a Christmas treat for me.

As Sharon and I were visiting, she mentioned that one of her old college classmates had moved back to St. James.  Sharon and he had reconnected.  Out of the past came the wife of her classmate.  Bobby Moody and I worked together for a time in the courthouse.  Our offices were next door to each other.  Bobby and her husband had eventually moved north of the metro and we had lost track of each other.

Bobby was a very interesting personality.  She was all about learning how to raise their own food.  When we lived at South Branch, she would come over and learn rural “101.”  They were living in a cabin on Kansas Lake and she had raised chickens.  Now Bobby needed to learn how to butcher self same chickens.  Oh for the memories.

I did get Bobby’s phone number from Sharon.  I called her this afternoon and sometime after the first of the year we will get together.  At the time of the call she was in Steam Boat Springs as they are visiting their daughter.  She also does fuzz and threads, aka: quilting.  I had remembered her as much younger than myself.  Come to find out she is only two years younger.  It will be fun catching up with her. 

Nothing great, but I am looking forward to having pizza for supper.  It is not often but it seemed like the perfect meal.  Chicken Alfredo Pizza . . . sure to be a winner even if it is a frozen pizza.