Letters to Mom

Lost another one, Mom.  Whenever I turn to a dvd to raise my mood I turn to either XWP "Lyre, Lyre" or "Young Frankenstein".  Among all of us just two words could make us smile or laugh "Frau Brucher!" May his name and memory forever be a blessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder

It has cooled down a little at night and there's a hint of fall in the mornings. Not much yet but just enough to suggest September might be coming.  A couple of days of running over to Carrollton to get Jackie's license renewed and I think I've got a cold.  Slept most of the afternoon yesterday once we got home.  Sniffles, scratchy throat, watering eyes - yep, summer cold or allergies gone haywire. Can't focus enough to write - beyond annoying right now

Hey Mom, going to finish the tumbler quilt.   Quilt update - the tumbler quilt that Mom worked on for over 10 years (a little bit here, a little bit there at a time) was left in the frames being worked on when we lost her. We let it sit for a couple of years and then I decided we'd either roll it and put it away, find someone to quilt it or I was going to try one more time to quilt. Sat down and started quilting, something I hadn't been able to do before then. I did 3 rows and we discovered the quilt was damaged. To salvage it we took it off the frames, cut it down to a full size from a queen and were left with a small section that was left unquilted. The 3 photo is of the quilt ready to be finished with basting. The remainder of the quilt top will be cut into two pieces and turned into lap quilts. The bats will be the backing of mine, the owls will be Jackie's. Not choices Mom would make but we're shifting from what Mom would approve of in