Karen’s Opinion

We added a room onto the back of our house and are just now getting to get carpet for us. You would think, since we own a carpet store, that we would be able to buy carpet and get it put down. Well, it still costs money and so many other things came before new flooring. Also, when hubby installs our carpet, it means that he isn’t making money so it always got pushed to the back burner. The stars aligned and we finally are having the carpet put down. It is already looking good! I can’t wait until it is finished.

I hope that winter is on the way out. We are having thunder storms here in Indiana. This has been the weirdest winter that I can remember. The icicles have built up so thick on the back of our house that water began pouring in, wetting the cedar siding walls. The gutters are full of ice.

I hate to give our dogs baths when it is cold outside but our Shitzu, Brody, was smelling very doggy. He just had to have a bath. He doesn’t really mind having a bath and sits still so I can blow him dry with the hair blow dryer. I put just a spritz of perfume on him and he runs around the house like a maniac. He must have worn himself out. This is how I found him and our Boston Terrier, Elsie.

I finished mom’s quilt.

Whenever I get a quilt to put on the long arm machine, I try to pick the best design to put on the quilt. This particular quilt has such a beautiful patterned block that I did not want to put a fancy design in my quilting that would detract from the blocks. I am only stitching in the ditch and adding a flower in the larger blank spaces. My mom made this quilt.

I recently read The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher and I have become a fan of this awesome writer. I learned from Google: Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE is a British author of romance novels and mainstream women’s fiction since 1949. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser.

I found that she writes in such a way that a reader is transported to the countryside described in her chapters. I was unable to skip ahead or skim any paragraphs in her books. She writes so much detail that leads up to the situation that if I skimmed, I had to go back to figure out what I missed. The situations of each character are very intricate and intertwined perfectly with additional characters as they were added in the story line. I am amazed at how this author writes and cannot wait to read another of her books. I am looking at her book, September, to snuggle up with this weekend.