Sammy

Our Sammy, 2004 to 2019 

Loved, unique little gladiator who took his job policing UPS, mail and trash trucks very seriously. And even more dedicated to supervising Luke!

Sweetly greeting everybody else with a smile and tail wag.

We will miss you, Sammy and hold you in our hearts.

March..April...and maybe May

Life has been a bit of a whirlwind since the beginning of the year and I'm barely keeping up.  I'm going to hit the highlights.  I received some quilt tops from a Carol Ann in South Carolina who needed them finished and donated to the Layers of Hope venture of giving quilts to first responders who were affected by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California last year.  So I found backing and binding and proceeded to quilt them.  Two were kind of small and were both charm squares so I combined them to make a quilt closer to the requested sizes. I put just one fabric for each backing.


65" X 74" with a neutral backing

65" X 87" with a floral backing

Next is a child's quilt 42" X 44" with a variety of dog themed pieces on the back.

I'm waiting for information from Jean of where to send these and hopefully will be able to get them to families soon.  There is one more quilt from Carol Ann's to complete.

For the Hands 2 Help effort this year, I found some sweet leftovers of baby quilts I have made over the years.  I made a simple charm square quilt that is on the frame to be quilted. This will go to Jack's Basket.

Other news is that I've been through my first experience with physical therapy successfully getting flexibility and healing in my knee. Wahoo! My therapist was a huge help!  It seems a lot of my day has been going to exercising and walking dogs.  Time consuming but not a bad way to spend time.
Bigger news is that my sister found an amazing wonderful home and has moved to Cambria!  We are really loving having her close.

Sad news happened this week as well.  My 15 year old Sammy had spent a good day with walks and supervising us all but he became weak and unable to continue on the afternoon walk.  We were able to cart him home and to the vet but found he had a heart issue probably related to a cancer.  He improved slightly but we could see he was not going to be able to improve enough to get past all of it.  We were able to spend some quiet time with him and somehow get to the point of letting him go on.  It was a lot to take in and accept in such a short time but Sammy has hopefully found Sabra and is running around again barking at whatever he wants and keeping everybody in heaven in line. I'm putting his picture in another post.
So our house is too quiet and a little lonely right now.  Fortunately, the cats and Luke, our energetic golden retriever are keeping us comforted and busy. 

Linking this post to Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Hands2Help progress report.