Bad / Good Day

Yesterday I was brought nearly to tears when I went outside to start working on my patio, when I realized that I’ve probably made a huge, costly, and time consuming mistake. I dug out the space too deep, then added way too much sand, and now I’m hopelessly in over my head on that project.

I really wasn’t attempting to create a miniature beach in my front yard, complete with lake, but that looks like what I’ve done. This photo was shot two days ago, before my “pond” filled with water.

Josh tried to cheer me up by driving to the store to get some dessert, but halfway out the driveway, he blew a tire!

So instead of driving to Charlotte today for a Fiber Art Options meeting, I instead spent 3 hours getting four new tires because the old ones were shot beyond belief.

Since I’m ever the clever girl who knows when a long wait is imminent, I took my laptop along and got to work on the last chapter of the intermediate level book in the waiting room.

I had ALL THE CONTENT WRITTEN, every single blasted word, and then….yep…you guessed it…I LOST IT ALL.

Fate then decided that I’d been thoroughly punished enough and my car was promptly ready to go.

I flew home on new tires, which are really quite nice and hopefully will improve our gas mileage this summer, raced into the house and immediately went to work trying to find a program that will recover corrupted Works files.

Luckily, there is such a program. It’s called Recovery for Works Word 2.0 and while it didn’t save my formatting perfectly, it did save the WORDS I’d written and that saved me about 3 days rewriting those last chapters.

So for the last three hours, I’ve been copying and pasting and getting a new file back together and finally, yes, finally I can say that the content of From Feathers to Flames is DONE!

All that’s left is editing it for grammar and spelling (Josh’s job) and creating the images for the book (my job), and this book will be ready to roll.

So while it’s been a horribly bad day, at least I didn’t lose the whole thing.

And meanwhile downstairs the Intermediate quilt is already stretched out on the tables being basted.

Since blue was the theme for the beginner level book and DVD, red is the theme for this one. I can’t wait to get started quilting all the designs in the blocks and sashing!

Okay, I’m off to answer all the email I’ve missed this morning and then hopefully, fate will give me a bit of a break before it hits me with another set of three.

Now I just need to figure out what to do with that pond I’ve dug in my front yard…

Let’s go quilt,

Leah