While sitting, watching the gray skies and dreary rain, I’m reflecting on last year’s accomplishments and disappointments. These are the things I’m pleased to have accomplished:
- Made 17 custom mens shirts (We won’t mention the one ‘wadder’).
- Pieced, quilted and completed 4 quilts (2 totally by hand and 1 machine pieced and hand quilted and 1 for the dog).
- Made 2 casual blouses for myself.
- Canned lots of jars of food including fresh tomatoes from our tomato patch, soups, stews, beans and jams.
- Read for a few hours each day.
- Cooked homemade, nutritious meals nearly every day (and often twice a day).
- Traveled (though not as extensively as I prefer).
- Battled with a contractor (and won) for a new metal roof installed on our house.
- Survived pneumonia, staph, bronchitis, a cold and finding a new doctor.
There are a few things I wish I’d given more attention:
- The Split-16 quilt remains on the frame, as close to being finished as it was a year ago.
- Though I’ve invested a few more days on the Wonky Stars quilt, it remains unfinished.
- The Tumbling Stars quilt still awaits attention.
- A big batch of tamales made and frozen as was planned before Christmas. I’m craving them!
Fortunately those things not accomplished can be rectified in this new year but my most important resolution is to continue being happy. Everything else is inconsequential.
Shirl
