Eat Pork

Suffice to say that I am working on a contract at the piggies again.

Since this H1N1 flu has been going around, the pork prices have gone down, down, down.

These poor pig farmers barely break even and now they are taking a loss. They can't continue to raise piggies if they are losing money.

Do you want your pork from Thailand or China? If not, I encourage you to get out there and buy some pork - lots of it!

Did you know that in Texas, the gulf shrimp fishermen are being driven out of business by the shrimp imported from China and Thailand! Yes, that is what the local big chain supermarkets carry. We do support the local fisherman - you can't beat the taste.

Sure beats the shrimp from the rice paddies. Think about it please - and buy pork!

UFO 5 - Christmas Row Quilt

This quilt is all cut and pieced by hand, so it took a long time. For some stupid reason, I decided to machine quilt it myself. I say stupid because I am not a good machine quilter.

I was going to rip it all out, but after reading an article in Mark Lupinski's quilting magazine, Quilter's World, I decided to just finish it. It may not win any awards, but it will be finished.

My goal is to finish it, binding and all.

UFO 4 - Thoughts of Barbados

Last year while we were in Texas, Sue wrote to see if I wanted to go with her to Barbados on her special service airline pass.

Of course I jumped at the chance!

We had such a good time - first class travel, great travelling buddy, beautiful beaches, fun, fun, fun!

She was over one day and liked the flip flop quilt I have in my quilt room. So I am making this one as a thank you (she knows - no worry).

My goal this month is to have all 9 blocks and hopefully the quilt finished.

UFO 3 - Christmas retreat Quilt

I started this one at a retreat put on by The Quilter's Cottage in Stonewall in the fall. I thought it might be a good idea to have it complete by the next retreat. My goal is not to have it quilted but to have the borders on.

Since I am using mitten patterned fabric in the borders, if I just add the borders, the mittens will not match and I don't want to add a plain block. I am picky that way.

I will think of something.

My goal is to complete this one - quilting and all - this month.

UFO 2 - Flower Show

I just love these flowers!

I saw this quilt in Texas last year and for some reason I decided not to buy the fabrics. Once I got home, I looked all over for the fabric to no avail. So at the quilt show in Texas this year I asked around to find the vendor that had it last year. I found them but they did not have the fabric anymore. But under a pile at their table, I found the kit.

At the beginning of the month, the blocks were not together.

I have not decided how to quilt this one yet and may send it out.

But I accomplished my goal of getting it together this month.

Mission - UFO Completion

In quilting, we refer to our unfinished objects as UFOs.

Since summer is coming and I won't be quilting as much, I made it my goal to finish 5 UFO's this month.

This is UFO 1. In its state at the beginning of the month and how it looks now - COMPLETE.

The Yellow Rose of Texas!

Cheaper pet medication

Did you know that you may be able to get your pet's medication from the pharmacy instead of the vet?

We tried this with Benson's latest medication and it was considerably cheaper.

We asked the vet for the prescription and he phoned it in to Shopper's Drug Mart near us.

For 5 months of pills, we saved over 50%. The vet's bill last time just for the pills was $141.70. The pharmacy's total for the same amount was $73.45, for a savings of $85.26!!

And at the vet you pay both PST and GST but only GST from the pharmacy.

My tip of the day!