Day 238

I woke up early this morning, and got ready for the lady that wants the quilt to be made to come over. Thankfully she chose an easy design, the same as first quilt I had made. Then we discussed colors, and she wants red,orange and yellow, all colors I don't use much, and she wants a white back ground. 

I looked up some fabric and we put in an order... The fabric will be at my parents house when I arrive!

Mr's sleeping place of the day

And I worked on my ancestry, I have over 1500 people in my family tree now, and I know there are more that I don't have, Josh's side is all a bit sketchy. I really don't have many of them at all.

And there were two more born this week that I added to my family tree, two of my cousins had babies...

But I'm really to a point for the most part I need a subscription to ancestry, I think I will ask my mother in law for one for Christmas :)

And I made this leather braclet, thank you Pinterest, now to get the snaps put on and teach my friends how to make one :)

Day 237

I was too excited at how close I was to finishing my quilt, so I did my morning chores really quick, and before I ironed I sewed the front of the binding on, I used the same scallop type pattern I quilted with.

And I tossed it in the wash before I did the ironing, 

I was so excited when it came out.

This is my second quilt finish is year, and it's only July

No sooner had I posted this on Facebook, like I said I was pretty excited, did I get a message someone wanted me to make them a quilt, a king sized quilt! I've never made a quilt and been paid for it before, I'm nervous and excited...

Mr has been finding some interesting places to sleep.

He slept under the guest bathroom sink today...

And I started a new book, I'm already 8 chapters in, it's a much lighter read than my last.

Day 236

Today after getting my chores done, I worked on my quilt, 

I finished quilting, my rainbow quilt and attached the binding on the back.

Day 235

Today was clean up day,

Mr. Spent most of his day outside

He is convinced that he can catch the birds in the bushes, but he won't leave the cement steps, so probably not...

And I squeezed all of our left over limes, about a quart of lime juice!

Limonanda here I come

Day 234

Today is the day of our BBQ

We invited Josh's staff and their families over for a BBQ.

A Traditional Mexican BBQ.

So Josh put in an order with a company for the food we would need. They supply everything from The meat to the limes and tortillas. We had to buy tortilla chips and drinks.

First course, Green onions, they let them grow until there is an onion on the bottom, not just a straight stalk, and then they wrap the onion bulb in tin foil and cook, they eat the white part, not the green part.

and Sausage.

Josh also convinced one of the guys to cook, and he slacked off... Management at its best.

meanwhile the kids played in the pool

second course was stuffed peppers and quesadillas.

and the third course was arrachera steak, it was really good!

We had so much food that we didnt even cook! 7 steaks, 1 package of sausage, tortillas, potatoes, some onions, tons of guacamole left over! we could have had 2 bbqs.

Josh and his staff, there are two that did not come.

Josh enjoyed his time at the BBQ, but for the most part I was ignored except for a couple of the women who were really nice to me. Maybe more time here and they will speak to me, I understand its easier to speak your native language, and some of the wives don't really speak english much at all, so it makes it hard.

Day 233

We got up early to get a few chores done, 

Mr was not thrilled about leaving.

After we bought stuff for our party, I convinced Josh we needed a pan from the fair, and we headed over there, they are not open in the evenings we found out.

Being at the fair was nice, this week is the fair in my home town too, I wish I could go, I miss it. And I miss the chance to see my nieces show their cows in 4-h

This was a neat ride at the fair.

We didn't ride any rides because well fairs in the U.S. Are a little sketchy now imagine the safety standards in Mexico, there probably aren't any. And the other day 11 people were hurt in an accident on one of the rides, apparently 4 are still in the hospital.

They had cows, sheep, donkeys, 

And this ostrich who was catching flies.

And these two giant Bulls

And I bought these two dishes at the fair.

You shouldn't cook or put acidic things into these because the clay they are made with had lead in them, and it will leach out into your food and then you get lead poisoning, but these are the traditional dishes the people here use.

Days 231 and 232

Thursday was less than exciting, with ironing and cleaning, I didn't get much else in. I didn't even really work on my ancestry Thursday.

I did enter that my cousin had a baby though.

On Friday I dropped Josh off at work and headed home. I showered and headed out to meet up with some friends. After a bit I decided to go home, because I started to not feel well. I have been having a stuffy nose with the in and out of air conditioning here. So whe. I got home I couldn't stop sneezing, my eyes were puffy I couldn't breath, so I laid down and passed out for 3 hours! Then Josh texted me they were having some trouble at the plant and he would let me know when to pick him up... 10pm rolls around and I finally get the text! What a long day at work for him! At least 14 hours.

Since I wasn't feeling well earlier I didn't hit up the grocery store so we had nothing for dinner, so we had to head out. The restaurant was air conditioned of course, I couldn't stop sneezing and I couldn't breath... It was a terrible dinner. As soon as we walked outside I could breath again. How do I fix this??? I felt like crap again by the time we got home so I told josh there was no way I could sleep in an air conditioned room, and it's been 70s at night, so it's not exactly cool in our house...

Ah, tomorrow is another day :)