No snow plow in sight til Tuesday

Never made it to work last night but tonight I am getting picked up for work.  The neighborhood community has access to a website that lists when your address plans to get plowed out...ours not until Tuesday afternoon.  So I am packed to get picked up now and plan on staying at work until my final shift Tuesday morning is over.  Bye for now!

Waiting for the NATIONAL GUARD

I am supposed to work tonight at Johns Hopkins.  I am an RN in the NICU with all the babies.  I called to tell work I couldn't make it out of my neighborhood and I was told the National Gaurd has been activated and the Hospital was coordinating ways for everyone to get to work.  I am ready and waiting in case they call and can get me now even though my shift is not until 7pm tonight.  I am waiting for the call to walk about a mile to the nearest cross street.  I don't think they take you home once they get you there.  I am packing enough clothes and food for a couple of days.  I have to work Sat, Sun and Mon night anyway so I may as well just stay there or in a nearby hotel until the roads are safer to pass. 

Look how deep the snow is now!  They says it's over 24 inches and it is still coming down with a prediction of 36 inches!  The last storm Maryland saw that was this big was in 2003. 

There has NOT been a snow plow come down our court since last night.  The entire community is private and about 50 homes are are totally snowed in!

I think Dale our Golden Retriever has about 10 pounds of snow balls on his belly!  When he comes in from the outside I have to take him to the bath tub and rinse his belly with warm water.  If I don't do that, I have snow balls dropping all over the house as they melt.  He was eating the snow balls off of himself in this picture.

Our cars look like SUVs. 

Last week we had a snow storm that required Kevin to drive me to work and pick me up.  I was not comfortable making the drive.  At that time, Kevin had put his boots in the trunk of my car and this morning when we getting dressed to go out in the snow to start shoveling, we realized his boots were still in the trunk of my car!  This is how difficult it was to get to them out of the trunk!  Funny.

Found a Giveaway!

Please check out Noelle's giveaway over at her blog called and sew and sew on!  Her little houses are adorable!  She sells these on etsy and she has many to choose from.  

Missing in Action

My Mom, Aunt Beth and Aunt Grier

Sisters

Sorry for not posting in the last week....first I worked nights all weekend and since then I have been helping my mom who is in the hospital.  She is 69 years old and turns 70 this summer.  She is in the hospital AGAIN for pneumonia and her first heart attack.  She has COPD from 40 years of smoking and she requires oxygen 24/7.  I wanted to let everybody know has much she means to me.  She is a special woman....raised me, my brother and sister by herself since I was 7 years old.  She taught me everything I know about sewing and quilting.  She is an amazing talented lady!  It is scary how much we look alike too!  SCARY!!  He sisters are amazing too!  I am very close to all my relatives since we all live in the Washington DC vicinity.  As a matter of fact, all my Aunts are talented beyond belief!  I think I get it from all three of them not to mention from my MiMi (their mom) who passed away a year ago! 

So I just wanted to say that about my mom and let everyone know I am not blogging for a reason...busy and not having time to sew or create lately.  Hope everyone is healthy, happy and being creative in many ways!  Have a great week and I hope to catch up with everything next week. 

When life gives you lemons...

You make lemonade!  I have been nominated by Dee from Dee's Doodles (thequiltingdee) for the prestigious and much sought after Lemonade Stand Award! 

The award is given out for bloggers that show great attitude and gratitude. I want to congratulate Dee for winning this award.  She is a stay at home wife and mom to three boys like me!  She is an avid reader, quilter and gardener.  She even home schools her sons!  She is inspirational and always has a kind word for me.  She always has inspiration posts and you should definately check out her blog!  Thank you Dee for this wonderful award! 
These are the rules of accepting the award.  Put the Lemonade logo on your blog or within your post.  Nominate at least 10 blogs with great attitude or gratitude.  Link the nominees within your post.  Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.  Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.
My nominees are (in no particul

Pat from A Little of This and a Little of Pat
Micki from Irish Muses
Greg from Flat Out Quilting
Lurline at Lurline's Place
Angela at Country Scrap Quilts
Lane at That Man Quilts?
Julie at JulieKQuilts
Peg at Happy in Quilting
Jackie at Canton Village Quilt Works
 Barb at Bejeweled Quilts by Barb

Check out these bloggers, they are wonderful people (men and women)!  They have always been there to make comments and give words of encouragement.  Thanks to them for making blogging more interesting!

Antique Red Cross Quilt

Found this antique quilt top on ebay for only $35 and it was well worth it.  The quilt top is in good shape but not the quilting.  The quilt is lovely and only has a few stains and is full of beautiful feedsacks.  Since I am without my sewing machine I decided to take this out of the half-done project pile.  Today I spent all day taking old stitching out so I can redo it myself.  I believe this design is called "Red Cross", but if anyone knows differently, please let me know. I am going to machine quilt it because it is too large to quilt by hand. 

Back to the doctors tomorrow to make sure I am recovering fine from my angiogram.  If all goes well, it's back to work Saturday night.  I am NOT looking forward to it.  I still get winded walking up and down the steps.  Probably because my Hct (blood count) went from 41 to 28.  Oh well, I can't stay home forever.