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Friday, August 28, 2015

Mixed Meal Colic

Southerners have many odd expressions—trust me, I grew up in the south—my Mom uses one, “we are having mixed meal colic for supper.”  The expression is usually used when she is cleaning the refrigerator and all the leftovers are being served with no real theme in mind.  But where in the world did that expression come from—does it mean if you eat all that mixed up food you are going to have indigestion/colic???  When I was trying to come up with a title for tonight’s blog that expression kept running through my head—so we are having mixed meal blog tonight—a little of this and a little of that.

As for Windows 10—I removed it from my computer and went back to Windows 7.  I made an executive decision—when I get a new laptop in the future, then I will deal with Windows 10 as I am assuming new laptops in the future will come loaded with the software.  I just ran out of patience, wasn’t in the mood, etc.  And we live with limited gigabyte internet in the winter while in Arizona—Microsoft Windows 10 performs automatic updates (you cannot turn off these updates) and I’m not sure how that’s going to work with limited gigabytes. 

Rod, this next one is for you—I saw this on Facebook and immediately thought of your little Roomba disaster! Smile

Thursday we spent most of the day in Billings leaving Emmi with Nat.  I had my eyes examined and am going to try mono-vision contact lenses again—one contact for close, one for distance.  I’ve worn mono-vision contacts before and they work well for seeing most everything I need to see except sewing—but then my glasses don’t work so well for sewing at times—when did the eye of a needle get so small???  On the way home we stopped in Laurel to look at another trailer for the cowboy’s trailer menagerie (don’t even ask me why he needs another trailer, he might ask me why I need more clothes or quilt fabric!!) Smile

Today we headed back to Laurel to bring the trailer home—we were in the Cadillac yesterday—no trailer hitch on it!

It is so incredibly smoky and we have no fires really close to us—I can’t imagine how difficult it must be for the people in Washington and Idaho.  I borrowed this photo from Facebook and KPAX News—it is of downtown Missoula, Montana which is near the Washington/Idaho border.  If you squint you can barely see the mountains in the background--

 

And for the last part of the “mixed meal colic”—I finished, completed, have no more to do on the Winter Solstice quilt I started in 2014.  I finished the binding today on the way to Laurel and attached a label this afternoon.  I’m pleased—very pleased with the way it turned out Paulette!  Lately I’ve just lost my quilting mojo—I have a customer quilt on the frame which needs finishing and goodness knows I have plenty of my own projects to finish but I just can’t seem to get very excited about any of it.  Maybe when the weather cools???

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Oops, one more thing—a very short GoPro video—we need to learn more about this little camera but we think it takes incredibly good video for its size!

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    1. I removed Windows 10 from my laptop and was so glad to get my Windows 7 back.

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    2. I'm with you Betsy, I sat there getting more and more frustrated then asked myself, "why am I doing this??"

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  2. I thought it was "miss meal colic". My Mom would use it when she wasn't cooking and we had to find our own supper.

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    1. Maybe it is "miss" instead of "mixed"--will have to ask Mom!

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  3. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I didn't download the new windows as I was waiting for a RV park with WIFI. I'm glad I didn't.

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  4. Your quilt is beautiful. I have also lost my quilting mojo. Seems I have to really push myself to go sew. Maybe there was something in that AZ air this past winter. LOL!

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  5. Janna, your Winter Solstice is stunning!! You out did yourself!! It's going to look wonderful hanging in your Montana home!

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  6. I broke down and got unlimited wifi for Arizona.. Now my neighbors can poach off of me..... LOL.. I was really lucky that they replaced my Roomba... Not sure they will do anything for that poor mom... Had to run the CanAm video full screen... And the quilt is really nice... I like the sheep for some reason.... Not that I'd ever want to tend the real live animals anytime....

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  7. The Winter Solstice quilt is stunning! My son is one of the many who is out there fighting those wildland fires & trying to protect the homes for the people. My heart & prayers go out to them

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  8. Great looking quilt !! You are really talented !! I also got rid of Windows 10 , too many hassles !

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  9. The computer director at our school always said you shouldn't try to load new software on an old machine. Each computer is build for the software it has. So it is probably good you gave up:)

    The Winter Solstice quilt is absolutely goregous! Wonderful job:)

    I guess we all have thing we like to collect. Too bad the Cowboy's collection is for such large items:)

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  10. Your quilt is beautiful! You'll get your mojo back... sometimes we just need some r&r. I love those regional expressions... one of my favorites is "treated like a red-haired step-child". I'd never heard the mixed meal one ;-)

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