back to red and cream

today after some necessary household chores, i sat down at the old viking to work on red/cream blocks.  tonight i'll square them up and maybe get more rows together to add to the partial flimsy done so far.  not much work on this project in the last week or so partly because i've been hand quilting the lovers' links and partly because my room was a bit disorganized and needed vacuuming.  no vacuum bags, so had to get bags and finally today it got vacuumed.  i hate to work in a messy environment.  yes, it's a bit cluttered while i'm sewing, but it has to be neat before i can start sewing.  i also had a few things on the sewing table that needed attention.  the planets aligned today and all the necessary stuff got done and could sew again!  **** i've gone back to exercising on a regular basis and it's been an adjustment; exhilarating but an adjustment.  i hope i can keep it up.  so far i've lost 8 pounds of the 20 i wanted to drop before thanksgiving. ***** it's such a nice day today i had hoped to grill out and use up our bag of charcoal but alas, it's really too windy.  rain is predicted for the next few days but maybe on the weekend we can enjoy grilled burgers again before cold weather.