March March March March

I would like to wish everyone a happy March!  I hope that each shower is a light sprinkle, all of your clouds come equipt with silver linings and all of the pots at the end of your rainbows are filled to bursting with gold!
     I would like to thank all of my wonderful friends who wished me well with the flood incident.  The house and my stitching time have been restored to their pre-flood status; less minor painting still to be done to a few walls in the kitchen and dining area.
  If all goes as I hope and I can find the missing data cable for my phone I will start the month off right with a stitchy finish.  Just a few more stitches to go on M Sherry's "Surfing Pig." 
     March is also my birth month...so be on the lookout for updates on stitchy and non-stitchy pressies and outings.

My Fairy Name Is

Your fairy is called Water Reedwitch

She is a panpipe player and enchantment singer.

She lives near bubbling brooks where Lords and Ladies and Cuckoo's Pint grow.

She is only seen in the enchanted moment between sleep and waking.

She wears deep blue dresses. She has gentle green butterfly wings.

Get your free fairy name here!

When It Rains...It Pours.

     Yesterday started out wonderfully for me.  I'd informed DH and all who lived with me that it was to be my stitching day, stocked my Netfix list with all of my favorite shows that I could 'view now' on TV while stitching and I was comfy and settled in bed.  Then the dripping started...      Drip...drip...drip..."Oh great!!  The kids left the water on in the sink again."  I thought as I grudgingly put down my Q-snaps and ambled into the bathroom.  The water was off in both the sink and tub.  I stood still and listened.
     Drip...drip...drip..."That sounds like the sink in the kitchen and I am not dealing with that ."  I said to myself heading for the safety of my bed and yelling for DH.

     That was when I heard the words that would change the day as I knew it.  "Oh my God!"  he screamed, "It's raining in the house!"   I listened...and sure enough, the drip had indeed progressed to a running stream.  I put down my stitching and buried myself completely in the covers. 
     I soon discovered that my second guess as to the source of the water had been right...SORT OF.  The water was not coming from the kitchen  sink, but from the ceiling.
"What the hell are they doing up there?"  I thought still hiding.
     It was at that point that DH went out to the neighbors' to find out what was going on.
She told him that she had a leak upstairs and that she had called the complex repairmen to come out.  Thankfully DH called them himself.  As it turned out, she had NOT called and his call was the first they'd heard of the whole affair.
     Meanwhile...The stream was now a river and had spread from the kitchen/dining area to the livingroon and was making its way to the area just above my sofas.  
     I was still hiding.
Until...the arrival of the Police and Fire Rescue who promptly cut all power to the house and declared the place a HAZARD! 
"A HAZARD!"  The words kept repeating in my mind as I sprang from the bed like some sort of demented jack-in-the-box and rooted in my drawers for jeans.  By the time I made my way out of my room; the river was running down the sides of my breakfast bar and various other walls and had soaked the floor outside my bedroom to the point of puddles.
It was at this point that the repairmen arrived.  They had been upstairs and it was 'bad'.
The hot water heater up there had burst and flooded EVERYTHING!
They proceeded to reassure me that they would come and help me after they had handled the mess upstairs.
     While we waited, a strange thing happend.  I went to the bathroom and when I returned my DH was folding the laundry that had come out of the dryer earlier that day.  DH never  folds laundry.
I stood in front of him shocked and speechless for a time before coming back to myself and saying, "I have been trying to get you to fold the laundry for 11 years and all it took was a flood, a forced blackout, the police and the fire department."  He looked up from the pants that he was folding and said, "There was nothing else to do."

The Plumber Said What????

     I was a very happy camper when I opened the door to the ohhh so cute man that smiled and identified himself as "the man who is here to fix my drain."  He went right to work and in less than thirty minutes; my tub was good to go.  As we waited for the repair foremen for my building to return so that he could sign off on the work order; my knight with shining pipe snake turned to me and said, "When I got this call...the first thing that ran through my mind was that I had to meet you and find out what kind of kinky stuff you guys were doing in here."  I laughed so hard that I almost cried.
     After he left, I spent an hour cleaning the mess out of my tub. 
I am thrilled to report that my tub is as good as new and I have been happily using it.
     I stitching news...I have not stitched as of yet, but I plan to work on my bird tonight.

I have Joined the Fairy Garden Party

I have Joined the Fairy Garden Party
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Meet "Orchid" from the Spring Garden Party Collection by Nora Corbett. She is the lastest in the collection but the first for me. I can't wait to start her. I have been hunting around Silkweaver for the perfect fabbie for her. Given the fact that she measures only 6x11; I can use a 13x18 piece. I would love any suggestions that my readers might have as to fabric color choices.

Devil Cat's Food

Devil Cat's Food
Originally uploaded by xstitchnmama

I think the title says it all on this one. I just had to have it!

Fantastic View

Fantastic View
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This is just too cute!!!!! This is one of the newst offerings from Calico Crossroads.