NEW RUG?

So... now that I've moved the furniture around in the family room... I felt we needed a new rug for that area.
I have been looking online and think I've found the one:

ABOVE: it's a crap photo taken off me computer... but I think it will blend in really well with the big shell painting on the wall...

ABOVE:  so, do you think that rug will look OK in the room?  I don't want one that screams "Look at me!"

As I mentioned yesterday, we had a big storm come through from about 4 pm till 6.30 pm.  Masses of thunder and lightening!
I got some shortish video's of it... I will share a couple of the best ones:

ABOVE:  I couldn't get over how long the thunder lasted!


ABOVE:  in this one we have some sort of weird sheet lightening and fork lightening... and at the end you get to hear the donkey braying across in the park!

TODAY:  not sure.  I have to get Lacy over here as we have to reply to a lawyer's letter... stuff to do with her wanting to move to Tauranga and how that affects access for Keera's birth father.
*sigh*... this is going to be a never ending pain in the butt.

What else?  Depends on how I'm feeling actually.  Still feeling rather ikkk.  The foot is doing a bit better though!

I've been wearing my winter suede boots and as they have a heel, it has changed how the weight is distributed on my heel... and it seems to be helping with the pain.
Last night I realised I was limping out of habit, and if I actually walked on my foot like 'normal' it didn't hurt as much.

I really hope it resolves itself again.  I'm pretty sure I had this problem a year or so ago and it got better on it's own.

ONWARD...

I just went down to Spotlight as I needed more batting for a baby quilt, and then on to a little fabric shop off Cavendish Drive.  I had bought a needle threader there months ago and it simply did not work.

So... the lady is taking it back and will get me a new one that works.  I had a quick look around her shop, and I had no intention of buying any fabric... but... ummm...

ABOVE:  I got the end of the bolt with the fabric with yachts and compass's on... and enough of the contrasting fabric to do 'something' with it.
Now I just have to work out what to do with it?

Dante does not like fabric shops.  Just saying.
Boys!

Time for lunch... was going to have some sushi, but after spending me lunch money on fabric, I have to make something here at home. Oh well... it's worth it.  *smiles*

MARTINE:  at the moment she is about 10 minutes up the road.  If she moves to Tauranga, she will be about 2.5 hours away.

Whoop whoop!   I got re-aquainted with the Dresden Plate Quilt... laid it all out on me bed so I could see where I was.  And... besided realising that I still have a shit load to do... I have started working on it again.

 ABOVE:  all sorted out.  Various stages of 'done'.  See all me cottons in their boxes?  Cool eh?  I got them from Mitre 10.

ABOVE:  I finally found a use for me Lazy Susan.  I can just spin me block around to put the pins in now.  Awesome.  That Lazy Susan has been hardly used in all the years I've had it.  It was one of those things I just had to buy, then never used it!
*smiles*
Bet I'm not the only person who does stuff like that eh?

ANON:  Lacy is not happy here in Auckland, and she was really happy in Tauranga.  She has friends and a lot of family there.  As for Miss Keera, it will give us a really good excuse to pop over to the Bay on a regular basis, as we love the area too.  
Lacy is perfectly capable of taking care of her daughter without us having to be on her doorstep. 

OOO NATALIE:  that would be totally cool!

Bex was downstairs sewing... when she came upstairs and said there was no way she was staying down there on her own again!
WHY?
Seems we have livestock in the loft/ceiling space!
And according to Bex, it was to loud to be mice.  So... we have rats.
Freakin' ya.

Stew will have to get rat poison tomorrow.  

And tonight... we sleep under the rat.  As we have been for quite a while already, I'm not too perturbed! 

No really said I ... while eye'ing up the couch!

End of Day:  well I've actually been cold today!  The weather has taken a decidedly cool turn in the past few days.  Brrrrr.  
Off to bed soon, going to have an early night!
nite nite.