Technical Difficulties

Ever since we came back from our trip, I've been having a problem with my computer. Possibly elves came into the house while we were gone and made mischief. Maybe they started their own blog or something...I really don't know. But without telling the whole sad and boring story, I'll say that I've had difficulty getting access to the internet. We are a two-computer family...a leftover from the days when both Mike and I were in graduate school at the same time. A second computer seemed better than divorce court, and so we've been a "networked together" household. It's kind of poetic when you think about it. And all of that to say that his computer is working fine. Something clearly is amiss with mine. 

I'm only telling you this because we've spent a frustrating 45 minutes or so just trying to get to a new post template. Now we're bringing out the big guns by restoring a two-week old back-up. It's not a problem since most everything I do on the computer is related to the blog and Google. We didn't want to lose the pictures from our last trip though, and so those are being moved to Mike's computer temporarily. After that, we'll reset everything to when the elves came in. Although...now that I think of it, it makes me wonder if Smitty and Sadie were downloading kitty porn while we were gone. Please note the distinction between kitty porn and kiddie porn, which is illegal. Maybe that's what happened. Yeah...now I'm very suspicious. I'm going to have to have a serious talk with those two.

This is Smitty while I was writing my blog post yesterday...trying to sweet-talk me into letting him out. We make them wait until later in the morning when we can be out keeping an eye on things.

Once they get outside, it's too hot to be in the sun, and so they hang out cooling their tummy furs on the surface of the deck.

It was kind of a boringly busy day trying to get back into my rut. The computer isn't helping one bit. Everything is unpacked, and I think I can get back to my usual life just as soon as I get my hair cut later this morning. It was all slow-stitching and cutting yesterday. I turned the second corner on the farm quilt:

After lunch, I decided on a pattern for the new baby quilt. This is taking priority over everything else right now since I'd like to give the new quilt to the baby before he's ready to head off to college. I decided on this pattern that was published in Quiltmaker back in January/February 2011.

The cutting probably took as long as it'll take me to sew it all together. Now I have all the little pieces cut for the center bear panel. I'll give it a blue border and blue cornerstones since this is for a baby boy. 

I haven't decided yet whether to do that piano key border, but I'm definitely learning in that direction.

Okay, and so I'm going to keep today's post short since the computer is still acting funny. Out with the old and in with the new, as they say...only we're going the other way round this time, bringing back the old before things started being weird. Maybe tomorrow's post will go a little more smoothly.