Grandma Cindy: You mentioned "what few pictures I have of my quilts." Oh! please, take pictures of everything you make because after awhile you forget about them. Our quilt teacher told us the very first class I took to never let anything you make get out of your sewing room without taking a picture of it ...kinda like your "kids" going off to college is how she put it. I love going back to look at things I made 6, 7 or 8 years ago.
You have puppies...we lost our granddog about 2 years ago and still miss her. She was 16 1/2 years old when she passed. A mini-Schnauzer. We have 2 kitties that we rescued that are now 4 and 8 and we foster kitties (and dogs on occasion) for our local animal rescue. Lightening and his 3 nest mates are fosters. They are ready for forever homes but we haven't found homes for them yet. It's always so hard to let them go after we've cared for them for a second or two. With Lightening and his sibling group we've had to do alot of medical stuff as they were nearly starved to death when we got them, just nothing left of them. We force fed them so they'd eat and now they are wonderful and healthy. One of the siblings died a week after we got them as he just wasn't strong enough to fight his adversities. We still mourn him as we really tried to give him life. Kitties are "good things." We love each and everyone of the 67 or so that we've fostered in the past 5 years.