GG, he has quilted with me since 1972 , but we hit a difference of opinion in 1995. When I took my niece's quilt he said was done to the quilter's; she ran a quilting shop as well, and unfolded the quilt in the middle of her shop that was busy with shoppers. I was so embarrassed, 'cause it did not have too many sews that were sewn together, creating the largest holes in a quilt you had ever seen.... the squares I had sewn were fine, but when he sat it together, he had not caught both sides of the fabric under his machine...by accident or on purpose, who knows?? since the ones for his niece and nephew had turned out fine. He does sew his kilts together fine....
So if he 'helps' out now, I check it carefully, rip where I need too to do it up right.
He is losing his hearing, or seems to be...hearing sometimes better than others...if you whisper or talk to a friend on the phone in the other room, he hears just fine. But in his room, or living room, he wants that volume on the computer or TV loud enough I swear the neighbors can hear it.
When we came back to Texas from Colorado Springs, Co., in 1999. his family reunion, I begged him to stop driving and get a motel as I was sooo tired and suffered from high blood pressure...and it was apparently off the scales that night. He did not stop until about 12:30am, and I unknowingly suffered an optical nerve blowout in my left eye...leaving me blind in that eye...permanently. It all came together later in that week after trips to eye doctors and specialist. At least, it was not a stroke that could have been fatal. May this serve to enlighten others, so they can do things differently and not go blind or worse.