SHQ Show & Tell, Pat's Mirror Mirror quilt, Michael's car show

Minnesota wanted to investigate. The FBI took over. Then cut Minnesota out entirely. The state no longer has access to the evidence, the witnesses or the scene.

The ICE agent who killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis on January 7 will face no criminal charges. The DOJ ruled it justified self-defense. DHS said Good "weaponized her vehicle." Video analysis showed her car was turning away from the agent when he fired. A family autopsy found she was shot in the head.

Minnesota wanted to investigate but the FBI took sole control within hours, cutting state investigators out of the evidence and scene. Vice President Vance said the agent had "absolute immunity." The shooting was the first homicide in Minneapolis in 2026 and the ninth time ICE agents opened fire on people since September 2025.

The agent, Jonathan Ross, is an Iraq War veteran who was dragged by a car during a separate arrest six months earlier. Good's killing sparked national protests and triggered the ongoing DHS shutdown. No independent investigation was conducted.

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I video chatted with Janice Wednesday morning (3/25) and just about had time to change my clothes before Diane & Mark and Carol & Ed showed up for lunch.  We all went to Metro Diner….but the ladies sat together at one table, while the men were at another.  We had a wonderful time talking…and having fun with our waitress who kept trying to get the guy’s table to pay for our lunches  :~ ). 

I spent the afternoon working on my customer quilt:

AND got the final borders on my second king sized quilt:

and continued to sew my Crossroads quilt into rows.  My goal is to have a fully empty design wall so that I can put up my one block wonder…and it will stay up until it is totally finished!  This thing is 6 years in the making and I am SO READY to be done with it.  I have to do the embroidery flowers for the center panel (and I have the materials…and if that doesn't pan out…remember my embroidery machine was eating the tulle backing last time I tried….I have 2 fall back positions….so one way or another, that will get done)…then I need to sew it all together, add the borders, make binding and quilt it.  The quilting will present another challenge as I have NO IDEAS about what pattern to use to quilt it with….but I don’t have to worry about that just yet.

I also finished weaving in all of the ends for my ''cork'' quilt and got it trimmed. Even though this isn't bound, I am considering this as a totally finished quilt:

I am gifting it to a fellow Thursday quilter, and she wanted to put the binding on herself (so that she can add a sleeve) so I gave her the quilt....1/2 a yard of binding fabric....and a label.

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Thursday (3/26) was all about quilting and again…what a wonderful day it was!  I always have such a good time there…and once again, we had lovely show and tell:

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I was up early Friday morning (3/27) to get my customer quilt off of the frame and trimmed before Pat arrived at 10 AM:

She brought her MIRROR, MIRROR quilt (yes….mine is still in the bottom of my project box!!!) and we got it all quilted in about 3 hours. And it was great to have that time to talk as well!

I really like the pattern she picked, and since I have to quilt my king-sized MIRROR MIRROR….I just might consider it.  I continued to work on my Crossroads quilt while she was there…and by 3 PM, I had all of my blocks into rows: 

Iris stopped by to find out the next steps on her quilt….that was great as we haven’t been together in FOREVER!!!

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 My honey was up and out early Saturday (3/28) for a Mustang rally somewhere far away:

I worked on my Crossroads quilt, and got all of the blocks finally sewn into rows and pressed, and by NOON I had all of the rows sewn together: 

As leaders and enders while I was working on the Crossroads, I got 2 more blocks done on my new quilt, which is called CONNECTIONS: 

When my honey came home, he helped me to get my One Block Wonder panels up on the design wall for inspiration:

and I was pleased to see how well I had labeled everything, including how big the black center panel needs to be. 

After that, I got 3 layers of nylon net/tulle layered together and started embroidering: 

At least it is working!!! I’m very pleased about that. 

I had gotten Mexican Chicken Soup in the crockpot in the morning, so just made up some cornbread and that’s what we had for dinner…it was yummy!

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So, where do we stand on negative people?  I am not talking about people complaining once in awhile….everyone (including me!) does that.  I am talking about people who have nothing good to say about anything….do you just listen and not respond?  Try to talk them out of it?  Practice avoidance/distancing?  Practicing avoidance/distancing is what I generally do, because (just like when you have a high school kid who gets in with the wrong crowd, and then goes down a wrong path) if I hang around with these people all the time, I can feel myself becoming more negative.....like them, and I do not want that.  I have seen it happen with people I know, and I am sad that they become so negative after hanging out with negative people….but it is not for me to tell them what is happening.  After all….people are not showing up at my door telling me all about my various faults! 

I have a friend who was constantly getting dumped on by people like this, in her neighborhood, and she asked me for help to get out of the situations, as what she was doing wasn’t working.  We worked together….and she is no longer a dumping ground for these negative people…and she is much happier :~). 

Now, let’s move on to ‘’nasty’’ people….people who make a point of saying or doing something nasty to you whenever they see you (thank goodness they are few and far between)….again….do you respond at their level?  This is so not me as 1 – I am NEVER quick enough on my feet to think of a response, 2 – I am always so shocked that a seemingly normal person is like that and 3 – I don’t want to be like that.  So, what do YOU do with people like that?  Do you respond?  Call them out?  Or once again, practice avoidance?  I honestly would like to know how others handle it.

And 10 years ago....

-Food and Fiber Floozie: Willa, Cookie, Elsie, Cookie & Elsie, pizza

-Food and Fiber Floozie: patriotic label, binding strips, last cat for March, 1st patriotic done

-(Pat - you need to read this one!!!) Food and Fiber Floozie: Easter dinner with Gale & Phil, Pat & George, Jim O

-Food and Fiber Floozie: turtle embroideries, second patriotic top done, charity day box

*** I got called pretty today!!!! Well, actually the full quote was ''you're pretty annoying'', but I only focus on the positives! ***

*** Me: Alexa, remind me to go to the gym.

Alexa: I have added gin to your shopping list.

Me: Close enough. ***

*** I'm never sure if I actually have free time, or I'm just forgetting stuff. ***