Out With The Old And In With The New

See this ruler........I bought this ruler when I first started quilting in 1992.  Love this 12 1/2 inch ruler for squaring up blocks.  

 Well I dropped the ruler and other day and broke two corners and cracked it across the middle.  I was able to get the crack back in line, but it still has two corners missing.  My dear husband tried for over an hour to convince me to just go get another ruler.  He kept reminding me that this poor ruler was 20 years old and I had used the heck out of it in those 20 years.  He's right but he just doesn't understand how special your rulers are to you as a quilter.  But after I messed with it for a while I finally gave in and admitted that my long time friend would have to be replaced.  I am so used to using this ruler and haven't really liked any of the newer ones that are on the market, but guess I will have to try some of them out.

I had to take some things over to my grand daughter the other side of Spartanburg so we made a buzz by Joann's.  This was my first time in this store.  Toooooo much stuff to look at...hehe.
I looked over all of their rulers and finally settled on this set of two.  Fiskars 6 1/2 and 12 1/2 inch square rulers. 

 Hopefully they will be my new best friends.

Update on Dad:
We are attempting to get him moved from the hospital to NHC for rehab today.  I've been to the center and gotten him signed up and his room is waiting on the hospital side to finish their stuff up.  Hopefully a week or two there will get him up and about again.  I've been making him exercise his legs in the bed inbetween his PT treatments at the hospital.  Now to get him up and moving again.

Happy Quilting,
Shelia