How many quilts have I finished since I retired?

Hannah's quilt, for her tenth birthday on Tuesday: finished. No. 39. The first ten-year quilt.

"Bookshelves." Five shelves of book spines, pieced from 87 different scraps, each spine between 1 and 2 1/2 inches wide, on a dark walnut-brown ground. Twin size, 68 x 88.

Fourteen of the spines have titles, stitched with the embroidery module, from "Blueberries for Sal" to the first Penderwicks. One blank spine on the bottom shelf for her to fill in herself, and a small cat asleep on the third shelf.

Quilted by Darla on the long-arm in a wood-grain pattern, $148.

Label: "For Hannah Grace, ten years old, from Grandma Peg, 2018. No. 39."

Lucas's ten-year quilt: done, and in the post tomorrow for the 21st. No. 49.

Fish. Twenty of them, each a pieced block 12 x 16 inches, swimming in four rows, every other row the opposite way: northerns in greens, walleye in gold and olive, a row of bluegills, and one musky down the left side that is three blocks long. Water is seven different blues. Twin, 68 x 88.

Backing: the trout-stream print, 5 yards. Binding in rust.

Quilted by Kathleen Laufenberg, in a pattern of ripples.

Label: "For Lucas David, ten years old, from Grandma Peg, 2023. No. 49. The musky is 44 inches. Ask your grandfather."

Three ten-year quilts made. Three to go: Maeve in 2026, Theo in 2028, June in 2031.

The first bunk quilt: finished. No. 50. The first quilt I have finished since Lucas's, two years and three months ago. Eyes, Lorraine, a year of not wanting to.

The blue one, for the lower bunk on the lake side. 60 x 80. Ten strips running the long way, six inches finished, in blues from the scrap tubs. Backed in navy flannel, quilted by me in straight lines two inches apart, bound in red.

Label: "Bunkhouse, Skein Lake. Blue. 2025. No. 50."

Hannah slept under the duck quilt all summer. She is to have this one next time.

The green top is next, then red and gold, which are not yet cut.

Maeve's ten-year quilt: bound this afternoon. No. 52.

"Night Sky." Twin, 70 x 90. A navy ground with forty pieced stars in whites, creams and three golds, and stitched in pale thread from star to star, the Big Dipper and Orion as they stood over Denver on the night of March 9, 2016. David worked out the positions.

Backing and binding in plain navy. Quilted by Kathleen Laufenberg in an all-over swirl.

Label: "For Maeve Dorothy, ten years old, from Grandma Peg, 2026. No. 52. Look up."

Four ten-year quilts made. Theo in 2028 and June in 2031.

It will be posted when we are home, on February 27, to arrive before the 9th.

Hannah's graduation quilt: finished, two weeks to spare. No. 53.

Hunter's Star, queen size, 90 x 105. Fourteen greens on cream. Quilted by Kathleen Laufenberg on the long-arm, a pattern of leaves, $196.56 with thread. Backed in a green print of ferns, 6 yards.

In one corner, small, in the embroidery stitch: a dock.

Label: "For Hannah Grace Sievert, graduated May 24, 2026. From Grandma Peg. No. 53. You still have no. 29."

Retirement: the paperwork, as of the first Sunday of it. All of this went through the district benefits office and the state retirement system, and I have a folder for each.

1. Pension (Wisconsin Retirement System): application filed in March. I chose the option that keeps paying Ray if I go first; the amount is on the annuity statement. First payment July 1, by direct deposit to the credit union, and the first of every month after.
2. Health insurance: we both stay in the school district's retiree group with Kettlestone, at our own cost, from July 1. Ray until his Medicare starts in May 2018, I until mine in April 2020. New cards are to come by mail.
3. Dental: none, after June 30. We pay Dr. Aumann ourselves.
4. Life insurance through the district ends. I have my own term policy with Norhaven.
5. Last paycheck June 15.
6. Keys turned in June 9 (four). Library card: kept.

Brought home: two boxes, the reading-corner rocking chair (mine, bought in 1991, with a receipt I can produce), and one withdrawn copy of "Charlotte's Web."

Tell Denise in March: half a year of salary and half a year of pension on the 2017 return.