I
was up at 4 AM Saturday morning (8/26) and grabbed my mohair throw to head out
to the lanair…..OMG!!! It was fabulous
to lie out there…listening to all of nature waking up (including the sky)! Michael left for golf before 7:30 AM and
after I got my blog out, I spent a good bit of time washing dishes. Our dishwasher was as full as I have EVER
seen it….and it quit working :~(. Just this morning Michael said to me “I think
it’s time to move…everything is breaking!!”
And before you ask, the dishwasher is 18 months old :~(….BOSCH will definitely be hearing from me
about this. Anyway, the dish and
silverware cupboards were bare (we’ve been using our party dishes and
silverware) so Saturday morning I washed everything up. I finally made breakfast after that and hit
my studio around 11 AM. Mary Jo’s
welcome flowers still looked pretty good, so I moved them out to grace my
studio:
I worked to finish sewing rows
together and to get borders on the second crayon quilt and Michael came home
before 1 PM with an 87…which I think he should have been happy about, but of
course he was disappointed in his 5 penalty shots. I headed
upstairs at 3 PM to bake cookies and get ready for Ginny & Ken’s visit at 4
PM. Ken is our across the street
neighbor and a Vietnam vet and we invited them over to give him a Quilt of
Valor.
To say that they were both
stunned was an understatement. We invited
them for “cookies and conversation”, so they had no idea what was taking
place. Ken truly was overcome with the
gesture and Michael and I were so pleased that they both liked it. They headed home after talking for a bit, and
Michael and I dove into ‘mater sammiches for dinner. I headed back to my studio and got the second
quilt all laid on and basted
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| leaving just an inch between the 1st and 2nd crayon quilts |
and the quilting started before going upstairs at 8 PM for TV
watching and snuggling with my honey.
Pat W made the cutest 3-D embroidered pumpkin for our display windows at the Lake House...check it out:
And color me TOTALLY JEALOUS when comparing my (ONLY) 2 blooms from 3 huge and healthy looking hydrangeas to Janice's:
Oh well....maybe next year.... :~(
Beautiful "Quilt of Valor " and it was so nice to present it to someone you know!
ReplyDeleteI don't think everything survived the snowfall St Patricks Day wekend. My buttrfly bush looks terrible and we have a flowering bush that never flowered this year. I think the butterflys and bees suffered too.
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