I Like Thursdays #19

We are beach bound so her's my Likes a day early.

It was a pretty full week and my heart overflowing.

8.18.18

Congratulations to Mr & Mrs Wilson 

Outdoor wedding in Crystal and Mike's backyard.

 

8.18.18

Congratulations to Mr & Mrs Wilson 

Welcome to the family.

From day one he's been part of the family. 

All my children and a couple of granddaughters.

I can't wait to get the good pictures.

A few other happenings from the week.

When you catch the frisbee with your face and need an eye patch to make it stop hurting.

Eye patches work better than ice packs.

Conversations on the deck. 

Melts my heart.

We are borrowing our son's tractor because it has a backhoe on it.

We are using it at the beach.

Time to remove stumps and bamboo root balls.

I had to share my new hamper basket.

It has wheels!!!

$12 at Walmart.

Worth every penny!

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Design Wall Monday

I chased another squirrel! 

There is a super fun Block of the Month that started this month.

Eleanor Burns is doing Fun On The Farm.

Search for this group on your Facebook page.

 How stinkin' cute is block 1!

My piggie has a butterfly on her hip.

I cut more kits for my leader/ender project-Chunky Churndash.

The pattern is a freebie at Quiltville.

Sunday, 4 grands stayed while mom and dad went shopping.

We all had a super long, excited day Saturday so we were all pretty much a bunch of slugs.

Miss MaeMae sat out on the deck with me while I cut some fabric.

I needed to cut more diamonds for my Antique Start project.

I love the chatty chats that we have.

Talking about the new school year, going to a new school but with her same friends,
 how she misses her friends and how excited she is to meet her teacher.

How much she will miss summer vacation and

 how excited she is to take band and learn to play the clarinet.

We talked about the quilt I made her and we sat out here doing the same thing.

The deck is a magical place where peanut butter and jelly picnics happen
and in depth conversations with tow people or 12. 

Saturday was the wedding of our youngest daughter and our newest favorite son in law Vern.

(Old joke, they are all my favorites. All 2 of them.)

Her sister and my other favorite son in law Mike hosted the wedding in their back yard.

Oldest daughter Jenny was able to come from Texas to celebrate.

It was wonderful having all my adult children together for this celebration.

It was a perfect day, my heart was overflowing. 

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Beware of the squirrels.

I Like Thursdays #18

 I love our trail camera.

You never know what you'll see on them.

Twins...how adorable!

I do not like this at all.

Imagine my shock when I saw her.

When did it become OK to trespasser?

She had to cross a fence. 

Time to post our back fence. 

Another surprise.

I knew this beauty was around but it's the first time we've seen it on our camera.

Family reunion was Saturday.

I only took a few pictures and they were all of my niece Katie.

In the back are her gorgeous daughters

Kiddos stayed the day while mom and dad had a date day.

Shopping for school and lunch.

92° outside so let's have a hot tub party.

Why not!

We made sausage.

I believe it's important that children learn about real food 

and to help with the preparation and preserving of our food.

It's a lot of fun when Gramma and Grampa have fun tools like a sausage stuffer.

We canned tuna.

All the kiddos had a job and 

Daisy Dog is the supervisor.

140 jars should keep 2 families in tuna for a while.

I really like that we can use the shop as an outdoor kitchen.

2 pressure cookers out there and 1 in the house made for a pretty quick day.

Pretty quick if you 2 pc loads in each canner and each load takes a total of 3 hours.

I spent some time in the outside office enjoying the evening

and taping together another pattern.

I really like that tape dispenser.

Every time I use it, I wonder why I waited so long to buy it.

I really like this view.

This is home, my happy place.

 I walked down to close the gate

 and noticed the dramatic contrast of the lawn and the trees.

It's so dry here.

We never beg for rain in the Pacific Northwest but we are again this summer.

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Design Wall Monday

I think I may have went in to my sewing room twice all week.

Not to sew but to get something!

We had a very full week of family stuff and adventures.

So the only sewing time I had was in the evening.

I made some great progress on basting my diamonds.

I need to cut more.

 This was where I was last week.

Now row 2 of my pencil box is almost stuffed.

I think I'll be able to put 3 full rows in there.

Then I may start stitching a few of them together.

I have a wedding coming up on Saturday 

so of course I need a new outfit.

I have a pretty good knit fabric stash but 

choosing which fabric to use is sometimes hard. 

I sent this picture to my daughter-

the one getting married-

and had her choose. 

Pretty sneaky aren't I?

I decided to make the Origami Tunic from Love Notions.

That's my plan for today and tomorrow.

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I Like Thursdays #17

We took 2 days this week to go on some adventures.

On Monday we went to look at RVs.

We looked at several brand new ones.

I'm a big girl.

These RV do not have "fat girl friendly" showers.

I guess I'm spoiled by the bus.

It has a regular shower, open the door and walk in.

Nothing "designer". 

We did look at a residential RV that I loved and didn't take a single photo of!

Everything in it, including the shower was perfect.

Perfect except the price made my heart race. 

We found a couple of older models that we really liked.

Sadly this one-my favorite-had some floor issues in the bathroom.

Ernie does not want to have to do any repair work after we buy something.

It's not that he can't. He doesn't want to.

I don't blame him. 

Too much money to have to do repairs.

Since it was adventure day, we decided to go to our favorite hamburger place for lunch.

Back in the day, Burgerville was our favorite dinner date place.

Affordable and good.

Tuesday we went on a different kind of adventure.

Ernie is looking for a new gun safe.

I was intrigued by all of the choices and the features.

Next stop was Sportsman's Warehouse.

I love this big ole elk out front!

I found a sausage stuffer and seasoning that I've wanted.

I can't wait to make sausage.

I needed to stop at JoAnn's for elastic.

For some weird reason, I had no desire to wander around and look at things.

I petted some fabrics, the new plaid fleeces were wonderful.

I bought 2 cute fat quarters and my elastic.

New undies will happen soon.

We were headed to lunch and got behind this government vehicle at the light.

We decided it was a government spy car and wondered who it was spying on.

Yes, we are easily entertained.

I had heard from these kiddos about how awesome the food is at Golden Corral.

Knowing they were in town, 

we decided it was a good day to meet for lunch.

It was really great to spend time with the family.

We hadn't been here yet and having the kids as our guides was so much fun.

We all decided that the cinnamon rolls were our favorites,

or was it the ice cream or the chocolate fountain or the catfish?

I even tried okra for the very first time.

I liked it. 

Then we went to Smart Foodservice, which used to be called Cash & Carry.

We got some pork loin and hamburger to make sausage from.

I love to look at all the kitchen gadgets but only found a strainer/ladel thing and 

a sheet pan that I had to have.

Then we picked up the "vault" and headed home.

I was a nervous wreck all the way home.

Not a single problem! 

Why do I do that to myself.

I'm excited about all the adventures that will happen this week.

We have family reunion Saturday and several other events the next week. 

We will head back to the beach the week after next.

Pray I don't melt in this horrid heat!

Have a great week. 

I hope you find all kinds of likes this week.

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Design Wall Monday

It's been a busy busy week so not much sewing has happened.

I took some quiet time today to sit down at the machine.

Easy, quick piecing on this Triangle Gathering and Strings top.

I put the blocks into separate piles and reached over and picked up the top block.

No layout at all.

I have the fabric laying out to cut the borders.

This will be a nice cuddle on the couch quilt.

In the evenings, I've been basting diamonds for the Antique Star quilt.

I'm just going to baste and baste and baste. 

I did sew 1 star block together but I decided to wait on any more.

I pulled out a bunch more of my shirt fabric and need to cut more diamonds.

I love the soft feel of the recycled shirts. 

This is going to be a great quilt!

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I Like Thursdays #16

I Like Thursday-Last Week's Beach Edition

The Lucifer had 1 flower that was open.

There is evidence that maybe others had bloomed.

We heard a rumor that deer like these flowers.

I think this little Miss right here might be the one jumping the fence 

to have herself a few little tasty bites of my flowers.

This was taken at Neighbor Larry's yard.

We have another Lucifer out back and it looks like maybe she is using it for her bed.

Neighbors Rick and Donna were putting a new roof on their house.

Daisy and I were taking turns keeping an eye on them.

She doesn't always nap.

I tested out my new comfy rocker.

And worked on finishing these socks while staying hydrated.

It's only lemon water.

Pardon Neighbor Chuck's remodeling mess.

(The never ending remodel.)

The Poop Deck is looking amazing.

Thank you so much to my dear friend Pam.

She waters when we can't be there.

One evening we took a drive on the beach hoping to catch an awesome sunset.

It didn't happen.

Fog happened instead.

It's pretty cool watching as it gently makes it's way inland.

New socks for passenger seat knitting.

I love Opal yarn.

This color way is Robin Hood.

Grays, creams and oranges.

We came home so I could go to my doctor appointment.

And spend time with these kiddos so their parents could go on a date.

I don't know where Leland went but he's around somewhere.

It's not like him to miss out on a picture.

This morning we are talking about heading back to the beach.

But someone (not me) had a bad cold.

It could be worse than childbirth. 😉😷😳

Poor poor manbaby.

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UFO Challenge Report

Holy Cow! How did it get to be August so fast.

Wasn't it just Christmas?

Judy L has pulled the new UFO number for August.

Lucky me, my #3 is Millifiore. 

I'm excited to get this finished but terrified at the same time.

There is a bit of irony for me about this selection.

You know on Facebook how your memories show up?

One of my memories this morning is this photo.

It was 2 years ago today that I was at this step.

I have however reached the point in my life of just get it finished.

Don't worry so much about it.

No one can use or appreciate all the work if you don't get it finished.

So Millifiore, you're next.

The first step in to add the outer borders.

Thank goodness the fabric is with the quilt top.

Then I'll cut the batting for all 3 tops in this post.

(Once the roll is out, may as well cut them all.)

I previously bought a wide back for this so I'll be ready to baste.

The quilting design is already layed out on paper.

That will help a lot!

Wish I could say I made progress on Grandmother's Choice.

This is all the progress I made, I pulled it off Mt. ToBeQuilted.

That's as far as I got with her.

It's been super hot here so we've spent a lot of time at the beach.

Not much room for quilt basting there.

Instead I finished this sweet quilt top.

Take a top off the mountain, add another. 

Cross your fingers that this can be a 2 or 3 month UFO finish month.

I'm certainly going to try.