You know that saying, "The Best Laid Plans" from the Robert Burns poem, "To a Mouse"? Well, we have been experiencing that here in spades (note the "in spades" expression from the card game bridge!). We went to bed on a Thursday evening, knowing it was supposed to rain a little and woke up to this.........
The road to the East of our house..........
The road to the West of our house............
That's what 10+ inches of rain in less than 12 hours will do! So, we didn't go anywhere last Friday. In the late afternoon, the water went down to the East, which was good so that the feed truck could get here. It took a few days for the road to the West to reappear!
And in keeping with our theme of "The Best Laid Plans", we have now cancelled our summer vacation. The plan had been to pick up Sarah and head south to New Orleans in a week, stopping to see stuff along the way. The week had been selected because we would be without pigs. However, apparently the sows have been producing like rabbits and they are weaning an average of 13 pigs per litter, so pigs are arriving early. There was just no way to fit in a vacation between groups this time. We are settling for a weekend of fun in St. Louis. And, now we don't have to rush to get the applesauce done, or worry about the sweet corn being ready without us, and I can still judge at the county fair, and go to the cattle show to watch some of my favorite ladies show their cattle (ok, we're trying for the lemonade here). The only one who was thrilled with the cancellation was Willow. She wasn't sure she could make it 5 days without us being here. Also, David and Sarah are glad I was adamant about not booking our hotels and tickets without the ability to cancel, so we are getting our money back.
We have had so much rain the last week, that it has been hard to spend time with Willow since she isn't at all afraid of water and mud, but doesn't understand why she can't come inside. So, yesterday I took her on a little road trip.
I just had a couple of errands that didn't entail a lot of time in a store, so we spent the trip together. We're practicing so that she can go with us on vacation in the future!
We followed the hubster out the driveway. He was transporting a couple of pigs to another barn to be loaded on a truck next week. Notice the corn on the left.........it's not quite as "high as an elephant's eye" (Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma), but I think it grew a foot overnight......sort of like my teenage nephews do from time to time.
In the sewing room yesterday, I worked on a braided table runner pattern that I had picked up at the KC quilt show I attended in June. I used the fabrics that I bought in my bag of scraps that were sold by the pound!
I got the 2 strips done and then had to "braid" them together. I was sewing the flying geese star points of another quilt as leader/enders.
Partial seams were involve, but it worked!
It still needs trimming and a border. I used the scraps left from the pound bag of scraps and have already made another table runner and it is quilted and on a table. That's a pound of fabric that went quickly! Photo to come.
And where was my assistant? I think the lack of sunshine this past week has gotten to her. She spends lots of time napping in the window seat hoping the sun will hit her.
Have a fun fourth weekend!
Christi
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