Cats, kittens, birds, chickens!

Last Monday, we got a call from one of my piano students.  The hubs took the call and brought the phone to me in the basement.............she had found a little kitten and it needed a home.  Well, of course, Christi's house for wayward cats opened it's doors (I figure the Hubs had a chance to say no thanks and not even tell me about the call).  So this little gal arrived at our house that evening.

Summer Fun!

Okay, so there's really not much about summer in this post other than it's been really HOT and DRY!

The Hubs and I traveled northeast to Rutledge, MO last Friday to explore the Flea Market.  It was UNIQUE!  and HOT!  There was a lot of stuff and not many shoppers, so you'd think the deals would be good, but they weren't.

I did find this little beauty nestled in among the guns, dogs, poultry, and many other "interesting" items.  $400 is not really that bad a price for the condition she was in, but I didn't need another featherweight.

We only stayed at the flea market for a couple of hours, made one purchase - a small dog kennel for DD to put Jason in at night when he won't sleep or leave her alone - then headed into Rutledge to the ONE business, a store that had feed and seed, groceries, supplies, a little restaurant, and FABRIC!

Yes, I did a little shopping.  I even helped another lady pick fabric for a quilt and she was quite impressed that I dropped 3 bolts on the cutting table while telling the clerk (in front of THE HUBS) that I wasn't finished, I just couldn't carry it all and needed my hands free to look!  I thought the most impressive thing was that we paid for fabric and gum boots (all great deals, of course) on the same ticket!

We stopped at another flea market (air-conditioned) in Macon on the way home and at Sew Creative in Salisbury, a quilt shop I hadn't been to.  

Some sewing has happened this week.  I finished all the components for On Ringo Lake and laid it out (with the wide backing fabric I have for it) and have started sewing it into rows.  I need to at least get it into rows as I would like to measure out some batting and need the floor space for that.  

The third barn block got finished up this weekend as well.  Only 9 more to go, but I have improved from the rate of 1 per year that I was working at!

We made applesauce from the Lodi apples this weekend and put corn in the freezer last week.  It was definitely a busy week.

DD will be home for the weekend and finish up her summer job and class next week.  Then she (and Jason) will be home for about a month.  I will be working everyday, 8-4 next week as everyone else at work will be on vacation.  
Christi

Quilts of Valor

We presented 5 Quilts of Valor at our meeting Tuesday evening.  This was the quilt my group completed..............remember, that post from May 23rd, when I described working on this???   Well, the Calamity Quilters prevailed and had a beautiful quilt to present.  Here are the other quilts that were presented...........

I think they were all beautiful.  I still can't decide which I like best!

4th of July and Summer Half Gone!

It's hard to believe the summer is half over............

Cici had to inspect the fireworks we picked up after the 4th for DD to shoot off this past weekend.  

Since the roommate who takes care of Jason was coming home with her, Jason came for the weekend too.  I admit that I missed him, but by the end of the weekend, we were all ready for him to go back to college.  He's there for 3 more weeks until summer school is over and will then be back with us for about 3 weeks.  The hubs, Cici, and I aren't sure we can take it.

We did eat our first sweet corn yesterday............I consumed 5 ears in 2 meals.  I'm going to have to start pacing myself!

Baseball in Iowa.........another road trip!

I was back in Iowa for 2 nights (4 baseball games and 1 softball game) this past week.  Two summers ago, DD and I went up to watch my older nephew play 8th grade baseball.  This time I wanted to see the younger one play 8th grade ball (Iowa plays school baseball and softball in the summer).  It would have worked perfectly with the baseball schedule to go up 2 days prior to the guild shop hop and just meet up with the quilters in Winterset, but my nephew got "called up to the majors" so to speak.  He was moved up to the freshman/JV teams.  So, that schedule didn't work.  So this trip allowed me to see 4 games in 2 nights and only take off one day of work and see both nephews play ball!

My guys are #24 (freshman in the fall), and #2 (junior in the fall).  #2 was the catcher the first night and had an awesome JV game even though they lost.  The varsity game was very exciting (rain delay) and they won, beating a really good team!

The second night, #24 was in left field and #2 started out pitching!  It was so fun to see them both on the field at the same time.  Both nights were cool and the second was windy.

Finally got them to pose for a photo!

The younger one just got his permit, so he chauffeured me around town during the day, except for the quilt shop, he stayed home to do this.............

My sister and I got pedicures and also did some looking around town.  We found this..........

And made some plans for more elaborate wine bottle bird feeders.  I came home with a stash of wine glasses from a flea market and some of my sister's bottle collection.  The hubs had found an even cuter design in his Handy Man magazine, so we collected the supplies for him to make some.

No big trips planned for this week.........Wednesday was going to be a "stay home all day" day, but then realized there was a massage scheduled for the afternoon!  So other than that, it was a "stay home" day.
Christi

Guild Shop Hop!!!

A group of 14 guild members left for our shop hop on Friday morning a week ago.  It was so much fun!

Father's Day

This is a favorite photo that happened the week before Father's Day..........

They are watching a movie trailer for the new Winnie the Pooh movie which will come out the first weekend in August.  Seeing this is one of DD's plans for the weekend of her 21st birthday.