the weekend...

While I was at the football game

watching # 42

standing there

cheering on his team.....

(they lost

16 to 68 ...yikes)

Karen was at home working on binding...

Her next quilt had come home from the quilters.

Her oldest niece will get this one

cause she loves red.

It is quilted with a simple meandering design. It is so beautiful, this picture doesn't do it justice.

Karen made a clothes pin bag too, how cool is that?

It took her an evening and one night of good sleep before she could figure out how the wire thing worked....but once she did ....it took her all of 10 minutes to sew this up!

I did a lot of stuff too....just none of it sewing.

maybe next time!!!

it's thursday, so I will blog

I want to move this rock wall......
Whats that you say? ...
you don't see a rock wall?

EXACTLY!

what is the point of having rocks lined up if you can't see them....then again,
maybe I'll just think about it for a few more years.

Tractor joe brought home a new washing machine. The lady told him that is wife would...
LOVE IT!! hmmm.......I guess i do love it.

The old one had a horrible sounding kerrCHUNK when it stopped spinning......

and it would rock out of place...

and lately there was this high pitched squealling sound too...

and little pools of water were showing up when it finished its ...kerrCHUNKING.

It was time for a new one.

What the heck is the difference between normal and casual?

All my normal clothes are casual.

So far we have been using the normal setting and things are coming out fine.

and things are a lot quieter.

My sister and her husband, Mr and Mrs DNA jones are getting back form Italy today. They have been there for 10 days.They loved there holiday, and didn't want to come back.... they are now truly international geocachers.

sigh.....Canada just doesn't seem as "international" any more.

I thought I picked out the best picture, now I am not so sure, I went through 119 pictures to get this one.

My new Friday night home is at the FOOTBALL games, so that is where I will be....

I thought I had more pictures...

I don't know why I couldn't find these yesterday.....

....instead of calling them blurry and bad,
I will say they are edgy.

I'm not sure what the point was here....probably just the fact they are 3 cousins rarely photographed together.

Cousin Joe on the right won one of the beer quilts. A voice in the back of the room said,
"Don't forget your godmother!!"

It was his aunt, my sister....Mrs. DNA Jones.....

I took a picture of her when she said,
"hey look, I am getting ready for Italy!"
(she is there right now)

Cousin joe, who is kind and generous, and because his mother said to do it,

gave his beer quilt to his aunt!

new subject.....

oh boy ......a quilt.....

I am thinking blue binding........


The future owner (Karen) will get this for her yet to be painted dining room wall.....and besides she told me she is tired of looking at the quilt she made several years ago that is hanging there now.

I see light at the end of the tunnel where my homework is concerned and I'll be working in the preschool which has started!! Things may be slowing down at this blog. We will see what I find!

last weekend....party & caching

Last weekend we were up to the cities for my sister's early 50th birthday party. She was born in December when it is cold, very close to Christmas.....
so she decided to have her party when it was nice out and away from Christmas.
The pictures that I took turned out really bad (at least on the phone)...
we had fun playing bingo and answering a quiz sheet that Jane had put together about herself.
Now you may think it was beer that made my pictures blurry,
no...I blame the caffeine in the pepsi that I drank.


I had a map on where the party was so I filled in some of the geocaches in that area....that is what we did on Sunday...go from park to park looking for the caches.








We did 4 in about an hour. Things were going our way.
Dang we were good!!!



One was at a tree planted by neighbours in honour of a little girl named Sarah, she died in 1992. It was a very sweet cache in a birdhouse. One was on the fence of a ball field under the protective plastic tube....and some were in the trees just waiting to be found.


Then we went..... here (Southeast by Southwest)
Things didn't go well. A clock tower is on the southeast corner of the southwest transit parking ramp. We had already been searching for over a 30 minutes when we called Mr and Mrs DNA Jones to come help.
Here's the clue: half before the hour no need to take this one apart it's in plain site.

We were up and down the 5 levels of the ramp. Top to bottom, bottom to top, including the stairs. A teenage couple thought they would have some privacy for a heavy makeout session...
but nooo......we messed up their plans...they left.



We stayed another hour and left around 3 pm. Another DNF.....(did not find).......oh well.
We will go back someday and look some more!!

Mr. DNA was very kind to do the standard.....

I don't know where it is ??? pose.


.....and, unfortunately, no fabrics were harmed in the posting of this blog today.....

company comes to our house....

Madison and her family, along with other sisters and brothers-in-laws, plus one mother came for an overnight stay at our place!
Our newest farm girl got to ride in circles out in the pasture with tractor joe. She really enjoyed it.

We also feasted on tractors joe's finest effort yet......... grilled pork loin.........we had sweet corn too. Madison couldn't quite get the hang of shucking it, but she did give it her all.

We ate all over. Some were in the kitchen, some were out back at my lovely picnic table....and some...
(who are afraid of dogs and wear orange shirts)
........ate on the front steps.....away from any dogs!!!
It was nice to have a daddy and an uncle keep her company.


I have my quizzes and quilted prizes ready to go......we are headed up to the cities this morning for a party.
Jane will be turning 50 and she's throwing a party.........
I'll take pictures and post about that next.

I was going to wear that shirt!!

Another quilt by Karen......

Karen's newest quilt was back from the quilters.

We needed to get a picture of it.....

It was a warm windy and sunny day....

This was a learning experience.....the sun was glaring or the wind was snapping it all over.....

....so the photos aren't the best.

I tried laying on the ground and just shooting up as the poor quilt was being whipped up.We have a little bit of detail here.

The quilt is made of old shirts. A lot of them are her husbands old, worn work shirts. There are even some old shirts from her mom in it. . Lots of variety and color. In person it is beautiful. You just want to snuggle up with it. Our pictures here don't do it justice. The colors are probably closest to the real thing in the last picture.

When her husband, the shop keeper, saw it all finished....he said

"HEY, I was going to wear that shirt!"............He is such a card.

good boy.....

This is Ozzy our dog. He is really sweet and loves everyone.

He looks harmless enough.

My neice is coming for a visit. Good ol' Madison.

She is afraid of dogs ......all dogs.

So I am worried....she will see Ozzy and she will not be able to see a cuddly little dog....





Madison will see something different.....she will see an attack dog......
a dog ready to bite.....
like this......


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We think he is in mid-yawn when this picture was snapped. If you click on it, it should get bigger.

There is nothing better...

...than the sound of popping as the jars seal.
I never did find my pint size jars, or enough of them anyway. Quarts work just as well, I guess

it is time

We have been eating out of this box of peaches. But we will never finish them all before they get over ripe.....
SO...... I will be canning them today.....I need to find everything that goes with canning...........

Note to Self: Don't store boxes of jars under lots of other boxes.
here I go..........

home today

I don't need to travel today. What a relief. It takes 1 1/2 hours to get to class, so thats three hours on the road and then we lengthened each day so the last class (on the 17th) is shorter. I was so tired last night.....
So maybe I will get some sewing in.
There are things I want done by the 15th.
BUT.....While it is all fresh in my mind I do want to get some of the homework done.
Some can't be done until school starts.... Everyday I went by this sign. It is in West Bend.....I always stopped here for a bathroom break and a sausage/egg sandwich, kinda like a Sausage McMuffin. There is also a cache at the Grotto, so I was able to find that too.

Before I left Pocahontas yesterday, I made sure to stop at the quilt shop there. I bought a bunch of fat quarters. I always need lights and the colors were in the "red X" boxes....they were discounted! The dark, dark one is actually red.

Then I needed to water at home. While out doing that.... I took this picture. Some were a gift from the big guy for Mother's Day a few years ago, others I just bought from the clearence bin.

The first year was SO-SO,

the second year a deer? maybe ate the top of EVERY plant. No flowers.

But this years they were left alone and there are tons of blooms....and several new shoots growing.

I am going to go start my day at home....yippie!!!!!