the last few weeks.....

I won block lotto!

 I may write the name of the person who made them, on them,

 so I stuffed them back into the envelopes for now. They are the hot cross plaid blocks.

 (this block and I kept mine to mix in)

Both Jacob (owner of the zombie quilt) and Crispy were in the high school spring play, Leaving Iowa. 

It was so fun to watch, I went both nights.

Synopsis.......

The spark behind Leaving Iowa comes from being children of parents from the now dubbed "greatest generation." The story is a toast to their idealism and character and a little roast of their undying dedication to the classic family road trip. More specifically, it is the story of Don Browning, a middle-aged writer, who returns home and decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma's house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father. This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from the present to Don's memories of the annual, torturous vacations of his childhood. Don's existential journey leads him to reconcile his past and present at the center of the United States. His Dad wanted to go there, but the rest of the family voted no....so he never got there. Don finally gets his Dad there.

Leaving Iowa is a postcard to anyone who has ever found himself or herself driving alone on a road, revisiting fond memories of his or her youth.

Jacob was the grown-up Don.
Crispy was Grandpa and the character of Bob, the hog farmer at the center of the United States,
somewhere in Kansas. 

On the way to graduation, my Mom was saying,

"I've never been to House on the Rock."  (roadsideamerica)
She has been by it many, many times but never stopped.

She is the female version of Don's father in the play. We took many road trips and stopped at ALL the historical markers. There was something to be learned everywhere.

I told her to stop there next weekend. She will be going right by it again....
this could be her chance to finally get there
or we might have to go there someday ...just to leave some ashes.

Crispy is officially done with high school!

I went fishing, caught nothing. 

Well, wait, I did catch a tiny crappie.

But it fell off the hook before I could get it in. Haven't had time to go again.

Last night was a partial eclipse....

A friend brought over his welding masks.

We could see the moon over the sun with these.

Tried taking a picture through the mask.

 It just looks like a hot green sun.....

I did get a quilt to the quilter...I can't talk about it yet.

Super secret.

I also have 8 star blocks made for this month at (block lotto)

Just need to get their picture taken!

Maybe I should go work on that.