quilt blocks and other things...

I laid out the bird quilt to see what I had finished. 

Right now it looks like three more birds for 6 rows.

Six more little red hearts and some simple filler blocks.

I will worry about the border later,

more checks?

plain red?

plain blue?

or all of the above.

The table and chairs all painted and finished.

It is under the roof out back. It won't be to exposed to the weather.

I still have red paint left over. I am always on the lookout now for something to paint red.

and I forgot.....

When we were in Illinois at the farm, I was wondering around taking pictures.

This gate was in an old cement watering tank.

I thought it was really pretty.

I asked Marjorie if she would sell it.

She said,

NO.

"but for a Christmas card, I will give it to you!"

Deal!!!

I emptied out the back of the car and it just fit inside.

Marjorie looked at our stuff and said,

"you guys travel light."

That was nice to know. 

We thought we had plenty of bags and what not 

that we were hauling with us.

Anyway, I picture it standing in a flower garden. We told all the boys that it came from their great grandfather's boyhood home. We wanted to make sure they understood that it's status was higher than "junk mom and dad left us" 

It has some meaning.