Austin, Minnesota, home of Hormel and Spam....

Last weekend, Karen's baby was married up in Austin, MN. It was also the weekend for the Quilt Show here in town. Karen left me three of her quilts. I took a picture of them before taking them over to the show. We missed the show on Saturday, but I did help set it up Friday night. The lighting in the gym is awful, so I have no pictures. 

The reception was at the Hormel Historic Home. We were in the banquet hall behind the house, but the house was open for us to go roam around. Beautiful old wood work.

I love Spam, so that is what I had for breakfast Sunday morning...

Scrambled eggs and Spam. We talked about going to the Spam Museum.

But only stopped long enough to find a geocache and take a picture. 

I want to go back, it looks like a fun place to visit!!!

There is a cache at the rest stop on I-90 headed west. We stopped and I went walking in the woods. There was no clear path, just heading in the right direction with the GPS. Bushwhacking through bushes and fallen trees. I went alone, tractor joe stood on the edge and waited for me to come back out.

Cache found, we got back in the car to continue our ride home.

It was cold and rainy outside. The windows were all up and the heat was on. It took about 15 seconds for tractor joe to accuse ME of stepping in dog poo.

Right about then, I started to smell it. It was a horrible, gagging smell.

I needed to roll down the window for fresh air.

Even COLD fresh air was welcome at that point.

AND....it wasn't me! He had stepped in it himself. If he had gone into the woods with me, this might not have happened. We pulled off at the next exit and he did some major scraping. The rest of the ride home was much more pleasant.

I made 16 more of these string blocks. I have no idea how I will use them. I added them to the stack.