~Little of this n that~

These two, they just make my heart go pitter patter! I can't remember why we were at In-n-Out but it was a special treat for sure!

Here is Little Man, who is not so little anymore, Donnie, he was so anxious to give his new ride a try he wore his motorcycle helmet for head gear! He is a thrifty shopper and got a fantastic deal on these wheels, with what he saved he cruised the net to find the best safety gear and he looks pretty cool!

Can you see a theme here? It seems the last 5 or so quilts are all in these color ways, the bin seems to be multiplying instead of depleting like I was hoping! And there is still at least 2 more quilts that can come from that bin but it has been put away for another day!

And with yummy avocados in season we have been enjoying them all but daily! I think presentation makes things taste even better, and I was a little surprised that he didn't put the lemon seeds in the center to be a little over the top! ~smile~

We just had a nice humid breaking rain, and a nice thunder and lightning show that forced us to shut everything down for a bit and sit outside and enjoy that moment, the hummers loved the showers as well but I couldn't get a very good shot of them darting in and out of the droplets!

I kind of let go of putting the feeders out the past 2 summers and wondered if the Hummers and Orioles would forgive me and come back! They surely have!

DH and the boys took a morning and cleaned up the overgrown weeds around the yard, wow is all I can say! Now just a pot or two of some pretty flowers and it will be complete for the time being!

Forever and a day~

I just can't get over the fact it has been almost a year since posting! We haven't done anything special except survive this whole time.

We have gotten back into walking, hiking and some bicycling.  Blake discovered these funky Five Finger shoes, I get a kick out of seeing him go in them!

 We have seen some pretty amazing sites on our walks, this cactus was one, it is pretty neat to see the changes on a daily basis!

 I even got to make it to a Fiddlesticks Retreat weekend! After months of helping gals pick fabrics and being sure they had the right measurements for their project I totally went stupid when it came to getting mine together! The original called for 10 dark and 10 light fabrics to make a nice size lap quilt.

 I got that all together then woke up in the middle of the night in a panic thinking I needed 20 of each, I have no idea where that came from but needless to say I marathon cut the additional pieces and went of to retreat quite pleased with myself until I got to piecing them and realized my mistake.  Needless to say I had enough to add 2 additional rows and it makes a nice topper to my california king bed!

Whats fun about the fabrics is that when we moved here 10 years ago I went online fabric shopping on a rather depressed day, I have had all the lovely fat quarters tucked away since, and I didn't want to purchase anything new so went digging around and got reacquainted with them! I used wool batting and couldn't be more pleased with the outcome!

Thankfully I have kept up with taking pictures of all the quilts that have passed through my door so will have plenty to get caught back up with, and even lots of different family changes to get documented so I one day I can look back and laugh, nice big belly laughs! Thats my plan!~