Fourth of july Weekend

Started the day with a good antique show at the fairgrounds with DD and D. He loved these garden bell chimes. They were beautiful!

And there's always a lot to see. We bought some glass milk bottles for DD to use for her Lego Flowers.

 

I bought a coffee cake-it's delicous! 

Then it was parade time in the afternoon.

D had the hang of collecting candy pretty well this year.

Our little town parade is always a lot of fun.

And we also visited the folks too. 

 

June is Almost GONE!

 So, It's been a little busy, I had a yard Sale on Saturday. It's a lot of work to move junk...I mean merchandise, from one place to another. 

I piled it all in the garage to get it ready for Saturday.

I also sold some quilts at the bargain price of $50each. I sold 4!!!

By the afternoon we were down to this much stuff! We did really well! Kids clothes sold well! 

Dad was hospitalized up in Waterloo, he went to his local hospital complaining of chest pains, and they sent hijmm on to the cardiac unit in Waterloo. He spent 4 days there, they inserted a new stent, and he seems as good as new now. 

And Hubs was in the hospital, at the VA to get some blood transfusions, he was a little low. No one knows why, but this happens once in awhile. He's as good as new again too!

This guy was very helpful. 

Well, that's enough of hospitals for this year I hope!!

And we worked in a trip to the drive in too!. 

Busy Times

 SO I got the burn pile under control! The first burn took us down pretty well, but look here!

We're down to the ground! No more brush pile here!

There was a small mishap with the lawn mower....my hose is now about 3' shorter now than it was before. 

When I went to Albion, I stopped at the Presbyterian Church. They are now closed. They were having a yard sale. It's a sad thing, but is getting to be a common occurance. This was my childhood church, and I loved the windows.

And the big organ-it never was used as I remeber it, but I heard that it does operate. 

This stereo set up was used to play carrilion music-from LP records- through speakers in the church steeple. It was only on a few special occasions, like Christmas, but the music sounded so cool as I remember it anyways!

It's a really beautiful sanctuary, I hope it gets sold to someone for a venue or somehintg.  The curved pews are so pretty. 

They have pew cusions now! That's an improvment-you'd think that would get some folks into the seats!

The small office rooms all have stained glass windows too. This was a Sunday Schol classroom for awhile when I was a kid. 

And here's the problem...

With only a dozen or so people in church any given Sunday, you can't even pay the electric bill with that attendance, let alone pay a pastor.  It's a big loss for the community-there is no church now and no school. That's a death toll for the town I think, lucky they are not a bad location for commuting for work in bigger towns. 

ANd this guy was being helpful and using the magnet roller to pick up nails from the brush pile ashes. He's pretty good help. 

And very busy help too!

The water is always a favorite-it was crazy hot the last few days.

Time to upgrade from the triccyle-he calls it his e bike-I've got a new bike ordered for him!

Not Orphans Anymore

 So I am pretty good about not having UFO's around (Unfinished Objects). But I had a few orphan blocks from This Quilt back in 2025.

I didn't like them at the time, but here they are again. So I added some sashing and we now have a table runner! I loaded it up on Freddie and spent a lot of time looking at designs.

I went out of my comfort zone and chose a pretty dense design for this little piece.

Two whole bobbins to do this little thing!

Look how nice it came out!

I just love how nicely it lays, flat and square!

See the design? It's a lot of stitching, but it looks great! And I used the prewound colored thread this time.

The backside looks good too!

Well that's it for orphan blocks and no UFO's here!

Chores, Chores, Chores

 I just finished listening to this book. Highly recommend! The audio book is really well narrated, and while it is a long book it's hard to put it down!

And I tried these cookies. I was feeling festive. Pass. The filling is not very good and doesn't taste like anything. They are festive looking though!

I've been using up my stash as fast as I can! This bundle of 30's reproduction prints is next on the pile. 

I used a cute pattern from It's Sew Emma Called Tail Feathers

And here's the design I used for Freddie to quilt it. 

I cannot get a good picture, no matter what !! Shadey stripes....

Kind of not bad, but not very true colors....

I used up almost all the fabric on the back.

I do love the quilting design!

Indoors is a little more true color I think. The solid is really a nice pink. 

And look at this! I cleared out the container cupboard.

Uggghhhh! Where do the lids go??? Why are there so many containers??

There all done until next time. It seems like I can get about 6 months before it's out of control again!