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!

There is Beer Here

 So one time, while shop hopping, I bought some beer fabric. I'm not sure why, but it's really cool looking fabric and my thought was to make a quilt for my Hubby's American Legion Bar to raffle off at their next fundraiser. Well, the bar closed so I'm not sure where this little pretty is going. 

All those little squares with funny beer sayings on them.

And I used a different quilting design-I like it! It's one of the built in designs on Freddie. 

And the back with more beer sayings. I like the back as much as the front!

It finished at about 60x65 ish, so a good cuddle on the couch size or a car quilt. 

Another finish, so I can start another one! And no more beer fabric!

And the nice weather has had this guy outdoors! He took his shoes off in the sand box and figured he was good to go.

I hope mama has his tetnus shot up to date!LOL!!!

He does love the swing, High gramma, high!

Almost Christmas

I stitched up this Santa Panel just in time for Christmas decorating. 

I did entirely free motion quilting on Freddie. 

And the backing fabric is so cute! 

On a whim, I stopped by the Goodwill store and spotted this pretty Jadeite bowl! 

It's Pioneer Woman, I think, and it's not old, but DD will like it just fine I think!

I'll put it to good use for Christmas eve at Julie's house!

The tree is ready for the family to come over. Notice there are no candy canes or ornaments at the bottom of the tree....Dilly cleared them out!

I also go this little snowman panel quilted. It fits just right on the door. 

I loaded it on Freddie the long way, still had to roll it a little bit, but it went really fast!

I forgot to take pictures while it was loaded on there, but you can see the top leader is still attached here. 

It looks good on the front door, so that's another project done!

I took Dilly shopping the other day, when we were in DiIllards, they had this big Santa that was singing and dancing-he was enchanted!

Then home for a nap-he fell asleep on Grampa! awwwww

We've had him a few different days-always getting a candy cane.

And it was nice enough that we went outside to swing a little bit

And he always says HI to the big snowman. 

I think we're all ready for Christmas!

Swinging With the Boys

We've got swings!

So, I was very thankful that my neighbor, Trevor, helped me hang the chains for these swings in the backyard. 

The baby swing for Dilly, I got it at Aldi quite awhile back, is perfect! Dilly Loves it!

And the round swing was also an Aldi purchase, and Drew LOVES it!

Hard to believe that Dylan is going to be 1soon!

It was also a pretty morning when I was walking Ringo at Kent Park the other morning....doesn't this look like a painting?

And we've been baby sitting quite a bit. This guy's Mommy has been working a bit more to cover for folks at the Quick Care.

He's a big fan of Grampa!