soooooo

So I have decided to rename and revive this blog. I am going to make it more quilt oriented, because I thought I really do not have much to write about and then I had a day like today.

First we had our last softball game, we were not very good. We only won one game, but we had a lot of fun this picture to me sums up softball in delco with the wawa crate full of softballs.
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Sarah and Lori were our coaches and they did a great job. 


note: Lolly is not a coach, she is bogarting into the picture


Then we came back to the house for a dip in the pool, but we were in crisis mode.  One of the fish in the pond had a stone stuck in it's mouth. So we spent the day between dips in the pool trying to catch the fish in a net.  Mick went to the Agway and purchased another net and him and Lori trapped the fish:

Then Mick tried and tried to get the rock out but it was caught on the fish lips, do fish have lips?

Finally Mick got the stone out and it was huge:

Then the fish swam away, I think he still has a very hurt jaw, but I hope he is going to be okay

So that was a portion of my day.  I am not nearly as boring as I thought, and I did not even talk about quilting. Just hold onto your hats and I promise the next entry I will talk about a quilt I made....

married to a bad boy

so the door bell rings, Mick goes upstairs (I am dying a slow death with the Eagles), and visiting with Colin and Alyce.

Mick does not come back and I think what happen to him, so I go upstairs and see this coming through the windows in the living room:






He almost got busted for burning leaves.

He is such a smooth talker, be got out of it.

Love my bad boy husband....

Poppy's Birthday

Last Sunday Poppy (my mom's husband) was 85. Jim is quite a wonderful man, and I am very happy that 31 years ago when he met my mom, a just about to be divorced woman with ten kids, he did not turn tail and run. For that reason alone he is on of my heroes. Well we all got together for a very nice Sunday afternoon for chili and mayhem at Janet's to celebrate here are some pictures:


I let Lily use my camera, I love to do that you never know what you are going to get :)


The wonderful hostess, Janet



Here is the birthday boy with Jake.



Putting on the feedbag :)



Pat skyped in from Iraq.



So we made sure he was in a group shot.

The day ended with a beautiful chester county sunset. (view from Janet's deck)

June it is

well I like angela's name and I am now calling my juki - june. Well she was the only one to respond.

I saw this quotes and it comes from one of my favorite books, Cold Mountain. Not that I thought the story was beyond outstanding, but because of how well it was written. Just in this quote you can read how he meandered through and you really grasp Rudy and her personality. You see a hillbilly woman with a distrust of the big bad world. Please read this book if you are so inclined. I never saw the movie and never intend to, when I really like a book, I rarely watch the movie. Hollywood cannot get it right.

“there was not one thing in a place like france or new york or charleston that ruby wanted. and little she even needed that she couldn’t make or grow or find on cold mountain. she held a deep distrust of travel. her view was that a world properly put together would yield inhabitants so suited to their lives in their assigned place that they would never need nor wish to travel. folks would, out of utter contentment, choose to stay home, since the failure to do so was patently the root of many ills, current and historic.”

I need to sew a bit, but hopefully later I will put up some pics of Jim's birthday party.

going to try - a poll

I am now going to try and be a faithful blogger, I do not think I have any followers left, but we will see. A little sewing post, I think if i make this blog about my sewing room adventures it might not be quite so boring.

at a later post I might share my attempt at sewing pj pants with flannel, right now it is not working out, and I have three tabs open in my computer and the middle one is labeled: "sewing the crotch" everytime I look at that I crack up.

Here are my weekend sewing goals.

I just made a new and improved design wall in my quilt room, it is a flannel sheet from Target.




Hopefully, this string quilt will become a comforter cover for my bed, I have been having a good think about how to do this, I will let you know how it turns out.



This quilt I started before things got really busy at work so I hope to finish at least the borders by the end of the weekend. I will let you know how far I get.



I know that I do not have any more readers, if I do. This is my sewing machine (I love it!) It is a Juki 98Q. It needs a name...




If there is anyone left out there that reads this silly thing, please help me name my sewing machine.

sadness

Well I guess my American Idol days are over. I simply cannot watch Ellen try and be a judge, she is going to try way to hard to be funny. c'mon folks we all know most of the fun was watching Paula be on drugs and act like a weirdo with Simon.

Pappy said the same thing, so we are in agreement.

just thinking out loud

I want to learn how to knit socks.

My son is getting married in one week.

You know how you do things without a thought and then your husband says 'honey, when you do that it get's on my nerves' and you are like wow I do not even know I did that. Then everytime you do it and he is not around you feel like you are getting away with something?