Iced Coffee

Iced CoffeeI

This is the best.  To sweeten it, I use Stevia.  A couple of drops is perfect.  Go to the link above and click on it for the recipe.  This is the second batch I've made and drank almost all on my own.  Of course it took me about a month.  I can't wait to try the Vietnamese Iced Coffee.  It's on the same link.  If you like the website I sent you to.  Watch her on FoodTv Saturday, August 27.  It's Ree's debut.

Windy Night

According to our weatherman, we sustained 55 mile an hour winds last night and early this morning. It woke me up from all the noise. I glanced at the clock and it was blinking. So the most important thing in our morning is to have fresh coffee already brewed and just waiting for us. I needed to get up and reprogram our coffeepot. I did that and then decided to turn our the porch light and take a look at our "poor shed". Remember our shed last spring? Now look at our shed. Lucky we cleaned it out this summer and took a load to the dump.

Here's what's in the shed and - - - - -

Here's the shell. It's across the garden leaning against a tree and fence.

"Chickens in the Road"

I started reading Chickens in the Road about a year ago. I was looking for anything rustic, back to nature, gardening, etc. I found Suzanne. Visit her blog. She writes wonderfully.





http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2009/11/22/apple-spice-simmering-potpourri/



She's asking for her readers to vote for her. She's a single stay at home mom and this is an opportunity for her. Take a look. If you comment on her blog, let her know I sent you.

I'm Home

I had a great vacation visiting my grandkids. They made me feel so good.

They wrote on the driveway my Welcome and I love yous. My grandson even drew a picture of me.

I stayed seven days and left on the 5th. I love visiting my family but I love being home.

I brought my sewing machine, fatquarters, ruler, mat and my granddaughters learned to make a pillow. I'll show those pictures in my next post. I don't have any pictures of the completed pillows so I have to wait for my daughter to send them to me.

Monday's Design Wall

The main blocks are from my BOM club. It's a "quilt as you go" tecnique. I wanted to try it because I wanted to learn a new technique. The bottom row is ready to be sewed front sides together, then the back of one trimmed and then handsewn together. I am taking it with me on my trip to Montana to visit my parents, sister from Singapore, brother, daughter and my precious (3) grandchildren. My GDs want to learn to sew. I'm taking my Janome Jem and they have two there. I'm bringing a couple of pillow forms and some of their favorite color fat quarters. This will be fun.

Rockin and Rollin

We had one heck of a storm late yesterday afternoon. The winds were around 80 mph. Trees down on my route home. One of the huge cottonwoods in the back field by our house, our sunbreak in the summer, blew down taking a mass of limbs from the other trees. It looks bare back there today. Our shed, which wasn't in great shape to begin with, but we were going to paint it this summer was trashed. Power was out for about 3 hours and again for a half hour during the night. Today we are cleaning up. The garden doesn't look too bad. The plants are all leaning because of the wind. All in all we fared pretty good. Salem to the south of us had trees down and flooding. To the east I think they got hail, rain and wind.

Customer Quilt for Charity

Here is another charity quilt Ann made and I quilted. I need to get some microhandles for the smaller stippling work. I didn't have a lot of control here. I do think that I should have slowed the speed down also.

Spring's Come in Like Gang Busters!

This Robin family has already fledged. Mama has a new batch she's working on. This nest is right outside our bedroom window. In the morning I open the shade and tell her Good Morning. I usually look in on her often when I'm home.















I was driving into town last week and counted nine crimson clover fields. I had my camera with me so I found a spot to take some pictures. They are lovely.



























These pictures really don't do the colors justice.

This swallow nest appear within three days. She built her nest almost under our front door. I'm sure she doesn't like the interruptions of us coming and going.

And one of my favorites........

This is one of my Rhodies. Isn't it pretty. I love the color.

Enough for now. I've been taking lots of pictures. I'll get them all online this weekend. Until then.....

Where Did May Go?

Wow. I've been sooo busy, I took a breath and it's almost June. Well all was not lost. We've had company for about 2 wks of it. So cleaning, dusting, straightening up, cooking and visiting. We had one BBQ when my DB's sis came to town from the Stockton area. We had lots of family over and combined it with my son's birthday. He turned 28. Now that's hard to fathom. My baby grew up on me.

We played horseshoes, dominos and darts. Ya, and ate. Like usual, I fixed way too much. But hay, I didn't have to cook for a week. Makes sense to me.

Nothing quilty to talk about. Nada. I've been wanting to get in my sewing room but no such luck.

Maybe next week.

Happy Mother's Day!

This is my mom. Thanks Mom for everything you've done for me. You're the greatest! I love you.

What the Stars Say

May Britt from http://abyquilt.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-do-your-stars-say-about-you.html had this on her blog. What about you? What do the stars say about you?

Robins

There were 4 baby robins outside our bedroom window in a Spruce tree. They've grown quite a bit. Today, mama was agitated, so we looked in her nest to find only three babies. They are so big that everytime mama came near they stretched their necks and I'll bet that they squeezed one out. We looked and looked and couldn't find the fourth. They are so cute.

Look What I Received

Look what Eunice gave me for quilting her charity quilt. What a great thank you. It's a book titled "The Quilt" by T. Davis Bunn, a great Water Lily Bath Confetti and a very nice thank you note. I can't wait to take a bath.

Thanks Eunice!

BOM Club

Decided to go to my BOM today instead Saturday. We're suppose get monsoon type weather tomorrow and I don't want to drive about 60 miles in the rain. I have a coupon that I want to take advantage of. I will probably get some batting.

My beau and I planted a ton of iris last week. We think they've already started growing. I doubt it, probably wishful thinking.

The first photo are the irises. We got about 100 from my Beau's sister gave them to us. I think we ended up with twice as many because we split them. We planted them by the fence because of the weeds that migrate over the fence from the field on the other side.

The second pic are of some bulbs that have started growing from what we planted last fall. Don't know what they are. Again some hand-me-downs from another sister. The have some light lavendar blue-bell type flowers on them.

Judy's Quiltathon Day 2

Good Morning! I didn't get as much done yesterday as I'd hoped. My BF had car trouble and I had to run for parts and wait while he was working on putting in a new fuel pump. So his sister and I went to get the pump and to the fabric store for my white fabric that will be sewn into 8 inch blocks for the fifth graders. Today my BF left the house at 4:30 a.m. to deliver a load of fertilizer. He's a truck driver. So while he's gone I'll sew. He'll be getting back home around noon and then we will have to finish the fuel pump installation. He hates to work on vehicles so it takes him awhile. He tries to shortcut in areas where he shouldn't and then it ends up taking much longer.

Yesterday, I sewed more of the 192 HSTs and this morning I squared them up. I've read all the blogs I follow and have gotten my taxes out to do. Maybe that will wait.

Today, more HSTs and 30 8 inch white blocks to be sewn together. Talk to you later!