today

Hi friends.  We are working hard here as you can see. me with my quilt and hubby with his red tractor. He does love that tractor!!!
he was moving a pile of red mud that they left there  When we had out big carport  poured. . He wants to fix another drive and a carport for his truck there but we will have to move my pink rosebush.

Look at the size of that rock!! And that tractor just dug it out and he carried it into the woods. That is what our yard is, red mud and rocks .
My quilt is coming along,  i sewed the binding on and now i have to pin it and hand sew it down then i will take it outside and get some pictures
Time to cook supper.  talk to you tomorrow    good sewing        quilt happy

many things

One of the many books i got at McKay.







great grands




Arn't they sweet? Don't you want to just kiss them all over that sweet face with that sweet smile.
Yesterday his mother said on facebook that you could see his first tooth.He is tucker and she is Gracie.


                                                
       I got to working on my quilt yesterday and forgot to take my meds, and     didn't not sleep a wink last night. so i took a nap this afternoon while hubby cut the south forty.  So i may not sleep tonight because of taking that nap!!!

I finished quilting my quilt and squared and trimmed it , so tomorrow i can cut binding and when i get that sewed on i will get a picture of it for you'll to see. Will carry it to her Sunday but Friday is her birthday, she will be 46. she is 4 years older then son, the baby. and she was a lot of help when i had him. She loved that baby and helped me every way she could.
Well talk to you tomorrow until then may you never have to use Jack the Ripper
  Quilt Happy

sew fever

i just had to sew something Saturday. so i made this block , it's very large  5 inch squares.  but i had seen this block all over the" net"  and wonted to make it but really needed to sew around my granny squares so just did the one block.
i like 5 blocks having  my granny square quilt  quilted, maybe tomorrow. i keep saying that but i have to run out of blocks soon.
i think a green check gingham for the binding.  will i 3/8 yds make a binding for a queen sized quilt? i would hate to cut it up and not have enough.
we had company Sunday. daughter "a "and husband and  all 3 of their kids. k is dating so we were surprised.  we usually only see" a"  when we go to the drug store where she works. she and daughter "t"  work there so we get our pills there. give them our business because they provide jobs for the girls. they pay as good as any mill and the working conditions are much better.
then yesterday redhaired girl and her husband came by for a few hours.  so we saw much more of our kids then we every see them  except at easter.
well lets go back to "quilting" around granny squares.
good sewing       quilt happy

the weekend

good to "see"  you'll again.  we had a good weekend saw all my kids and most of their kids at the commencement Friday night, my son and his wife and one of his girls came to see Jessie walk. it was cold so we left after her walk and so did my son and his family. Saturday  his wife and my tator bug brought me my late mothers day gift. they know i love wind chimes. and these are so cute!!! also told me son had threw up all night . he has that virus that is going around, i hope  we don't get it, because if i see my kids i will hug them no matter what.
i am still sewing on my quilt and i counted the granny squares that i have left to finish and i think it's 8 so maybe tomorrow night i will finish that part up and can put on the binding. i got some green check i may use don't know yet.
that's Jessie waving , my camera is pitiful after dark. even on night settings.
 going to go sew so i can get thou by Sunday when i hope to carry it to her.
good sewing      quilt happy

sunday

garden

i just put a picture of a jelly roll on here yesterday and forgot all about it.  i really felt bad but managed to attend Jessie's commencement  exercises last night , but it got cold so hubby brought me home after she did her walk.

by the way i ordered that jelly roll from green fairy and it's Christmas spirit  by holly Taylor. i just wonted some Christmas fabric.

do you see the rattlesnake beans? that's the first ones i have seen this year and it will take a little while to get a mess to cook. hubby loves those, wont eat any other kind. he says any other doesn't have any taste.

we had squash Thursday for supper.  the first this year, we get tired of them fast so  we will be giving them away soon.

that corn is as tall as i am or higher.

well talk to you Monday have a great weekend        quilt happy

this and that

hi friends    how are all of you doing today? i have dizzy spells every time i stand up.  hubby had it last week and he must have shared.  i took something hoping to get better before time for jessie to graduate.
got a call from son's wife and they will be here in a couple of hours.  we may go with them .
i am on my 21th granny square. witch is pretty good for a week, but i need to get them all done so i can fix any thing i see wrong before i put on the binding.by next weekend. And that is a lot of sewing.

 my rose of Sharon's are blooming. i always heard them called holly hock's , my mother called them that . but when you look them up they are rose of Sharon. years ago i told my sister that i wonted a rose of Sharon and she ordered some and gave me two. and they are just like the one i moved from my old house.
well see you tomorrow and hope i feel better.      quilt happy

stiching a way

i have been stitching away , i started Sunday and did 5 blocks.  i counted them this morning and i have done 15.   that leaves 37!!!  maybe i will have them done and binding done but i don't know how!!!
i haven't picked out the binding yet. may do  it with that green.

maybe during the race Sunday i can do a bunch. i hope so, i may have to watch the Saturday race too to even get close to finishing it by the 8th.

when we went to jo-anns i wonted a tumbler ruler but they were out, so i got me a hexagon. i can't wait to try it out.


we may have storms later today, keep our garden in your prayers.  we don't need any hale. got my first squash today so i know what i am cooking for supper.  we have blooms on every thing in the garden except the peas and we just planted them 10 days ago.
i hope daughter will like it when she gets it , i know i have put the work and tears into it.
she has a 17 year old daughter and today she said on face book that she wished i had locked her up in a closet when she was 17. she must wont to lock her daughter in it. granddaughter has a boyfriend, or as they say now she is in a relationship.
talk to you tomorrow good sewing         quilt happy

long day

we left at 10 o'clock this morning . it's a hour drive, but we hit McKay's and then Jo-Ann's then went out to eat and come on home. i was wore out!!!! though you might like some more pictures of that beautiful stitching. the dog is Emily , my sisters dog.  one of 4 and sometimes 5 because she fosters dog of that breed until they can get someone to adopt  it .the bottom picture, the flash didn't work but you can still see the stitching.
got home and no Internet, they had dug up the lines and broke it somewhere because when i called they said it would be back on by 8 o clock it came back on at 5:30 but we had to go to the funeral home so i am just now getting on.
maybe tomorrow will be a good sewing day, i got 5 quilt books today .
good sewing to you    quilt happy

company an eye candy

my sis came over and brought her quilts that she got back from her quilter.  beautiful quilts but those back are really some thing else. perfect!!!!
butterflies and lady bugs and snap dragons. and flowers, all over the back . she did the quilting with light pink thread so it would show up.
sis is making a quilt for one of my grand daughters and one of my brothers grandkids.
probably for Christmas!!
tomorrow we are going back to McKay's . can you say  "quilt books"
i am going to see what i can find . and i think we are stopping at jo-anns for something she needs.
we got a little rain but not enough so hubby is setting up the sprinklers as i type.
 things were turning a little yellow at the bottoms and needed more than God gave. the next chance of rain is Thursday and Friday. 
well i will talk to you later..       good sewing         quilt happy

remember our men and boys

garden

afternoon friends.   well you can see our garden is doing great!!!  pray we don't have any real bad storms with hale so it will stay that way. and that we have rain when it needs it.
one of our step grand sons wife won 50 thousands dollars this on a lotto ticket. we may have to start buying them every once in a while!!!
hubby worked so hard yesterday got to hot and then wonted some home made ice cream, so i fixed some and them at 500 o clock we had company and didn't eat supper until after they left at 11 o'clock last night. so today he is sick he was going to finish putting in the other air conditioner today but i guess Monday or Tuesday will do.  got to work on my quilt so i am taking it into the living room where the ac is on because being under that quilt picking out seams with jack the ripper will be to hot in here.
happy sewing my friends          quilt happy

friday finish?

my Friday finish at least it will be when i sew up the top.
yesterday i moved my table in the dining room around and today i have vacuumed all the rugs in the house and cleaned them, now i am waiting on them to dry.  tiring not to step on them.
haven't used my shampooer in a while and usually i bump my shins with it when i  am  trying to carry it around. but today i got hung in the cord. got it wrapped around my leg and fell into the door facings now i have a bruised knee. tomorrow i will put my granny quilt in the dining room floor and spray basted it. the rug was just to dirty to put the quilt down like it was.
hubby is cutting grass so i got a lot done .
the bottom picture is my only daughter giving her grand daughter a present at her birthday party.
 she is on her way to my son's with 7 of my grandkids so i am worried. it's a 2 1/2 hour drive. son knows i will not go out in his boat so he didn't invite us.so tomorrow i will worry about them being out in the boat but she will be home sat. late because they are going to my bothers for a cook out Monday.
she had never driven off any where until year before last when she went to Fla with a boy friend.
and last year she went 2th once with all seven and once with her son and his girlfriend.
when i was single i drove all over , to Fla, many times but being a mother i will worry .
 good sewing friends       quilt happy

look what my  amazing friend jan-maree sent me to make a pillow for my grandchild. i have one that likes to be backwards from every body else. we all root for ga. and he always picks another team. it was Texas's the last time i asked him about it.
 
the last picture is some batik i won. she sent me the cutest owl pattern that i have ever seen. i am going to have to make some thing with that owl pattern. it came form quilt doodle designs. i don't know her address to link with her.
i had a craving for some good old country cooking so i put on some pintos to cook a while ago.  got some  green onions at cooks where we got the tomatoes. so some cornbread and fried potato's will just hit the spot.
we went to get us a new air conditioner  and hubby has been working on putting one in the living room and now he is painting the window in our library to put the big one in.  it's suppose to be 95 Saturday, so we are going to need it.  on all these new things we get it tells how much money it's going to save us, but we haven't seen any of it yet!!!!
well good sewing my friends           quilt happy

the yard

hi Friends.   it's good to talk to you again, feeling really good this day but i wish my quilt could say the same.  it is fighting me !!! i have already had to take jack the ripper to it and all i have sewed on it is two straight lines down on the side.
see my yard is doing good with these every few days showers, and i just had to show you the view from my kitchen window over the sink. makes washing dishes a whole lot easier .  i have a dish washer but as few dishes as me and hubby messes up i don't even try to use it . they say to save water fill it full. but if you put dishes in there for two meals and then open to put more in it will know your head off and that i can't stand!!!! .
as much as i hate too i must go back to work on my quilt , just have 2 1/2 weeks till her birthday.
good sewing            quilt happy
 

look what i found. you know i told you about the big farm in our county that has big trailers with tomato's planted in cups on them and when it's cold they put them in shed's? well we payed them a visit today and they had these and of course we bought some. after a long winter of cardboard tasting tomato's and then all spring those that they pick green in Florida and put in trucks and then gas them so they will turn and i hate gassed tomato's, i was so happy to get some of these. we came home and made us some sandwiches hubby's with cheese and mine with just mayo and salt.

i can't eat cheese and mayo without getting sick at my stomach so no cheese. but that sandwich was so good.
i can't wait till ours come in. they are even better .
I'm better today had to rest some yesterday but we really enjoyed seeing our kin folks and catching up on each other's life.   and seeing my aunt that has been on chemo, she was slim but she is Thur with her treatments so maybe she will start putting on some weight.
got my quilt pinned today, getting it ready to quilt.
a storm came up and it rained for over an hour. we got nearly 1/2 inch and sense hubby planted peas Saturday we needed it. we sat out on our back porch and just watched it rain , the temp dropped till we had to get us a long sleeve shirt.
 well good nite sweet friends   quilt happy

my mothers family

my mother's sister's and brother
we had a wonderful time but after cooking all day saturday and having no place to lean my bach all day sunday. i was one wore out cookie by the time we got home and have done nothing but rest today

love you"ll and talk to you soon     quilt happy