Thursdays Adventures

 

 i got irritated at the light fixture under the counters and attempted to remove it -- failed, but i was able to mount my LED light bar.... tools will remove the old fixture.

 

 

quilting robyn's quilt on the long arm -- i gotta tell ya, peeps, this unit is pretty darn cool.  i love it to pieces --

 

 

up close and personal .... i'm learning to artfully swirl ... did the whole twin quilt in about 90 minutes ... the slower the smaller the stitches

i love this machine
 

 

spent another 3 hours weeding ... squash and pumpkins then I marked every hill of watermelon.  sad, sad looking watermelon end of the patch -- less than 25% of them germinated ... the only healthy ones are the transplants ... yes, I have many, many, many weeds.  chemicals coming out over the weekend. ...

 



 

one of dad's tomato gardens ... 8 large tubs of tomato's ... it works well, hard to argue with success .. and don't you love his "other" wheels. 

 

and in the little garden -- someone with with antlers ate off most of his cucumbers -- humm must have been tasty.

 

weeding diva

   I spent 3 hours bending over pulling weeds and hoeing in the squash end of the patch last night.  There is only so much bending an aging overweight diva should attempt in one night. 

   Needless to say - almost 2/3rds of the squash/pumpkins are done.  The weeds are much healthier than anything else.  Dad tilled it for me yesterday and noticed the lack of germination.  Evidently the "selective hearing" hasn't heard my whining about the "lack of germination".... it's an elder issue.

  I even managed to mow part of the office lawn, again, in the rain.  Raining now and storms in the forecast.  Will make the weeds pull easier (remember my mantra "the glass is always 1/2 full") --

  After all, I had haircut and look and feel like a Diva should feel!  (thanks Lori!).  Enough rambling.  Numbers to crunch, peeps to pay!

Happy Wednesday!
Marie

Score !!!

    So, I quilted the entire baby quilt on the long arm yesterday and just under 30 minutes.  Yes, it was a simple all over scroll and loopy play with the machine quilting.  But dang peeps, it made my day.   Took longer to rip out the "bad tension" stitching than it did to finally get 'er done! 

    Did a pit stop at the patch last night.  Holy holy the weeds are sprouted and I mean seriously thick green weeds.   Dad is going up to till this morning.  Hopefully I can get 'em under control.  Stuff I planted a month ago is starting to pop.  If the weeds don't send me over the edge and it doesn't freeze until November (ha) we'll have melons. 

   Need to mow the damn grass too. 


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2nd trip to the big city

 

these two have been plotting a trip to IKEA and the Mall of America for some time .... today was the day.  Cyndi was our tour guide.  Neither Jean or I had ever been to IKEA .... needless to say, we'll be going back!   The purchase of the day ... LED lights for under the kitchen counters -- wicker wastebaskets that don't fit where I had hoped they would fit.

 

Then we headed to the MOA .... I thought it would have been busier and more crowded than it was .. well, the stores were less busy than the hallways. 

 

We always seem to end up at Bubba Gumps for a meal .... hummm.

 

 

We split up and went our own direction after lunch.  A bit of shopping for our trip to Utah and well, must go to Archivers when at the Mall.  Paper and more paper for scrap booking.  Although Cyndi and I got kicked out of the chairs at Archivers.... "need to keep them open for customers" ... evidently it appeared we weren't "customers."

 

Before the trek north, I finally managed to get the tension set on the long arm.  3 hours last night and a lot of YouTube video watching on "how to set tension and load your long arm" ... yep, YouTube has it all.  Anyhow, I re-threaded it this morning and away it went! 

 

 

This week in .....

 

the elders and their house on wheels went north yesterday ... they are returning home today -- next trip will include the boat and the rest of their stuff.

 

kind of looks like we live in a forest doesn't it... trees and brush have grown a bit over the years.

 

 I was cruising on Bessie and found a patch of wild phlox ... a large patch on the back hill -- amid the trees and junk farm equipment

 

 my first monarch butterfly of the season.  I was chasing it for a picture and discovered the phlox patch. 

 not enought of this happening.  I replanted 55 transplants I bought from Karen's and re-seeded at least 55 more hills.  time will tell.

 

So I spent last night re-seeding and a bit of weed control.  I came home and watched 2 hours of YouTube video on long arm quilting.  Can't wait to try something.  Now if I had something ready that would help eh.

 

Went back out and transplanted transplants this morning.  Supposed to rain for the next 2 days (what else) so they'll be ready for the rain.   It is clouding up.  I've done all I can do -- if it grows it grows if not, well, it won't.

 

 

 

 



Wisdom

   I could use a little wisdom today.

   Bogged down by crap.  Sometimes talking to government computers can be a pain in the ass.  Our generation has lost the ability to communicate with other humans via the voice.

   Enough whining for today.  Just gotta get out the "big girl" panties and deal with it. 

   I did spend an hour "re-planting" up in the patch.  More tonight.  Picked up some transplants from the plant shop across the street -- time will tell peeps -- time will tell. 


Toodles
Marie

I will never be a big city girl

 parking lot #1  Cedar Ave Bridge .... yes I was at a dead stop.  Good views from up here when you're creeping across the bridge.

 Hwy 13 in Burnsville shortly before the monsoon hit.  and yes I was stopped again. 

 

Education day in Bloomington.  Fast morning commute -- until I got to the turn off to the hotel/conference center ---  and the damn road was closed.  I ended up jumping a curb and cutting across IKEA's parking lot.  Farm girls in big red pick up trucks are known to get where they need to go.  Education was awful.  Glad to be home for multiple reasons.

 

 grow baby grow

 

 this years crop of kittens ... might be one more red one, not sure

sparse watermelons.  not so sparse weeds.