Note to Walgreens ...

Dear Walgreens;
 
   Thanks for the SLOW shipping of my pictures --- although they took 10 days the quality is quite good.   I so enjoyed looking at them, especially those of someone else's vacation.  It appears they enjoyed the Tiki bar and a fancy resort in Hawaii (must be Hawaii -- appears to have lava). 

   I certainly hope -- if some receives my pictures in the future they will also enjoy them, I am, however quite dull.  Veggies, flowers and quilts are not as entertaining as someone lounging in a pool with a beverage in their hand.

Sincerely;

The Watermelon Diva


argh!


 

neighbors ...

 

I have cool neighbors -- this is how they painted their lp gas tank .... ... is it not love at first sight!   hoping to do the same to ours this summer ...

 

 

This house went on the market yesterday ... 40906 Cedar Ridge Rd .... it's a great location and has fabulous neighbors!

 



#7 for 2015

 

here is #7 ... a weather front was moving thru last night and a gust of wind caught it while snapping pix and it's currently a balmy 42' ... frost is in the forecast .... frack.

 

 

crazy wind and fast moving clouds

here is the whole thing ...

 

So Saturday night -- I planted 400 hills of watermelons and the first 150 hills of squash ... if it dries out enough overnight .... I might get the rest of the squash in tomorrow night -- if not, it will be Wednesday .. it will be warmer then too ... or that is the prediction -- I think I liked the weather better when I got up and was surprised in the morning -- none of this 10 - 15 day outlook stuff.

 

#'s 8, 9, 10 and 11 are hanging on the long arm --- 8 needs binding, 9 & 10 just need to be quilted, #11 is the ugly quilt -- still not sure what to do with it.   it is that ugly.

 

 



It's all about the dots!

Time for the Spring Quilt Blogger's Festival -- I haven't participated for a while so ....

 

 

 

I'm a dot fan -- so I had a couple of jelly rolls of big dots and little dots and I attempted whipped them into a random crib quilt ... random is generally not a word in my vocabulary ..

 

It finished into a "little bit larger" than crib quilt .... and well, it oozes dots and happiness.

and it looks pretty spiffy next to the zinna's.

 

 

the back is a wild random stripe -- that, frankly, wasn't printed straight with the grain, so it's a tad bit wonky looking.  More dots for the binding. 

And my usual loopy swirls -- quilted on the long-arm (yes, it takes longer to load it than quilt it -- but the swoopy swirls are fun) ... 

 

Check out the rest of the Quilts in the Quilt Bloggers Festivial

 

Here is the  ...link to the Blogger's Quilt Festival

 

enjoy the sights of the show it's always wonderful

 

 

 

 

 

 

fabric overload, part II

 

yep, on the way to scrapbooking/sewing a couple of weeks ago -- a dirty ATV works just as well as a car and/or truck

 

Joanne at the cutting station -- what to buy???? how many yards????

 

 

Jan and Joanne at the cash register .. this SRHarris store is a lot nicer/cleaner than the other one ... less stuff to dig thru and the quilting fabrics are displayed like a normal fabric store .... the fabrics were all marked at 50% of retail .... so ...

 

 

zippers and buttons

 

my haul of 29 yards, reds on the bottom, black/green/orange next, limes and purples in the middle, a beige stash builder, a blue and beige strip and lastly ... 2 flannel fat quarters from a quilt shop on the return trek.  --- a lovely haul!

 



T G I F

 

blue blue sky ...

 

honeysuckle

 

So, I thought I'd be planting -- #1 has the patch disked -- but evidently he wants to re-work it in the morning.  So, the planting waits.  It gets done.  It grows.  Deer eat it.  Marie gets mad.

 

Tomorrow Jan, Joanne and I are road tripping it to SR Harris ...

 

 

this pix is from my 2013 adventure

 

you can read about it HERE ...

 

 I still have not recovered .... 18 months later ...

they have a new store a bit closer and I'm told a lot more organized than this chaos.  I have my purse cleaned out my spending $$$$ out and all I have left to do is put together some fabric swatches.

 

I worked on the ugly quilt tonight -- pictures to follow.  Just not feeling the love on the UGLY.  Time will tell.

 

 

 

Semi Wordless Wednesday

 

honeysuckle is blooming ...

 

mom feels the need to transplant iris (the small ones) before elder #1 mows them down

 

 

hmmm a morel mushroom hunter