Catch Up

I'm getting so bad at this posting thing. Here's what we have been doing the past couple of months.

September: We spent four relaxing days in Yellowstone. We rented a cabin in Gardiner, MT. The cabins had kitchens. We took our food and didn't eat out once. Bought snacks a couple of times, but that's all. I got lots of handwork done while Eugene drove and stopped to take pics. One day he staked out a fresh kill for 3 hours. I popped a movie in the laptop and worked on an applique project while I waited for him. They were hoping a bear would come in, but nope. A black wolf came in and Eugene was able to get a picture or two of it.

We finished up the gardening for the year. Our garden really produced this summer. We got about 48 pints of green beans and about that many pints of beets. We had an abundance of little orange tomatoes and small red tomatoes along with a few serrano chilies. We also grew some green and red peppers. I'm always so sad when fresh peach season is over. I love fresh peaches and we usually buy 4 or 5 half bushes throughout late summer and early fall just to eat.

October: October brought cold, snowy weather to Brrr Lake. It's trying to snow today. I am so not ready for this kind of weather to stay!

Eugene found an open extended warranty on my camera. The screen quit working in May so it wouldn't take pictures. He emailed Cannon and they sent us a shipping label, repaired the camera and had it back to us in working order within a week. I'm very impressed!!! The following are pictures of what I have been working on these past few months.

Ellie's birthday quilt. She will be 3 on November 29. Ellie LOVES butterflies. She used to call them 'fulla bulla'. All the colorful fabrics have butterflies in them. I'm not quite finished. I still have about 1/3 of it left to quilt. I want to make a doll quilt to match. It may get done, it may not! EEE! I'm running out of time! Doesn't help that my sewing machine is in the shop again!

I've been making hot pads and placements for Christmas gifts and birthdays. The hot pads are finished, the placemats are cut out. Here's a sampling of the hot pads and one placemat.

November will bring more sewing and cold snowy weather. I guess it's a good time of year to have lots of sewing projects.

This and That

Ok, so I'm not so good at keeping up on this blog. What can I say? Evidently, not much.

I'm working on Ellie's birthday quilt. I make a youth size quilt for the grandchildren when they turn 3. Ellie's will be a butterfly quilt because she LOVES butterflies. I have the blocks assembled and ready to sew into rows. I really like this qult. If I had a camera, I would take pictures. :( The next grandchild won't turn 3 for two years.

One large quilt is done and waiting for the quilter. After Ellie's quilt is pieced I'll start on Charlie and Michelle's.

The beans are done, the onion tops have been knocked over and I only have a few beets left in the garden. I have been harvesting small orange tomatoes that are so sweet. I love to eat them as I'm picking them.

We are going to Yellowstone again. YAY! Eugene found a cabin with a kitchenette in Gardiner, MT. We are going to stay there for three nights and spend our days in the park. Eugene will look for elk to take pictures of. I'll sit in the car and quilt Ellie's quilt. When the kids were still at home, Eugene would spend several days in the park by himself in the fall. Now I go with him. It is so relaxing. I love it!