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Thanks, guys. That bottom row Joe picked out. I will have one more row by row quilt (freshwater version) with a row he got me, too. That quilt is on the back burner while I work on baby and wedding quilts, again. So many babies again this year. I've got 2 more weddings and 1 more baby that I am aware of.
Working a little bit on the binding then will take Ripley for a long walk to go check the beavers out.
 
Birds here are missing quite a few feathers -- looking about halfway ready for Tyson -- and I don't know if it's due to an overly amorous roo, a feather plucker or molt. But they are so ratty looking that no visitors are allowed to view them. At least the run is shaded so no sunburnt backs.

Temps here are 95+ all week, cooling to mid-60's at night. So the schedule is get out and water in the cool of the morning and hunker down inside during the day. Except for yesterday afternoon where our Village had our wing-ding fundraiser starting at 5:30.... Western theme. Open wine/beer bar, snackies, dinner, silent and live auction, music and dancing. It was held at the local tree farm with tents erected on some of their big expanses of lawn. Really a lovely event. I bid on a couple of silent auctions and won a garden basket with about 10 different kinds of heritage chile pepper seeds with garden tools and plant potions, and a gift certificate to a local beauty parlor (to combat that garden hair.) DH scored a new cloth patio umbrella with wooden pole for $10.

Horrible hatch rate... Only 10 chicks from 18 eggs. They sure are cute, though! The chicks are here for a few days longer than anticipated as their new owner is gone for the weekend to a medical conference. Oh, well!
 
Thanks, guys. That bottom row Joe picked out. I will have one more row by row quilt (freshwater version) with a row he got me, too. That quilt is on the back burner while I work on baby and wedding quilts, again. So many babies again this year. I've got 2 more weddings and 1 more baby that I am aware of.
Working a little bit on the binding then will take Ripley for a long walk to go check the beavers out.
I am working on a Spiderman wedding quilt! :rolleyes:
 
I still need to get a picture of my "life on the Farm" quilt top. I finally got a few adjustments made on it and need to set down now and work on machine sewing it.

In the meantime I found an interesting Native American print flannel and immediately remembered that I wanted to re-top an old comforter I have on hand. Never liked the silly thing so I bought 8 yards of the flannel and went to work on it. I must be lazy. I hate laying out quilts and really love having the pattern laid out of me already. The only thing that really peed me off was when I ordered it from Joann's I ordered enough that it wouldn't be pieced off another bolt of fabric as they warned (I think it's 8 yards) that it might be if you ordered over a certain amount of fabric. Well the idiots sent me 6 solid yards and two from another bolt. My plan was to cut the length in half, sew the two pieces together and go to work on it. No way I could do it the way they sent it to me. I wound up having to cut it into large rectangles and sewing the rectangles into one solid top. Not what I wanted but it turned out looking okay. Guess it will work...hope it will work. But as a result I probably won't order material on line from them again unless I can get a guarantee of what I order will be what I get.

Cool and cloudy here this morning. I woke up at sunrise to make a bathroom run and laid in bed listening to the silence. No birdsongs. Fall is coming early. The field sparrows that have a nest built in the rafters of our back porch have one last clutch of chicks they are raising. Poor little things are making warp speed back and forth from the timber to the nest. They probably sense the change in the air also.
 
I still need to get a picture of my "life on the Farm" quilt top. I finally got a few adjustments made on it and need to set down now and work on machine sewing it.

In the meantime I found an interesting Native American print flannel and immediately remembered that I wanted to re-top an old comforter I have on hand. Never liked the silly thing so I bought 8 yards of the flannel and went to work on it. I must be lazy. I hate laying out quilts and really love having the pattern laid out of me already. The only thing that really peed me off was when I ordered it from Joann's I ordered enough that it wouldn't be pieced off another bolt of fabric as they warned (I think it's 8 yards) that it might be if you ordered over a certain amount of fabric. Well the idiots sent me 6 solid yards and two from another bolt. My plan was to cut the length in half, sew the two pieces together and go to work on it. No way I could do it the way they sent it to me. I wound up having to cut it into large rectangles and sewing the rectangles into one solid top. Not what I wanted but it turned out looking okay. Guess it will work...hope it will work. But as a result I probably won't order material on line from them again unless I can get a guarantee of what I order will be what I get.

Cool and cloudy here this morning. I woke up at sunrise to make a bathroom run and laid in bed listening to the silence. No birdsongs. Fall is coming early. The field sparrows that have a nest built in the rafters of our back porch have one last clutch of chicks they are raising. Poor little things are making warp speed back and forth from the timber to the nest. They probably sense the change in the air also.
The cardinals and the woodpeckers bring their babies to make less trips to the suet feeder. So we have a lot of action on the back porch. Plus there is a hummingbird feeder and a seed feeder that can all be viewed from our greatroom.
 
I am working on a Spiderman wedding quilt! :rolleyes:

You should take some pictures!

I still need to get a picture of my "life on the Farm" quilt top. I finally got a few adjustments made on it and need to set down now and work on machine sewing it.

Also, pictures.


Rip and I just got back from walking almost 5 miles down to the beaver pond and back. Haven't been out that way in a number of weeks, and you can tell. We got at least 5 lbs of trash.

Went for a real hike last weekend, up Borestone Mountain, climbed about 3 hours to reach the summit for 360 degree views...
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Also been doing a ton of cemetery work.
 
Birds here are missing quite a few feathers -- looking about halfway ready for Tyson -- and I don't know if it's due to an overly amorous roo, a feather plucker or molt. But they are so ratty looking that no visitors are allowed to view them. At least the run is shaded so no sunburnt backs.

Temps here are 95+ all week, cooling to mid-60's at night. So the schedule is get out and water in the cool of the morning and hunker down inside during the day. Except for yesterday afternoon where our Village had our wing-ding fundraiser starting at 5:30.... Western theme. Open wine/beer bar, snackies, dinner, silent and live auction, music and dancing. It was held at the local tree farm with tents erected on some of their big expanses of lawn. Really a lovely event. I bid on a couple of silent auctions and won a garden basket with about 10 different kinds of heritage chile pepper seeds with garden tools and plant potions, and a gift certificate to a local beauty parlor (to combat that garden hair.) DH scored a new cloth patio umbrella with wooden pole for $10.
Any time more than one hatches is good!
Horrible hatch rate... Only 10 chicks from 18 eggs. They sure are cute, though! The chicks are here for a few days longer than anticipated as their new owner is gone for the weekend to a medical conference. Oh, well!
 

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