Block Surfing Lessons -

By early afternoon I had a few free hours ahead of me, so I headed back to the QPO to start assembling some blocks.

How quickly I forgot what it was like to have a "studio cat" discover just how fun a design floor could be.

I had gone home the night before rather chuffed with the block arrangement I had decided on.  

I was happy to see that things were still in place in the morning when I first went in to feed Hazel before heading over to the inn to finish up preparations for yesterday afternoon's arrivals.

What could go wrong?

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Quilters Of The Night Over The Rail!

It was the rainiest of rainy weeks! It started last Wednesday...continued through to Sunday when we finally had a break in the weather to get some over-the-porch-rail photos.

More rain was incoming -

And as predicted, it's raining again this morning.  No complaints - we need it!

But what about our quilts?

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Memorial Day Quilting!

I don't know how everyone else spent their Memorial Day holiday, but I am lucky enough to have the Quilters of The Night who always have their retreat over Memorial Day weekend as it gives those who are still working a paid holiday day off that they don't have to use vacation days for!

We rarely do anything for Memorial Day around here as a family - we don't go on vacation ourselves, and even if we get together it won't interrupt retreat time so Memorial Day is one of the holidays we do have retreaters on hand.

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Memorial Day, 2026

It's still rather rainy -
It rained all weekend long except for a bit of yesterday where we quickly gathered the Quilters of the Night to do our over-the-porch-rail photos a day early.
More rain in the middle of the night last night.
There are NO COMPLAINTS!
It might be raining some folks' Memorial Day picnics out, but if we have to move it inside, it's just as good as long as we are together.

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