On Ringo Lake: Two More Sleeps!

Good Morning from Quilt Villa, Mouth of Wilson, Virginia!

If you missed last night’s Quiltmaker - vol 16 gift-away posts, you likely also missed that the decision was made to come up late yesterday afternoon so that today could be a day of relaxing and enjoying instead of a day of driving and grocery shopping.
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Not that grocery shopping won’t happen today anyone.

In my haste to get up here before dark I forgot a couple of important items.

Can you figure out what they are from the contents of my shopping cart?

*NOTE*  If you are in the south, this is also known as a BUGGY!

Where is the:

Brown Sugar?

Sour Cream?

After not being here for more than a month, it was also determined that Mother Hunter’s Cupboards are quite bare of other necessities, and if we are doing taco night tonight we also need tortillas, re-fried beans, and taco sauce.  And while I’m at it – could I please get some other much needed (??) items as well?  Well, phooey.  So much for avoiding the crowds.

Needless to say, I WILL be facing hoards of shoppers the day before Thanksgiving – just the thing I was desperate to avoid! (But I got the marshmallows!)

Friends Rick & Mona will be joining us for our Thanksgiving feast – and bringing their Wii.  There will be some Wii bowling in between the Turkey and the pumpkin pie.  

And hopefully a round or two of Farkle, something we also introduced to our nieces and nephews over the past weekend.  Our winner, my sweet great-niece Harlee won the hallowed Farkle cup and dice we brought after her win on our last night in Oregon.

This was last night!

But what you can’t see is that I may be under a quilt, but was too pooped to do any stitching on it.  Stranger Things, season 2 was released on Netflix around Halloween, but we’ve been saving it for when we are together here for Thanksgiving.  We are running an evening marathon with a couple of episodes per night in hopes to finish it by the time we go home in a few days.  Love this show!

This is also going on.

The smaller hot tub is now at Rick & Mona’s!  Some (several) of these joists were rotting and this weekend the weather promises to be nice enough that the man-hands that are here can help in re-building the deck in preparation for a new hot tub that will soon be arriving.  This one will NOT be sunken into the deck.  It was too difficult to get in and out of --

And let’s just say that if you are skinny dipping beneath the moon, it’s not a pretty sight to be mooning the moon back as you try to get in and/or out of a sunken hot tub! It’s enough to scare the bears!

Lumber at the ready!

And yes.  There will be sewing.  And loads of cutting!

Cut before leaving for Idaho/Oregon!

Finished yesterday before coming to Virginia!

I am cutting scrap hunks that I want to see used up into 6 1/2’’ widths, and then cross cutting them via Accuquilt Studio into 1 1/2’’ segments to be used in this year’s Checkerboard Rails Leader & Ender Challenge!  My 4-patches are done…it’s time to start the rail sections!  How is yours coming along?

I brought a bunch of scraps up with me to press and cut while I listen to an Audio book.  Just having the time to fondle the fabric, cutting it into sizes is a luxury I’ve been looking forward to.

Don’t forget that tonight I am drawing for our 2 Quilty Box winners!  It’s your last chance to enter ON THAT POST!

Of course – we’ve only got TWO MORE SLEEPS until clue #1 of our On Ringo Lake Mystery goes live!  I’m putting the finishing touches on that post and doing the printable PDF version of that clue as well today so I don’t have to deal with it tomorrow.

If you are new here, click the On Ringo Lake tab (it's temporary, it will go away when the mystery closes) at the top of the blog for more info.

I am so excited!  It’s finally here!

Banana bread - hot out of the oven.  Time for breakfast!

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

I love this concept! Especially at this time of the year.  (And now I want to make another string star – on a cadet blue background.  Sigh.)

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!