Sundays with Sun and Rain -

Round House Road beckoned!

And I listened!

Summers up here usually follow a distinct pattern of beautiful mornings with crystal clear blue skies, with clouds starting to build and gather by early afternoon, and later in the day – whammo!  The storms come, and they can be fierce.

Which is all fine and dandy as long as I get out in the morning and am under cover safe at home when that sky lets loose!

It had been a few weeks since I was last up here – and the morning was cool enough to say Let’s Go!

The Round House almost has a yard!

Can you smell the wonderful aroma of dirt, grass, river and morning dew?  Add a soundtrack of birds and buzzing things and you’ve got a perfect morning at hand.

My trusty companion is wondering where the weeds went!

Someone has trimmed the banks – a few weeks ago the weeds were up to my armpits.  I like this so much better.

Hiking 2 miles in, 2 miles out.

I love the shady stretches through the forest, and the peace and quiet.  It is rare that I come across any other walkers.  Only occasionally have I been passed by a vehicle.

Yesterday – there was one jeep coming in as we were nearly back to the van -

It was a nice break from the busy state park the day before.  Both places have their good points.

Did I make it home before the rain?  Yes!  (Even fit in a nap!)

But the rain DID come – Click to Play:

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And this little guy was evidently trying to seek shelter in the garage during the downpour:

No, Zoey! Leave the toad be!

Who gets excited over shelves?  I DO!

This was yesterday’s job – the shelves were moved from the utility room and on to this wall to make room in the utility room for moving fabric stash up here.  Each little positive move gets me closer.

And it wasn’t long after finishing that I noticed something REALLY BAD – like PANICKY BAD.

I was coming back down to the basement studio and noticed a puddle of water on the floor.

My first thought was that it was the deluge of rain – but it wasn’t coming from the sliding glass door or the garage – it was coming from the utility room.

I quickly called upstairs to Dave who came running – we opened the door to the utility room and it was flooded.  As in breaching the threshold flooding.

A water line from the utility sink had come undone and was just pouring water out on to the floor.  I couldn’t hear it because of the rain.  WHAT A FREAKING MESS!

Luckily no fabric was damaged in the process.  Things were in tubs.  We had moved stuff out due to the relocating of the shelves from the utility room wall – but it took a lkot of squeegeeing to get the water down the drain in the floor.  The floor sloped AWAY from the drain?  How unhelpful is that?  Seriously?

It took every bath towel in the house to mop up the water that had flooded my studio floor.

The big fear is that it would curl the laminate.  We quickly got fans and the dehumidifier going.

This morning all seems to be well – and the floor has never been this clean.  LOL! (I guess there is an upside to everything?)

It could have been so much worse.  How long had it been running that way from under the sink?  What if we hadn’t been home?  I shudder to think of it.

Weird fabric combos make me smile!

Did you ever throw a really funny fabric combo into a scrap quilt just because it made you laugh?  Like “Where did that alien fabric come from anyway?” 

What can I say – I liked the colors in it.  it is the opposite of the Blossom Time block I posted yesterday – where that one had not enough contrast, this one has oh, so much!

Including that little blue square in the four-patch corner – Hello 1986!  Good to see you!

This is why I love scrap quilts so much – you just can’t get this kind of mix from one designer/one fabric line/one manufacturer.

It takes decades and a sense of humor to put things like this together –

So – guess what is back on for today?  I’m headed to Wallburg after all.  the A/C didn’t work at all at the QPO yesterday, and it is too hot for Lola without it.  Luckily yesterday’s rain cooled it down enough that it was only 76 in there at about 8pm last evening.

Today I’m going to get the window unit.  Heating and Air guys come tomorrow.  It may be a few weeks before we can get a new unit in there.  And the window unit will help cut the humidity in the building as well as the heat -

So as soon as this posts I’m on a journey to get that, and more fabric stash, of course!

Anything fun going on for your Monday and week ahead?

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

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