Labor Day, Our Way!

Our two kayaks on the banks of the New River.

The last few hours of Father & Son time was spent paddling – or mostly floating – from one section of the New River on the North Carolina side, down to the “under the bridge” landing spot on the Virginia side.

My job?  Just be on hand to recieve the call when they had reached the bridge and come pick them up.

When it’s a river, not a lake  - it’s a 2 vehicle operation.  One rig to get you to the starting point, and another to meet you at the end so you can go back up to the starting point and pick up the other vehicle.

At least they only floated an hour or so – it was not that far to go back to the start.

Zoey Jo, testing the waters.

She only got up to her knees – I tried throwing sticks to see if she would retrieve them, but no.  We haven’t seen her swim yet. 

I was thinking that if “WE” were swimming, she might decide to go in after us, but as I didn’t have a suit and was just there for pick up duty, exploring just this far was fine by me!

Saying goodbye is so hard!

Jason left early afternoon, heading north toward Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to do some more camping and exploring.

His plan of heading toward Yellowstone was squashed by all of the fires and smoke that make camping and breathing not so fun.  So Michigan it is.

And depending on how things go, he may come back here in a week’s time until it is better to drive home.

Yes and we know that Colorado could be expecting snow!  Jason may stay south as he drives west and then head north when he is past bad weather. 

Either way, it’s going to be extreme heat, hurricanes or tropical storms, fires and smoke, snow – it’s 2020? Why would we expect better? LOL!

By afternoon quiet -

I dug into my batting scraps to piece a batting. These are remnants of wool batting, and I am using the Singer 500 Rocketeer and a very large zig zag stitch to connect them together.

Yes, I know there is fusible tape, but I prefer thread to glue.  I also don’t like using high heat for the fusible on wool.  It’s just me.  I find stitching batting to be very therapeutic, fast, frugal, and no glue to become crunchy or discolored over time.

Where is this batting going?  You will soon see!

Can you see the stitches?

(Barely)

I overlap the batting edges just “a hair” so I am sure to firmly catch both pieces in the seam. There are no ridges.  There is no extra bulk. There is no glue or interfacing. It will not be noticeable in the quilt.

And I love that my batting bin feels a bit lighter this morning!

Two down, one more to go!

This was finished last night – the third (AND LAST!) hexie star is in the basting process and I should get a good go on it tonight depending how things pan out.

Yesterday was just an emotional day.  Emotional days leave me feeling a bit drained.  This is what it is to be the parent of a grown man child.

View from where I type -

These two are just cracking me up.  I am going to love watching them grow old together through the next many years ahead.

Today on my plate – The Quiltville Store was BUSY through Labor Day weekend thanks to our FREE39 sale (Ended last night) and I’ll be happily filling orders all day and getting things into the USPS stream as quickly as I can.

Labor Day - the Official Start of QUILTING SEASON, right?!!

Orders will be shipped out in the order in which they were received, and it should only take me a couple of days to handle it all.

I thank you for your patience – instead of filling mail on a holiday weekend, I chose to take the weekend as a holiday and spend it with my son.

But into…wait…what day is it…..we go!

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

This is how I tend to feel on the Tuesday after a holiday Monday creating the effect of a short-sheeted week during a global pandemic when I don't know which day of the week it really is anyway!

Have a great Whateverday, everyone!