Quilters, Quilting....and Cows!

The summer solstice happened last night at 10:42 pm!  

Were you up for it?

I was NOT! HA! But it's still an occurrence that I Both rejoice in (warm summer nights! Yay!) and one that makes me a bit sad...days will now get shorter from here day by day by day.

How did we celebrate the solstice?

We quilted of course!  And with summer comes more opportunity for rocking and stitching, relaxing on the porch at Quiltville Inn.

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Ditch Lilies Blooming!

We did it!

A handful of quilters and I headed out for a dirt road hike yesterday morning and we beat the rain!

And to my surprise...look what had burst forth while I was gone to Iceland?  Ditch Lilies!

Oh, how I love their vibrant orange facing the sun in the summer.

Now some may call these worthless and invasive - but I say to them, and to ALL of us.  We may not be native. We may not be born here.

But bloom where you are planted!

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Stepping Back Into Home.

So this happened while I was away.

Evidently Zoey thought she could make friends with neighboring animals (We are not even sure it was a dog??) and came home with her tail between her legs and a plethora of hide-piercing bites requiring a visit to the emergency vet.

On a weekend night.  As it always happens.

And poor hubster Dave was left to deal with that late evening drive to the emergency vet in Boone - an hour away - because I was in Iceland.

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Fireweed Gift-Away!

Good morning!

Guess who is back from Iceland?

We had such a marvelous time and I'm looking forward to sharing many of our photo memories with you.  Hopefully you were able to keep up a bit while I was gone through Facebook/Instagram.  

While I wasn't able to blog while I was away, I did my best to keep up with some postings through other social media outlets.

I returned late Monday night - so this morning I'm still recovering from a bit of jet lag by kicking off the release of my Fireweed PDF quilt pattern, along with a Gift-Away!

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