Nine Days Until India!

All of a sudden we are at the end of August.

I thought August would last forever - but no. It passes just as quickly as everything else.

Kids are already back to school.

You can feel the season change coming - it's darker later in the mornings and I'm finding it hard to get out of bed until it is light outside.

I just looked at the calendar thinking that surely I have another couple couple of weeks before I leave for my India tour, but no!  I leave a week from Saturday?!?!?!

Yesterday's main job in between getting the retreat ready for the next group was to kit up those hexie kits I'm going to need for travel stitching.

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So Much To Show!

They filled the whole porch!

These wonderful ladies who came from Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia and beyond.

We had a wonderful week, and while I missed most of them on Monday due to my early morning airport run, I came back to find all of the kind things they did for me to make flipping the house so much easier.

The rain laundry!  They cleaned off the design walls with sticky rollers.  They recovered the pressing stations with new freezer paper giving me one less thing on my to-do list as a welcome home to Dave.

These little things.  They mean so much.  Thank you ladies!

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This Was Our Weekend!

I'm just going to put this right here front and center.

If you go hungry at retreat, it's your own doing.  LOL!

This was our Sunday lunch spread - as Sunday was the last full day of retreat, everything came out of the fridge for the best snacky kind of lunch you could ever have.

The last day of retreat is the best day to revisit all of the leftover tasty morsels from the previous days of plentiful food.

There's something here for everyone!

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Friday In The Rain!

The rain came in torrents yesterday morning.

I had finished writing yesterday's blog (my desk is in the basement) and when I went upstairs it looked like 5pm in the winter outside.

I texted over to Jen - no walk, rain incoming!

And right when I sent the text, the sky opened and whooo-doggie! It POURED!

Thus began my "accomplishing little to nothing" day.

This was the scene I walked into later as everyone was on the porch for lunch.  Rain had moved on...

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