An Appalachian Parade!

We had a blast yesterday afternoon, hauling our lawn chairs down to a shady turn-out spot down highway 58 - the 2 mile stretch known as "Rugby."

 

Operation Independence Day Parade was about to begin!

We've been here for 6 years now. (How can that be?!) and truth be told, we don't know an awful lot of folks in our community.

And I know why.  We are so busy with our day to day lives - the hubster's telecommuting job from his  office-loft at home and our running of Quiltville Inn - Not to mention my quilting business and little mail order operation of the Quiltville Store and the Quiltville Etsy Pattern Shop.

They keep us so busy that we don't give ourselves the opportunity to really meet the people in our area.

That is about to change!

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It's a Quiet 4th!

Friend Martha came by yesterday - it was machine quilting day!

I hadn't ran the Intelliquilter system in something like 6 weeks or so - so there was once again, a bit of a learning curve when it came to advancing and getting the next patterns aligned and ready to go.

It is likely much more easy than I made it out to be for myself, but if you forget to click the right thing, it goes on to the next thing and I find myself backing out to go back at it again - talking myself through each step.

There is only one thing to do to remedy this situation -

Quilt More Quilts!

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Valley of the Kings Day!

Hot air balloons were ascending into the sky - much bluer now that the remains of the sandstorm the day before our arrival was continuing to clear.

This was a magnificent sight - and I did my best to capture the balloons as they rose from beyond the window of our moving bus.

The time was barely 7am - we had left extra early to try to beat the heat of the day.

And it didn't seem to make much difference.  The sun rose anyway, and beat down on the parched earth.

"Drink more water!" said our Egyptologist guide, Yusef. 

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Gone To Giza!

"Pyramids Day" was a long awaited and looked forward to day for my Egypt group - me included!

I mean, when someone thinks EGYPT - what is the first thing that comes to mind?

Can you really grasp the concept of 2550 - 2490 BC?

And they made these incredible structures that have withstood nearly 5,000 years?

I felt like I was touching the ancients.

And once again the timeline of my own life is such a narrow blip on the history of this planet.

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