Not Quite A Month Ago -

Just shy of a month ago I was embarking on my journey to Cairo - a place I'd never imagined I'd see, or become so enchanted with.

The richness of the culture, the taste of the amazing food we had at every turn, the sights, sounds, smells and more that dazzled the senses.

Ancient cultures and civilizations have always captivated my imagination as I try to fit myself into my own tiny blip of life in the timeline of this world.

This was Egypt on the day of our arrival - some I expected, some I had no clue at all.

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Congrats, Grads!

Something really fun happened while I was on my way to Egypt at the beginning of the month.

Two of my nieces have graduated high school!

I am so proud of them both and can't believe that they are now entering the world as adults and making grown-up choices about what they want to do with their futures.

Of course, this means that Auntie Bonnie sends quilts.

My biggest hope, of course, is that I will send quilts that they will love - that go with how they want to decorate their dorm, apartment, or shared house in the next few years.

This is what I sent them!

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Starting Off Slow -

Happy Wednesday, Quiltvillians!

I am alive, kicking (but not real hard) and resettling myself after a month away.

And while I was away, there was a whole lot going on behind the scenes here at home.

I walked into the aftermath of many little whirling dervishes - the most of which were already resolved before I came home.  That's a good feeling.

As my favorite mantra has been for the past 3 years - "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from!"

And just to show that there WAS some handwork going on over the past month - I present to you a lapful of hexies.

This project will continue when I make my way to Poland and on to Italy in September.  But for now it will stay in my busy bag for a 2 month time out.

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Thoughts From A Galway Hotel Room -

Hello from Galway once again.

Yes, It's been a while.

And I'm facing a bit of a time struggle.  And also a desire thing.

Let me liken this to a UFO that gets set aside - at first for just a little while because time is short - but there is a full intention of getting back to it ASAP.

And then, life gets in the way and that UFO sits longer and longer and the desire to get back to it gets more difficult to muster.

Since I left home on May 30th to start my journey on to Cairo Egypt, and then directly to two back-to-back tours in Ireland I have been running to catch up.  Wake up alarms at dawn, go go go go through the day with approximately 40 travelers in each group to keep moving from place to place and getting back into bed only late at night to once again set that alarm for dawn.

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