crab rolls-yummy!

yesterday since it was hotter than blazes, we went to chauncey creek lobster pier for lunch.

here i am breaking my "don't drink beer in the afternoon even though it seems like a good idea because you get tired and cranky" rule. (it was so good though!) and the crab roll was deeeee-licious!

all the surfaces were freshly painted and shiny and made for some great picture taking.

cool breeze, cool place, cool food!

rocket and rosco

 

happy (HOT) sunday!

vacation!

first day of vacation! i think i will spend today laying low and hanging with my peeps, as the weather is particularly LOATHESOME! hot is not my kind of weather, at all, and it's just too early for this! but enough complaining!

someone on the internet yesterday referred to hostas as "the throw pillows of the garden". brilliant!!!

keep cool everybody!

...and i get my life back

i can say i pretty much got lost in this quilt. i was DRIVEN to finish it! sunday night i finished the hand quilting, and tuesday i found the perfect color to bind it with. you know how you have a certain color in mind, and then you can never find it? well, i went to the fabric store and there it was. a kind of orange-y salmon-y red. thank you kaffe fasset!

so tuesday night i set to work binding the quilt, and , ta-da! it's done!

itch!

the quilt is made up of 4" squares, 20 squares x 22, about 80" x 84". i washed and dried it last night, and i love how it came out all crinkly, especially on the back. due to my "pinning together rush job", there were a few puckery places on the back. but now the whole thing looks wrinkly, so that's great!

i think violet's cooperation today was born of heat prostration (it was almost 90 degrees today!!!) rather than any desire to pose. poor girl!

excuse my color differences. i like that "retro" setting on my camera because it makes everything so soft looking, but the real color is more like the last photo.

now i can do things like mow the lawn and work in the garden...*yay*  (and maybe cook and clean...)

and, so exciting, one more day of work, then v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n!!!!!!!

it's tuesday!

not much to show from this weekend's flea marketing, but i did find these beautiful potholders!

last night i put the last stitch of quilting in my quilt. the binding fabric is in the dryer right now, and if i can tear myself away from "arrested development" tonight, i just MAY get it finished!!

where are you, my friend?

i put an orange on the tree

in the hopes of attracting this

so far---just bugs.

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thinking today of veterans and their families.

greening and growing

another drizzly day. one thing about the rainy weather is that i don't feel guilty sitting inside and stitching my quilt. i'd say i've probably finished quilting 300-ish squares out of 400! this morning i ran out of thread, so i'm on hold for a few hours at least...

things are growing and greening super fast around here. my big garden is already overgrown with the invasive plants that are taking it over. my gardening philosophy has turned into a survival of the fittest thing i guess...the smaller gardens i can keep up with better. the chickens also help and hinder, over-turning soil and leaving a wake of scratched up plants as they seek out bugs and worms. i just love to watch them, so i let them have their fun , and the garden just is what it is. it stills looks pretty, all wild and out of control.

i got tickets to see "the national" in a couple of weeks! sooooo excited!!

guess i better get the show on the road here-very lazy morning! have a great saturday!!!