My Own Quilt Shop Hop

Today I took time for myself along with a teaching friend.  We both enjoy quilting--so off we went for a "Girl's Day Away." 



                                       Our first stop was Thimbles Quilt Shop in Trego.  It is a unique little shop with  fabric displayed in four areas--many samples--panels and ideas.

  From there we drove north to Hayward to visit the River's Edge Antiques & Quilt Loft.   I had never shopped there before.  It was great.  The first floor is antiques--Red Wing Crocks and other speciality antiques.   Part of the first floor and the entire loft is fabric.   Check out what they have to say about their shop.

Of course, we had to stop for lunch.  We found the Backroad Coffee Bistro downtown in Hayward where I had the most delicious sandwich.  It tasted as good as it looks!!!!!!!!



Yesterday we made 9 batches of strawberry jam.  I gave mom a large bowl to take home and saved a bowl for us to eat.   Mom did great and enjoyed being away from home for a few hours.  She is complaining that people want to turn her into an invalid and she is determined to return to all of her usual activities.

Last winter I purchased Beth Moore's " Praying God's Word--Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds."  With everything going on with my family and at school, I wasn't able to start studying it.    I picked it up off the nightstand a few days ago.  I am going to journal on my other blog,  Linda's Faith and Friends.  

It was a great day!!!

Today's First Job

 

This is the plan for this morning, turning these strawberries into jam. My mom is going to get behind the wheel of her car for the first time since her fall almost two months ago to drive out to help hull the berries.  I was (am) rather reluctant to have her drive and to help.  However, I do realize that she is determined and I would rather have her that way than sit and not want to do anything or give up.

NO!  The Mallow Cups in the background are NOT mine!

Memories

Today is our 37th anniversary.  Our wedding day was a cool and wet day like today.  Wow! Did we look young (and skinny) or what!  Little did we know what the road ahead was going to hold for us. The locket I wore was given to me by my maternal grandmother.  It was given to her by my grandfather as a wedding gift.  The date engraved inside is 1874.  It was 100 years old the year I wore it.  I wish I would have asked them all the questions-where and when did he get it.  They were married in 1916.  The locket was from a jeweler in Sioux City, Iowa.

Sometimes our greatest treasures have only sentimental value!

Look What I WON!

Peg & I attended a Ricky  Tim's Super Quilt Seminar in Eau Claire one weekend in May.  (Alex Anderson and Libbey Lehman were also presenters ) It was an adventure in MANY ways--Sometime I may write about the entire weekend.  For now-one highlight was that I WON a Baby GO cutter.  I have ordered dies, and the other things needed to use it--I hope to try it out soon.  It was great to meet one of my blogging friends, after they called my name as the winner, she came up and asked if I was Linda from Linda's Lines and Loves. It was like finding an old friend!

Look What I found--I still have my sewing machine!!

I haven't worked on a quilting project since I finished Kasey's quilt several weeks ago.  Life has been challenging.  My mom is back in her apartment and doing better.  It is going to be a  slow recovery.  I have been stopping to help her or calling everyday.  DH's mother is 95 and lives in a local nursing home so I stop there also. I took in a simple runner that I made of spring fabrics to brighten her room.

A gal who I have known her entire life , she was a member of our 4-H club,  her parents are great friends, and  she was also my student aide when she was in high school just had her first baby.  She and Tim are currently in Nebraska where Tim is training as a Physician's Asst.  They will be home over the 4th of July for the holiday and a baby shower.  I am working on a baby Quilt for Megan's baby girl. 

Yep--if is simple--but by the time I finish with the prairie points and borders it will be good.  Then I need to catch up on my McCalls BOM.  

Our weather has been challenging--we are not complaining when we look at the tornadoes, flooding, fires and droughts across the country.  The crops are finally in.. and DH has started cutting hay.  ( We were at the cardiologist last week--His heart is staying in sinus rhythm with the medication! PTL!!!)

Until Next Time,





Why Daughters Age!

After spending four weeks at the Convalescent Center following her fall and resulting compression fracture of her spine, my 85 year old (very independent) mom was more than ready to return to her home.  She was having PT three times a day making good progress with the walker.  She used the wheelchair to go for meals and activities.

After her first two days home I wondered if she was really ready.  The last two days she has looked and sounded much better so  I am able to relax a little.  I either drive up to check on her or talk with her three times a day.  She is getting meals on wheels and I did persuade her to sign up for Lifeline.

--WELL! When I called her from school this morning her first comment was,  "Where there is a will there is a way!"  I thought--oh no--What did she do now.  She placed a folding chair in the shower, turned on the shower, stepped into the tub, and took a shower.  She said, "The bathroom got a little wet as did the clothes I was planning to put on."   What could I do but laugh.

Two of her friends found out what she did and went to Walmart to purchase a shower chair for her!!

God Bless!
Linda