Yesterday I plugged away on the handquilting of my runner that I have until oh, sometime this evening to link up for Melissa's Lovely Year of Finishes. Somehow think that's going to be another "lose some" as I highly doubt I can finish it, but I will try.
Last night I opted for a beach evening instead of handquilting. "There is nothing so wrong with the world that gazing at water won't fix." Think I need to work that into a quilt. My own saying, just came out of my mouth in a conversation.
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| Looking south towards Pelee Island, 17 miles away on the horizon |
We are doing this every Friday evening again this summer, the neighbours who live on our lane, that is: head down to our beach, which is at the end of the "keyhole" lane, lawn chairs and beverage in hand, to visit and to enjoy the sun setting, the birds, and the sound of the waves. The waves were so gentle last night, just an occasional lapping sound.
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| View towards the west |
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| Is that a cigar in his mouth?! |
On Thursday, we heard, before we saw, the carp swimming out of the lake up into Mill Creek to spawn. Rocco was pretty intrigued, as was I.
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| Mill Creek where it empties into Lake Erie - lots of carp visible |
Well, better get at that runner. . . and the Christmas scrap quilt, which is 1/4 quilted. . . and the charity bags (I'm making two) which I got cut out. . .
Oh ha ha that's so odd that you got his toy back!! The wonders of the Great Lakes!! I'm quite surprised you remembered: 1) that you'd lost it in the first place. And 2) that you recognized it when you found it LOLOLOL ;p
ReplyDeleteThe Friday night ritual sounds so calming, cozy and simply peaceful. What do you do if it rains? Head to one of your homes?
CONGRATULATIONS on your fantastic accomplishments regarding your two quilt entries! That's awesome!! <3
Not sure what we do if it rains...maybe it's cancelled? In someone's garage? They didn't have these last year; the year before, we had just moved here mid-August, so didn't attend one. We had a 'hood breakfast on the beach last summer which was awesome.
DeleteI think you did awesome! I did the same when I initially looked. Felt kind of sad and then thought not so bad in terms of how many votes I had :) The most important thing is that our quilts make US (or the recipient) happy :)
ReplyDeleteCan I just say that those pictures of the lake and the green and your description of your Friday night ritual sound absolutely wonderful! 109 degrees right now. . . green trees and a lake look like nirvana! :)
I love titles... titles of books, names of quilts, titles of movies, names of paintings, titles of blog posts... I loved this title.
ReplyDeleteMy students write in journals 3 mornings each week, and we(my co-teacher, my intern, and I) respond to them . So, I write back to each of my 56 10-year olds once each week. There's nothing more important to a lot of boys that age than their winning or losing of ball games. I can't tell you how many times I've responded with this quote:
You win some.
You lose some.
Some get rained out.
-Satchel Paige.