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Monday, August 25, 2025

Busy August!

 We have done some traveling lately. In July we went to Palo Alto, CA, to celebrate the Fourth with Dick's brother and family and right after that to Boulder, CO, for a funeral for Dick's long time friend, Art.  Then just this past week, we went to Mount Baker on our anniversary. We stayed in Sumas, WA, at a very interesting hotel Sumas Mountain Lodge. The rooms there were decorated with antiques and located above a nice restaurant.  Besides antiques, the walls of our room had lots of pictures of Loretta Young because "How the West Was Won" in which she was one of the stars was filmed in Sumas! 


Taken by a friendly hiker at the visitor center.


This is our oldest grand son who's leaving tomorrow to study animation in Ireland! We also celebrated early in August so the whole family could be there. School for his two siblings started on August 13th!


Old skis hanging on the wall!


The bed with a quilted fabric that wasn't truly a pieced quilt!


Despite the busy days, I have finished a couple pairs of socks


and this hat.


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That's all for now. I need to go work in the yard and then maybe work on some socks that have been fighting me.  Enjoy the last few days of August!

 

Saturday, August 2, 2025

A Donated Quilt, Another Pair of Socks and a Guess What!


 This is the most recent quilt that our group finished. (We all made 3 blocks. Can you find my mine?) If you look closely, you can see that we used some Seattle fabric that I purchased long ago to use for pillow cases.  It will be donated to the local Ronald MacDonald house.




I just finished this pair of socks, and they almost match! However, I also just ripped one sock back to the cuff because I discovered a dropped stitch when I thought I was almost finished!


Can you see who was visiting our yard twice this week? (You might have to enlarge the photo though.) Fortunately I scared him away before he did any damage to our plants!


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We are hosting a family gathering on Sunday, so we are busy today preparing for that. Hope it doesn't rain!  You have a good weekend, too .