Garden ready....

I have a wonderful winter garden going this year. We had a couple of low temps at night for a few days and it  made me get a head start on getting the garden ready for winter.

I have 3 short beds, spring mix, baby carrots, kale, broccoli, 3 types of lettuce, cucumbers, butternut squash, spinach and strawberries with a dwarf pomegranate tree at end. All of this is on this side.


This side has 2 tomatoes and yellow onions and then in the back bed, which I don’t have a picture has 6 different peppers, a different/another type of broccoli and  2 ‘visitor’ tomatoes. 

I used PVC pipe and this plastic drop cloths, which are a little heavier and all the clamps I could find to hold them on.

I still need to find something to cover my Manderine Orange tree until it gets accustomed to the weather out here. Most likely just for this winter. 

I have the greenhouse all ready to go just have to put the heater in when needed. So pretty much all plants have been taken care of. They are all loving this cooler weather for sure.

Retreat time...

Found a retreat here in Texas and talked a friend into going with me. They cut the # of people in attendance in half.  We were seated every other booth and had to wear our masks if we got up and walked around. They went above and beyond to keep us safe.  

First off... look at this iron! It’s a heavy duty sucker... works awesome... AND.... it has my maiden name on it! ‘KNAPP’.... and Monarch... when I went to High School... I was a Monarch! They had these at every ironing station... they are not cheap either!

View out the back patio.

Fourth of July quilt done.

Christmas quilt finished.

This one with the X’s...I picked up at an estate sale.. I finished it up. 



Finished the little one up and gave it away to Charity group. Out sewing bee has been extra busy the last couple months. We have finished over 50 quilts. We have done walker bags, bibs, marble mazes, baby quilts, 35 pillowcases  just to name a few things. Sandy and I  distribute these to various places on each Wednesday. Busy, busy.. we only started keeping track of these since around September. 

Halloween...

Tried some Pinterest ideas this year. Spider web pillows. 

Little Frankenstein pillows... this was actually a Pinterest fail.. turned out nothing like the picture.

Little Halloween quilts made just for the swing... with a little spider sewn on. 

Take a look at this dinosaur. Found him in someone’s front yard.. I really LIKE him!


Then we took my nephews family to pumpkin patch. 

So much fun!

They just moved here to Texas a couple weeks ago... it is just so exciting to have Family here.... just need more of them to follow!

Well.....

It has been a long time....

I have been quite busy here in Texas... I am just going to jump back into October. There is a lot that i will skip over but Here are some more QOV. I will try to get you caught up. I am up to 50 now that I have either sewn up and or quilted for QOV. 

There are a couple more I didn’t show you, but it could take a while. We were told at our last meeting that are area is all caught up on honorings. Which is wonderful news. There was a long list of people on the waiting list, but our area is all caught up. We are working on helping surrounding areas up now. Still over 500 people waiting in the state of Texas. 

I was also the lucky recipient to Kim Diehl’s cleaning of the closet. I am honored to be the lucky person to receive it. 2 huge boxes came in the mail a couple weeks ago with like 45 yards of fabric! This is going to help out tremendously. She also got in touch with Henry Glass and they are sending me 2 bolts of 108” backing. Can you yell YAHOO with me!

So this is all for today, I will try to post tomm and get you caught up some more. 

QOV.....

Sandy and I delivered 6 Quilts of Valor quilts to PHD fabric store on Tuesday. While we were there, Stacy was honoring 2 Veterans. It is so emotional to watch the recipient’s get these awards.

Today’s ceremony involved 2 of my quilts. She put me on the spot and made me get up there and get in the picture. I would have done my hair or dressed a little nicer... oh well..

There were 6 of us quilt makers there today so it was really kinda neat.  

Busier than ever...

I thought things were suppose to slow down when retired. I am just as busy, and not even working.

Here is #41/#42 QOV 

Same pattern, just using up scraps I had. It’s a great pattern for that idea. I can whip 15 flags up in 1 night and the next sew them together and then quilt it up.

Here is a donation quilt Sandy and I made up and I quilted.

One of the guilds I am in asked for 13 quilts for girls that were being taken out of their homes for various reasons. Isiah’s House I believe is the group. This is 1/13. I am not making all of them, but we just made a donation of this one.

I quilted all these up for the other guild I am in, these are going to several different care homes in the area. I sewed 3 of them up, all others were sewed up by other members. The ones with all the bandana fabric are the ones I did. 

This again is just a smidgen of what I’ve been up to. These were the last pictures in my album. 

Tomorrow (actually today, it’s after midnight and i can’t sleep)I pick up BOTH grandkids and will have them till Sunday. This is the 1st time we have had both and the 1st time for Sloan here without his Momma. It will be fun!

Towels...

There has been a million and one things going on.... so busy I can’t even keep up. 

Found these in my photos.

JohnJohn was here for a week, last week... being summer time... I thought he and his brother needed some pool towels.

 

That’s just a smidgen of things... 

Another day....

Having the best time enjoying life here in Texas....

Garden is still growing strong, we just fertilized last night hoping to get another bumper crop for the fall.

I made like 10 bags of spaghetti sauce and froze them all. 

Kelly and I tried Spaghetti Pie last night. We had a recipe but were short a few items, so we substituted.

Mmm.mmmmm. Homemade spaghetti sauce.

And finally...

Yum, yum! With fresh basil on top from garden....

Also made some refreshing beverages..

For some reason.... I can’t load it... grrr.. anyways... great lemonade with mint from garden....

Fishin’......

We were invited to a friends piece of land to go fishin’.... it was just herself and her husband there.... oh, and their 13 cows and Crumley.... their llama.

It was fun...

They wouldn’t come come close, they stayed away... I just zoomed way in.

Gampy and John John, reeling a fish in.

Amazing sunset on the way home.

Another fun day in the books!