Quilt Show Review

So, here's a brief glimpse of the quilt show. There were 960-ish quilts of varying sizes and incredible styles in the show.

This is me with my all time favorite, Autumn Splash.
And here I am with my Topsy Turvy Blue quilt.

Mom in her new wheel chair posed with my Tulip Quilt.

And here is Mom and Mary, who went to the show with us posing with my Blue Twilight.

All in all, I spent six days doing quilt show stuff. Some of it was gruesome and sweaty physical labor, some of it was just kind of fun. Much of it reminded me of my old life as a meeting planner. I really enjoyed it and got to know a good many people that I had not interacted with before.

Now, just one day to play catch-up before I go to quilt group in the morning and on to Barbara's in the afternoon to celebrate her birthday. She's old. She's 65 already!

Quilt Show Week

Yep, it certainly is Quilt Show Week. On Tuesday and Wednesday morning, I assisted with the judging process and wound up being the chauffer for the judge who was staying here in Valley with my friend, Cleo.

Wednesday aftenoon and ALL day today, I was at Century II helping with set up. My, it's been a number of years since I did an 11 hour day on an exhibit floor. I'm certainly not as young as I used to be. Despite being tired each evening, it has been fun. No better way to get to know people than to work and sweat beside them for a couple of hours.

I finally found all four of my quilts on the floor this afternoon. I"ll go with camera in hand tomorrow, so I can bore you with more photos of my quilts.

And.....the current show director said this afternoon that she wanted to 'feel me out' (as opposed to feel me up??) about taking over as director of the show for the next one in 2012. Now, does that just surprise you at all?

Some Stuff

Well, it turns out that I did have the photo of T. and Stella. It was just hiding from me in some contrary techno-nook. Now isn't that a cute puppy? Cute girl too, huh?

This was my morning to cover the church office during the weekly staff meeting. I do that every other Monday morning, and realized that this recurring event in my life had not yet been blogized. Now you can see where I am every other Monday.

Quilt show activities are off and running. There is a growing mound of quilts in the guest room because I volunteered to be a drop-off site for those who can't or don't want to take their quilts down to Century II on Thursday morning. I've enjoyed meeting other quilters from my immediate area. Tomorrow and Wednesday I'll be helping with the judging and setting up the receiving area for our EARLY call on Thursday morning. Can't tell you how much fun I'm having with all this!

A Grade C Chronicler

As I started to draft this post, I realized that as a chronicler of life, I get only a 'C' grade for last week. We did a lot of gardening -- in and around the repeated thunderstorms. It was miserably hot the 1st day, but then cool and rainy the next two.
In the photo above you can see that we are in process with planting a hydrangea, an azalea, a hydrangea, 5 hostas, a daisy and some lilies. However......I failed to get an "after" photo. I do remember thinking that there would surely be more sun with which to take the photo, but clearly that didn't happen. So.....T. will take "after" photos this weekend and send them to me.

It was good to see the Chicago folks and we we seemed to have a lot of time together. Of course, I thoroughly enjoyed sharing my love of gardening with T. She was an apt and interested pupil. Great gardens are probably ahead for her at some point. In the meantime, she has a good start.



And then, of course, there is Stella! Someplace there is a photo of her and T., but I can't seem to find it now. She is very cute and very lively. Like most babies, she's either asleep or she's moving and/or chewing. In 4 days, she only had 2 accidents in the house. Either she's getting trained or her people are!

It's good to be back to my home routine. Toby has hardly left my side since I returned.

A Report from Dorothy

It was a very good trip. Now I'm home and here to say that there's no place like home! There's NO place like home! Details to follow after a long nap and a lot of housecleaning and tons of gardening.

My Life -- The Details

A big old storm came through unexpectedly night before last. It blew and blew, waking me up, scaring the cats, and scrambling the furniture on the back porch. Then it went on east and blew at Linda's house.

I am now officially a Master Garderner. I managed to accumulate 48 hours of volunteer time and that got me my official name bade which denotes my official designation. I'm official.

The church took up a good bit of my time in the last few days. I had to give the Sunday School lesson this past week, and it took me two days to get that ready. We don't have any set curriculum, so each person talks about what they want to when it is their term to lead/teach. Always a challenge. And then Monday was my day to cover the church office in the morning.

Last night I took Mom to the new Pizza Hut for dinner. It is new and clean and tidy. It is regular Pizza Hut food, of course, but now I'm not so afraid of salmonella, e-coli, etc.

An Aside: I know that you'll just be holding your breath, waiting for the photo of the new Kwik Shop. The old one started coming down yesterday!

Today is the Quilt Guild and a special budget preparation meeting tonight for the City Council.

You will probably miss these posts tremendously over the next few days. But I promise to catch you up when I get back from Chicago.

Today's Bloomies

Don't tell me if you're bored by all this. I LOVE being able to share my garden with you all! These are the carpet roses growing around the funny tree in front of the house.

And here are pink lilies, also in the front garden.

The bench got its yearly paint job this morning. Doesn't it look great by the lilies? Of course, as soon as I turn on the sprinklers, it will begin accumulating rust and crud. Alas...

The daisies for Chicago are already blooming and will be past their prime when they get there. But they are obviously doing well and ready to go to new homes.

I've been trying for 3 years to get a clematis growing on my mail box. It's doing it in spades this year!