A Little creativity and Friend time

I finally made my first log cabin quilt with Bonnie and Camille fabric. Love red and teal together.  I gave it to Pamela to give to her nursing friend Amanda who is having a baby girl.  She has 2 boys and now she's getting her girl. Hope her baby girl becomes her best friend like Pamela has become mine. Amanda's boys love Pamela. I think Pamela loves them back. I love my embroidery machine. I can now make my quilt labels and them not fade away.

      

My good friend Donna at Donna's Lavender Nest did the quilting for me. She always does a beautiful job on whatever I have her quilt for me. I had a fun taking pictures of the quilt. My knee was cooperating with me so I moved around a little easier. I had just finished PT so that helped.  Sometimes I can never decide which setting I like best to show off the quilt. It looks like the little girl is showing the old man the quilt.  This last picture shows off the quilt the best.

Yahoo our fan is working. LOL. Okay I know this is a crazy video to post but the fan has been down for almost a year. David had started trying to fix and ordered a part only to have it trashed by Jerry our donkey. Our front gate was closed so the UPS or Fed-X truck dropped the box over the gate. Jerry found the box before we did and chewed up the box along with the part. Well okay not so much the part but he probably stomped on it. The part didn't work. Now, was it because of the donkey or was it just not the right part who knows. Then David called the manufacturer for some help but work got in the way until now. He did some more magic and Thursday he put the fan back together and with fingers crossed turned the fan on..... And it works. These fans move a lot of air.

Friday (5/14) our friends Pam and Kevin came in from Austin to stay with us. Our first visit since before COVID hit.  It was great. David and Kevin drove in to Rockdale to get some BBQ from Brett's BBQ. Very yummy. We decided to go out to check out the blackberry patch in the pasture. David decided to wear some gloves while picking but Kevin was was brave one and did it bare handed. He also got pricked several times.

Pam and I stayed in the golf cart. LOL. Jerry guarded us. He was hoping we still had some carrots for him. Anyway We found a couple new cactus growing near by with bright yellow flowers.

  

So far the cactus by the front gate look pretty frozen. David was thinking of pulling them up anyway.

We had Pam all turned around when we driving on the back roads and showing them the country sights. We hung out on the back patio until time for dinner. We took them to Central Avenue Bistro in Cameron. It was a beautiful night to sit on their outdoor patio for dinner. David had the yummy roasted red pepper salmon, Kevin order the pulled pork nachos, Pam and I got the shrimp dinner. Food was great and so was the service.

Saturday we got up and went to the New Baden General Store for Breakfast. Love living in the country. When we got there there was only a few folks in the wide open space of dining area. No problem social distancing. After breakfast we drove to Calvert for the farmers market only it didn't have many participants yet. May be a little early for much produce availability. 

David bought me some ground coffee at the Farmers to Market Calvert Coffee Co.  It's pretty tasty. Now I drink it cold with a creamer but I'm sure if I were a hot coffee drinker it would be good too.  

We walked from one end of town to the other.

And the best part is my knee allowed it. It was tired and it tried to give out a couple time on the uneven cobblestone sidewalks but no pain. Yay. We did stop at En Gedi Winery in town. We all got a glass of wine before leaving Calvert. We drove down another back road to get back to Gause and down 2095 to go to 4C Brew Barn. It was late enough to order a bite of lunch so we had a pizza. David and I got the one with everything and Pam & Kevin got one with ...mmm I forgot but it was just the right size to share. 4C makes their own craft beer and David and the others chose their flavor and I got a frozen strawberry daiquiri. mmm so good. 

And yes it's frozen and yes it's different than  the frozen margarita that I drank when I went into Afib back in October. LOL how is that you ask? Well it's all in my mind really. I associate the frozen margarita with my Afib. It's like a former friend of mine that was eating a Clark candy bar and went into labor. She hasn't eaten one since. It's psychological. 

While looking for my selfie stick to take a picture of all of us, I snapped this picture in my sewing room testing it out. 

I handed the selfie stick to David to hold while I snapped the picture of all of us.  He was such a mess. He held the phone up above us and the phone only saw sky then the ground. Finally I got him to find us on the screen.  I do believe he did that on purpose. We were all definitely laughing for this picture. Then my Apple watch died so I had to reach out to hit the camera button on the phone instead of on my watch.  Go figure.

Lilley didn't want to be left out and neither did Jerry.

David mowed all the yard except this patch of wild flowers by the hay bales.

  

David had bought a couple of peach trees before the snow and they were still in pots and they survived. In fact they have some peaches growing. I hope that when he plants them they don't go into shock and die. You may have to look hard but the peach is slightly lighter than the leaves. Can you find them? There's at least 3 of them visible.  Check out the wild lilies we saw on the side of the road just down from us. I don't think anyone planted them on the fence line anyway but then maybe.  They're pretty. Love the country.  

Welp that's it for now. 

Until next blog...It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson