And The Rain Came Down

 Riverton, Utah          High 57 Low 49

It started raining Saturday and the weather guessers predict rain every day until Wednesday.

They are also predicting we will get all of Octobers normal rainfall in three days. So far they have  been accurate. We got lots of rain and with it lots of thunder. 

Poor little Penny is afraid of thunder and wants to be held all the time. I seem to have a constant companion right now. Last night she wanted to snuggle up by me and had to touch me, which makes me wonder how Cindy gets any sleep with a little dog by her at night. 

Other than that we have started to get ready to head south, which will be in about 2 1/2 weeks. 

We got our doctors appointments out of the way. We seem to be in pretty good health.

There is still lots of things to do to get ready to go. Cindy has been putting project boxes together for quilting when she get there. Plus we are taking lots of food with us this time. She is still getting lots of tomatoes from the garden, but they have slowed down.

And I have stull been busy quilting. I even had two from my customer this last week.

The next ones are Cindy's.

Lots of butterflies.

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Not Much Going On

 Riverton, Utah           High 86 Low 57

It is still a little warm during the day, but cools off at night. It is still above normal for the time of year.

Other than some more quilting, We didn't do much this week. Cindy did pick a bunch of tomatoes and made a delicious soup out of them.

We did go to another yard sale that had fabric and came home with what you will never guess, more fabric and kits. 

Cindy made a crib quilt and I got it quilted for the new baby.

This is one more that I quilted.

We do have a busy week coming up, Doctors appointments, Penny's shots, and a birthday party for our great grand-son. I think he is 7, but I'm not sure.

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New Great Grand-Daughter

 Riverton, Utah         High 81 Low 65

The weather turned a little warm and no rain.

Yesterday we went to a fabric de stash at a quilt store in Springville. It had a lot of people selling lots of  fabric in the parking lot. Sorry, no pictures. Cindy found lots of bargains. She has fun looking for bargains. 

On the way home we stopped at her grand-daughters to visit the new great grand-daughter. She is only about 2 weeks old.

We have been busy, as usual making quilts and quilting. The first on was a kit Cindy found at a sale for $6.00. It didn't have all the black trim and had no back. But still a bargain.

This one took me five days to quilt, with all the thread color changes and different patterns. It took a while to put together with the applique. 

The next one was a lot easier and only took less than a day to quilt.

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Was It Really Worth It?

 Riverton, Utah          High 73 Low 50

The weather finally got cool and the weather guessers are predicting it will stay cool. We had rain off and on for three days, which helped us, but caused major flooding elsewhere in the state. Some cities got baseball size hail, which caused a lot of damage. We even had a tornado in the county north of us that tore up a lot of forest. 

I got a couple of quilts finished.

We got the grapes picked and juiced. It was a lot of work if you consider putting up the bird net, then picking, juicing, and another day taking down the bird net. All that for 10 1/2 quarts of juice (which is very good).

Was it really worth it? I'm not so sure!!

We went to another estate sale Thursday. Cindy found a cabinet with glass lift up doors for $40.00. After we got it home it didn't take her long to get it filled with fabric from some of her totes. She was glad to have found it.

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Disappointment-------But!

 Riverton, Utah           High 89 Low 68

It is still a little warm for the time of year, except it does cool off at night.

Thursday we went to an estate sale that listed fabric and it was nice fabric. Cindy started to load up until I noticed the price, $9.00 per yard. It all went back on the shelf. We did notice when people were checking out, the lady measured the fabric to the inch. We both thought the price was too high for an estate sale, when you could go to the fabric store for close to the same price if you got it on sale. Cindy was looking forward to the sale, but was very disappointed. 

After we got home, she looked at Facebook, and what do you know? Someone was getting rid of a bunch of fabric on Saturday. We got there about a half hour before the scheduled time And the prices were more than reasonable. Some kits from 15 to 25 dollars and fabric for about $1.50 per yard. Way more like it. Needless to say we bought a lot of what she was selling and had it loaded and paid for at about the time she was going to start.

All that and free project boxes. Cindy was really happy.

I finished the quilt I talked about, with the bad directions. 

 Some examples of bad directions, there are 20 blocks, but the directions said make 2 side borders and two boarders for top and bottom for the blocks, not the 40 required. And as we went on, the directions started to use one color of half square triangles, but had not had us make the 160 required and we didn't have any of the background fabric to make them and had to find matching fabric. But we got it made and quilted, so all is well.

Cindy got another quilt finished and I got it quilted.

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