September Is Half Gone

 Riverton, Utah            High 85 Low 61

The weather has been up and down lately. After today it is supposed to get cooler for the fall.

We have been busy with more quilting. I quilted three since my last post.

Friday we went to play bingo again. Cindy won three times, twice were in black-out. The prize was (are you ready?) a quilt. She turned the quilt down of course and everyone understood that we made some many quilts that we thought it should go to someone that needed it. It turned out that with winning 3 bingos she won 3 dollars.

Yesterday we went to a quilting material estate sale. The lady running it started out wanting about a dollar sixty five a yard and if you bought enough it went down to $1.33. They weighed it and that is about what we figured we got for the weight. After we got home, I wanted to go back and she was about ready to quit and so she made the fabric $1.00 a yard. It was all pieces, but Cindy was happy because she got a lot of white, and light fabric. It was all good name brand fabric. The lady's mother was the one that had the large stash. She also had embroidery thread that she was selling for $.50 a spool. One of the spools was so old that it was marked 45 cents. We didn't want that one because it had to be about 50 years old.

Cindy's garden is winding down. She got quit a bit of zucchini and tomatoes. We also had cantaloupe and honeydew. She is slowly getting rid of plants that are finished. 

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September Already

 Riverton, Utah         High 93 Low 59

Here it is September. What happened to August? The Weather here has been nice for the last week. We even had some cool days where we didn't need to run the air conditioning.

Cindy has been very busy with her garden. I have found some repairs to do. One of them was a refrigerator that quit working. I had the repairman out probably 6 different times. He found a leaking condenser coil and replace it. It worked for a few days that time, then had another Freon leak. He got that fixed, then the freezer wouldn't get any colder than the fridge. He tried a sensor, which made no difference. The last time he was out, he still didn't know what was wrong, so he called the factory. They told him it might be the compressor. The fridge has two compressors, one for the fridge, and one for the freezer. This model isn't made anymore. It is 27 inch wide and the closest I cold find was 27 1/4. I decided I didn't want to keep messing with the old fridge, so I had to enlarge the opening 1/2 inch to accommodate the new fridge. I should mention the old one is counter depth and built in, while the new one is free standing and also counter depth. I got the opening enlarged and now we are waiting for the new one.

Here is a picture of some of the fruits and vegetables we had for dinner one night from Cindy's garden. The Honey dew melon was excellent, also the cantaloupe was very good.

And there is nothing like home grown tomatoes.

We have been going to The Senior Center on Fridays to play Bingo. The first time I had beginners luck and won a whole dollar. Friday, Cindy was the big winner, with a five dollar win. We don't have to pay to play, and they have a lot of people playing. Five dollars is the highest amount to be won.

I have finished a few quilts:

The next one is the Dream Big Panel. The Center used 57 different patterns to quilt it. It does take a while to finish

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Quilts and Still Busy

 Riverton, Utah      High 89 Low 65

It has cooled off some and we have had some rain late in the afternoon for the last few days. It has been thunder-showers with lot of lightning and thunder. Unfortunately, Penny has been getting worse about things like fireworks and thunder. When there is lots of thunder she shivers and wants to be held.

I finished quilting three quilts since my last post. Pictures are below:

We finished another Dream Big Quilt, which I have been working on for the last week. I am not quite finished with it, so pictures will have to wait.

Cindy's garden has been going great with lots of tomatoes and zucchini. The cucumber plant I had a picture of last post has been going crazy. I am putting last post picture, with today's picture for comparison.

It is into the driveway at least another 18 inches in addition to getting fuller. We seem to have tons of blossoms with honey bees busy every day. Cindy has harvested lots of cucumbers already.

I am glad to see that Nancy is utilizing her computer on her Quilting machine. It does take lots longer than Edge to Edge, but the finished result more than makes it worthwhile.

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Garden and Quilts

 Riverton, Utah        High 99 Low 66

It is still hot. Salt Lake made it to 102 today, which is 3 degrees shy of the record for the day.

Cindy has been busy quilting and working on her garden. All of the apricots finally fell, so we don't have them to clean up this year.

Some pictures of the garden and produce:

This is only half of Cindy's onion crop. 

We don't know what kind of squash this is.

Nancy might remember the cucumber plant that is growing onto our side walk. When she was here it only came out about half way onto the walk, and now it is clear across the side walk and further.

In the last two weeks I only quilted two quilts, one easy and one very custom which took me a while to quilt. We think Nancy gave Cindy the kit for this one.

I was trying for a 3-D look for the walk way. I think I made it.

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