Down A Long Road

 Good Morning YUMA!!  The days have been fabulously warm ... dare I say perfect temperatures ... with cool nights.  There's been lots of dog walking, which means dog lifting into and out of my rig.  That's almost as bad as lifting all that material up the three steps!!  My back complaineth!  Yes, that's a word.

Back to the quilt show for a bit ... here are just a few of the amazing creations.  Yes, those are all 1/2" pieces.  Even the white parts are made up of teeny tiny pieces.  This would be a NO for me to make, but what a striking wall hanging.

 Appliqué, all done by hand sewing, is SO beautiful, but SO labor intensive.   Not something you would have on your bed, but again, a wall hanging.  It's called needle turning.  You use your needle to turn the edge over and take one stitch.  Turn over, one stitch.  No thank you ... you all KNOW I don't have that much patience.

Same for this one.  I love it ... it's got critters ... but this would probably take at least a year to make, if not more.  The detail is amazing.

If you're a quilter, you will get this one immediately.  It's not my colors and not a quilt I would want to make.

This tells it all.  It's called Pathway to the Stars, but the Quilter called it the Quilt From Hell.  I know of what she speaks.  We got a big laugh out of this one!!

More appliqué ... and this one took the grand prize.  If I started something like this I would never finish it!

After trying to do a little house cleaning in my rig, since I keep seeing spider webs hanging across the entire width, I got Deb and Riley's phone number.  It seemed last year every time I was here, they were there.  I was determined to catch up with them.  

Once again, it amazes me how you can read a blog or two and soon feel like family.  Yes, it was a drive down a long road.  It's always longer when you've never been there before.  Deb was kind enough to park out at the main road so I wouldn't miss the turnoff.  What a beautiful area to boondock.

I'm pretty sure we didn't stop talking for two hours.  I learned so much more about solar stuff and this great place to park that I completely forgot to take pictures.  I also learned you don't have to park perfectly straight!  Lots of laughter ensued.

Just as I was ready to leave, Deb said WAIT ... PICTURES!!  So we got pictures of all of us before I headed back out.  Deb and Riley .. you made my day!!  I'm so glad we finally got to meet in person.

I barely made it back in time for our lunch date in Yuma, except the place was closed.  We postponed that and I headed off to Home Depot.  Cindy discovered a handle device at the quilt show to hold our rulers.  Since they were $10.00 each, I looked online for a substitute.  

Of course Home Depot didn't have them in stock, in spite of what their web page showed.  It was okay though, because the cute YOUNG guy at the store spent time with me looking for an alternative.  He came up with a great idea ... which I'll post later.

Lucky for me,  Cindy whipped up a delicious dinner of air fried fish (YUM) and funeral potatoes.  You've heard me speak of that dish before.  They were freeze dried ... just add water.  I'll talk more about that tomorrow too, otherwise this blog would be a book!!

The sunset was less than spectacular, but a nice pink glow.  That's good ... it means no rain!!

One last walk outside for Cooper ... I think it was number 23 ... to see the crescent moon rising.  It was a GREAT day!!