Busy week! But I've managed to squeeze in a post to share with the I Like Thursday crowd.
On Sunday I attended the
Boston Pignic. Oh, loafy, wuzzy piggies. Always a delight. If you clicked on that link you see I'm now fostering a trio of guinea pigs. They're still settling in, but I'm sure there will be more photos soon.
Remember that little frog that we found hanging out between the window panes
last month? Well, either he changed colors and returned, or he told one
of his buddies to try it out. Rob found this one last week.
He stayed there about a day and then disappeared. I have no idea why that window sill was so popular.
Let's kick it off with a trip to Wellesley for the Fall Boston Pignic. A
delightful variety of guinea pigs show up, including two skinny pigs and a
skinny wannabe (lower left) that I fell in love with. Lots of loafy
piggies that filled the weighing bowl, and a few Abyssinians with
bed-head. The white and grey was my favorite.
Oh, squishy piggies!
All girl piggies attended this time - not a single boar. We haven't had the numbers so uneven since the early pignic days.
It was a beautiful sunny day albeit on the cool side. The girls didn't seem to be bothered - it didn't slow them down from eating all that grass.
My crumb containers were overflowing from scraps generated from several quilts. I spent the last week sewing them together. My last set of crumbs ended up in my Hexie Crumble quilt. This time around I lumped similar colors together: black, gold, purple, orange, red, brown, green, blue and cream. Some fabric doesn't fit into a single category the scrap already had different colors sewn together, so I have some multi-colored patches, too. Right now the green and multi-colored ones are biggest.
This year's cucumber harvest was disappointing. I had hoped to make more pickles! But this cheeky slice looks like it's winking and smiling at me. At least the few cucumbers I got were tasty.
My biggest like this month was spending the better part of a week at Cape Cod
hosting my annual Chick Weekend. We had beautiful weather every single
day.
Mostly likes to share with LeeAnna and friends at I Like Thursday.
Quilting cleanup projects are on deck, which are my favorite sewing projects
to work on. However, I'm not getting anywhere! Better weather has
lured me to spending time in the garden. I dislike the lack of sewing,
but I'm enjoying the gardening.
A tale of two sunflowers - both of these were planted at the same time.
The one near the house took off - the head must be about a foot wide.
The one closer in the photo struggled and the seed head is maybe three
inches. It's pretty, though!
Major dislike - my phone flaked out. I spent tons of time working on it,
thought I fixed it, then three days later it randomly shut down and refused to
reboot. A week later I spent another two days setting up a brand new
phone. Lots of teeth gnashing. Not fun. I'm aggravated over
learning a new UI and sound setup. Ugh.
My mother and I looked at several beautiful quilts and interesting arts and crafts. There was a huge cathedral windows quilt (that I didn't think to photograph). As we were admiring it, the woman who made it stopped by and asked if we had questions. Oh, yes! We found out it took 12 years to make. I can believe that - there were so many little squares. They were hand pieced, then machine sewn together.
Let's squeeze in some more likes this month to share with LeeAnna and friends at I Like Thursday.
I spotted this in the way home from an evening kayak. I'm not sure what
caught my eye first, the antique truck or the mini-church. I stopped to
get a closer look.
