Front Porch Sitting.......

Mia here......
Front porch sitting/laying/tanning is my favorite sport..!!
I can see the drive and front yard......i don't know what that silly cat is complaining about....

Max here...
Hey Cat...!!
Look...Look...i'm watching.....!
I'm also front porch sitting.....you can do both at the same time...!!

Hey Mia...!!
Looks who joined us in a little front porch sitting.....

Misskitty.....
I'm just here to make sure you two are on the job....!

Boomer.....
It's just like having a houseful of human children again...!!

Life is Good

Almost Wordless Wednesday.....

Once again....blogger.....would not down load my pictures...!!
And
I had some really good ones of Misskitty front porch sitting...
She lies....people....she lies...!!

Life is Good

MissKitty here.....

Yep.... it's me again...
On "watch duty" as usual....

If you ask me......there was to much porch sitting yesterday....!!
Mom kept mumbling things like....
"I'm not as young as i used be..."
and
"Seven days straight just took the life out'a me"

Of course those silly dogs were hanging onto her every word...
laying at her feet....following her around..
I even found them taking a nap on the big bed in the late afternoon....!!

The three of them need to start pulling their weight around here...

I can't be a "watch" cat 24/7.......a girl needs her naps and hunting time..!!

Oh well......today's another day....

Life is Good

Sunday.....

...another beautiful mountain morning....

But wait.....

Isn't this really my Friday for this week...??

I'm sooooooo confused....
Working seven days straight...warps my thinking....

Life is Good

Ohhhh Mannn....!!

...did i just here Mom say she's got to "work" this weekend....
Yep!
Seems like the weekend guy has a new grand baby in Utah that he just HAD to go and love on.....
Not much front porch sitting for me this weekend...
(sigh)
CityBoy doesn't leave the front door open like Mom...so i can't come and go for porch sitting when i want....
(sigh)
Ohhh....ohhh.....she's got Monday and Tuesday off...!!
There's light at the end of the tunnel....!!

Life is Good,

Love, Max

Summer......

Hazy mornings..

And late afternoon rains.....
These are the days of our lives....

(Hummmmm....wonder where i got that phrase..?)

Life is Good

Thankful Thursday......

...take time to enjoy the wild flowers....
Between the warm temps and the daily rains....
they're blooming like crazy up here....

These little guys are just some of the buds lining my driveway...

Life is Good

Almost Wordless Wednesday.....

Need a little cabin for a short vacation....??

Life is Good

Summer......

According to the calender today is the first day of summer.....
It's been a long time coming this year,
we thought summer would never get here...

Now the daily temps are "soaring" up into the high 80's...
it's in the 60's at night....!!
And you can almost set your watch on the daily late afternoon rain storms ....

With the weather at this glorious peak...

I sit on the front porch and wish for fall...

I Love Fall...!!

Life is Good

Cows.....We've Got Cows...!!

Yes Folks...
We've Got Cows..!!

Some of the local merchants decided that our little town needed a "landmark"
And what better place to put it than one of the most popular tourist attractions and business's in the county..

The Ashe County Cheese Factory....

Soooooo....the high school industrial arts class and some local builders got together and used the storage tanks outside the factory.....

We've got Cows....

Come on up....visit the girls.....they're friendly...
And make the best cheese, butter, local wine and local crafts in the area.

Boy....are those girls talented....!!

Life is Good

Happy Father's Day.....

The Father in our little cabin has to work today..... ;<
But
The parental units are rolling down the hill a little later to try my latest crockpot master piece..
"Shredded BBQ beef......using flank steak......
(crossing fingers now....)
It's great having a crew that will try anything ...
at least once... ;>

Life is Good

MissKitty here.....

....once again...!

Boomer and CityBoy are off running Saturday morning errands....
The "watch" dogs are napping...
And it's up to the cat to take care of things....

The life of a "guard" cat can be rough at times...!!

Life is Good

TGIF.....

....isn 't nature wonderful..??!!
Go out and enjoy it this weekend...

Life is Good

Finally....

a picture of my Lil' Twister wall hanging...

I think i'll use the 10" twister tool, some brown and blue fabric.....and make a "manly" quilt for one of the males on my Christmas list...
Note the not-so-straight stitch in the ditch quilting....

And this is a terrible picture of the beautiful fabric the big brown box delivered last Friday.....
Camera battery was dying and had to use the flash .....
it washed out the colors.....they are really...
a bright green, blues, orange, brown with a little yellow thrown in.....
Love the Turtles....!!

I promise finished product pictures will be better.....

Life is Good

Almost Wordless Wednesday.....

Late yesterday afternoon.....
CityBoy snapped this picture..
Of the first fawn of the season....

Cute..huh..??

Life is Good

ps....Blogger is downloading again....!!

Still at it.....

Blogger is still at it....
Cannot download pictures on my home computer....!!
Ugh.....!!!
My angry Goggle image little bird will have to do...!!

However....

This puts me in the perfect mood to deal with the dentist office billing department....

Tell how i could pay half of last months statement.....
then receive an EOB from the insurance company that they have covered part of the bill...
And then receive a statement in the mail yesterday..from the office....that the total is more than last month...!!??

There have been NO more visits to the dentist since March....

Can anyone out there explain this to me....
I was a bookkeeper for 25 years.....!!!

I need answers....

Life is Good....?

It Happened to Me...

Over the last few weeks...
I've been reading about all of you out there in Bloggerville...
that has been having trouble with posting your daily entries..

Well .. I shook my head and said to myself..
"poor things....glad it's not me..."

Now...it's me...!!

First i had to prove to Goggle that i was really me...
Then i had to use a dictionary..'cause spell check wouldn't work...
Now my pictures will not down load...

Hey Blogger!!

I am really me...
I can't spell worth a patooie...
And i had some great pictures for today's post...

Could you get it together..??
I would prefer you get it together soon...!!

I finished my twister wall hanging and the big brown box delivered new fabric for my next..
"Quilt for Kids"

I want to show all my friends...
Without the trouble of e-mailing the pictures to myself at work..
It's too early in the day to start this s***...!!

Don't ya just love Mondays......my favorite day of the week...
Maybe i'll rethink that choice....

Life is Good

TGIF.....

Enjoy the little things this weekend....

Life is Good

A Thank you......

...for Thankful Thursday....

Today i'm sending bloggerville a picture of me in my state park t-shirt...
'cause
Thanks to all your prayers......my job has now been extended till...
mid-October....!!!

Mid-October is great...!!
The camping season will be over....
The river activity will be over....
The leaves will have turned...the leave lookers will have looked...
and be on they're way home....

And i will have a few weeks to rest....quilt....read....whatever....
before the Holidays .....

Thank you for the prayers..

Life is Good

Almost Wordless Wednesday.....

Whhaattt..??

Isn't that a wise-Yoda-monkey looking face...??

Life is Good

I Whacked It.....

Yes....

I came home and whacked it...
or cut it into different squares....
whacked is a techno term...

Then i gave a little twist to my new squares...

And this is what i got...!!

Twisters are not sewn together yet...
Had to stop the production line and fix dinner..
MaleChild was hungry......ugh...

Anyway ...... here's a pic of my "Lil' Twister" ruler.....
you just line up those black lines with your seam lines and whack away...
Very little wasted fabric..
And "yes" i'm throwing the waste away...
Not gonna think on something to do with it...
No.....not me!!

Oh Yah.....

It's made by CS Designs
www.country-schoolhouse.com

Life is Good

This years gadget......

Every year at the Atlanta Shop-Hop i buy some sort'a gadget...
One year it was a pattern for a four-sided place mat.
(Made one set...what a pain in the patooie..!!)

One year it was a template for making the perfect mitered corner.
(Never used it.)

This year it's the thingy pictured above...
It was a kit ..which included the "Twister"...."Lil' Twister"....and a book of how-to patterns...
(It's a ruler for making whirly-gigs)

First you have to sew together 24 - 5" squares and put 3" border around the whole thing...
Then you use your " Lil'Twister".......line up the seams with the lines on the ruler and
WHACK...!!

OK

This gadget fascinated me..... soooooo..... i must try it...
Pieced my base material yesterday....sooooo...tonight when it get home...I can
WHACK..!!

Love the word WHACK..
WHACK!
WHACK!
WHACK!

Also
Misskitty demanded a new "summer" catmat...
Hope she likes it...

Life is Good

ps....is WHACK a word..??

Do You Know......

...what this plant is....?
It's growing on the east side of the Visitor Center...

It looks like an asparagus fern on steroids....
It's about 3.5 feet tall...is very bushy....very green....very delicate leaves....
and is covered with tiny cream color bell shaped flowers....
It's in full sun and seems to be thriving well...!!

Life is Good

Thankful Thursday......

I'm thankful i found a beautiful Mountain Laurel very close to the Visitor Center front door...
Which means i didn't tromp thru the hot, steamy woods.....

I'm thankful for the prayer warriors out there in blogger land....
Prayer is a "hot" line and just when you think your thoughts and words are not getting thru.....

Look what happens....

"Candee.....tell Sharon G. her prayer group has done it again.....
The state extended my job till June 30th and there's real hope that the new budget will keep the many, many state park seasonal worker jobs until fall.....!!!"



Life is Good

Another One.....

...another "Quilts for Kids"

The goal was one a month...
Hummmmm.......i'm a little behind....
This makes #4..
Maybe i'll get to make 2 during the month of June.
'Cause if they don't pass a state budget by the end of the month....
....i'm out of a job....
Still

Life is Good