I went to church, got home , fixed lunch, doing the computer thing and watching golf, then off to my sewing room, to finish cutting and making kits for my sewing lessons at church this summer. Save most of my scraps and remmants I buy for this project.

Yard work yesterday, DH is playing tools today, so I've been putting a border on a quilt. Tomorrow we're having friends over for a cookout.

We replaced our vinyl windows last fall with new ones and the supports on which the air conditioners sat no longer fit. So spent today buying materials at Home Depot and building new supports so the air conditioners won't sit directly on the lip of and put stress on the window.

Yesterday, finished piecing my last class project and I am determined to get the borders on tomorrow. Tonight I'll cut material for my next class starting on Wednesday. If I have time, I'll do some more lessons on my newly acquired EQ6.

Have a great weekend everybody.

I am thinking of my childhood memories when Decoration Day was exactly that----a time to visit the cemeteries. Sad as it is, I find many do not realize what Memorial Day is, when it was started nor why. To date it is set on a certain day rather than just whatever day the 30th landed upon. It seems to me that many look at it as an entitlement of free vacation day and have forgotten our fallen soldiers. Oh, by the way, Decoration Day began after the Civil War as a day to bring flowers to the war dead.

Personally, today and tomorrow I am remembering those family members in my heart (cemeteries are two states away) and I will continue doing what I have done all this week--making simple charity quilts for my Project Linus sister Chapter in Joplin, Missouri, site of the devastating tornado.

Mr. Stitchnripper is trying to paint the kitchen cabinets. Going from oak to a warm soft white - many problems trying to figure out the system. One - didn't let primer dry enough. Two - small roller works better than brush. Three - high gloss latex is "persnickety" to quote the fellow in the paint store who told us this after we bought it and tried it.

I am offering moral support and cleanup. And trying to go through my fabrics and decide what is a usable scrap? What is a small piece? Will I ever use this? How should I sort? By size? Color? Project?

Open to suggestions on the paint or sorting process!!

We always follow the tradition of going to the cemetery to take flowers for my father's grave site and kinda clean it up too. Then we will have dinner together. It's just me and my husband, my mom and my sister together this year. Today at church one of the speakers gave such a wonderful talk about Memorial Day and the gratitude we must all feel for the blessing of a free country. It came with a price and we should never forget those who paid it for us.

See Bismarck and S. places I know.

I moved my sewing room down stairs, what a job. Now I have to decide how to set everything up. I know I will move it afer I work in there for awhile.

Just taking it easy after a whirlwind week with my daughter and son-in-law's visit from Washington. We had a great time that included the Quilt Show in Kerrville and quilting the Carpenter Star together.

i will be sitting here along with hubby , both wishing we were outside doing something , i had a hysterectomy last week and he had leg surgery 3 weeks ago !!

Holiday tomorrow means my Honey will be home from work and he can care for our 4yr old and I can spend the day sewing in my work room Yea!!!!

In look for to days I can spend in my work room.

Today I quilted a quilt for my sister..just finished it actually, earlier I worked in my flower garden and strawberry bed and trimmed grass. Had a great day!
Hopefully tomorrow the weather will be sunny (quite an oddity here in Maine of late) and I'll be able to get a ton of laundry done and hung out.

Working all weekend so have little time to play (quilt). Oh well off next weekend and will play then.

we went and did some rock hounding and found some nice specimens of items for my collection of rocks !LOL

This is what we did today...high water on the Missouri.

I went skydiving Saturday, yesterday a group of us gals got together in my salon to quilt, (I learned to paper piece!!! Happy dance, I am finally doing Bill's, (Lockeb's)canning jar placemats), today I went to the salon to do a client that wanted an appointment Saturday, when I got home I went through a cedar chest that I had in storage, found a rail fence top I started before my divorce (5 years ago) 40 embroidered blocks for a top also started back then, along with various fabrics and home dec projects. Now I am going to go into my studio and try to complete one placemat, while making potato salad, baked beans, and carribean shrimp for dinner, then I think it will be shower and to bed for me.

Wow! Pictures are amazing, (not the fact of high water)

as are we...dh the marine won't have it any other way... nor would i... our kids must have absorbed what the holiday is supposed to be about, because all the commercials for memorial day "sales" make them nuts...

youngest dd always says things like "what does macy's have to do with memorial day?"

thank you for your service gunny .

I am about four days behind on the forum. I went to Katy, TX on the weekend to visit my son and his family, had a great time.

I had to finish up a charm tote bag this weekend for a charity event next weekend. Couldn't do it on Sunday because I had tickets to the Bushnel Auditorium to see West Side Story.

It was totally disappointing. They really sleazed it up for today's audiences and put a lot of Spanish in it. The sleazy parts were way off the wall. Very vulgar and I'm no prude but I'm sorry I went.

I went to the memorial day concert in Washington DC. It was on PBS. My husband was one of the honorees. He was the Vietnam Vet with a story. Name is Chuck. Honor all Vets and Thank them.

flying to Florida for my grandbaby's first birthday and her mother's 33.