This was such a glorious weekend. The heat has dimmed. The air has changed... Nights are so fresh and the cool nights have begun. I will be sad when August is over. Next weekend we head back to NYC... Time for school, subways, work and all that the city brings...
It was nice to sit at the beach tonight, with a picnic, and watch the waves, see the moon peak out... All is calm. Fall will be kicking into high gear soon! Busy busy... Quilters Take Manhattan, ( win your ticket below!) Fall Quilt Market,(where my
BOOK will be coming out!) Then Festival, and seeing a bunch of my quilts hung. All that will be here before I know it...!!!
Besides all that fall is bringing... I'm trying to stay in the moment and savor this last bit of quiet time... It was a nice weekend to play around here. I got a few projects finished, that always feels good.
Boo found my felting machine and wanted to give it ago...
Her play went well, as you can see, one thing lead to another... from puppets... to ....
TOE Puppets. TOE-tally awesome.... LOL!
I had a nap in the hammock after I made some strawberry jelly today, love it!... I'm getting my canning stuff in order for next week. TOMATO CANNING TIME!!! Funny, everyone here says they are gone next Wednesday...I reminded them about the story of the Little Red Hen... Those who help, get to eat! I may have changed there mind about helping me can...
Did you learn to can the summer harvest as a child? I was always helping my mother can tomatoes...Brings back happy memories.
Hope you weekend was glorious too.
I love that pic you and Michael. You need to get that framed! So nice to chat with you today too.... and remember, I am perfectly willing to sample that strawberry jelly!! :)
ReplyDeleteLove that first shot too... These are very evocative August photos. The toe puppets look too ticklish!
ReplyDeleteThere is just something calming about sitting at the ocean and watching the waves, a good way to center oneself. It looks like Boo was having fun, I like to felt and have the tools, but I do it by hand. Need to learn how to do animals next.
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I agree, that photo of you two on the beach wrapped in that beautiful quilt is just so sweet!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your new book!! How exciting to share your work in print!! I see you came through my city of Omaha to the Accuquilt company--hope you were treated well--I live right behind this area off the interstate--I have not even been to see the store/museum. My mom has dementia & I have been "mom-sitting". Would have loved to be a part of take Omaha tour, but I was still with mom that night until it would have been too late to make it. Glad you are enjoying the end of summer----looks like the perfect place to be.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous and colorful pictures, thank you for sharing your (not so) lazy days of late summer with us. I just went ahead and pre-ordered your book. Seams I will have a real treat to put under the christmas tree this year ; )
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the calm before the busy fall!
Such a lovely picture from the beach... I smile big when I see it.
ReplyDeleteHere we started school, basket practice, work etc a few weeks ago so we're all back in the routine by now. But luckily the everyday has it's own certain charm too.
You've been busy this Summer, well this past year! I never learned to can, darn. Love the toe puppets! Enjoy the last carefree days of August.
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful family pictures! It's a special time when you have good times, and you feel them slipping away a bit at a time. Bittersweet, but richer for it. Luckily, other precious experiences come.
ReplyDeleteAwww! love the cozy quilt beach pic, sweet.
ReplyDeleteNope, never learned to can, and I'm even older than your mom, and from the day when everyone was putting up produce.Have no idea why we didn't do that in my family.
Summer has gone by so quickly! It was hard to enjoy though because it was so darn hot - brutal! We have had some milder weather for August although it was really hot and humid this past weekend. I remember the days of watching my mom can and make jam. I spent many hours in the kitchen cutting the stems off of strawberries to help out. The best thing my mom canned was grape juice. At a house we rented there was a grape arbor and my mom turned those grape juice rather than letting them go to waste. She would open two quarts jars for the 10 of us to share at dinner once or twice a week. Such good stuff!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a glorious time you've enjoyed. We just spent 3 weeks on the upper west coast in WA, OR and CA all we got was cold, fog and wind! Would have loved to be able to sit and look at the ocean like you have. Enjoy your strawberries and tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding me of the lovely years I spent in the Northeast. I did learn to can with my Mom and I did enjoy the change of seasons.
ReplyDeleteI love the beach shot !!! Did you make the quilt too?? Its great colors. Izzy
ReplyDeleteI took a long walk on Jones Beach...and enjoyed the beautiful colors and sounds. Hope that crashing wave didn't soak your pretty quilt!
ReplyDeleteLove Boo's toes! Lion King and family?
Oh, yes. Every year we kids had to sit around the picnic table in the backyard under the tree in 97 degree/80 percent humidity--(SW MN summer weather) snipping the ends off an endless supply of green beans that all got canned. Then there were the peaches, plums, cherries and tomatoes, jams, applesauce, and freezing sugar peas.
ReplyDeleteGood thing I learned lots, for I can for my family now...green beans, applesauce, peaches, and still to come, plums from the tree when they are ripe. In the freezer are blueberries, blackberries, raspberries...nearly all of it is free, grown in the backyard (except for the peaches).
Husband is making wine...something his father used to do.
Love that first photo!!! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful post! It's the end of winter here and spring is deffinitely in the air with warm, sunny days, magnolia and daffodils, and the wattles are coming out…Ah Chooo! Hello hay fever!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see you at Market. I recognize some of those quilts! Happy canning . . .
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