A rainy day to visit Fulton Missouri

This is what we woke up to this morning. That's correct 4 inches of rain over night.

So I worked on quilting quilt #2 before I took off for Fulton. I had to take a motor there to be repaired for BT. It was about a 30 mile drive, on a nice cloudy day. On my way I called an old friend to wish her a 2-day early 61st Birthday. (Happy birthday Betty).

After I dropped off the motor, I drove through town and came upon the

Winston Churchill Memorial . The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury twice destroyed by fire, located at the corner of Westminster Avenue and 7th Street, is part of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States. Dating from the 12th century, it was redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 after the Great Fire of London. Left in ruins by World War II, the architectural masterpiece was saved from demolition by the bold idea to move it to the Westminster campus where it was reconstructed and restored.

I stopped just past a no parking sign and snapped this picture of the Berlin Wall.

One year after the November 9, 1989, fall of the Berlin Wall, President Ronald Reagan dedicated Breakthrough, an 11-foot-high by 32-foot-long structure sculpted from 8 sections of the Berlin Wall by artist Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, as the centerpiece of the Cold War Memorial on the Westminster campus.

I made my way to the Wal-Mart and found they still had a fabric department. After adding a few groceries to my cart and dealing with a check-out clerk who didn't know what he was doing, I was finished.

Arriving home I decided to drive around the lake behind the house. However, the bridge was under water, so I could only go one-way. You can also see the dock has broken loose and is floating freely in the lake.

It was dinner in the early evening, our walk to the lake and back to quilting, I have almost finished machine quilt quilt #3.

10:14 66 degrees.

Making a quilted postcard

I can now reveal the blogger friend that I made the postcard for. It's Blind pig and the acorn. Be sure and check out her music too while visiting her site. My new favorites are two CD's I purchased from her made by the Wilson Brothers.

Today I did a little sewing. I made a table runner for the neighbor and worked on the polka dot quilt for Mom. I mowed some grass and made the first bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches of the season. Yummo!

10:27 74 degrees

Her New Years Resolution was to have more family time

Tonight she got her wish. Who you may ask, BT's sister Grace. You see her husband Dan and niece Mandy arranged a surprised 50th Birthday party for her at Steve's Family Restaurant. It is located just a few miles west of Jefferson City on route C.

31 of Grace's favorite relatives showed up. I forgot to tell you, it backfired on her husband Dan, as it turned out to be a 50th B-day surprise for him too.

After a great meal of Country fried golden chicken, Country cured ham, real mashed potatoes, homemade milk gravy, green beans, Cole slaw, applesauce and Central Dairy Ice Cream they opened gifts. Here Grace is trying to read through her magnifying credit card. Dan is holding onto his new depends.

Afterwards we were all outside saying our goodbye when someone on the balcony above started yelling for Grace. Oh no, it was Cousin Ron, who couldn't believe he could view the tops of so many of his cousins heads.

And as we were leaving, Grace just had to get a birthday hug from big Brother BT.

Back at home, here is a beautiful picture of my pink lilies. I really don't know the name of them. My Mother in law gave me a start of them many, many years ago. She had gotten them from her mother. You have to take them inside in the winter here in Mid-mo and then set them back out in early spring.
79 degrees 10:12PM

LaBamba!!!

The best part of having the boys over night, is taking them to LaBamba for Sopapilla's!

An afternoon with the Boys

Lori dropped the boys off just as I was finishing my lunch. Brady called Aunt Lona to see if we could come swimming. Here they are taking a break on the pool deck. Brady snapped this picture of me. Don't you just love the Toby Keith hat?

Look what Lori brought me from her Dad's house. Does your window sill look this good?

Later in the evening Alex rode the big wheels....

While Brady and Grandpa played catch.

Good Catch Brady!


After we were finished swimming I stopped by Mom's house. Look what she gave me...two more quilt tops.

Back in my element

Having the week off, I finally found time to sew. YIPPEE!






While searching my wash boiler....okay who doesn't have little hiding places for their things? I found the following.......

My mother who is 83 years young loves to embroidery. She does all these quilt tops and blocks and gives them to me to put together and quilt.


The one on the left has 12 blocks which I will set together with the Polka dot fabric both on the front and back.

The Teddy bear quilt, I found some red pin dot fabric, which might even be vintage fabric. I will use that for the backing and the binding.













Isn't this Froggy one cute? She has done a couple of these. I had some leftover binding so all I had to buy was the backing.




Here are 12 cross stitch blocks that I am setting together with 9 paper-pieced hearts. I also had this navy fabric from way back in my craft show days.

I even made this for myself on Monday. I was mad that I didn't come across the coffee bean fabric until after I had it pieced. I will make it into a wall hanging and use my new magnetic curtain rod to hang it on the refrigerator.

Another thing I made was a fabric postcard for one of my blogger friends. I can't show that picture yet. After she receives it, I will show you too. I want her to be surprised. Here's a hint...her blog is listed as one my favorites.

On a sad note.....Yesterday at Wal-mart, their fabric department is completely gone! They still have notions.

I did a run through cleaning of the house this morning. It will be a busy weekend. Son and DIL are leaving this afternoon for a float trip and we will watch the boys all weekend. I just pray Gma and Gpa can keep up with them!

Have a great weekend.

Now back to sewing for a few hours.

10:14 AM 79 degrees.

A nice relaxing weekend

Saturday we worked around the house, BT cut some weeds as seen here. He also sprayed lots of poison ivy along our driveway.


We went to my work and picked up 3-55 gallon barrels of mulch to put in Bentley's dog pen.

After showers it was church at 5:50 and LaBamba...it was a 2 Marguerite night for me! Thank goodness we shopped at Lowe's before dinner.

Sunday we slept in and then read the paper on the deck with lots of coffee being consumed. I made breakfast burritos for breakfast only to find out later that is what Jeremy and the boys had too.

At 1:00 we loaded up the boat and took off up the Osage River. Gosh was it quiet. I don't know if the river rising or the high gas prices had anything to do with it. However it made a very quiet, enjoyable day on the river for us. Only one visitor came, he like my hat and my ankle.

We only saw about 5 boats and 2 jet skis. Oh and 1 Eagle. (Which I didn't get a clear picture of either). There was one boat fishing along the bank, it turned out to be BT's sister, Janie and jer husband.

Back home by 3:30 BT grilled some brats while I made a pasta salad. Here is what Bentlety does best on the deck.

Brady had a T-Ball game at 6:30 and we made it there before he did. Tonight he played his best, he ran after almost every ball hit.

What a nice relaxing weekend.