A new quilt, an old friend, and a free dinner

I made  a new quilt for my Casita. It won't show much, as I needed to add a layer to warm us on cold night. This one was an experiment. It's a scrappy quilt with a cotton batting. I tried my hand at some machine quilting. My main thought in doing that, was to get some very close stitches for depth. 

 Here's a few samples of my stitching. 

 I spy a star. 

 I almost got dizzy on this red block.

I even tried some writing.

 I did some stippling in the blue here. Can you see it Margie?

Speaking of Margie, here she is . . .  

Tonight's dinner was courtesy of her and Phil . . . well partially anyway. They raise meat rabbits. When we were at their place two weeks ago, they gave us a fresh butchered one.

Our free dinner. Well we grew the potatoes, the tomatoes, and the corn, and when you go to the garden and pick it, it makes you think it's free food. 

 Now if I just had a lemon tree! Thank you Jello.

Margie look, the blacksmith put his touch mark on the back of your "Gnome on the Range". Lucky you, he never puts his mark on what he makes for me.

Good friends and good food, life is good!