I took this picture yesterday morning on my way to work.......yes, I was driving at the time but its easy with a digital camera. This is what the fog looked like yesterday morning. For my readers who do not live in California....the sun does not shine every day. I live in a valley.....where in the winter we get lots of fog......if the weather is set up for it, and it has been perfect conditions for fog the last couple of weeks. The fog gets old real fast......plus its cold......well cold for California.Here is the view from my office.......that's Raley's Supermarket across the street. This fog really is not too bad......its bad when you can't see 50 feet in front of your car and then you see someone in a car without their lights on. Now that I'm getting older I really don't like to drive at night in the fog......I've driven in fog so thick that I couldn't find my own driveway ( I live way out in the country where the fog is worse) and believe me that is scary.....when you don't know where you are and can't see any landmarks.Rain is in the forecast for this weekend.........and we need lots of rain and snow in the mountains because we are in a drought. Not too much sewing going on......I've been busy with Christmas stuff.....its two weeks from Thursday.....wow.....where does time go?
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1. Started your own blog 2. Slept under the stars 3. Played in a band 4. Visited Hawaii 5. Watched a meteor shower 6. Given more than you can afford to charity 7. Been to Disneyland 8. Climbed a mountain 9. Held a preying mantis 10. Sang a solo 11. Bungee jumped 12. Visited Paris 13. Watched a lightning storm at sea 14. Taught yourself an art from scratch 15. Adopted a child 16.Had food poisioning 17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty 18. Grown your own vegetables 19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France 20. Slept on an overnight train 21. Had a pillow fight 22. Hitch hiked 23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill 24. Built a snow fort 25. Held a lamb 26. Gone skinny dipping 27. Run a Marathon 28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice 29. Seen a total eclipse 30. Watched a sunrise or sunset 31. Hit a home run 32. Been on a cruise 33. Seen Niagara Falls in person 34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors 35. Seen an Amish community 36. Taught yourself a new language 37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied 38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person 39. Gone rock climbing 40. Seen Michelangelo’s David 41. Sung karaoke 42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt 43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant 44. Visited Africa 45. Walked on a beach by moonlight 46. Been transported in an ambulance 47. Had your portrait painted 48. Gone deep sea fishing 49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person 50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris 51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling 52. Kissed in the rain 53. Played in the mud 54. Gone to a drive-in theater 55. Been in a movie 56. Visited the Great Wall of China 57. Started a business 58. Taken a martial arts class 59. Visited Russia 60. Served in a Soup Kitchen 61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies 62. Gone whale watching 63. Got flowers for no reason 64. Donated blood, platelets, or plasma 65. Gone sky diving 66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp 67. Bounced a check 68. Flown in a helicopter 69. Saved a favorite childhood toy 70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial 71. Eaten Caviar 72. Pieced a quilt 73. Stood in Time Square 74. Toured the Everglades 75. Been fired from a job 76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London 77. Broken a bone 78. Been on a speeding motorcycle 79. Seen the Grand Canyon in Person 80. Published a book 81. Visited the Vatican 82. Bought a brand new car 83. Walked in Jerusalem 84. Had your picture in the newspaper 85. Read the entire Bible 86. Visited the White House 87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating 88. Had chickenpox 89. Saved someone’s life 90. Sat on a jury 91. Met someone famous 92. Joined a book club 93. Lost a loved one 94. Had a baby 95. Seen the Alamo in person 96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake 97. Been involved in a law suit 98. Owned a cell phone 99. Been stung by a bee
This beautiful quilt was made by Doris.......this is a very large quilt and made for her bed. A close up picture of the middle of the quilt and you can even see the quilting. Joan made this wall hanging of a cat sleeping on a quilt for her great grand daughter. A baby quilt made by Anita. A anniversary quilt made by Doris......with her wedding date on it. Another baby quilt made by Anita...out of flannel.....with bears embroidered on it. Close up of the bears.......this is a very warm cuddly quilt. Jan been working on this quilt for a long time......if you remember back to my first retreat I went on in August I took pictures of Jan working on these blocks.....the center blocks are paper pieced......well its done and quilted......... a king sized quilt. This quilt was designed by Jan and is for her daughters cabin. Pegi loves felt.....so she made this and embroidered it.....good job. Judy found this minkie fabric at PIQ...... that looks like mink and made her jacket pattern out of it.......cool....I hope the people against animal fur don't think its real! I know I've taken a few pictures of Liz W's BOM blocks that she won as she's pieced and then quilted this quilt.....well it's finally all done and she showed it off at the party.
One of the fun things we did last night was that we held a table centerpiece contest and a few of us signed up to use our creative ideas and come up with a Christmas decoration for our party.
This Santa was made by Sue.....good job! Sue's good at making bears but she can make Santa's too.This gourd Santa was made by Sandra and she had a raffle to raise money for toys for tots. I didn't get lucky but President Janet did and won this Santa. Sandra also made this cool snowman.....I think its made out of quilting batting. Pegi made this centerpiece.......very nice so much to see. Judy brought this beautiful centerpiece she even made the coasters for the glasses. This centerpiece is a basket full of ornaments......beautiful. Here's Janet's centerpiece....love the pine trees with the snow people. Bob made this snowman out of pots you use for plants......and then painted it........it's so cute. I took pictures of most of the night's centerpieces and last here is my table runner with my decorations on it. We gave away each centerpiece and people at the party that held the lucky ticket h each won one.....I was not lucky.....but Dottie got to take my centerpiece home. Here part of the room......the tables are full of people. We had a pot luck last night and here are people lined up to get their food.....look at all those crock pots full of soup and other stuff. Here is part of the desert table.....yum. More pictures tomorrow.......there was show and tell.
Tuesday December 2 is Manteca Quilters annual Christmas party. I am one of 12 people making a table decoration for a table that members will set at during dinner. Then at the end of the dinner they will draw tickets and lucky quilters will win the table decoration. I just took this picture of my sewing machine and I've been busy quilting this part of my decoration.I'm using my walking foot.....after using it to quilt a baby quilt a the free sew I really like the way it works and how nice the machine quiling turns out.I will take pictures of the finished project at the Christmas party so you can all see it. I need to get back to quilting......I have to put binding on it when I have finished with the quilting.
Today is Thanksgiving here in the US. A day for being with family and eating a turkey dinner with all the fixings. Giving thanks for all of God's blessings and praying and hoping that the economy here gets better and people who are out of work can find jobs. I wish all my readers here at my blog a Happy Thanksgiving. I'll be at my Mom's tomorrow with my sister and part of her family and my daughter and son in law.We will miss you Bryan, Heather and Lauren but look forward to seeing you at Christmas.
There is a blog that started on January 1, 2008 and every day the gal there is using her crock pot....so almost 350 days of recipes. You can go back through the months and read all the good recipes she's posted. She even cooked a whole (small) turkey in her crock pot. Amazing.....check it out http://crockpot365.blogspot.com.
I am a quilter. The grandaughter of a dairyman. I was married to a dairyman but am now divorced and have a daughter. I work for a dairy trade group. Love cows and the country life. I was born here in the big valley and have never lived more then 15 miles away from where I was born. I buy way too much fabric, patterns and quilting books, belong to two quilt guilds and will never have enough time to finish all the projects I want to do.
Here is the view from my office.......that's Raley's Supermarket across the street. This fog really is not too bad......its bad when you can't see 50 feet in front of your car and then you see someone in a car without their lights on.
Now that I'm getting older I really don't like to drive at night in the fog......I've driven in fog so thick that I couldn't find my own driveway ( I live way out in the country where the fog is worse) and believe me that is scary.....when you don't know where you are and can't see any landmarks. Rain is in the forecast for this weekend.........and we need lots of rain and snow in the mountains because we are in a drought. Not too much sewing going on......I've been busy with Christmas stuff.....its two weeks from Thursday.....wow.....where does time go?
