Sequim Daily Photo

Remember when I showed you green pumpkins….they are starting to turn.  Yesterday was grandparents day…and my birthday.  The grandkids all came and we scratched our names in our pumpkins.  I read some where that it will heal over and then you have your name on your jack-o-lantern.

As promised, the thumbnails show a few of the projects I worked on last week.

The first thumbnail has 20 four inch blocks pieced together on the right…the leftover blocks were pieced in to a back for the quilt (on the right).  These were from a group I belong to back in the 90′s.  The second thumbnail is a quilt for our new baby due in December.  The third quilt is a miniature.  The center block is a 10 inch panel…the outside blocks are 2 inch finished pieced blocks…took me all day.  The last thumbnail shows a lap quilt that was already done…I took the left over fabric and “made fabric” for the back.

This is one of my favorite flowers in my back yard.  It was a great trip…I’ve included some thumbnails of the kites we saw at Pacific Beach.  Tomorrow I will share some of the things we worked on.

And I guess I should mention…the mole is back too.  I have my work cut out for me tomorrow.  This one didn’t get the memo about burying beer/coke bottles in the ground leaving the neck about an inch above.  It is suppose to keep them out of your bed…and has worked well, until as of late.  This one just tosses the beer bottles out on the ground.

I harvested these before I left and left them in the dark to dry and heal over.  There will be lots more to harvest later in the fall.

Home today….I think we check out at 11, so we should be home by 5.  It is always sad to leave, but nice to get back home.

Remember the old saw about “beware of Greeks bearing gifts”?  How about beware of neighbors bearing zuchinni.  I added the cup to show the scale.  It will be there when I get back and should make excellent bread.

Day 5 of our trip…I don’t really care how much I got done…just hope I laughed a lot and got enough of looking at the water.

These belong to my friend Loretta.  I love the color and want to look for some for this next year.

This is day 4…and here is where we start to worry…will we get all our projects finished?  Does it matter?  Not really…we just like to set “goals” for ourselves.

Guardians of the beach near Cline’s Spit.

Day three…and I should be working on the Christmas wall hanging.

Even flowers can grow among the rocks along the beach.

This is day two of my mini quilting retreat…hopefully I have at least one of my unfinished projects almost done.