Retreat Pictures

Hello Everyone,

I have so many pictures from my retreat to share with you.  The show and tell time that we have after dinner is always "over the top" gorgeous! The amount of talent in the room is incredible. Enjoy the show!

Country Sunshine

Row-Mancing Alaska in 2 color-ways.

Cute as a Button

Sue traveled from Michigan and didn't have room for this beauty in her suitcase.

Here are some of the quilters who are responsible for the mini quilt show.  Penni made the little dolls for her housemates.

The retreat gave the chance for these coast-to-coast friends to get together.

California and much of the West Coast is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave, or heatstorm as it is being called.  We don't have air conditioning at the cabin, so it has been getting pretty toasty here during the day even though we keep it closed up with the fans going.  Last night it was just too hot inside, so we headed up to Lake Alpine for dinner.  We love going there for dinner because Mazey is welcome to sit at our table on their deck.

We were treated to a booming thunderstorm as we went for a stroll around the lake.  We could see it brewing right overhead, then the wind picked up.

Mazey hasn't been going for too many walks lately because it has been way too hot for her little paws.

We returned to the car just as the heavens opened up and drenched the parched earth.  We could almost hear the trees sighing with relief.

We sighed with relief too as the temps dropped into the 70's.  When we got back to the cabin, we were back into the mid 90's.  The high for the day was 101 in Arnold.

Another scorcher is on tap for today.  I will be in the pool for laps and water aerobics this morning.  I should just spend the entire day in the water to get relief from the heat.

Every day I rinse out my swimming suit and hang it up outside.  Sometimes I forget to bring it inside before bedtime.  In the morning I have to shake it out really well because we have bats......lots of bats.  I'm always afraid when I put my suit on in the morning that I'm going to be sharing my suit with the bats.  Mr. Joe always said I had bats in my belfry!

Soon,

Lynn

Play List Week of 9/5 - 9-12

 Hello Everyone,

The play list for this week was an easy one, and a long one for me to put together.  I have a lot of great things going on this week.

Here's a solid gold play list as we celebrate our golden anniversary.

The Wonder of You - Elvis

It Had to be You - Frank Sinatra

Through the Years - Kenny Rogers

Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis

Grow Old Along with Me - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers

When I'm 64 - The Beatles (That ship has sailed quite some time ago!)

I can't believe that we've been married for five decades!  Time has a way of traveling way too fast. I'm so blessed to have traveled the road with Mr. Joe as he is the perfect traveling companion. We had matching hair back then and now.  Mr. Joe is solid gold, and he still has hair!

I will post pictures of the party for you next week.  The party planners are our three children and my sister, Gail.  I know she has been working very hard on a slide show for weeks!  This is going to be fun.

Click HERE if you want to read the post about how we met.  It is very comical!

When we left the town of Paradise for our honeymoon, we had a whopping $250.00 in our pocket.  We thought we were wealthy beyond belief!  We didn't have a care in the world as we set out in a 1967 Mustang fastback with a 390 engine.  The price of gas today would have made a huge dent in our $250.00!  

We will be with the family for quite a few days this week.  Here's the play list for the rest of the week.

Are You Ready for Some Football? - Hank Williams

Game Day - Ray Johnston Band

The entire soundtrack to the movie 'Rudy' 

Our grandson Jess has a JV football game Friday night.   He scored a TD last week.  The coach told the players at the beginning of the season he would buy pizza for the entire team if a defensive lineman scored.  It's time to pay up coach!

Our grandson Kade has a freshman football game on Thursday night. This is going to be so exciting! Both of our sons played football in high school, and we were their biggest supporters.  We spent so much time in the stands, the boys wanted to carve our names in the bleachers.  We will be warming the pines in those very same bleachers this week.  I'm looking forward to the entire week of quality family time.

We had a visitor while we were eating dinner on the deck last night.  Mazey looks calm, but our early warning system was furiously barking.

It is the same bear with the distinctive markings that we see on a regular basis.  People are always asking me if we get scared when we see a bear.  The answer is no because they don't want anything to do with us as long as there aren't any cubs involved.  We take an air horn with us when we walk the neighborhood, but we've only used it when two dogs charged us.  The dogs scared me more than the bears!

My next Sew'n Wild Oaks retreat starts in 3 weeks, so let the preparations begin....again.  

California is in the grip of a serious heat wave.  I try to get all of my computer work completed in the early morning hours because of the threat of rolling black outs.  There are so many "summer people" in the area for the holiday and more people adds more stress on the power grid.  During the 4th of July, the power was out for 18 hours.  Our generator is at the ready, our cars are filled with gas, the fridge is full, and we are ready to hunker down and enjoy the tranquility of mountain life.  We get our little mountain community back to ourselves this week and life will return to normal activity at the grocery store!  There isn't a hot dog or hot dog bun to be found in town.  Right now, the grocery store is a zoo......no wait, our backyard is a zoo!

Soon,

Lynn

Sew'n Wild Oaks Retreat

 Hello Everyone,

I have a lot of photos to post over the next few days of my retreat, so you will be seeing a mini quilt show for days.  Today I'm showing you a picture of a doll my friend Penni made and presented to me the first day of the retreat.

Penni made the doll from fabric scraps she had from A Ribbon Runs Through It.  The fabric is called A Return to Elegance by Judie Rothermel for Marcus Fabrics.  There is so much detail and creativity in this precious little girl!  This is an heirloom I will always treasure.

Here I am with Penni.  We first met when I spoke to her quilt guild several years ago, and she's been coming to my retreat ever since.

Yesterday was our last full day of the retreat.  We have to say goodbye to each other by 3pm this afternoon.  Some of the girls have a long drive ahead, so they will pack up and hit the road early.  It will be so hard to say goodbye to them!

California is in the grip of a severe heatwave.  It is hot here in the mountains too.  A few of us put our feet in the pool last night and it felt so good.

Soon,

Lynn