Catchup - pre Churchill

July 31st

What a great day, hope rain holds out so we can stay out longer today, than yesterday's 5 minute ventures! 🤞

My AC stopped after supper, today I checked the booklet and it needed water drained, so I did that and VOILA it's working again!!!  I refuse to buy another one, this is it till I move one day to a "adult/55 plus" type of all included maybe place.  😉

Thank you MPQ quilting guild for signing the paid membership up for the Global Quilt Connection July Sampler Platter this weekend! It was an awesome two days of 3 hour sessions with various quilt related artists and their PDF handouts! I still took notes on some and will attach them to my printouts! There are many ideas percolating in my brain for mini quilts but that will have to wait until I'm back from Churchill!

Here's the new lineup for September:

https://www.globalquiltconnection.com/samplersept.html

Aug 1st

YEAH finally our (Sylvia and I) Churchill tour is happening starting tomorrow morning! Can't wait!!!

Charter bus (8 hrs) to Ashern for lunch, to  Thompson for group supper, overnight, maybe quilt shop and Pisew Falls visit with Michelle of MPQ instead of city bus tour. Board train 4:30pm to Churchill (16 hrs) overnight, supper n breakfast on train. 

Aug 4th, Churchill 5 days includes whale watching and Prince of Wales Fort tours, town bus tour, dog sled on wheels tour and rides, tundra buggy polar bears tour, ending with a day or so on our own checking out more tours or interpretive centres and gift shops. Breakfasts and suppers included.

Aug 9th, board train 6:30pm overnight, breakfast on train, arrive Thompson, afternoon bus tour, group supper and overnight. Hotel breakfast and board bus 8am, Ashern stop for lunch, and arrive in Winnipeg 6pm or there abouts!

What's listed is all included!

WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!!

Aug 2nd

We're off, now at Humpty's waiting for the bus!  Sylvia was able to put my walking stick in her suitcase as it's 3" taller!  YEAH!!!

Okay it's not a dream! We're on the bus!

I can't sit and do NOTHING!!!

Woke to forest fire damage.

We're not even half and I want OFFFFFFF!!!

We're the blue dot!!!  Sylvia says we're prisoners on this bus!  Hopefully stopping at Grand Rapids!!!!!

Am I cold?????  Will I survive this trip?????

Ohhhh we've the Fugitives, musicians, on our bus and he's softly playing and singing! WOW!!! We're softly being serenaded!!!

Dang it! We just past Grand Rapids with the lake on my right BUT by the time I grabbed my camera we were back in the bush!

Okay we're maybe 3/4s of the way and "Are we there yet?" popped into my head and out loud it errupted, chuckles followed from others! This is from trips with 10 year old Amanda every 10 minutes or so asking if we've arrived. It took me 7 hours after two stops before it was uttered! 16 hours tomorrow????

Aug 3rd

Oh what a trying night, but all was good! This morning was nice and sunny after yesterday's rainy spells. Michelle picked us up, show n tell at Jan Hall's awesome creative home (hubby's too).

Then off to the NEEDLE'S EYE FABRICS sewing shop here in Thompson where we met Sylvia and Leonard the owners! Talk about a chuckle and a touching memory for my Sylvia who's hubby was Leonard too! 

Thank you Michelle! 💞💞💞  

Now back to the hotel, boarded our bus and onto Pisew Falls!  Yeah!!!!!

Catchup - Aug 24th-31st

Aug 24th

Ohhhh I remember breakfast with Vivienne my first day in Perth AUST!  AWESOME!!!!!

Ohhhhh it was awesome out on the deck earlier, dogs scouted the yard, and I dozed off until the dogs came onto the deck!  Love the partially screened in privacy tent!  Back inside we went!  WOW!!!

Ahhhhh this is so cute! Jake periodically glances at the TV, watching the Jays along with me!!!! 

Then he switched and is watching me hand stitching! Sure he's thinking when can I join in!

Aug 25th

Ahhhh Angie look what just popped out! Dang I miss all my heavenly pets!!!!  Guess this was not the morning for this memory to pop up!  😥😥😥

Well my first time swap postcard The Orient is on it's way today to Marian in Portugal in a plastic sealed sleeve!  I sure hope it arrives sooner than later!  I chose the Ginkgo leaf because of it's symbolism to Japan and also because of the tenacity of six trees to survive the bombing of Hiroshima when other trees and plants perished!

All applique completed.

My inspiration!

Finished postcard.

My computer generated back. 

Lots neater than my writing or printing with a marker! 

Hmmmmm!

Aug 26th

Yummy chicken and sweet potatoes for supper, no wine today!  Will have dessert and iced coffee at Tim's after our walk!

Aug 27th

Well started on the backlog of orders Tuesday and have one order ready for delivery and working on some for Adele in between orders!

I like the humor and honest advice!

Aug 28th

It's been a busy day thats for sure, just sat down with feet up!  First off sewed masks until 3ish then got ready for my walk with some of the "office" girls! 

Monika, Carolynn and I met at Janice's then headed out across Main to Scotia Street to Kildonan Park where we stopped at the Prairie Edge Restaurant for a lovely patio supper.  Then walked briefly around the creek for a garden photo shoot and back the scenic architectural Scotia Street back to Janice's, then home.  And talk about fluky, we stopped at Mo's Cottage, well this happens to be my friend Mary's own special friend that I've heard lots about!  WOW talk about a small world!!!  Here I mentioned mosquitoes haven't been bad lately, yeah well they found me and I've half dozen or so itchy bites!!! BUT it was awesome to visit with the girls! Thanks Monika for getting us motivated! 

Once home I finished off the last two larger mask orders so hopefully tomorrow I'll start on the remaining six orders, thankfully smaller.

Carolynn, myself, Janice and Monika.

I need longer arms!

Beautiful gardens. 

Love these coneflowers (echinacea).

Even I think this is an awesome tree and huge! 

I need a step stool!

Mo's reading room! 

I love it!!!!!  Morning coffee place? 

There's Mo in the background.  Jan's pic. 

Another of Jan's pics.  Thank you. 

And I lost that dang water bottle too! 

Crazy patch quilt or table runner?   WOW!!!

Aug 29th

Okay two days of sewing again yielded the second large order for my Dentist's girls, a smaller order for a teacher and size small ones for Adele or extras.

Then Angela invited me over for supper, garden cucs and dessert n coffee by the fire!!! I even tried BBQ roasted beets and had a second helping too!  She spoils me rotten with her excellent meals!  Thank you Angela and Bruce!

Angela's Covid relief saver garden! 

Zinnia? 

So cute!

Roast pork that drove me crazy!!!!!

Bruce and Angela 

YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!!!!!

I was a piggy too, had seconds with all the fresh air lately! 

Now this is the LIFE!!!!!

Hmmmm not sure why I see a spaceship in the flames or is that a stingray?????   Good thing I had coffee after this!!!!!

This was what I was talking about the other day!  To many with no respect for another human being whether someone walking through the park or a person of authority or another's personal property!  This world is definitely going to pots!

Hey Angie I didn't know this either! 😉

WOW, I know some of you cat lovers may wish to use this cat alphabet!

I'm very happy to say I have known her before she became an exceptional fabric artist!

Ok this is it for today and part of tomorrow! Today I've completed two smaller orders plus four extras maybe.  So that means tomorrow morning I've 5 orders to drop off or deliver!

Aug 31st

Okay, I just snuck in under the wire and my Fringe Tatters exchange swap tatted item is winging it's way to Australia today!  Delivery is 2-3 weeks, so guess we'll see when the recipient posts it's arrival!  🤗🤗🤗  

My new lovely shuttles ordered from https://m.facebook.com/shuttlebydesign/

Butterfly Bookvine by Kimberly Donahue 

My time since mid-April has been inundated with mask and scrub cap sewing with the odd escape to my other hobbies but short lived!  Today I also have been delivering or were picked up 3 of the 4 mask sets completed lately!  While out and about, I saw my first LIVE bat here (small compared to those I saw with Merle and Jim in Australia), plus took pictures with #10s display!

So sad!

What a nice evening for a walk with Edna, except it sure cooled off early and fall is in the air!  This time we walked north on Kenaston from the Outlet Mall onto Taylor Ave West then onto Park Blvd S and West past some WOW properties.  Then met up with Cris who worked years ago at Ag Services UofM before heading back to Taylor then Shaftsbury to Sterling Lyon and back to the Outlet Mall.  AND we just crossed the train tracks maybe 5 minutes and a long train came along blocking the crossing! Lucky us!