Fall trip

We are on our fall camping trip. This year we drove east landing in the beautiful Preston Minnesota area with its Root River. There is a bike trail that we got on close by our campsite. There is also a beautiful golf course on the grounds that Mr. b took advantage of.

Today we are on Door County, one of our favorite destinations.

This morning we had their famous cherry jam on our toast and Door County coffee in our mugs.

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Back to school

 I went back to school in the late 1950's in a dress similar to this one. Plaid, puffed sleeves and skirt with a slip underneath it. If you were a lucky little girl the slip was a can-can style even if it meant sitting on that scratchy thing all day.

Dresses were mandatory all twelve of my school years.

In 1970 I wore mini skirts like this. I sewed most of my own clothes. 

Dotted swiss and rick rack trim was popular.

I sewed these dresses for our granddaughter's American Girl dolls.

Life was good.  

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Peaches

 Peach crates are in the stores! The first thing I made with them is peach jam.

We had a cat named Peach Jam

 when our kids were young. We called her PJ. She was a snooty Siamese but she was a loyal cat. 

This morning I painted peaches in my art journal.

Today sounds like a good day for a peach cobbler with homemade vanilla ice cream.

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Minestrone

 When I make a quilt I have to name it and this one made me think of minestrone soup.

I loved the upcycled sheet I used for the back of it.

With the quilt done I made soup...

Minestrone soup.

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Green with envy

Friends of our daughter put up a large greenhouse and we enjoyed seeing it yesterday. It is a beautiful structure containing exotic fruits like oranges, lemons, limes, passion fruit, along with all your normal garden fruits, vegetables and herbs.

They sent us home with an abundance of basil which I dried immediately.

I used it today in my homemade tomato basil soup.

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Some of

Some of this...

Some of that...

     Some of the other.

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Lemonade.

I backed this quilt with yet another upcycled sheet found in a thrift shop.

I just love all the summer colors I used in it. I call it my lemonade quilt.

 Gosh it's been hot here. Definitely not quilt weather.

It sure makes me wonder how we ever survived without air conditioners.

We enjoyed this cool lunch yesterday. Just 6 minutes on the stove top.

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