Hello...

 

 

How was your holiday?

 

 

I splurged a bit Saturday...

but I'll share that later.

~b

 



under the boardwalk

Happy 4th!

 

I wish I could send you a postcard from

Long Beach, California...

 

 

 

I would write a message on the back telling you

how much fun I'm having.

 

 

But sadly I'm not there

and certainly not on (or under) this boardwalk.

 

We'll be lighting our firecrackers here in South Dakota.

 

Have a safe one.

 

This postcard from my collection

was sent from Whittier, Ca. to Lennox, SD. in 1929.

 

~b

 

 



East vs West

It's always fun when we decide

at the last minute to take a mini-vacation.

East or West?

 

 

Go West, young man, go West...

and that is what we did.

All the way to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.

 

The temps were cool enough that we decided to drive

through the Badlands on our way home.

 

 

If you've never been here...

 

 

it's an awesome! place to see.

 

 

We came home feeling refreshed

 and (almost) ready to return to our routines.

 

~b



Mom's cobbler

We have been moving my mother into a assisting living center...

oh my! did she have a lot of stuff in her small apartment.
Note to self: DOWNSIZE...
start getting rid of stuff!
Before the kids have to do it.

 

 

I am lucky enough to be the only daughter of three that sews so...

Guess who got all the sewing things? YAY!

That is Mom's embroidery above and below...

She does beautiful handwork and at 83 years of age.

 

 

Who could dry dishes with such beautiful stitching?

 

I used up the last of this years rhubarb

for cobbler today. So good!

 

 

Mom's Rhubarb Cobbler

5 cups rhubarb cut up - put in bottom of baking dish.

 

Cream 1 cup sugar and 4 T. butter.

Add to this 5/8 c. milk, 1 1/4 c. flour, 1 tsp. baking powder and 1/4 tsp. salt.

Put this over rhubarb.

 

Mix: 11/4 c. sugar, 1/4 tsp. salt and 1 1/4 T. cornstarch.

Sprinkle over batter.

 

Pour 1 1/2 c. boiling water over whole cake.

 

Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees.

Top with whipped cream.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

(rhu)barb



40 BUCKS!!

i AM a huge fan of Green Mountain Knitting Bags.

I have been admiring the wooden handled bags for years.

 

 

Mr. b got me one for Christmas...

I love it. What a guy huh?

 

Green Mountain also sells what they call a lil' yarn sack...

 

 

$40!! No kidding...don't even ask what he paid for the bag.

I hit my sewing room and made one for myself...

 

 

All scrap pieces and thirty minutes later...

What do you think?

~b



hard lessons

A not so "funny" thing happened in the making of this cosmetic bag...

 

 

I found the pattern on-line, I thought pinterest?

Our printer is out of commission,

(aren't they always?)

so I just chose to follow the pattern on my I-Pad.

 

 

My I-Pad, as it is known to do,

threw me off-line in the middle of the construction job...

grrr

 

 

I hunted for hours to find the pattern again.

Lucky for me that I have experience in the making of bags

and I could finish it.

 

 

Maybe I learned a valuable lesson here?

 

~b



I did it!

Conquering the monkey bars...

 

 

Setting goals are good...

and getting across all of the monkey bars

at the playground

 has been a goal for these girls.

 

 

"We did it!"

Way to GO!

 

~b