I finally got done with the quilt I was making for our daughter, Tammy. It took away longer than any other one has so far, almost ten months. Since I make them mostly by hand, they do take longer, and this was a king size one. Besides running into a glitch of needing to make it bigger than I started to and not being able to find a fabric to match. I had to make do with what I had, but it set me back nearly a month. Ah, well. Such is life. It is really pretty, but not to everyone's taste as it is bright colors in batik prints. When I am finished, I don't have to put it into a quilt frame and quilt it. I do each piece complete, so when I am done, it is finished, both sides. I am including pictures of both sides here so you can see. As it is king size and I had to be rather far away to get it all in the picture, it looks small, but really it is HUGE!
I finished it on August 8, but had to wait until after August 23 when we had a wedding shower for Tammy. We displayed it as a surprise for her.
I have already started on a new one, a twin size for grandson, David. It is going to be interesting as it is mixed colored flowerettes on one side and hodge podge (no pattern) in beige prints on the back side. I want it to be more masculine for him, so really had to choose fabrics carefully. So many fabrics are floral and very girly. I really enjoy quilting, as you can tell. Planning a new quilt is lots of fun and sometimes a challenge.
We got a lovely surprise Sunday. We had a concert along with the church service at Bonell Senior Apartments in Greeley and had some friends from Vancouver, WA come in to worship and visit with us. They also live in Desert Hot Springs CA in the winter like we do. It was really great to see them again. The season is beginning to wind down now. Not much time to visit family and play music before we head out again.

I've really been goofing off lately and haven't written here. We have had a great summer so far. It started off with a wonderful week on Lake Powell on a houseboat. Our friends, Hal and Dee own it and had invited us a couple years ago to join them this year. We are so glad we did. It was a completely relaxing time, with nothing to do except watch the absolutely gorgeous rock formations go by, eat (with a gourmet cook, Dee), sleep, read and swim. I also got some quilting done. We heard no news, watched no TV, although we could have, and really enjoyed ourselves. What a vacation! Usually you have to go home from a vacation to rest up, but this was not the case with this vacation. We can't say enough thanks to Hal and Dee for their wonderful hospitality. We had a ball!!!

Then we went to Rocky Ford CO for a few days, which we spent with our friends, the Gragerts, who pastor a Southern Baptist Church there. We were included in a huge garage sale, which since I didn't have to organize it, was great fun. Also we did a concert and a sing-a-long while there, and took part in a neat potluck dinner. Old friendships were renewed while there and we made new friends, too. What a good visit!

Next on the agenda was the trip back to northern CO to where our trailer was stored for the winter. Our gracious hostess, Carol Lontine, welcomed us and took us in until we could move our trailer to her property and get it set up. We are southwest of Kersey, CO. Since the Robels, where we stayed last year, are building a new house, they had no utilities available for us, so we had to move out. But at Carol's, we have 14 llamas, a dog, three cats and a turtle for company, besides Carol. We are helping her with the animals and allowing her to be away sometimes. She went to her 50th class reunion in Denver at East High shortly after we got there.

We have done a lot of concerts, mostly at Senior Centers, since we got here. Things are going well for us here. Already tho, we see the end of this season here coming.