Our Little Girl Is Married

How did we go from here



.....................................to here

................................so quickly???????

Last month ( on Tom's birthday) our youngest granddaughter, Caitlin, surprised us by getting married a couple of days before her fiance left for basic training. They had been engaged for quite a long time, but the decision to have a simple ceremony before he left was sudden and only her parents and sister attended. They plan on having a second ceremony for family after Lucas returns from training.

We love you, Caitie and wish you both a long and happy marriage!

A Dry Day?

I sure hope so..............thus far so good.



My friend Barb, is headed for a vacation and while she's gone she's giving away over 5 yards of gorgeous fabric. Be sure and check out her blog.


Hope to get another top basted today and start quilting.

Double Wedding Ring

For the last couple of days I've been quilting on a little table topper that I made about 3 or 4 years ago. It was made using the Quilt Smart fusible interfacing. At the time I bought the kit I was sure I'd never be able to piece a double wedding ring any other way. Then I hand pieced my Diamond Ring and discovered that the curved piecing really wasn't that hard.

At any rate, I decided this little piece had been waiting long enough so I started quilting it Thursday. At the time I took these pictures I hadn't removed the blue markings on the center motifs..so if you see blue, that is why. It's about 30 X 40".

And it's raining again this morning! Awwwgggrrrrhhhhh!

Uniform Dedication

I guess it's a family thing. My oldest son Mike's most recent official picture taken last month.

And his son and daughter..taken last month while Greg was back in the states on R & R from Afghanistan. Kelley is an EMT for an ambulance company in Massachusetts.




Guess it must also be a family thing to not smile when you're in uniform.

Rain, Rain Go Away

The rain just keeps coming. According to the TV we've had 2.5 inches so far today. Seems like a lot more. Just before noon, the drainage ditch that runs through our property was out of it's banks. A dead tree that was cut up and waiting for our lawn keeper to haul away, floated here and there. The water had obviously been higher prior to me taking these pictures. I was busy doing paperwork for Tom's retirement on the computer and not paying attention to how hard it was raining.

Brick bridge about 10 feet from our back door. See the chunk of wood and chair that floated?

To the east of our house the ditch bends from north/south to east/west. It's slightly out of it's banks here. All of the cut up tree was piled here..now only a couple of pieces left.



East of our house..another wooden and iron bridge with the water going THROUGH it instead of UNDER it.

We've had much worse, many times. The following pics were in 2007 and these weren't even the worse we've seen. Remember the picture above of the ditch making a curve? This is the same area only the whole yard is under.

Looking out our kitchen widow to the East..see the wooden/iron bridge just barely visible in the upper left corner.

The brick bridge behind our house. On several occasions we've had water going over the TOP of the brick sides. Guess it almost is in this picture.

Looking out the back windows at the water churning out from under the brick bridge and also going over the top.


There are more pictures of some of the damage flooding has done in our yard in My Garden album on Photobucket. Page two has pictures of one of the times the wood/iron bridge itself was picked up and carried across the yard.

I'm ready for the rain to stop any time now.