SUNNY DAYS

Wednesday and Thursday were just such beautiful days here.  Donna and I spent all day Wednesday going to the Quilting Shop Hop.  We took my car.  I now have almost 3,000 miles on it.  We had a nice time going  to the different shops.  There was a long list of shops but we covered 6 shops and that took a long time.  We went to Port Townsend, Silverdale, Port Gamble, Port Angeles, Poulsbo and Kingston.  Donna found a really nice kit for a wall hanging. It has birds and bird houses on it.  She is still trying to decide what kind of quilt to make for the quilting retreat we are going to in October.  The picture above is the one I made last year. This year I think I will just take a smaller counted-cross stitch picture to work on.  I am still working on the large Autumn one that I bought in May.  I have done quite a bit on it but there is still way, way more work before it will be finished.  Even after the cross-stitching is done there is still all the outlining to do. I am sure at the Quilting retreat I will be helping with Donna's quilt. Usually I do a lot of ironing and sewing squares together.

Thursday Donna decided she wanted to make some Strawberry Jam.  She wanted to pick the berries herself.  We took my car again.  My car always needs exercise. I feel kind of silly being so fussy but I had her put towels down in the trunk and on the front seat of the car. At times my OCD rears it's ugly head. I sat in my car and read my Kindle.  I am way past bending over and picking berries.  She got a lot of berries picked in an hour's time.  Donna bought a  Presto canner at Wal-mart. It was really nice for the jam.  Now she can can fruit or vegetables or meat if she wants to.  

I did help with the Strawberry jam.  I got the berries ready for Donna to smash up.  I even helped stir the jam.  You have to be so careful you don't burn yourself.  Also we made 2 loaves of bread.  Donna just bought some new yeast and the dough was rising really fast.  The loaves came out huge.  The fresh bread was so good with the fresh Strawberry jam.  

Tuesday we are going to Marysville to see my sister, Elsie.  I have not seen her for quite awhile.  We write back and forth all the time.  She loves letters.  Once when I called her I had not written for awhile and she said it was nice to talk to me but she missed my letters so now I try to write often.