HAIN Summer Games Challenge

On the Heavenly Angels in Need site we are having our own 'Games'  this summer to keep

 our hooks and needles going.  No Ralph Lauren uniforms required....LOL

The first event is the 'Hat Hurdles"

My entry in this event  is 6 baby girl hats and 7 baby boy hats. Wish I had used a different

'background' for my pics.......next time. 8-)



The next 'event' is the Baby Bootie Relay.

I have some other projects to work on before I can start that event.

This event was fun and didn't take long....most of the hats were

made in the car.

The Bluebeary Hunters!

We had fun hunting the elusive wild blueberry, today.  This was the first indication that we were on the right track.

Oh, yes!  That is a real bear track.

He must have eaten breakfast nearby.

There actually were edible wild blueberries for our picking  pleasure.

Not a lot, but some.

Even ttho th' pickin's was slim.....we

'catch'd these:

Not many, certainly not enough for a pie.  But, they will be delicious on our oatmeal for several days.

We discovered another place where they are more plentiful on our way home. 8-)

So, you know what we will be doing on Saturday morning if the old dude doesn't have to work.

We found that the St. Johns Wort is in bloom.

We thought these might be wild bachelor's buttons, but they

are called Ragged Robin.

We did see deer on this trip, but not one of them would stand still long enough for a portrait.

Hrrrmmmppphhhh!

Elk Pictures

We went by to pay a visit to these gorgeous creatures this afternoon:

Other tidbits:
we have lots of tomato blossoms and some squash blossoms in the garden.  We have had quite a few salads with the mesclun, arugala and spinach from the garden.
The wood for next year is nearly all stacked neatly in rows in the backyard.   We have 3 more
cords coming for next year and then we need to finish getting the wood for 2012's winter.   This unseasoned wood was available now and at a very good price....so we made hay....er, wood while the sun shined(or is it shone?).  Whatever, we'll be warm either way. 8-)

Lots of crocheting going on right now, for a change.  pics later.

Bit of this and that

I've been sewing on a couple quilts.

I actually have a couple rows sewn together on that one, since I took the pic.  All those triangles are fun to put together and keep them lined up and not stretch them out of shape.  This was a mystery quilt on the quilt talk yahoo group and if I had known what it was like in advance I wouldn't have used  the fish fabric since it is only one direction and doesn't really work well with the blocks on point.  Lesson learned....don't use directional prints on mystery quilts.  Oh well, it will be warm anyway.

I'm doing another mystery quilt, but not using directional prints, that's for sure.  I had quite a bit of brown prints in my stash, so that is what I am using for this one.  One of my prints has sort of a burgandy in it and it isn't really playing nice with the other prints, so that block might be replaced with something else.

I don't have individual pics of two of these blocks:

The brown background on that block on the left gets lost and overpowered by the print. Bummer.

This was the block for week 4 of the mystery quilt.  I'm looking forward to block 5 which will be released tomorrow.

The moon was gorgeous on Monday July 2.



Fish...we have fish.

The Old Dude and Terry went fishing and got a bunch of pike.

3 of them were keepers.

Terry tried all week and didn't catch a fish, until The old dude took him over to Seney National Wildlife Refuge and shared his favorite fishin' holes. 8-)

Like the rest of the state and country we are having really hot weather...93 degrees today.

The lettuce and spinach are going crazy and want to bolt and go to seed.  tomato  plants and squash are really growing in this heat, too.

Iced tea, anyone?!