If you're a Monty Python fan, you lot mightiness recognize that title. And if you're not, I'll explicate inwards a minute. First...see that big tree at that spot precisely off to the correct a little?
Tractor Man, aka the Lumberjack, is downwards at that spot amongst his chainsaw. The tree came downwards yesterday. I loathe cutting downwards a big tree similar that, but I'm sympathetic to Mike's concerns too. We paid a pretty penny to receive got total torso pigment on our novel RV. Usually they come upwardly painted white amongst decals for some design. The occupation is those decals deteriorate from Sun exposure in addition to they await awful inside precisely a few years. When nosotros bought the novel 5th wheel, Mike had his ticker assault total torso paint...no decals.
The tree is growing therefore unopen to the RV pad, that it scrapes at the pigment when nosotros receive got it there. But that's non all: it's also a haven for carpenter ants. They drib onto the roof of the RV from the tree. Don't fifty-fifty larn me started telling you lot virtually a see to Crater Lake NP 1 yr when nosotros discovered our bed was infested amongst carpenter ants. Ew. It gives me the heebie jeebies remembering it. So, okay...the tree comes down, amongst precisely a piddling chip of regret.
While he was exterior running his chainsaw, the kitties in addition to I were hunkered downwards inwards the menage working on our latest embroidery. There was precisely a piddling chip left to create on the base, in addition to therefore I finished that.
And in addition to then at that spot was precisely a piddling chip to create on the correct side, in addition to therefore I finished that too.
It was getting fourth dimension to hitting the shower in addition to larn dressed, but I was worried virtually getting inwards the shower amongst Mike exterior felling a big tree. I was getting ready to larn exterior in addition to cheque amongst him, when he appeared at the door wanting me to grip his iPhone in addition to video the final seconds of the tree's life. So...okay...I was game.
He'd cutting a notch on the far side in addition to driven some wedges into the close side, hoping to position it downwards out inwards the empty field. (He's done this before, in addition to therefore he's pretty adept at it.)
While I was waiting I took a twosome of pictures of our big mushrooms. They aren't equally much fun equally the ones nosotros saw at Cape Disappointment, but function amongst me here.
It was virtually some other ii minutes of cutting, in addition to and then the tree came downwards amongst a big CRACK!
Counting the increment rings, nosotros determined that the tree was virtually thirty years old...younger than nosotros thought. I felt a piddling ameliorate knowing it wasn't a real erstwhile tree. To move clear, that isn't a #MAGA chapeau he's wearing. Also, he position that tree downwards correct where he wanted it.
As for that spider web log title, you lot tin dismiss run across the Monty Python version inwards this video here. But move aware that it gets a piddling chip naughty. If you lot receive got tender sensibilities, you lot mightiness desire to scroll on by. And if you lot can't run across the video, in addition to then click correct here.
As for yesterday's sewing, I spent the afternoon working on the sixth row of the Shop Hop quilt. The offset block was from 1 of my favorite Oregon shops, The Stitchin' Post inwards Sisters, Oregon. This is the store owned past times Jean in addition to Valori Wells, in addition to the abode of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. This is the blog post I wrote virtually my see there, although I see every fourth dimension nosotros drive through Sisters...frequently. The link takes you lot to a postal service from 2012, which was good earlier I started collecting specifically regional prints. This 1 is precisely a stuff I liked. It's a pretty batik, in addition to therefore it's apropos of cipher inwards item beyond my fondness for the colors in addition to design.
This side past times side 1 is some other early on acquisition. It's from a store nosotros visited equally nosotros were leaving Glacier National Park dorsum inwards 2012. (It mightiness receive got fifty-fifty been from the same trip.) You tin dismiss read my spider web log postal service virtually it right here. It was a beautiful shop, sort of out inwards the middle of nowhere. And, again, I picked this stuff solely because I liked it, but it does sort of receive got that woodsy feel. It appears this store is nonetheless open, fortunately, in addition to you lot tin dismiss honour their website correct here.
This side past times side 1 was from the final store nosotros visited spell on our trip precisely about the perimeter of the USA. We were inwards southern California, in addition to we'd been visiting Temecula wineries amongst friends nosotros knew from high school. This vino impress seemed similar the perfect thing.
Quilters Cottage was a cracking piddling store inwards Fallbrook. You tin dismiss read my spider web log post virtually it correct here. With this beingness such a late visited shop, I experience fairly certainly they're nonetheless inwards business. You tin dismiss honour their website correct here. I Federal Reserve notation that the cite on their website has an apostrophe inwards "Quilters." When I looked at the receipt from the fabric...no apostrophe. I'm going amongst that.
This side past times side 1 was from a wonderful 24-hour interval I spent amongst my friend Robin inwards Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We visited 4 quilt shops that day...all winners...and I wrote a unmarried spider web log postal service virtually our day. You tin dismiss read it correct here. Weavers is sort of an establishment inwards the area, in addition to you lot tin dismiss honour their website correct here. With Lancaster County beingness the abode of therefore many of the Amish faith, this Beatitudes-inspired stuff seemed similar a adept choice.
This side past times side stuff was an slowly pick. We'd been seeing alarm signs virtually alligators all along the way from North Carolina, downwards into Florida, in addition to beyond. When nosotros reached this store inwards Orlando, solely a stuff sporting an alligator would do. I constitute it inwards this aboriginal print.
Wandering Stitches was some other winner of a shop...huge...with lots of fabrics. It was difficult non to purchase out the store. You tin dismiss read my spider web log postal service virtually it right here. Their website is right here.
This side past times side store was inwards Decatur, Georgia. We'd come upwardly to the expanse specifically to run across the whale sharks at the Georgia Aquarium inwards Atlanta, in addition to therefore this fish stuff was the obvious choice.
Intown Quilters was 1 of the friendlier shops I visited, although they were all friendly. These folks seemed therefore delighted to receive got me see that it was specially enjoyable. You tin dismiss read my spider web log post correct here. Their website is correct here.
Oh yes, in addition to if you lot missed our see to the aquarium, you lot tin dismiss run across my video of the whale sharks correct here. If you lot can't run across the video, click correct here.
This side past times side store was 1 that several of you lot urged me to visit, in addition to I was therefore real glad I did. What a wonderful shop. If you lot e'er honour yourself close Summerville, you lot but must honour a way to larn there. Also, I'd been on the hunt for some palmetto stuff for South Carolina, the Palmetto State. Although I'd visited other quilt shops inwards South Carolina, this was the offset store to receive got palmetto fabric. Go figure. You tin dismiss read my spider web log postal service virtually it right here. And this was some other store where I ended upwardly spending a lot of money. They had therefore much I loved. You tin dismiss find their website correct here.
Finally, this one. We were visiting the right here. Their website is correct here. And this was pretty much our offset halt inwards Texas, therefore what else could I select but this fabric.
Those are all the blocks for the sixth row of the quilt. They're all finished except for the final two. Today I'll complete putting the flange on those in addition to and then sew together the blocks into a row to move added to the quilt. It doesn't seem similar a lot of sewing, but it volition in all likelihood receive got a twosome of hours.
First, though, I'll larn dorsum to function on the Snow Globes block. I'm to the public now, in addition to therefore it's virtually one-half finished.
Did you lot squall upwardly to autumn dorsum this morning? I honey it when I larn upwardly at the same fourth dimension in addition to larn an extra lx minutes inwards my day.
I know some folks are actually bothered past times changes of time, but I don't mind. It's easier inwards the autumn than it is inwards the spring. And I don't know virtually you, but I honour that the older I get, the less appall I tin dismiss muster virtually things non related to my sewing machine.
As for my sewing machine, I got a telephone band it was ready to pick upwardly yesterday. When I asked if she'd fixed anything, she told me she'd seen the error, but in addition to then precisely reset everything in addition to directly it was sewing fine. And this sort of made my blood boil all over again. The Resident Engineer called her dorsum in addition to discussed electronic things amongst her...which she had no agreement of at all...and inwards the end, she agreed to "open a ticket amongst Bernina." Thank you. That's all nosotros wanted. Fix it...don't precisely reset it. Fix it! They did brand us a adept bargain on a novel machine, but I don't actually desire to larn a novel machine. I similar my machine. I precisely desire it to function right. So...long floor short...the machine is nonetheless inwards for repairs. I tin dismiss move patient.