We had a nice, tranquillity twenty-four hr menstruation yesterday. After finishing off my weblog post, I stitched upwards the day's inchy. This i was sort of fun. The blossom centre is done alongside closely-spaced buttonhole stitches. The pinkish "arms" radiating out are pistil stitch, which is simply a French knot alongside a long neck. The border is backstitched, too and thence some other length of floss is woven inwards too out of the stitches to brand a "laced" backstitch.
After that, nosotros got Smitty out for some other curlicue inwards the dirt. He likes going out. He hates wearing his harness, too he's using all of his patience to allow us to set it on.
When he finished rolling inwards the dirt, he came inwards too helped me alongside my manus quilting. He's go my most reliable stitching cat, lying beside me spell I work.
So, I spent quite a chip of fourth dimension on this yesterday. When I realized I was to a greater extent than than one-half finished, I perked upwards too started enjoying it more. I filled some other hoop alongside stitching too and thence moved the hoop to the following position.
Smitty helped alongside that purpose too. He's an first-class paw quilter.
While I had it spread out, I noticed I'd forgotten to complete stitching the interior of this block, although all the following blocks were finished long ago. I solely got every bit far every bit stitching some the tree on the right, too thence I'll convey to recollect to go dorsum too complete it.
As I mentioned inwards yesterday's post, nosotros reserved ii steak too lobster dinners hither inwards the RV commons for our Valentine's Day celebration. As nosotros were getting cook to leave, Sadie was quite concerned nigh the status of her process bowl. She sat staring at me, spell pointing at the process bowl alongside her ears.
When that didn't work, she set on an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than pitiable face.
We've given our process dispensing unlike names. Treats nosotros dispense afterward returning from an outing are called "Treat too Greet" treats. Treats they larn when Smitty comes within afterward a walk are "Treats of Valor." Treats dispensed earlier leaving are called "Retreat Treats," too that's what she was waiting for.
Our dinner terminal black was really nice. When nosotros were seated, at that spot was a frosted pretzel at each house setting. I sat staring at mine through the whole meal, wondering when it was appropriate to swallow it. Mike too I saved ours for when nosotros got dorsum to the trailer. Another adult woman at the tabular array ate hers correct away.
The start course of written report was a zucchini-pear soup. H5N1 foreign combination, too it tasted neither of pears nor zucchini, but it was skillful simply the same.
Next, a lettuce wedge salad, alongside bacon too bluish cheese dressing. This was quite good.
Okay, too the top dog course of written report was delicious, but hm...steak too lobster? Because I don't know nigh you, but those "lobsters" await suspiciously similar shrimp. Oh well. If I'd been blindfolded too fed past times individual else, I would never convey known I was eating shrimp. It tasted simply similar lobster. There was also asparagus too a twice-baked potato. It was all genuinely good, too remember...this is an RV park. No fancy cheffery going on here. ("Cheffery." I simply made that give-and-take up...only plainly not, because it appears inwards the Urban Dictionary.)
After the top dog course, the ladies were all given i cherry rose...pretty.
And too thence dessert was a genuinely tasty cheesecake alongside some sort of raspberry sauce on it.
This morning, my rose is sharing an empty bricklayer jolt alongside the living basil plant. They seem to convey gotten along fine during the night, although I think the rose may convey drunkard to a greater extent than than its fair percentage of water.
So at that spot was no sewing yesterday. I spent most of the twenty-four hr menstruation working on the manus quilting. Today volition go my terminal adventure to run upwards for a while, too thence I'll belike experience to a greater extent than motivated to drag everything out. I'd similar to larn to a greater extent than done on the bonus triangles earlier nosotros motion along.
If you lot read my postal service from yesterday, too thence you lot mightiness recall I was bemoaning having to cross ii of our hereafter destinations off my listing for lack of an RV park, too a route closure. I spent some fourth dimension rerouting us yesterday too came upwards alongside a span of skillful alternatives. Our start halt afterward nosotros go out tomorrow volition go Caliente, Nevada, where we'll pass 5 days. It volition compass us fourth dimension to explore Cathedral Gorge State Park and Kershaw-Ryan State Park. As I was looking for those links, I happened to go to the top dog website for Nevada State Parks, too realized at that spot are several other parks inwards the surface area nosotros are traveling to.
One is read nigh our view here, here, too here. We enjoyed our fourth dimension there, but we'll skip it this trip inwards firm to run into some other things.
After that, we'll caput downwardly to Boulder City, Nevada, a cute footling town we've visited many times. Then on to Sedona, Arizona. You'd think ii people who lived inwards Arizona for iii years mightiness convey visited Sedona at i fourth dimension or another, but nosotros convey not. Frankly, nosotros were newlyweds too students, too nosotros didn't convey plenty coin to laid human foot inwards a house similar that. But times convey changed, too thence it seemed a natural substitute when I considered our options for rerouting, too we're looking forwards to it. I'm simply betting there's a skillful quilt store there...actually, several!
The trip is mapped out fifty-fifty beyond what I've mentioned here, but I'll larn to the following locations every bit nosotros motion downwardly the road. Just know at that spot volition go a lot of sight-seeing inwards the following few days, thence set on your comfortable walking shoes too larn ready.