Kayaking

Another beautiful day spent kayaking with my brother and his family at Cedar Creek. We spent about 4 hours kayaking. It was soooo much fun. I think next year I'm going to sell my kayak and get a yak board - easier to carry, transport and navigate!

Rainbow

A picture if a magical double rainbow in St. Agatha, Maine.

Beautiful Sunset

This is beautiful summer sunset in St. Agatha, Maine in front of Mom and Dad's house.

Acadian Village, Maine

An old stove. I love this old stove. When I go up to Maine to see my mom and dad in the summer we go to the Acadian Village. There they have houses set up to show the history of the Acadians in the St. John Valley. This old black stove is in one of the houses. It just makes me happy to look at it.

I also love the picture of the kitchen table in the same house. I could just plant myself down at that table, have someone make me some ployes on that stove and be a very happy person!

Quilting Possibilities

This morning, Sara Jane and I took a ride down the GSP (from exit 100 to exit 74) to Forked (pronounced fork - ED) River. We recently found the most quilting shop - Quilting Possibilities. It is located on Route 9 in Forked River. The people who work there are so helpful and just plain pleasant! The amount of fbric that they have there is amazing. I have never seen so much fabric in one place. The quality of the fabric is incredible also.

The best part of the store is this tiny room that is called the "Sale Room". The fabric in there goes for $5 a yard. The quality and diversity of fabric is just great. It is especially great because it looks and feels so expensive yet is inexpensive enough for a begiining quilter like me to feel comfortable using it.

So on our jaunt this morning I went into the "Sale Room" and came out with 4 yards of MODA beautiful rose themed fabric. $20 total for that and then a cute white rose theme fat quarter for $1.35. So much quality fabirc for such a great price!

Now I just have to finish my Alice in Wonderland quilt and I can make my rose quilt. Let the quilting excitement begin!

Buttons

It is official - the heat has finally gotten to my brain. It is just too hot to be outside - so I was looking around my craft room for something to do. I had a shoebox full of buttons. I had seen pictures in a magazine "Where Artists Create" and had seen beautiful canning jars filled with buttons sorted according to color. It was so sparkly and pretty.

I sorted all the buttons by color and then ran to WalMart and bought 12 canning jars. I was so excited when I got home and out the buttons in the jars. They really look so pretty!

I Live on the Surface of the Sun!

OK I can deal with heat but this weather is ridiculous. We have had above 100 degree temperature all week. That is not figuring in the humidity. I truly feel as though I am living on the surface of the sun.

Just to walk from my house to my car - I was drenched in sweat. Walking across the parking lot caused my flip flops to start to melt. There was an actual trail of black goo as I walked. My flip flops were melting away under my feet!

Sara Jane said that when she was outside and was breathing it felt like her lungs were being seared.

It is so bad that on a church sign it said:

Satan called.
He wants his weather back.

Ain't that the truth.