Busy as a bee 🐝

Another trip.  This time I'm back in California.  My nephew and I flew out last night as he needed to get home and my lovely daughter is having a bridal shower this weekend.  I'm happy and excited to attend.  Her BFF has planned and delegated and I'm certain it will be a wonderful day.  My sisters and nieces and BFF will be there.  But I am very tired from all this traveling.  Still have two more trips a wedding and a reception.... then calm.... hopefully not before the storm.

I finished the wedding quilt.  I sure hope they like it.  It was a lot of work.  The most challenging one I have done.  Curved piecing, on point and mitered borders. Plus the size- a large quilt gets cumbersome to work on as it goes together.  I like the way it turned out.... but.... it never looks like much until it is quilted!  That's when the magic happens!

Right now only half a dozen have seen it... I don't want anyone to slip and show my girl.  Or her to somehow see a picture of it.  It goes to the quilter this weekend.

So I actually put the quilt in my checked luggage on a direct flight.  Last time I came into LAX there were so many delays. Oh boy, I felt so bad for my future SIL because he was there to get me but the flight sat on the tarmac for 40 min then my bag was forever getting off the baggage claim and I was meeting him for the first time. I felt so bad that he had to wait and wait -  So yesterday, we came right into the gate, the last gate right by the stairs to go to the carousel at baggage claim.  My daughter said, "Call me when you get your bag...." well, she called to see how things were going. I told her, "We just got to baggage claim and the bells are going off that it is starting to drop bags.... I'm confident (hopeful) that my bag won't be one of the last off."  BA-BAM!  Who's bag was the first off the carousel! Yes, it was mine.  And we walked outside and got in the car.  That was crazy.  I guess the little things get me jazzed.

So I guess that's about all that's happening.  I think when I get home I'm going to get together with my other BFF and we are going to teach ourselves silk ribbon embroidery.  So I can have some handwork to do on vacations, on a flight, at night or whenever it's not convenient to use a machine.
I may help my daughter do some  mending and alterations.... her fiancé has a pair of Levi's that look as if he somehow managed to evade Wolverine just by the seat of his pants.

Have a lovely day, and a wonderful weekend.  Whatever you do, and wherever you go, share a smile and a kind word or deed.  God bless you!

Camping Trip

We are having a great time with my nephew.  On Tuesday he flew out to see us for two weeks.  We picked him up from the airport and drove home.  It's a 50 or so min drive.  He seemed a bit timid.  See we have never lived close to his family and so it's hard to have a relationship.... maybe easier now with social media to stay in touch but he's 15 so while there is so much love.... we have to get better acquainted.  

So he and my son stayed up late and played some video games.  In the morning we finished packing the little RV and got the boys up, ate breakfast and on our way to Big Bone Lick State Park we went.  We ended up bring our little dogs because they are so backwards that we didn't feel comfortable leaving them without a resident house sitter.  They are so needy.  And we didn't want our neighbor to have to clean up after the girls.... grrrrr.  Or deal with it when we returned home.

So far things have been fine.  It's too warm to leave them in the RV in a parking lot... so someone has to stay with them or check on them.  It's not ideal but that's what we are dealing with. 

Today we went to the Creation Museum.  It was cool.  We got to hear Ken Ham speak.  Really enjoyed it.  It was interesting.  In one of the exhibits about race.... the fact that all people are of the same race, going back to Adam and Eve, until the Tower of Babel, scattered and split folks up.  A Caucasian woman said to an African American woman , "Isn't it wonderful that we are all of the same race."  Instead of saying yes, or amen, or you got that right.... she said I wish the president believed that.  It made me sad.  That we can't just be nice.  Why put a negative spin on that conversation.  

We came back to the campground took a walk and well, let's just say I told them we were taking the wrong fork in the trail but got out voted.  So the very winding, hilly, muddy, and slippery .5 mile walk ended up being over a mile.  But we found the bison and I was thrilled to find a beautiful butterfly to photograph.  Then we walked back on the road... probably a little over a mile.  More butterflies of different varieties.  One which landed on my hand.... and as we were about to melt from the steamy hot weather and the walk up the steep hill a fawn crossed the road a little over half the way up the hill in front of us.  Very, very cool.  I literally felt like I was melting.  I headed to the showers to wash, shampoo and change.  I felt like a new woman.
  

We started dinner when I got back.  We had brats.  Well, we almost didn't.  I left them in the freezer.  There were eight of them frozen together solid.  So the water I was heating for corn on the cob, we put the brats into until I had 8 not 1, then grilled them.  Then I started some new water for the corn.  So dinner was brats, corn on the cob, sweet potatoes, and broccoli and chips.  For dessert s'mores.  My husband made me the most perfectly created s'more and brought it to me while I was doing dishes.  Mmmmmm.  Yum yum yummity!

We are comfortable here at the campground.  We have electricity and water.  The RV keeps the bugs outside.  But in a sense we are roughing it out here.  We have no tv, internet or cell coverage.  It's actually nice.   It is strange though to be unplugged. 

Now we are settling in for the night.  They may make a campfire tonight.  To be honest I'm pooped... tuckered out... spent.... wasted.... so tired.  

Tomorrow is the Ark Encounter.  Up early, breakfast and go.  Then back here for a trip to the little museum here at the park.  Probably walking... I hope my legs are still working tomorrow!  Hahaha.... that was a treacherous walk today. My footing slipped numerous times but I was being careful so I didn't fall.  Anyway, life can be  wonderful, eventful, exciting, disappointing, sad and yet we can still be happy if we understand that it is not always gonna be rosy..... roses have thorns and life isn't without pain, because of sin.  But we can have hope in the God of the Bible -that all is not in vain.  He will sustain our needs and give purpose to our lives and that thought gives me peace and joy. Even when I'm feeling a wee bit sad.  It keeps me from falling into a deep chasm of depression.  Knowing the best is yet to come.