YOU CAN'T BEAT TUTORIALS! WELL, SOME OF THEM!

EIGHT MORE FRIDAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

MONDAY:
Glad I didn't have to go out today because it's cool.  So soon we are wearing warmer clothing, even in the house.   I hate washing sweatshirts!  Wear fleece please.  I'm always afraid of shrinking the sweats.

Bob was gone all day.  Our son has some home improvement (wet basement) being done and he had asked Bob to supervise the house while the men were working. 

So while the cats away the mice will play.  I worked on my quilt and finished it, including tying.   Yeah!  It took most of the day, but I worked in washing and cooking too. 

This evening, I'm watching the Steelers.  Finally they are televised here.  The first half was boring, come on -wake up!  I set up my computer and spent time researching quilting tutorials, everything I should have known about quilting.  I wasn't even using my iron correctly,press don't iron!  I had blocks that were out of shape and some were short.  I thought that paper backing was shrinking too ,this could be why.  When I noticed it I then realized I should have been checking the square of each block.  I ended up making five new blocks for one row.  While viewing sites, I bumped into an advertisement for a bar to hang quilts on for display...if your a quilter and need something type in ..HANG IT DANG IT!   Catchy title.  Thanks to everyone for the compliments on my quilt, I appreciate it.  

Encouragement  helped to work thru the problems. 

Long day, I'm getting to tired to finish watching the game.  Good thing I didn't go to bed as I would have missed "Troy's leap" and the fumble that he picked up.  Nice that they had a win for their fans. 

TUESDAY:
Wow! The weather is getting worse daily-cold and misty/wet!  Miserable!

Bob went to David's again today to babysit the house rather than leaving it open.  He took all kinds of reading info with him.  (Insurance plans)  

I cut out some triangles to make a pillowcase border.   I needed 16 pieces so it took a while, trying to cut them exact.   

WEDNESDAY:
Another cold, misty day.  We need some sunshine! 
The worker's at David's did not get finished yesterday so Bob went there  again.  There is a lot of work. 

I went into the craft room again and worked on the same pillow case.  Boy if I were getting paid, that would be worth a million.  I picked out the material for the body and trimmed it all up to size then I saw that it had cuts in the fabric further down.  That won't due, so cut another piece.  Then I put the border, the piping and the body together and I starting sewing.  Zip, zip.  When I reversed it, I saw that I had caught a piece of material from the body.  Rats!  Rip and tear, do it again.  I did finish it and it looks nice but this pattern is much shorter than the tube type.

JUST THE CHALLENGE OF IT,

As soon as the men finished at David's, Bob left and went to the John Deere dealer's to return some tool they had loaned him.  He bought more parts and came home.  He was tired and ready for a nap but he just had to work on the Deere to see if it would start with the new parts.  It did and he mowed the front and back yard; happy as can be!  He had worked on it for a week off and on.   He watched tutorials to fix it too.  He complained at the store as the parts were $80.00.  The salesman said, that machine is 20 years old; divide the 80 by 20 and it's costing you $4.00 a year.   Quit complaining.  

Betsy came home with parts for her Toyota Hybrid.  She had a headlight burned out.  So Bob pulled her car in the garage and they went to work on it.  Get this-she has been viewing headlight replacement tutorials on her phone, so she knew just how to go about changing the bulb.  She suited up with plastic gloves like going to do surgery...I laughed.  Then she explained that they advised not to touch the bulb and get fingerprints on it...It takes a halogen bulb.  Next they changed the windshield wipers and that took them longer than the bulb replacement. 

SELF MADE MECHANIC!

I told them not to hurry as supper was horrible anyway.  I made chicken and biscuits.  I can not make biscuits to save my life.  They turned out like stones!  I told them to use slices of bread if they wanted and I wouldn't be hurt.  I didn't want to eat them either.  I made apple salad with raisins and nuts too.  Usually there is left overs of this, but I only peeled one good sized apple instead of two and Bob picked until he cleaned it all up.  Like there wasn't enough, I can't win.

Once I got all situated in my TV chair, 
I watched some tutorials on making Home Made Biscuits!  They use self raising flour - this lady who was wearing an oxygen tube was making them from start to finish.  She dumped flour in without measuring. She dumped in buttermilk and shortening with out measuring.  Then she worked the dough by hand leaving a lot of flour in dish when she thought the dough was ready.  Those three steps would be my failure!  I just need to put them on my grocery list from the freezer section.
THURSDAY:

Oh what a beautiful day!  We are having some sun shine!  The porch is warm again.  Bob and his friends went fishing, glad they have nice weather.

I had the car!  Yeah!  I beat it over town and went all over.  Bed & Bath, Jo-Ann Fabrics, McDonald's and finally Tops for groceries.  I was exhausted by that time so I didn't even hunt for some of the stuff on the grocery list...ah get it next time!  My back hurt, my knees hurt...whine whine!  

I unloaded the milk and meat items and left the rest in the trunk for Bob to carry up.  I figured he would be along shortly.  I headed for a nap.  

He came home and scolded me for leaving the garage door open.  I said, I figured you would be coming soon.  He brought up the groceries and joined me on the bed-he was exhausted from fishing.   Gees, do they always have to take over the TV?  I got up and made supper.

Betsy came home from work and wanted to fix  her headlight before eating.  What?  The right side burned out now.  It's like they were on a timer or something.  

FRIDAY:

This morning, Bob is on the computer waiting for it to warm up outside.  As long as he is busy, I went back in the craft room.  I wanted to try the Nine Patch Quilt, they make it look so easy on the tutorial.  Here it is near supper time and I've been in there all day.  Sewing, riping, sewing, and riping.  It's not easy like it looks.  I checked my block cuttings; they are square.  It must all be in my seams: so check the seams. I'm thinking I need a different pressure foot on sewing machine as I can't really see 1/4" to good. I need more tools!  I'm about to get some glue stick and glue the seams together...ha.

HERE IS MY NINE BLOCKS
SCRAP MATERIAL FOR A TEST

THEN YOU CUT THEM TWICE
YOU CAN THEN TURN THEM ANY WHICH WAY
THE ORIGINAL NINE PATCH IS HIDDEN 

ANOTHER PILLOWCASE
BUZZING UP THE SCRAPS!
IT'S KINDA DOWDY!  AS IN BLAH.  

So tonight we are having "slumgullyon" for dinner.  That's what my Dad always called "clean out the refrig.  He thru every left over into eggs and that was dinner.  I have a refrig full of left overs.  I really hit the winter meals hard this week with stew, chicken & biscuit, and spaghetti.  I better let up or I'll have Bob going back to surgery for more stents from all the gravy!  I have to confess, I wanted everything in a crock pot so I'd have more time to myself!  

Bob went out to discard the remains of his sunflowers and to start the JD again.  He ended up mowing the back field one more time.

BOB'S OKLAHOMA SUNFLOWER HAS WHITE SEEDS
MOST HAVE BROWN SEEDS

Baseball tonight!  At least it's not a repeat.  The fans in Kansas City are really excited.  

SATURDAY:
So today it's windy!  Leaves will be all over the neighborhood. 
I sent a text to Annalynn to see if I could bring anything tomorrow as we are invited to see their new house.  That's exciting!  I baked a Yum Yum Coffee Cake to go with our coffee. 

Bob is not up to par today; congestion.  He came to bed last night with so much Vick's on that the room stunk.  I ran to the window and thru up the sash--no reindeer in sight-ha.  He requested that I make him some vanilla pudding.  Okay Bob, maybe that will make you feel better.


ANOTHER PILLOW CASE FOR KIDS

As the day progressed, Bob felt worse.  He had chills real bad and sore throat was evident.  So we decided to cancel our plans for visiting tomorrow.



Sounds like the same thing Betsy and I had.  

SUNDAY:

Bob wanted some NyQuil so I went to pick up some.  I had a couple other errands too and when I came back home Bob was still in bed reading an e-book.  Wow, that's a surprise.  

I bought a new alarm clock while I was out and about.  Mine froze up while out camping.  This one projects the time and temperature to the ceiling.  Just what everyone needs.  I can charge my phone with it and listen to the radio or ITunes.  Pretty fancy!

Now we are watching football.  Prior, I made a meatloaf and put it in the oven, something soft for Bob to swallow.

I picked up some candy for our trick or treaters this week.  We may have a few stop by, each year there is less.  Some of our family are already donning costumes or planning one.

 This photo is giving me trouble, moving up!  Every now and then that happens. 

David and Donna dressed as pirates for a party on Saturday night. 



 Not much else new.  Hope all the families have a safe Halloween! 

GOLDEN GRAM

 

KEURIG - CHICKEN SOUP - JOHN DEERE - THE QUILT!

MONDAY: IT'S A HOLIDAY! 

When I was working for the county, today was always a big shopping day.  Being that many employees of other places did not have the day as a holiday, it was never to crowded.  It was always fun to tell Bob at supper time about my purchases, especially when it was furniture or a bigger purchase.  I can understand why he started to develop anxiety around the holidays.  Ha!

I really didn't accomplish much today, still sniffling.  
When Betsy came home from a friend's MORE THAN sniffling, it was time for CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP!  

ENOUGH FOR ALL WEEK

TUESDAY:
I can't get over how nice it is outside.  Really balmy while some of the states are facing bad storms.

We have tried to order k-cups for the Keurig coffee machine since Saturday.  The web site just didn't accept our order.  Today, I sent them a message on Face book to e-mail me when they fixed their problem as I was irked typing everything over and over.   Low and behold, the phone just binged!  They gave me apologizes and said to use the phone number to call my order in.  That's nice, don't you think.  

Bob is still  working on his John Deere lawn mower.  He pushed it into garage Saturday.  He has just about every part cleaned and checked.  

Today I went out to check and he has it tore down to the gas tank.  Oh boy.   

IT LOOKS LIKE A ROADSTER

Still not feeling good enough to tackle the quilt backing, I looked for a simpler project to entertain myself.  So I watched "Jenny" do the tutorial on the tube pillowcase and went to match up some more scraps.  I hope you don't get tired of me talking about Jenny of The Missouri Star Co as she is one smart lady with her tutorials; she is rejuvenating the town by employing 115 people and purchasing 12 old buildings.  There was even a TV blurb about their (the family) good work.  

FINISHED PILLOWCASE
DOESN'T EVERYONE WANT APPLE DESIGN ON THEIR BED?

 Hay, I'm using up scraps.  All seams on the cuff/border are hidden; it's done with her roll up into a tube instructions.  I had fun learning that I could do it.

WEDNESDAY:
Yesterday, my new children's book was delivered.  I was excited to view it and wasn't disappointed one bit. It's beautiful!  The book was written by the youngest daughter of our past neighbor.  We watched her grow up!  Actually, they camped with us.  The Title of the book is Three Little Girls and a Magical Unicorn by Jennifer Gervase-Benson.  The story is encouragement to reach goals.  Available on Amazon around Nov. 4th.  Jen says that she has written stories since she was five years old.  I would say that she is a "chip off the old block" as her Dad made up many stories while we camped.  His creation of the "Early Bird", "the Woolif", and the "Autumn of our Years" will always be remembered.

We needed Kleenex so Bob and I drove over town to BJ's.  We had planned to get a sandwich on the way back home as we had coupons for the new McDonald's on our side of town which opened while we were away.  (right across from Miss Batavia restaurant)  I wonder why we need two McD's in this small town but they were busy clear out to the road. 

THE MODERN DESIGN
NO ARCHES!

THURSDAY:
We were in Lockport all day.  Bob had a Dr's appointment and I had a haircut scheduled.  After we went to Debbie's for coffee and Bob helped around their pool.  Christianna came over with baby Lorenzo and he showed me how he can roll over now.  He is growing so fast.


FRIDAY:
When I got up there was a note on the kitchen table, gone fishing!  Oh, I thought the fishing plans were cancelled last night. 
So I have the day to myself again.  I pulled the sheets off the bed and washed them in between sewing.  I laid out my quilt and had to add fabric to the width. I put all the binding pieces  together which was a challenge for me.  A simple thing but to sew on the diagonal  getting the pieces even when opened up was a struggle. 
Then Bob came home.  No fish.  He started to tell me about his day and said that he went by himself!  I wasn't to happy about that idea.   Who would watch over him?

Do you have an appliance with a handle that you can hang a towel on?  How many times do you pick the towel up off the floor?  I do and I was sick of picking up the towel.  While camping and visiting our friend Pam, I saw this idea in her motor home so during the day I made it up.  It looks like a doll's dress  with a tie on each side, there is a front and a back.  I cut the towel in half.   Oh yeah, I have doll patterns as old as my kids.  

HALLOWEEN TOWELS ARE MARKED DOWN AT JOANN FABRICS

Our evening was quite, flipping thru the channels of TV.  Elboa this and Elboa that.  

SATURDAY:
I can't think of anything interesting!  I screwed up the day by getting up late; shower, and baking.  I had apples to use up so I made the Apple Cuts recipe that's baked in a cookie sheet.  
Bob asked what's for lunch at three o'clock, then he asked what's for supper?  I apologized and said that I didn't know as I had this apple recipe on the brain all day.   We combined  the two meals. 

SUNDAY:
Another nice quite day, no plans, no demands, a do what you want day.  

Bob continues to work on the John Deere and when he gets tired, he comes in to use the computer.  He is researching insurance plans again.  I have been notified that my plan will be discontinued and he has been notified that his plan is going up around $50.00. 

I worked on the quilt.  By this time tomorrow it should be finished.  I am hand stitching the binding now.  As soon as I added the fluffy filling, it felt so good.  I could begin to feel the warmth and comfort of a quilt.  I must say, I have lots of boo boo's, but I kept going, and I learned a lot.    I'm am not happy with the mitered corners!  Guess I'll have to Google those instructions because the magazine instructions made a shallow miter.  I ran the vacuum as I had cuttings all over the floor and they were tracking all over the house.

ALMOST FINISHED!
I NEED TO TAKE OUT THE PINS AFTER TYING IT. 

Glad the Bill's won!  I had the game on but I didn't see much with the sewing project.

Well, time to relax.  Thanks for joining me and I wish you a happy week.  

GOLDEN GRAM 

TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC! UNLOADING AND CLEANING THE MOTOR HOME.

While camping, my friend Pam fired off this picture of the guys trouble shooting;  parts are parts.  We thought it cute since they all had their hands in their pockets!  One of them did tell Bob that the Serpentine belt and tires all had enough thread for a couple more years.   

HOW MANY HOLIDAY RAMBLERS DOES IT TAKE TO FIX SOMETHING!

MONDAY:

When we got up it was nice out but just as soon as we started carrying in bags and bags of things from the motor home, it poured!  It didn't last long so no harm done. 

I HAD ENOUGH FOOD FOR ANOTHER WEEK!

I washed clothes almost every day in the motor home and you should see how many piles I have for today.  What to heck?
In and out of motor home and by lunch we were ready for a nap.  

Then our son called Bob asking if he wanted to go fishing.  Well, I could hear the excitement in Bob's voice and I was downstairs.  So off they went.  I told them to EAT OUT.  I wasn't waiting a meal for them, when who knows when they will give up fishing.  

I've quickly gone thru the mail.  Guess I'll just put it all in order for another day. 

TUESDAY:
We did some more unloading as I forgot everything under the kitchen sink of motor home that will freeze.  I also brought in all the spices and seasoning envelopes from above stove.  Then I got into checking the expiration dates.  My goodness, I had some old dates on many of the containers so in the waste basket they went.  Bob continued washing windows until he had them all done inside, then he ran the vacuum sweeper.  He still has to winterize the water lines and my Splendie washing machine..  
But Bob has other problems now!  He wants to mow the lawn and before leaving on the trip, he accidentally poured the wrong tank of gas in his "precious" John Deere.  Yes, he has changed the spark plugs and it didn't start.  Hoya, Hoya!  

After supper I worked on my quilt for a couple hours.  I'm learning a few more important things....matching the design takes some patience with pinning and every piece has to be exact with cutting & 1/4"seam.   

WEDNESDAY:
I don't know what to work on first.  I'm flipping around.  Visa card statement is here.  Guess I"ll put the sales slips in order for that.  

Bob is off to buy something else to fix the John Deere.  

The girls are coming over Thursday night to paint pumpkins so I have two choices; clean house or bake.  I need to get doing something.  I cleaned house and finished putting up the Dept. 56 Halloween items.  

THURSDAY: 
Bob went fishing with Joe.  I have the day to myself.

After a few miscellaneous jobs, I started baking about ten o'clock.  I decided on the pumpkin, date,nut cookie recipe.  Since you have to open a can of pumpkin for one cup for the recipe; I decided to double the batch to use all the pumpkin up.  I was baking for some time as I only do one tray at a time because my oven gives "fits" and burns on one side.  (I have to watch and turn tray)  These cookies have a real good Carmel icing which makes the cookie but it takes a while to ice.  I ended up with two Tupperware containers full so I packed some for the girls to bring home.  We don't need two batches sitting around here!  Bob tells me that he already ate 21 cookies!  Cookie Monster!

I had a nap, then a shower and waited for the company to come.  Betsy had ordered pizza and wings for all.  Activities about to begin!

LORENZO'S FIRST TRIP TO GRANDMA & GRANDPA'S

AUNT ANNA LYNN WAS FIRST ONE HERE.

ALL DRESSED FOR HALLOWEEN
WHAT A PUMPKIN!

BETSY & DEBBIE BEGAN SPRAYING GOLD ON PUMPKIN STEMS.

I TRIED TO ENTERTAIN LORENZO SO THE GIRLS COULD PAINT.
HE DIDN'T WANT ANY PART OF ZOO, ZOO, ZOO.

THEIR PAINTING!
THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO! 

SANDY, KATHY & DEBBIE'S FINISHED PRODUCT TO MATCH OUR MACKENZIE CHILD'S PIECES.  

BETSY & DEBBIE'S PRODUCT

FRIDAY:
I got up with a sore throat!  Rats!  

Geese were all over in the field.  I didn't see them at night coming in.    They stay for a couple hours and then take off again.  

Bob and I made some payments in the morning then he went outside.  I putzed with my sewing.  I just don't feel like doing much.

SATURDAY:
Runny nose and pressure over my eyes.  Poop!  When I have time to myself, then this comes on.  Unhappy camper!  

Bob is out winterizing the motor home.  Draining all the lines, and putting in anti-freeze.  It isn't to nice out either; chilly.  Well, to me anyways as I keep getting the chills.  
SUNDAY: 

FIRST FROST!

I love to watch the geese in the morning. They waddle to the wet areas of the field.  Today I spotted two turkeys that tried to join them.  The geese stopped eating, put their heads up, like in an attack mode. 

One more day with this sneezing, blowing and misery.  I worked on the quilt; I have it sewed together and put a border on it.  It's looking good.  Maybe during the week, I can work on the filling and backing.

BOB & ROCKY

Our grandson, Rocky, had called earlier during the week to ask Bob to take photos at an event he was to attend for today.  Rocky works for a Beauty Salon & Supply Design company and this event was for beauticians to be held at Salvatore's Italian Gardens in Buffalo.  It's a beautiful restaurant with very good food.  Bob reports a good turn out; over 100 attendees. 

I wanted to watch the Steeler's game but I couldn't find it on any channel.  The Bill's were on several.  I heard they both lost so guess I didn't miss a thing. 

About it for this week with our activities slowed down.  Hope we all have a good coming week.
Thanks for clicking in.

GOLDEN GRAM

HARPER'S FERRY AREA, WV and IVES RUN Tioga, PA

MONDAY:
Oh what a beautiful day!  We are rested up and schedules/programs are a thing of the past...yeah!  We are at Harper's Ferry Area to scout around and see what there is to see. 
A Bear went over the mountain!  Glad they are behind us.  Our trip here was good.  No trouble with the Brake Buddy; the sensitivity instructions given worked.  Internet here is good!!! We had poor reception at the building at fair grounds; to many people with the same idea. 

We drove to the visitor's building to find out the locations to go see.  Many museums, small shops and eateries down by the two rivers that join in this valley.   

POTOMAC AND SHENANDOAH RIVERS JOIN AT HARPER'S FERRY 

We were somewhat disappointed as the museums did not have much inventory.

Except for a book store that had modern books for sale.  I picked up a small book on the Underground Railroad.   I wanted to see if the houses in Conneaut, Ohio were mentioned in the history.   When we lived there it was rumored that the slaves came up the creek, climbed the banks to a big yellow octagon home to hide. 

We had lunch at Potomac Grill.  It was delicious and we didn't need a full meal for supper.   Everything there is on a steep hill.  It was hard enough walking on the cobblestone sidewalks, never mind up hill. 

LAND MARKED WHERE ARMORY STOOD
A TRAIN SPARK BURNED IT DOWN

POTOMAC GRILL

STEPS C0MING DOWN HILL TO PARKING LOT

Coming back to camper, Bob drove to a battlefield and we saw the cannons used.  Neither one of us can understand how they had a war in this terrain, hard to believe with all the valleys and forests. 

That evening, three deer came up the hill to graze near our campsite.

TUESDAY:
Our main goal today was driving half way to Ives Run in Tioga, PA.  While Bob was putting the utilities back in coach, he ran into the slide outs with his head.  He came in the coach with his hand covering the top of his head.  Oh boy.  He had a one inch gash and was bleeding pretty fast.  No way was he going to ER, find the bandaids.  Okay Bob.

HARD HAT NEEDED

By the time we were half way on our journey, it was to early to check in and to early to get off the road for the day.  Bob decided to keep going, then stop at the Turkey Ranch for a meal, then continue on to Ives Run.  Turkey Ranch is on Rt. 15 in PA.  A favorite place as we are never disappointed.    Bob drove over to the fuel island and topped the tanks with diesel.  $3.89.

FULL PLATE

We continued on up Rt. 15.  On the biggest hill there was construction, down to one lane on both sides of road-for a long ways!    Bob slowed way down.  I asked what's wrong?  He said, "nothing-IT'S DAM SKINNY!" 
 Arriving at Ives, the office was closed.  We drove thru to our reserved  camp site and it was empty so we parked.  It's quite and beautiful here.
WEDNESDAY:
 We went up to the office to register.  The attendant said, "The Leaf Peepers" are here.    Color is not full yet but leaves are falling all over.  I borrowed a paper back from their library. 
Four of our expected campers pulled in and parked.  We enjoyed a cocktail hour with a unknown couple (Holiday Rambler owners) that Bob had waved to on our way in to parking area.  Pete came over and tried to help Bob with computer problem and then he invited us to their site.  Very nice people, they are headed to Rochester for a performance by their grand child at Eastman School of Music.  
After supper, we stayed in as Bob had developed the chills.  I was happy, happy to have time to sew again.  I have 20 quilt blocks done now.  I have to get brave enough to start sewing them together.

THURSDAY:
Pretty cool here, Bob turned on the furnace.  We were advised to go downtown to a library for better internet service.  Bob has been trying to send an article to the Holiday Ramblings magazine and it goes in the out box.  We were just about ready to leave and our friend, Pam offered to help.  She needed to finish walking the boys,  Rosco and Murphy then feed them and she would come over. 

PAM, ROSCO AND MURPHY
PAM TAUGHT HER  DOGS  SIGN LANGAGE
PAM WORKED AT RIT WITH DEAF INDIVADUALS

Pam knew the problem and started hunting for the correct place to fix it.  Before long she was clapping her hands and was done.  She had to reconfigure something.  Yeah, Pam, you are our hero!
 Bob sat and watched the e-mails go out.  Red letter day, the HR article went. 
Since we were all spiffyed up we went downtown for a few errands.  I spotted a quilt shop and Bob found parking at their  front door.  It was almost closing time but I saw enough fabric to make me drool. They had layer cakes-10" blocks, charm packs-5" blocks and jelly rolls-2.5" rolls in beautiful Christmas prints.  I'm slowly learning the quilting language. Fall prints were all over and a sale was going on.   I want to go back to the store before going home.  I must keep reminding myself, I started this to use up fabric, not buy more. 
We drove back to camp, looking for wood for sale for a campfire.  We found wood and dropped it off near the group.
Another couple from Rochester drove in while I was making supper.  I was excited to get done and go to the fire side to visit.  Our first campfire and it's the end of camping season.  It was damp and cold, Bob hadn't dressed warm enough so we came back like in an hour.  So be it.
Some time during all this, Bob received word that the editorial staff couldn't print the article as we had the August article on file waiting to be printed.  What?  Only one article per Chapter, per issue, could we combine the two.  Needless to say, Bob was urked and it put a damper on our evening.  He did not want the articles combined. 
FRIDAY:
This morning I was up early and turned on the furnace.  It's cool. 50o. I booted up Hot Spot and watched another tutorial by Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Shop.  I was really looking for an advertisement out of a quilting magazine that I have.  Now crafter's are making pillow covers to donate to needy, sick, young and elderly.  There is a contest to enter for a count of finished product, plus patterns to download.  (Not interested in that)  I stumbled onto Jenny on that site and watched her make a pillow case.  This lady is so smart.  Now I can use up bigger pieces of scraps, if I can color coordinate the scraps that I have.  www.allpeoplequilt.com/milliompillowcases

More campers pulled in, we now have four units from Chapter 12 and 6 units from Chapter 1 of Rochester.  We walked around greeting them all.  About three thirty, all the small cars lined up to take twenty people to a restaurant in downtown Wellsboro for fish fry.  It is about fifteen miles away.  Parking is limited because of all the hills here. 
Back at camp, Bob went to check where the campfire would be tonight.  There wasn't one.  We watched some TV.

 SATURDAY:
The morning was cool again.  We got ready to go back down to Wellsboro.  Bob left me off at the Quilt Shop and went looking for wire to hook up a car plug for the Brake Buddy so he would have a direct connection to battery that didn't turn off when key is removed.
I had such a good time in quilt shop looking around.  So many quilts and made so perfect it was hard to believe.  The attendant helped me figure out the amount of material needed for a border, binder and backing.  She was very encouraging.   I enjoyed looking at all the kits, so pretty.

BEAUTIFUL COLORS OF FABRIC 

Leaving Wellsboro we took a ride hunting another camp ground listed on brochure for Ives Run.  It was a state park too.  We found it but the camping sites were closed off so we couldn't look at them.  The fishing area was open so we drove around there.  Okay Bob, I've had enough.  I fell asleep on the way back to camp.

Bob and a friend installed the "plug" and I putzed until time to make supper.  I swept the leaves away from our door.  I visited with next door neighbors from our chap that are Full Timers.  We did have a nice campfire tonight, our first and last of the season.  It was cold, beautiful three quarters moon.  Temp to go down to 30's tonight.  Bet our water lines freeze.

COPPER DUST ADDED TO MAKE THE COLORS

OUR SON, DAVID SENT PICS SATURDAY NIGHT OF HAIL BACK IN NEW YORK.

SUNDAY:
During the morning, we prepared dishes to pass at a brunch for our group.

Lots of good dishes and great conversations.  After we packed to start home.  20 days on the road is over!  Yeah!  We had a wonderful time and now we face the motor home winterization.  

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GOLDEN GRAM