No quilting today. Nor did I take a single picture. I did can 6 pints and 4 quarts of hot peppers...5 pints of jalapenos and the others were hot hungarian wax peppers. I am really wanting to get down in the basement to sew, but have other things that keep getting in the way. I thought I might get down there this evening but my daughter and her husband came by...we went out to eat. By the time we got back, I was just out of the mood to do much of anything.



We have a new neighbor to our north...and she seems like a nice, normal girl. Just maybe I will have a good neighbor once again. When we moved to this neighborhood, we were the youngest couple here. Gradually, almost all the original bunch have died. There is not a week goes by that I don't miss the neighbor, Lilly, that was to the north of us when we moved here.



She first moved out to a senior living place, and her house came up for sell. Another neighbor bought it, as well as the house to the south of us and is using them for rentals. I cannot think how long Lilly has been gone from here--at least 7 years since she moved (she passed away in 2003 I think), anyway, this is the first time I feel like we might have a good neighbor there.



I am so sick of the people that we have been getting for neighbors..we did have a couple that were nice to the south of us for a while. Now we have someone that lets the grass grow about a foot high before it is cut. I think the landlord makes them cut it when it is cut....



My mind is wondering right now...thinking over all the people that have come and gone. The new neighbor's first name is Shelby, and that is the name of our dog! At least it makes it easy to remember her name. Our new neighbor enclosed part of her back yard right away with fencing. They were out there as we were leaving this evening and Roger asked her if she had a wolf or what...she said no, a beagle but he is just as bad...likes to dig out and run away.



Well, he was out there when we got home and I just want to go give him a big old hug. He just has that friendly beagle look and his tail wags nice and slow when you talk to him! Yes, I think I am going to like this girl! I done like the dog--he doesn't bark and go nuts, though I did hear him bark a time or two. I don't mind legitimate barking...I just cannot take it when a dog barks non-stop for no apparent reason.



But this beagle brings back memories of Ray, a neighbor that lived diagonally across from our corner. He raised beagles and sold them. For rabbit hunting. He had this one little beagle that was about 2 or 3 months old and for some reason out of all the dogs that he had, it was the only one that somehow managed to get out of the pen every week or two, and every time it came over here to us. Probably more to get to the girls cause they were young then. He was adorable...



Enough reminising for tonight...hopefully I will either get to sew some tomorrow or at least take some pictures.

Fishing is another love of mine, though I have actually spent very little time on that hobby the past few years. But today, we went fishing. In the creek pictured here. We go upstream from this dam a couple miles, park, get in the creek and fish with our ultra light rods and reels with artifical lures/jigs. We spent at least four or five hours in the stream today, and it was just so enjoyable.

For the past few years, I could not wade and fish because I got so dizzy seeing the ripples in the water. Then, I got to thinking maybe it was looking through my bifocals that made it affect me so bad. So, today, I put my glasses on top my head--I have to have them to be able to see when I change lures. But otherwise, there they stayed. And I fished to my heart's content. Well, almost. I would not have minded staying a while longer but my husband has to go to work tomorrow, we had not eaten since morning, so we headed home.

It was such a wonderful day though. We caught a little bit of everything--bluegill, small mouth and large mouth bass, rock bass, and of course I caught creek chub. I detest those things, and I honestly would rather catch nothing as to have to take one of those of my hook. I think it is cause they make noises when handled. It sort of makes me shiver just to think about. And I swear they are slimier feeling than a normal fish.

Have been away from blogging for far longer than I ever planned. I have favorite blogs that I read and sure miss it when they don't post. I have not been accomplishing much in either the quilting dept. or in taking pictures. I am trying to get back on track...

I do have a lining in the frames and plan to get the batting and top pinned in sometime in the next week. It is a log cabin and going to be quilted very simply. I had planned to machine quilt it, but it is going to be a while before my Juki's desk is ready so just thought I would see how doing the quilting by hand would go.

I have also made 73 nine patches--still unsure of how I am going to arrange them. That is something else to decide. I am pretty sure they are either going to be on point, alternated with a plain block, or else put half-square triangles on each side. (Square in a square?)

My husband goes back to work light duty Monday...so today we decided to take one good long drive before he has to go back. We went south to Jackson-Washington_State_Forest here in Indiana....we really enjoyed it. And being that it was still a weekday, not many people were there.

From there we went to Spring Mill State Park. This is a picture of the mill...it was quite interesting. The walls are 3-ft. thick...in order to stand the vibration from the mill wheels.