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.

I have been listening to music HERE



They have a little bit of everything...sometimes I would not give two cents for what they are playing but other times they introduce me to new singers. When I was a child I HATED bluegrass music...but when I went to college for a year or so, a professor played the banjo and others filled in the band. And hearing it live gave me a total different view of it...so now I love it, although I tend not to like the old style bluegrass unless it is live.



WAGON_WHEEL is one of the songs I heard on there! No, I am not crazy about the video, but I don't watch them...I just turn them on and listen while Ido other things. Anything that mentions Tennessee in it gets my vote...then night before last I heard NORTH_KNOXVILLE by Todd Steed and Sons of Phere...there is a rock copy and an accoustic version. This link provides a link the the latter! Anyway, besides being gone a big part of the time, I have been messing around with music.



In my search for some group, I ran across John Denver songs at YOU_TUBE!

And that led to Neil Young....you get the drift. I did not even think of looking there for the Foo Fighters--though I get them at Yahoo's Launch. But for years I searched for the accoustic version of TIMES_LIKE_THESE. I bet if I had thought I could have found it on the web somewhere, but instead I just looked at music sites.

Took these photos of flowers over by the railroad yesterday when we took Shelby for a walk. I don't know the name of either, so if you know please leave a comment and tell me. Isn't the one so delicate?

We went to Indianapolis yesterday to visit my nephew and his wife...he is the son of my oldest sister and is a month older than me. I was a change of life baby....muscular dystrophy runs in our family from my dad's side of the family. We have a very rare kind...it has been studied at the IUPUI Medical Center in Indianapolis. Actually, I think we are the only family known to have it.

We could go and be tested for free...and you could either ask to know if you were positive for it or not. I was too chicken to be tested...I could not have done it without finding out if I had it. And I really didn't want to know if I tested positive for it. I might have acted different if we had not had children already.

The nephew we went to visit yesterday has a brother and sister and they are both positive for it...so far they are the only ones that show they have it. It is hard seeing him like that--he only has 20% usage of his lungs. But he used to spend summers with us in Tennessee. So we are more like brother and sister.