Pastoral scene....

We went for a little drive today...we were in and out of rain showers.  First it would be so dark that I would have my ISO set to 1600 and still hardly light enough to get a good shot.  Then the sky would brighten enough for me to set it back to 2-400!

Anyway, could not resist this scene.  It is not the best quality in once sense, but the scene itself makes up for a lot in my book!
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Can you believe--California Chrome won again!  I wonder if we will have a Triple Crown winner.  They were talking about him and said that when he walks into a new place, he pauses and looks around and takes it all in.  That is the exact same thing they said about Secretariat.  It makes me think he might actually win at Belmont.

Another rainy day

Little project I am currently working on in the dining room.,,those square are 3 inches finished size.
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Got up to sunshine this  morn, but it quickly clouded up and rained a little.  And has sprinkled/drizzled, rained, hailed, and almost everything except snow at one time or another.

I sewed a little bit on the project above....and started the hand sewing of the binding on the quilt.  Feels good to have it started.  I got all the mitered corners done...I always do them first.  And also finished one side.  The rest should go quickly.

Tomorrow is The Preakness...if nothing happens I will be watching it!  Otherwise I have it set to record.  I love all the pre-race stories about the horses, owners, and trainers.  How about you--are you interested at all?

From the wild side

First and foremost...these pics were taken by Sarah...while we were in California.  Can you tell she is growing.

Not only physically....

just everything about her.  She lost her first tooth while there...pulled/twisted it out by herself.  Her aunt told her how to do it and she did it with a little encouragement.

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She just went home yesterday...due to rainy weather, we did not get to go to the creek or to the local playgrounds.  However, she had no trouble staying from Friday till yesterday, and had been going to stay the night till she talked to her daddy on the phone.  She had just told her mom she wanted to spend another night, then asked to talk to her daddy.  The minute she heard his voice, she said "I'm coming home tomorrow!" and then looked up at me as if to ask was that okay...I told her that was fine...whatever she wanted to do.

One of our neighbors has a two children--one 4 yrs old and one 7...so she had someone to play with 3 or 4 of the days.  They ran and ran and pretended...blew bubbles...,and Lorelei laughed and laughed.
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I am still loving my new sewing machine and love having it upstairs.  I have been sewing with it today.  Working on a small project I have started up.  But I should have been working on the binding on my other quilt.