Lorelei....two years ago

This was one of her first trips to a creek....she totally loved it. I got a lot of good shots of her... this was one of my favorites.  One can see the change in her between this and the photo her mom took of her in the previous post.
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I am sitting here trying to decide if I should put something in the crockpot....I have something in mind...something we love. It is a recipe a friend made up.   Nothing set in granite as far as amounts.  We take a chuck roast....I have made it with other cuts but love a nice chuck roast the best.  I cut it into chunks that go easily into the crock pot.

Then, add garlic powder to taste, about a teaspoon of crushed red peppers, and Italian seasonings...add what you think you will like.  With me that is probably about half a teaspoon...maybe a little more.  I usually put this on around midnight on Lo Heat and it cooks at least 12 hours....till it just falls apart with a fork.  After it is done, I shred it and we always have Italian bread, or sometimes Roger likes it over a baked potato.

We all love this....though I have had one person tell me they tried it and did not like it.  But I just felt they had to do something wrong....LOL
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Roger's computer gave up the ghost last week....I think the hard drive is shot so we have a new laptop coming for him.  The old computer is not that old....still may get a hard drive and see if we can get it to going again.  Just have a lot of questions about doing it. 

And I sat down and finally got some battings ordered.  Now I have got to get busy and make backings.  I would like to get some of these quilt tops made into finished quilts.  Not that I will ever catch up.  I have at least a dozen tops that I am not even worrying about.

Don't you like the look?

Sarah sent this earlier....she is growing up right before our eyes.

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I forgot to tell this little story about her visit the other day.  She was aggravated at me because I would not get up and push her on her bike.  She gets in spots where the training wheels has the back tire off the ground so she can not go anywhere.  Sometimes I get up and push her and other times I tell her to get off her bike and move it herself.

Well, I wouldn't do it the other day and she says Mamaw I don't love you any more!  I said that is fine, I still love you.  I also told her, yes, you do love me, but you are just mad right now....she says 'Mamaw, I am going to start calling you Papaw!" 

Quilt backing--NOT

If you go to this post and scroll to the bottom, you will see where I had started this.  I had started it to use as a backing for a smaller version of the Crumbs in the Corner quilt.  I like having pieced backs...just to be different.  I don't usually go this wild though.  It measures 63½ by 67½ inches.

Well, I was showing it to Sarah while she was here, and she likes it...I started to say loves but not sure she loved it.  I think she found it interesting more than anything.  So, I am going to designate it as a quilt top rather than quilt backing.  Now I have to come up with two backings and two battings.   And honestly, I am trying to decide if I should make this bigger.
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The girls went home this afternoon....I did not take any more pics.  Just sometimes hard to find the time and free hands to do it.  She didn't want to leave us, but she had friends coming to her house this evening so she didn't hate going home.

Not long after they left, the rain started.  It just totally poured down for a while, almost stopped, then started in again with a pretty heavy rain.  Puddles are standing every where.  The birds are just drenched.  When the blue jays come, you cannot see any blue color at all.  The cardinals are still red, though.  One thing for sure...not a single bird seems to be minding the rain. 

They remind me of the girls when they were young.  In fact, the other night Lorelei ran a big puddle of water and looked at her mom and ask could she jump in it...her mom told her to go ahead.  She jumped in it, through it, out of it, back in it...till she was totally drenched.  And that, too, remind me of the girls when they were young.

When it poured down enough to leave puddles, soon as the rain stopped, out they would go....they would get their bikes and take off.  Riding through every mud puddle they could....sometimes peddling all the way through....sometimes lifting their feet and coasting through.  Wheeeee!!!! What fun. 

And off down to that road by the railroad.  And I might add a dirty old road.  They would come home with black splashes up their backs....dirty from head to toe.  But what fun that was.

What is more, they would probably both be willing to do that today!  There is nothing like playing in the rain.