One day until Fall Festival and a headache

Just a little headache… probably not enough water today…

I asked a woman to make one afghan for our quilt booth at Fall Festival because she does wonderful work.  Look what she brought me today!  They are each folded in half and are absolutely gorgeous!

And this is the view out of a room upstairs.

And this, well, just an interesting find this morning.

A few days until Fall Festival

Two days until our church’s Fall Festival.  It’s better running the quilt booth than the kitchen for 2000 meals which I did for ten years.  I still coordinate the making of applesauce and the potato peeling/cutting for the diner, but that’s EASY !

Here are the notecards I made.  30 will go to my quilt booth volunteers and the remaining 70 are for sale.  If they don’t sell, that’s fine, there are lots of options for them.

And on the demo scene.  Here is where the safe was in the school.

And, look, the AC unit finally fell out of the window.

Today, they took down a big center wall, but it was raining and pushing four toddlers in a stroller didn’t sound appealing to me.  We did drive around back and the “lead” did is still going on from the gun range.

Quilts, Quilts, Quilts

Other than the label, the Fall Festival Raffle Quilt is finished.  I’m in the process of making cards out of the picture.

In addition, my friend and I have completed a LOT of quilted items.  Here they are on my dining room chair.

And more demolition…  They are doing something with the gun range (lead) that was under the school.

My friend and I are working on a quilt for her daughter from the book, Material Obsession, and one block is complete.  She’ll be here in a few minutes to see it.

Of course, another demo picture.  This is the side of the school.

Yesterday, I stopped two toddler daycare boys from stripping my roses.  Later, we found this…

School demo cont.

We watched for about an hour this morning.  In the last picture, you can see the crane operator surveying what to do next.  I figured that the ARGUS photographer was there, so he’d take care of things if I left.  So, I did…  After a few months of this, I believe I am fully prepared to add the Construction Merit Badge to the others I counsel.

Silver Falls again

No rain on Friday or Saturday and a little starting at 2am Sunday, so the wet tents are drying out.  This was the nicest weekend with Scouts.  They worked on the Nature Merit Badge and hiked.  In all the times I’ve joined them, this is the first time they all sat around the campfire telling stories. 

Cartwheels fixed

I raised the quilt, “Cartwheels”, and it looks much better.

… and the latest in the school demolition…

Have a great weekend!  We’re heading to Silver Falls State Park with the Scouts!

69 Gallons of Applesauce

Happy 75th birthday to my Mom!

With a skeleton crew of five apple cutters, one cook and one/two grinders, we managed to make enough applesauce for the church’s annual Fall Festival.  The dinner serves about 2000 people.  Thank goodness Tillamook Ice Creamery sell used  buckets at 50 cents each or donates them to us.  We’d be at a loss without them!

Here are the remaining apples.  The bin was full in the morning.

And my husband ran a race in Portland with Alberto Salazar.  Here is a picture of them together.  Kevin has read most all of Alberto’s books and uses a lot of his training techniques. 

Painting the garage door & trim

I have been working on the garage door this week.  A daycare parent brought me a can of XIM Peel Bond’s TRIM Magic and it worked great!

This is the garage door and front trim after I applied it.  This door may be as old as 1942, so I did the best I could in removing the old paint.

I painted everything except the top.

And more school demo pictures.

Yesterday, two friends and I went into Portland to shop for fabric at an online place.  The gals have a great variety of fabrics and can be found online at www.auntbeassewingbasket.com

This is what I chose for a pattern out of the book, “Material Obsession”. 

Demo continues

How did that window get there?

In the effort to recycle everything… a pile of porcelain!

A pink room was thrown out the window above.  My friend says it was the ladies bathroom.

The high lift worker used the port-a-pot close to where we stood.  When asked if he is the envy of the other workers, he said yes that only a few get to use it.  He has triggers on the joysticks, cameras, heat & ac.  Pretty interesting work!   We were only over there for 10 – 15 minutes and this is how much he got down.