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<\/a><\/p>\nYou don’t see these much any longer.\u00a0 We had a drive-in theater just down the road from our house for years and we would pack up the kids and a big bag of popcorn and take them to the movies.\u00a0 Most of the time they were asleep before the movies were over, but that was okay.<\/p>\n
We went to a town that I had seen on one of my murder shows. Yes, I picked it because I saw the town during the show and thought it looked like a nice little town despite a murder having taken place there and it was a really nice town. Old houses and this restaurant had good food.<\/p>\n I love taking pictures of flower gardens when we travel.\u00a0 This one was in front of a little house and it was just full of flowers.\u00a0 Pictures never do justice, but this was a very pretty garden.<\/p>\n We see some different structures in our travels.\u00a0 This was a little log cabin with a moose beside it. The last time we saw a live moose was leaving Alaska fourteen years ago!<\/p>\n Gorgeous.<\/p>\n Some history along the way.\u00a0 Not sure where this was, but the sign was in Indiana.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ate at our favorite pizza place on one trip.<\/p>\n This double decker bus is inside it and you can eat in the bus if you like.\u00a0 We never have but there were children enjoying being in it.<\/p>\n The little church where we were married.\u00a0 I still have family that goes there.<\/p>\n I am always baking and this was the best rhubarb pie I believe that ever was!\u00a0 I don’t usually brag about my cooking and I am not the best cook, but I can bake and this pie, well, it looked wonderful and was so delicious.\u00a0 I hope I have not reached my peak in baking.\u00a0 We froze a lot of rhubarb this Summer also.\u00a0 So I will be making more pies.\u00a0 Which is a story. I went to the doctor a few days ago and we talk about a lot of things and he was talking about baking peach cobbler and asked me if I baked and my exact words were, ” Look at me. Do I look like I bake!”\u00a0 I love to bake and I love to eat what I bake.\u00a0 So I am not a string bean by anyone’s imagination.\u00a0 But, hey, I am getting old so I don’t have to keep up appearances any longer!\u00a0 I feel sorry for older women who think they have to.\u00a0 We have earned the right to be ourselves whoever that is. If you want to be skinny, fine.\u00a0 Like to eat.\u00a0 Fine.<\/p>\n David picked a lot of strawberries from his new bed this year.\u00a0 Next year should be even more bountiful.\u00a0 They were so good.<\/p>\n This is the young couple who will be marrying in a couple of weeks.\u00a0 My oldest grandson and his fiance. Don’t they look happy!\u00a0 A match made in Heaven.\u00a0 \u00a0I had made him this quilt a while back for his first apartment, but he decided to live at home until they got married to save some money so I gave it to them both for their first apartment.\u00a0 It is full size, they just have it folded here.<\/p>\n Here are some pictures of our drive today.<\/p>\n You see the strangest things on Indiana backroads.<\/p>\n We passed this old barn in the middle of nowhere, nothing else around.\u00a0 Look closely.<\/p>\n It had this beautiful barn quilt on it, but something else not expected.<\/p>\n Someone hanging from the hayloft window.\u00a0 Poor soul.<\/p>\n Then David said. “Look cat crossing!”\u00a0 He meant this…..<\/p>\n But I saw this….<\/p>\n A real cat hiding in the weeds. When it realized we were looking at it,\u00a0 it slunk off.\u00a0 A real cat crossing.<\/p>\n So many back roads to travel.\u00a0 So many things to see.\u00a0 It really is fun to travel the road less taken.<\/p>\n I joined a little quilt group on Facebook and we make one small quilt of our choosing from this particular author’s quilt books and show them to the group each month. We started back in October and I have made a small quilt every month.\u00a0 Since next year is our country’s 150th birthday, I am making patriotic themed quilts now.<\/p>\n Here is the one for August.\u00a0 I got some really patriotic fabric from a line by Lori Holt called Americana.<\/p>\n This is the quilt I made for July.\u00a0 I am working on some more I cannot show as they may or may not be gifts at some point.\u00a0 I am also making patriotic potholders to give away or sell.<\/p>\n This quilt wasn’t for this group, I just like chickens and made patriotic ones.\u00a0 This is a Country Threads pattern from way back.<\/p>\n Here is another.\u00a0 I am having so much fun making these little quilts.\u00a0 You can almost make them in a day and feel like you have accomplished something.<\/p>\n And I liked this pattern so much, I made another in reproduction fabrics.<\/p>\n Some of my potholders.\u00a0 Miniature quilts that can be used for baking or cooking or as a friend told me she did with hers, she put it on the back of an old antique chair she has and just looks at it!\u00a0 Whatever makes you happy!<\/p>\n Here are some scenes from our soon to be granddaughter’s bridal shower.<\/p>\n She got a lot of nice things.\u00a0 I remember how rich I felt after my bridal showers when I got so many nice, new things for my new home.<\/p>\n Here is my grandson who also got a gift at the bridal shower!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n