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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is what my shop looks like now.\u00a0 Believe it or not my cutting table was clear of anything a few weeks ago, but since I’ve started making all the block, it’s a jumble of fabric right now.<\/p>\n
A stack of the quilt blocks I am making.<\/p>\n There is work going on in this mess. Really.<\/p>\n Each of these piles of fabric will be a quilt block.<\/p>\n When I have them all completed then I will have to decide which blocks go into each quilt.<\/p>\n About two weeks ago my sister and brother-in-law celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary. When my sister got married, I was in the fourth grade and she had been like a second mother to me.\u00a0\u00a0 When she got a job at a bank in the city right after graduation, she used some of her hard earned money and bought me a bride doll. I still have her. I’ll have to show her to you sometime.\u00a0 Anyway, I wonder if this was a portent of things to come because she soon met my future brother-in-law and got engaged. When I learned she was going to get married and leave home I cried.\u00a0 Then at the wedding I cried and cried.\u00a0 I did not want my sister to leave me.\u00a0 But she did and 62 years later we were sitting talking and my brother-in-law said, “You didn’t want me to marry Joanne,” and I told him he was taking away my sister.\u00a0 But he’s been a good brother-in-law and I’ve forgiven him for taking Joanne away.\u00a0\u00a0 Seems like only yesterday.\u00a0 I forgot to take any pictures of them because we were visiting and talking about everything.\u00a0 My parents’ farm is right next door to my sister’s house and it was sold to a relative who did not take good care of it.\u00a0 The barn fell down and the house is falling down and there are trees growing in all my daddy’s fields where he use to grow corn and hay and oats.\u00a0 It’s sad to see it like that.\u00a0 My parents took such good care of their home and farm when they were alive.<\/p>\n We drove some back roads as usual when we went to my sister’s house.<\/p>\n Saw this along the way.<\/p>\n Never heard of this place, but we came upon it on our drive.<\/p>\n We went through the town of Liberty where my mother grew up and I have a cousin who still lives there.<\/p>\n His father began this supermarket many years ago and now my cousin, Tim, is the owner and manager.\u00a0\u00a0 We stopped in to see him. Usually I don’t see him anymore except at funerals, the last one being his mother’s, my Aunt Suzanne,\u00a0so it was nice to see him on a normal day.\u00a0 He and I and another cousin were all born within months of each other and we grew up together and saw each\u00a0other whenever we’d visit my grandpa and my other cousin was down from Detroit where she lived.\u00a0He was so surprised to see us. We had a nice visit and then we had to go on.<\/p>\n I didn’t show you my birthday cakes so here they are.<\/p>\n David got the candles on there wrong.\u00a0 It should be 17!\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 Seems like I was just 17 yesterday.<\/p>\n This was a sweet little cake that I let David eat as I ate the entire chocolate by myself. And was sorry for it!<\/p>\n We’ve been doing some chores around the house getting ready for gardening time.<\/p>\n David cleared out what I call the kitchen garden. Right now it looks barren, but it won’t be long until the rhubarb is up and all the perennials I’ve planted\u00a0 through the years will be coming up.<\/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