Would you believe.....

I recently started using online ordering of groceries. 

Today was my 2nd effort.  I was combining three errands--hauling a friend's large canoe to our house to be picked up later, taking extra fabric and other items I won't use the rest of the year in the camper home, and picking up groceries.  When you place your online order you have to send a vehicle description (red pickup) and pick a time slot (2-3pm).  You park in designated spots and call to say you are waiting, which spot, and your name.  Sounds easy!  Okay, I am driving a BIG red pickup, pulling a 16 ft canoe.  

I call, tell them I am parked in spots 5 to 8, red pickup & pulling a canoe.  

I watch a blue pickup pulling a kayak park down the row.  The grocery person brings my groceries to my truck, verifies my last name, loads my groceries in the back seat.  Still sounds great, right?  I decide to drop my groceries back at the camper.   Pull out the first bag.  ???? Look in rest of bags.  ????  Not my groceries!!!  I call the store and explain.  I am on hold quite a while.  Much apologizing by store.  Would I mind coming back to the store to get my order?  Sure, but what do I do with the wrong order?  I was told to keep it, they do not take it back.  Gee, I hoped they had ordered ribeyes and expensive booze, maybe some chocolate??!  No, but did get 8 porkchops, popcorn, and a six pack of Dr Pepper.  Other asorted items.  Why the mixup?  Remember the pickup pulling kayak?  They had the SAME LAST NAME, said they were pulling a boat, and had bought about same amount of groceries!  We had picked same pickup time.  I wonder what they thought of some items in my order?  A whole pineapple, Cheetoes, a case of Coke, ONE PARSNIP!  I hoped they laughed as hard as I did!  

Lori1R in Nebraska

September OMG

I made a big pile of YoYos in September.  

Doesn't look very big but +300 YoYos in that pile.  Yesterday I cut two different fabrics for the "borders" on finished YoYo blocks.  You can see them in the small baggie.  This is a relaxing project.  I'm linking with Elm Street Quilts OMG.

Lori1R in Nebraska

Keeping Busy

I've been able to do a little sewing.  Naragansett Greens came out to play--

No design wall in the camper, I used hair clips to attach the rows to the woodwork above the slide out.  I was worried it would be a bit blah, or worse, like boring green salad, but I think its going to have enough variety and zinger fabrics.

The weather was cool today, and I like to set my crockpot outside to cook.  The aluminum picnic table works perfect.  To help keep my crockpot warm, I covered it with a cardboard box--

The box fit tight enough the wind didn't blow it off, but about an inch of clearance  kept it from overheating at the bottom.  A fireman once told me he'd seen lots of house fires caused by malfunctioning crockpots, and he said the safest places were 1)on top your stove  2)in your kitchen sink 3)on a concrete floor (basement/garage).  Not your cupboard or anywhere it could ignite or melt what its setting on.  It was a dry cold windy day--the picnic table was perfect.  The beef stroganoff turned out tasty!

Lori1R in Nebraska

Two More Finishes

Two more finishes to report--

The first quilt was made by Dee in Nebraska, the backing is a soft brown/deer print flannel supplied by Judy B in Minnesota.  I quilted it with floppy feather (Dandelion) and added the binding.  So I can count 3/4yd out.  The 2nd quilt was a challenge by Lorri2Rs, we each made one of each color block to share.  The pattern's name is Stay Centered.  The backing is a gold mottle from Judy B in Minnesota.  I'll guess I supplied 8yds of fabric.  Its quilted with a panto called Orbits.  Both these quilts will be donated to the boy's group home.   

77° and quite breezy.  Great camping weather!  The campground is full.  

Lori1R in Nebraska

A Few Finishes

Last week Mary in SD dropped off quilts she finished the binding on.  I was so glad she did!  A fellow Stashbuster reminded everyone subcontractors are wonderful!  Here are two quilts--

Mary in South Dakota pieced the tops and made and applied the binding.  Judy B in Minnesota supplied the backings.  I quilted them.  The quilts are 75x95 more or less.  These will go to the boys group home.  YIPPEE!

Camping season is still going strong.  The campgrounds are full, the weather is perfect.  Life is good.  

Lori1R in Nebraska

OMG September

For September I'm going to work on the YoYo quilt.  I had put it aside to work on bindings but would like to finish it in 2020.  Here is a current pic--

It needs eight more "blocks".  512 more yoyos.  8.88 yds of fabric.  I will try to make 250 yoyos this month.  Ken brought my 5" charm box with him, I will work from it.  But the last "round" on each block uses more than 1/2 yd of one fabric.  2,880 yoyos total.  Each yoyo is handled a minimum of 4x, once to make the yoyo, and all yoyos are stitched to the next yoyo on three, or most of them four sides.  I'm not tired of it, I enjoy the mindless stitching.  The plan is to set it on point.  It's very sturdy, the yoyos are more square than round, lots of hand stitching holding them together.  I'm linking to Elm Street Quilts OMG.  

Do you draw diagrams when making a quilt?  I do!

The different colors just make it easier to "see" the pattern,  I am a visual learner.  The VARK model explains them--visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic.  I also use reading/writing to learn.  Do you know which type you are?  

A current pic of my campsite--

Only eight weeks left this summer.  Can we start over with May again?

Lori in Nebraska

OMG August

For August I finished binding the Blue Sheep quilt--

ITS DONE!!  YAH!!  The album blocks are from RSC a couple years ago.  I didn't have enough of one blue so the setting triangles are a darker blue.  It's a big boy quilt, it will be donated to the boys group home.  Thank you Kat for helping me with the math.  I'll guess 15 yds of fabric, the quilt is 80"x90" more or less.  It has a dyed solid blue backing, and is quilted with Dandelion or what I call "floppy feathers".  

The squirrel is becoming a problem.   He is on top my camper, my awning, the golf cart, hanging on my screen door looking in.  He is NOT social distancing!  I set two mouse traps baited with peanut butter on the picnic table.  The next morning they were missing.  I found one underneath the camper,  the other at the base of a tree--

I think he jumped off the picnic table with two traps, lost one as he passed underneath the camper.  When he went to climb the tree he couldn't, so he chewed the trap until his paw was free.  I didn't see him for several days, hoping he had been scared off.  Nope, he was back.  I set bigger rat traps on top the picnic table, but he is smart.  He bumps the edge of the trap until it springs, then eats the peanut butter!  I watched him do it twice.  This is the latest squirrel incident--

This is a heavy plastic tool box I keep my bird seed in.  He can't reach the bird feeders, so instead he went to the source.  This tote is in the back of the pickup, I have turned it so the hole is underneath and surrounded it with different mouse traps.  So far I've not caught anything.  

Lori in Beautiful Nebraska