Quail !
We have had a sweet covey of about a dozen quail scurrying around the yard for the past week or so. It is so cute to see them running from one place to another as if they are on a very important mission.

During my recent trip to see Janice, David and Rosie, I enlisted Janice in one of my "Lucy" ideas. I know she likes abstract impressionist paintings, soooooo, I thought wouldn't it be fun to have her do her take on a Jackson Pollock painting on a piece of fabric and I would make a tote bag out of it for her. I had some duck cloth fabric (light weight canvas) someone had given me almost 20 years ago. I really like how both her painting and the tote bag came out. The tote is over sized so she can use it to carry her painting/drawing supplies to school or wherever. Click on the photo to see the painting up close.

Spuds!

Here is our Potato harvest for this year. Two reds, two whites and two different fingerlings. I bought two packages of fingerlings a couple of years ago, each package contained about 6-7 tubers. I plant the unusable, too small, soft, stating to grow, tubers each year. This year we harvested a very big crop. Yum!


Jack-o-Lanterns

Jim and I did carved pumpkins this year. can you guess whose is whose?

These are my grandchildren Addy (3) and Riven (1.5). Addy is wearing her new craft/apron I made. Riven is so angelic. They love having Grammie here, can't wait to see their Great Auntie ;-)

I made Jodi (my partner in crime at the Animal Shelter) and I new aprons for dog walking. They have 3 pockets, one for key card and ink pen, one for leash (me) or cigarettes (Jodi), and one for the poop bags. The aprons are longer and wider than my first attempt, the pockets are deeper and the tie strings are longer. Mine is the brown one with yellow/white dogs. I gave hers to her before I took a photo so all I have to show is a left over piece of the blue fabric with cute dogs. The back ground fabric on both are the same, paw prints.

This is a Craft smock/apron I made for Addy. Her 3rd birthday is August 10th. I picked out the main fabric, which is so cute, but I had to have someone at the fabric store help me pick out the pink tone on tone fabric for the pocket. Choosing fabric is not my strong point. If she gets paints, glue or anything else on herself maybe it won't show too much. The pattern only had four pieces and it really wasn't too difficult, but the double fold bias tape was very time consuming. every couple of inches I had to pin, the fabric kept trying to slip out, so I had to go real slow. I am pleased with how it turned out.

Here are a couple of pictures of the first night Pumpkin and Sadie met. It was so cute, their paws touching. they each made a little grunt when it happened and laid back down and went to sleep.

This is a good picture showing how big Pumpkin is, Sadie is big, but he is BIG. (95lbs vs 72lbs). What a hugh head you have Mr. Pumpkin.

Here is our newest foster, Pumpkin. His story, he is 4 1/2, 95lbs., his people had to give him up because he has two bad rear legs, his left knee seems to have a bad ACL, his right knee may also be bad but his right hip snaps, clicks and pops when he walks, yuck. Since he is so over weight he can't have anything done until he drops a few pounds. He lived outside, roaming around anytime and anywhere, not taking it easy like he should have been. His fur was dirty, very smelly and of course matted. His women person seem to like him alot and gave him up because they could not afford his medical bills. He and Sadie are ok so far. He is so big he makes Sadie look small and petite. I will try to get them in a photo together soon.

We have had lots of rain lately, the lake level has come up. Yesterday we had a torrential rain storm, the kind that floods roads and basements. An inch in 2 minuets type rain. The Lake level came up so fast you could almost see it rising. The level continued to come up all day, it is as high now as during the rainy season. It will take a few weeks for the level to go back down to normal. Maybe someone will go downstream and bust up the beaver dams. It does get the baby ducks up close. A Mallard with five ducklings were swimming around this evening.