summer time & quilting

Well, the weather sure took a turn to the HOT here!!!
Summer has arrived, right on schedule and let us know it!
And "DD" - the long-arm machine, is in the sun room.
The sun room that faces the southwest...
you can guess what that means, can't you?
I've been doing some HOT quilting :)

Quilting for other folks, not for me...

(good for them, not so much for my stash-shrinkage).

Here's Elaine's log cabin table topper:

52" square

(No, I have not started mine yet :), but I think I've quilted five of these now.)

 



And four more hot pad blocks for Sharon:

each 14 inches square

 

Sharon is in her first applique class and is up-to-date now with her three blocks each month of this "Our Flower Garden" class at The Good Wives Co. in Marion (and, again, you still can't tell she's just a beginner quilter - it's pretty amazing).

On the note of cherry-picking - this could be the best crop we've had in over a decade!  I'm almost tired of pickin' :0 but they are so deliciously tart! and will be oh, so good this Winter.
Happy last week of June to you!
I'm off to do a little stitching of my own.

eggs, moons & cherries

It's that time again!!!
Summer starts today -

that means it's time to gather your eggs

and stand them on end!!
Wait!! That works better on the first days of  Spring and Autumn...

(I had to borrow this pic, as I couldn't find my pictures of
previous egg standings...
yes, I have made my eggs stand up, and yes, I have taken pictures!)

Today is the longest day of the year!
And, it's almost time for the SUPER MOON!!!
Yeah, that's it!
Be forewarned! 

Weird happenings can be expected

the next couple of days and nights

when the Full-Super Moon arrive!!

Way too much gravitational pull or something :)

You can bet I'll have my camera out for that, too.

All I know for sure is that this is the time of year
to protect the cherries!!!

Meet Plastic, the owl.

We have him to watch over our cherry tree:

Somehow, the birds know

right when the cherries are "ripe for the picking"

and can clean off a tree before you can get your bucket out!!

Unless you have a good friend like our Plastic!

With the help of our friend, Plastic,

and some tree netting,

we get most of the cherries

and the birds just have a snack

not the other way around.

Sweetie and I have picked just five or six quarts of cherries so far - enough to freeze a couple of quarts and make a couple of  small cobblers to take to the neighbors. 

More to pick and freeze this weekend.

I just love this time of year!

Well, minus the eggs, weird happenings from the Super Full Moon, and the

cherry picking birds.

Happy first day of Summer to you!