Weekend wrap up!

 It sure has been a busy weekend! Saturday started off with horses and Emily's riding lesson. She did not ride last weekend as they were all at a show. She was happy to see Reba and get a workout.

We delivered lunch and then the boys pulled the lights to decorate the outside of the house while we packed for the Drive in Campout with girl scouts.

There were over 600 girls there for the night for an evening a tenting, movies and general fun. It did get a wee bit cool - down to 49 F and damp with fog.  This was a shot this morning around 7AM. I got a good 3 dust pans of sand out of the tent when I set it up in the yard late afternoon to let it dry and air out for a bit! My co-leader coined the term 'Sand is Florida's natural glitter' this morning. There was sand everywhere! I have opened and shook off amazing amounts of sand in the driveway from the tarp, moving blanket we had set out, 2 quilts and the mummy sleeping bags... oh, and the chairs! Very thankful for the tray in the back of the CRV that collected a nice amount of sand as well. The car is due for wash and vacuum this week I think. 

Emily was in there - in her mummy bag covered with the quilt laying out on the blanket watching the 3rd movie of the night. There were 5 =).

This is the back of the t-shirt for the event. I love that she organized it by service units. Joining Rivers and Land of the Silver Moon are both based in Ocala. I'm not sure on the rest.

After a couple hours of nap this afternoon (I was up all night Saturday and did not sleep well Friday night), opening and getting the sand out of everything and putting things away I'll relax with a few hand quilting stitches on my Endless Diamond quilt. I started quilting this one on Thursday but have not made much progress yet. 

Linking up with the other slow stitchers over at Kathy's Quilts.

Sunday stitching...

 It has been a s l o w start for me today after a long night! Emily and I went to the drive in last night (a girl scout event) and watched a double feature. Tom and Jerry and then The Blind Side. We got home around 11:30 - hubby was waiting up for us. Emily and I had chatted on the way home where we wondered if he would be awake. I told her he probably would be since we tend to make sure the other gets home safely before turning in for the night. 'Why' she asked. I said that is what you do when you care about someone... you make sure they are home safely!

Our badges for the event and our ticket vouchers for our meal and popcorn for the movie.

The cats didn't care I got to bed late and Sophie wanted food before 7AM. Since I was awake.... I let the chickens into the run about 7:15. The splitting headache (probably not enough water yesterday and lack of sleep) had me back in bed when the neighbor decided to play weird music at 7:40 AM that I could hear inside my bedroom with everything closed up. I might have opened the slider and said something like 'seriously, loud music before 8AM on a Sunday?'. Amazingly, it got turned down within 2 minutes. That response has never happened before!

Some Advil and a little sleep had me waking up at 11AM and feeling much better. I sent out some prep work for my girl scout meeting tomorrow night (digital photography!) and maybe my photo's on the blog will improve starting next week? One can hope =)

Grandma is feeling better but called off on having the kids go over today for the day. The boys need to make a trip to the trash/recycle center today. The garden needs some weeding/tilling and the car will get taken to the drive through car wash so I (kids) can use their vacuum to clean the interior.

After those tasks.... it will be prep work and a little hand stitching for me to relax. Maybe outside in the sunshine in the high 60 degree temps. Perfect temps to be outside stitching today.

I need to stitch the remaining 3 blocks for part one of Harmony, then prep the part two blocks - half square triangles and stitch them up before block 3 is started on Monday. Completely do-able as they are easy steps. No progress on these this week since Tuesday.

I will also prep some more green hexagon blocks for the quilt as you go blocks I am making each month in the RSC color. Darker green this month of March.

I have the pink and yellow Erin's butterfly all basted and ready to be appliqued onto the background.  I machine stitched the blade wings, then hand pieced the circle part on and hand basted the 1/4 inch seam. I just need to cut out the background square, attach them  by hand and cut out the black body part to stitch down in between them. I'm not sure how many of these I will make - 9 maybe?

The pink and yellow ones so far this year.

I'll settle in this evening with a little hand quilting on the hand pieced quilt along quilt. The cats have been 'helping' this week with that project! Kathy asked about thimble use.... I never could get used to having something on my finger so while I have adjusted to using a hoop or frame, I prefer my fingers bare when I am quilting. 

We have an abundance of eggs (all 9 are laying!) - so I decided to make a quick quiche with some leftover asparagus yesterday afternoon. I did not bother getting out the recipe... or measuring! I chopped the cooked asparagus up and added it to the greased bottom of a glass pie plate. My recipe uses some milk and a little mayo, blended together.  then the eggs.... I used a bunch of the small to medium ones (maybe 7?) and a couple of extra egg whites from the sweedish meatballs last week. Poured that in then checked in the cheese drawer - added some provolone slices and some shredded sharp cheddar. Into the oven for 45 minutes covered and breakfast this morning was waiting for a warm up! I got mushrooms on sale for 99 cents for 8 ounces yesterday, so I'll be making my Sweet Tomaot's restaurant - Cream of Mushroom soup later today. Recipe is under the recipe tab at the bottom. My lunches for the next few days! I love this soup.

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Stitchers.... 

Weekend whirlwind.....

It has been a fun but exhausting weekend so far. We (Emily and I) attended the 5th annual Drive in Camp out with almost 800 other girl scouts last night. All but one from our troop was able to attend! We are the green tent at the top right in front of the big screen. This was an areal drone photo taken this morning! The Ocala Drive in closed down for our private event 2 years in a row now and created an amazing event full of wonderful memories for the girls. We got to watch Frozen, Frozen 2, Arctic Dog and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. All the movies were great - I would advise seeing them especially the one about Mr. Rodgers. The best part - hearing the girls sing along to all the songs in the Frozen movie in stereo! As always the girls had a wonderful time despite the temps dipping into the 50's for these thin skinned girls! Bringing extra blankets was a plus as we had them all wrapped up watching the movies outside. I see a nice long, warm shower in the near future and then I'll put up the tent to let it air and dry out from the morning dew on it when we had to pack it up.

After that.... I see an afternoon sitting in my recliner with my feet up, and some stitching of some kind in my hands! I seem to have neglected to do my Ella Marie Deacon Blocks yet and the next set are released on the 15th.... so I'll plug away on those 4 prepped blocks today. Hand piecing and hand applique! Sounds like a relaxing afternoon.

Head on over to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching and see what others are working on today.

I had a field trip with Emily's class to Silver Run Museum this week as well. It was for science so they were learning about animals and habitats this year. They did social studies last year and learned about the early settlers and how they lived in the area. We got to see some neat things..... I decided to stay back on the boat ride so they didn't need to split it up but I hear they saw manatees, alligators, turtles, monkeys, lots of birds, ducks and fish. We even saw deer and lots of tracks. It was in the 30's with highs in the 50's that day. Very chilly for Florida. 

Drive in photo's!

This morning.

He had free face painting for the girls.

Snowball fight in Florida. 

Two of my Emily's watching a movie last night.