Cheap tricks!

I just remodeled my RV bedroom, new border, quilt and I tore off the valances. I replaced them with plastic valances I bought in homedepot and made a sleeve in appropriate color that slips onto the valance. Perfect!! The quilt is a star pattern purple on white background with purple stitching on the 1/4".

Besides that I have been busy..

I made a quilt top this weekend that I will put together on my frame once I get home. It is a star pattern with golds, and reds, it looks very rich. It is for a contract so not mine. I have so many I wouldn't be able to use it. But they are fun to make. I will post pics once I get it pressed up.I have 6 to do while I am here!!

Hmm what should I do tomorrow!

Find of the day

We found a beaten up gazebo and took the sides there were 2 curved ones that called out to me from the junk yard!

I brought them back and Ben sawed them off by about a foot, allowing us to push them into the soil. We then used the left over 16" inverted it and pushed it into the soil at the door of the shed. If you double click the photo's you can see.

The silvery bushy plants on the side of the shed are actually dusty miller that are a year old, I have never seen them soo big. I cut them to try to shape them up. They get a tall spike with a yellow flower in the spring.

It is a real learning curve to see what I can and can't plant to survive
The tall green spikes I dug up from the bush

It has been one of those days!

Here I am all organized or so I thought. I must have had one too many distractions
I put together some squares to see how they would look as a quilt top. HANG ON!!
I guess I have some computation challenges. I am two squares short. Back to the drawing board at least I know what I am doing tomorrow and the next day!!
The good news is that I have still loads of fabric left to create my extra squares.
I guess it is a good thing I did not buy a lottery ticket!

It was a scortcher!

This used to be my scooter till the fire

Fire onboard!

We are all settled in our winter home
Plants planted, lawn mowed and watered
New trellis up and vined
New railing on stairs

Then just when we thought all was done and fine
FIRE!!



WE had a fire last night
Vic noticed a fire under the trailer.
Well it turns out that the fire was a scooter, it;s electrical system caught fire, toast, melted and lots of stink
We had 2 fire extinguishers luckily
That was a 10:30 and I had just gone to be when Vic was banging on the door, Ben of course could not hear
AND IT WAS MY SCOOTER

Leaving SC

snoozing in Manning, SC leaving for FL and should be in the Park by high noon.. stay tuned

We took a leisurely trip to Fl, and stopped and had a nice lunch at Denny's. Now Flying J has changed it restaurants to Denny's and they are quite efficient. We had the waitress from St.Augustine , FL, Boy she was way too energetic and eager to please. I don't know how many coffee refills I had and Ben's pop seemed to reappear every few minutes.Service with a smile. As we exited the restuarant you could here her holler" You'll have a nice day now". Yep it is official we are in FL!!

Once in the park the office was closed but we were waved in by the gate keeper. Ben was so excited that they recongnized him, truthfully it was the noisey deisel car. It took us about 2 hours to pris, shine and put up the most important part of the time here. THE TV, Ben wouldn't want to miss Ms. Marples mystery..

This am it was only about 79 at 8 am. We were already up and planning our day,
Once outside Ben washed and erected and anchored the awning. I weeded my garden surprised to find last year stock. I had never seen dusty miller flower let alone see it 2 1/2 foot high! My variegate bougainvallia, cactus and mandeville had all kept in good shape during the summer.


I organized my shed a little to get at what I wanted to see, got all the weeding done, my welcome sign, washed the rv inside- the outside will have to wait until cooler days.

Tomorrow we will put up the gazebo- to shade the car and us if it is buggy we can sit under it! Then where to put our picnic table and where did we hide our BBQ. All of those little details one never knows about!

Tomorrow is another day of advetures

Yep it is tru!

The one on the right is my little girl, really she is..
This was taken at a most recent wedding where she was a bridemaid
See the curls, blue eyes, lilly white skin? No well that is because she looks like DADDY

Here we go again

Yesterday we had an interesting day. Our trees that we had waited months to defrocked were finally put out of their misery. A large crane appeared, the tree fellar hoisted to the top of the tree, the crane secured. The the fellar ropelled to the ground. He cut off a section of tree and the crane held onto the top of the tree. The crane gently lifted the tree to a secondary spot where another length was taken off and the tree was swung by the crane to an empty spot on the lawn. This was repeated three times. Now I don't have a particularly tiny lot but these three 50yr old trees took up the whole yard. The man left us with clean up. It took us a little over 5 hours to saw the branches off, I was on the detail of sorting and carting them away, Ben then chopped the trees in 4 foot lengths and managed to use the fridge dolly to put them in the laneway for another neighbors wood stock.

This morning we ran out of the house at 5:45 and about 4pm landed in Carisle, PA. On our way to Florida- now 1/3 closer to our home away from home. The driving was good, we had a lot of traffic but no hold ups, We spent 2 hours of driving through dense fog in the lower part of PA. Here we are for the night until tomorrow am!

$$$$

Shop Shop Shop, we spent the day at Vaughn Mills Shopping Mall. A delight for some, overwhelming for others. With people planted in every square inch there was lots to see and the crowds were not stifling .. until you hit the food court at high noon. I looked at a few price tags, only to be reminded why I purchase my clothing in Florida.
A pair of shoes would send the average working Joe 2 days of their salary. A new shirt, pants and dress would take a full work week to pay for and that is without the taxes.

I do declare there is some advantage to : 1) being retired 2) Lack of fashion sense 3) Living in the boondocks where fashion is only in the wikepdia as dressing down is a way of life for the mundane chores

On the road again

Here we are in Aurora north of Toronto. We made it car fixed and all. Everything is coming up Roses - literally.. We met the kids at the florist to confirm bouquets, corsages and centerpieces.

Try not to laugh but.............

Saga continues
SO the car wont be ready to go until after lunch and we have a 6 hr drive through holiday traffic, to the big TO. Ben was feeling sorry for himself until heard from his pa Gerry.

Now Gerry loves to tinker. He picked up a motor - outboard 9hp evinrude that was seized. He spent 2 weeks tearing it apart cleaning every single part and getting it in order for use. It worked and he was elated. Lashing it to the transom of his old outboard,full of excitement he revved the motor, One, Two Three it was set to go........ When all of a sudden the motor at full throttle, hop skipped and jumped. Head first into the drink, GLOG GLUG GLUG went the motor hundreds of feet to the depths of the river. SOB SOB SOB went Gerry a motor found free, fixed free and released free. BOOO HOOO-
Ben doesn't have the heart to tell Gerry the car troubles he had yesterday and today...........

Dead in the water

Here we are Thanksgiving is approaching and we are to be on the road on Fri
The oil changed in Ben's little car when clunk, he could not move it. The starter made a little click sound. OHOH. Can you picture it, I pushed and Ben put the car in gear, the car managed to cough so the battery and engine are fine, just not the starter. I call the CAA and happily they came to tow me. Problem?? Well first the little fellow swore it was the battery and although we knew it wasn't we let him play. Then the neighbor wanted a hammer to bash on the top of the motor to get the starter to jump. Not on his life was he going to do that to our precious car. Besides the starter is under the motor so it would not have helped. After the backyard mechanics had their fill and we knew what was wrong and that we needed it up on a hoist to have the work performed. the car was towed.

We pulled into our favorite fixit shop and it was closed. However Ben spotted his favorite mechanic BBQing supper next to the shop.He took one look our way and ran right back into the house. I am sure he did not trust his steaks anywhere near Ben.

SO the saga continues........... will we or won't we be on time for our Toronto and FL trips? Stay tuned!

It looks a little drab

 

I cut out hundreds of tiger lillies and then I put in lavender,hostas, mums, coral bells, periwinkle, eunanymous, chicken and hens, 3 roses, daisies and four oclocks.. Now lets all see if it survives the winter. Most of these plants I had potted on my deck slips of plants that I had repotted in May. AS they thrived I did not want to dump them out so I relocated them once again in my new sunny garden, I have two honeysuckle bushes and three apple trees in this garden. Hopefully it will color up next summer, if not donations are gladfully accepted

The leaves are turning!