Heat Coming - Fires Blazing

I don't think there will be much camping comin up.... So it is laying around here in hotsville for now.  Me and Baby just chilllin as it were. 

I hear the folks talking about the mountains - whoopie camping - BUT it doesn't sound like we will be hitting the trail anytime soon with words like "fire" and "evacuation plans"  being bandied about.

I also have to go out earlier each day to get my Vitamin D rays in the back yard.    Heat is coming so they say.  I'll just stay in the coolness and under the fan until further notice.

TTFN    -  JAZ

WEST FORK TRAIL - OAK CREEK CANYON

This is such a beautiful place.  Last Wednesday we hiked the trail for over two and 1/2 hours.  You do cross the creek several times, but otherwise the trail is pretty easy.  Some elevation and sandy walking, but oh so BEAUTIFUL!   Great way to spend a morning near Sedona.  The parking lot for the Trail is a day fee area and does not hold many cars.  It fills up very fast!.  We arrived about 8:15am on Wednesday and there were 3 cars there.  When we came out at 11am there were no available spaces and about 10 cars waiting in hopes of finding a space.

This is a terrific trail - everyone should try it!

DON"T GO

Alert - Alert - Don't go to the Flagstaff Arboretum!
The Arboretum is 5 miles south of Interstate 40 on a Woody Mountain Road - a very washboard dirt road.  Seemed more like 10 miles.  Once there it had a nice pine shaded parking lot - nice meadow - view of Humphrey's peak - small pond - cute gift shop  and  nothing else.....

We thankfully have a reciprocal membership with Desert Botanical Garden - so DH and I did not pay the $6 each senior fee.    We were so glad we did not pay for this nothing experience.  I know it is a non-profit but.... It had lots of markers for plants that were not there.  Several raised beds with nothing in them. 

Anyhow ---- until it improves I would say don't waste your time and money.

RECENT SEWING

Some recent sewing:

Fun Lunch with Best Friends

What a nice afternoon.  Lunch and lots of Laughs!

Four Good looking Ladies

LAST CAMPING TRIP

Wow with the fires that are burning in the White Mountains we may not be camping again anytime soon.  My Dad is so bummed. But we are worried for our friend's homes in Alpine and Nutrioso.  Hopefully the firefighters can win.


Here are just a few good pics of my recent trip.

Did I Win?

Damn wind I want to go outside!

I am SOOO tired

Finally a good nap place

DOGGIE NEWS QUILT

Loved this doggie news fabric. I used in a quilt top I made last summer at Sew In.  I had it professionally quilted as it all went together so nicely.  Just love how it turned out!

It does not have a Springer Spaniel on it - but it does have a beloved Skye Terrier.

SKATEBOARDING DOG STYLE

Check this out.  Cute story.


http://www.petcentric.com/Videos/Video/Snouts-in-Your-Town-For-the-Sake-of-the-Skate.aspx?videoid=29352175001&pctvsid=76e0781b-2f76-47ee-9786-0eeebe5f3033&cat=PetcentricTV&?DCMP=EMC-PETC-PETC-May11_2

Update Hall Bath

I had that urge to update something.  You know, the need to get paint all over yourself and everything else.  Granted the color of the walls is not given complete justice but had to share.  The color, the new trim I found to sew on the towels and the picture frame with shots of our own photos, came together just as I had envisioned.   And that's a first -  my visions usually turn out pretty awful.  You know what you have in your mind is rarely the same when completed.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes, and then some.   My five tomatoe plants are almost 5 feet tall. They kept growing but only recently decided to set the blooms.  We should soon have lots to eat.  Lovin it!

$$$

Wow, had a great time in Las Vegas recently.  We drove up to visit friends. We ate well, saw movies, and played lots of board and card games.  But the best part was winning at the slot machines.  We had terrific LUCK and that is all it is ,but it makes for soooo much fun on the trip.

YEAH CAMPING!

Finally, camping in April!  Sorry we are so late in posting this.  Mom has been SUPER BUSY.   It was very WINDY but one day was really nice so I was catching some rays and sun bathing.  Must get that Vitamin D you know.

Catchin Rays   - Lovin' It

NEW LITTLE QUILT HANGERS

Sewed two little quilts to hang - FOR ME!

WEEKENDER BAG

This bag was quite the challenge but I would like to make another one. Our Sewing group made this bag as  a two month meeting project.  It is really quite intensive in cutting out and sewing together.  In other words you have to pay attention - and we know how well I do that.  Despite all the trials and hard to sew areas here it is.

LATEST SEWING PROJECTS

Posting a few of the items I have sewn recently.

PUGGASSO





Little Quilt

Little Quilt





Fishing Theme Coasters

Camping Bag for my Friend