A bit more progress

I only got the smaller t-shirt in the corner quilted last evening. I spent about an hour on the phone talking to my son which was great.

Here is a picture of my zucchini plant on the July 6th and what it looks like now. Since it is forecasted to be a bit cooler next week I am going to try and get it in the ground.

The air quality here is terrible because of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. This morning the air quality index is 237 which is very unhealthy.  I can still smell it inside the office.  It is overcast, hazy and it smells like burnt wood. There is very little wind and it's humid. I am lucky I get to stay indoors.

Three more shirts quilted

I am feeling much better so I had the energy to get a lot done on the pink t-shirt quilt last evening. I finished the white shirt with the circle design and the pink shirt to its right, then quilted the gray shirt.

I also pressed a few handles for tote bags.

I did go outside and gave the flowers a drink. It was so hot and humid I just couldn't stay outside very long. No rain in the forecast until Sunday.

Back to the pink t-shirt quilt

I am now over halfway done with the quilting! I quilted the white shirt at the bottom and started on the white shirt with the circles of pink ribbons.

It was time to look for binding fabric and I found this dark pink fabric that will work great.

Taking care of the car and flowers

After work I had to go get the oil changed in the car. While I waited (an hour and twenty minutes!) I stitched on this sampler. I am almost done.

Here is what it looked like the last time I posted a picture of it May 13th

I left the dealership and headed to the drug store. I needed some OTC allergy meds. I had only a couple of Benedryl pills that I took on Satarday and they seem to help more than anything else I had tried. I went to head inside the store and found this in the center consule.

I figured out quickly that it was the antenna. I guess they took it off when they ran the car thru the car wash. I am tired and crabby from the two shows and the allergy coughing and blowing my nose constantly so I wasn't too happy about this. I headed to another store since the drug store didn't have any Benedryl pills. The next store did so I bought two boxes just so I would have them.

Once I got home I was going to reinstall the antenna, but I couldn't reach it. I was too tired to get out a ladder but not too tired to call the place and tell them my displeasure.

One of the guys at work is 6' 5", so he had no problem screwing the antenna back on for me this morning.

Once I got home I got something to eat, watered the flowers and went to bed so not sewing happened. I'm still tired.

Saturday's show, a big box of fabric and pink quilt progress

The band had another show on Saturday. Friday's show we had left at 12:45 pm and I had gone to bed about 12:15 am. Saturday we left at 10:30 am to head to Cadiz, Ohio to the Sally Buffalo Park. This is a campgrounds a bit more than 2 hours away. I was still tired from Friday, but I had the bench seat at the back of the van all to myself so I could stretch out and take a nap on the way to Cadiz.

We had a hard time finding the venue, but when we got there we were surprised how nice the place was! A big backstage parking area

A ramp to the stage that was a straight shot

The green room area had a big bathroom, shower, and a fridge with an ice dispenser!  They also had food for the band and plenty of cold drinks which doesn't happen very often.  

Here's the stage and where we set up the merch booth. There was also an electrical outlet in that column right beside the merch booth so I could plug in the fan. Whoever designed this place knew what they were doing!

The crowd was very subdued and a lot of people didn't show up until we were halfway done with the set. They started getting their spots for the Headliner which was a Bon Jovi tribute band. There were a few people that were at the top of the hill watching the show. I waved at them and they waved back.

We got out of there at 8:15 pm and the sunset on our way back treated us with some spectacular skies. At first it was pink and lavender

then about 25 miles up the road we headed north and the sky was yellow

another 25 miles and the sky was brilliant orange

I got to bed about 11:30 pm. My SIL gave me a box of chocolate covered carmels for helping out with the booth and making the pillow cases.

When I got home there was a box at my front door from Wanda. She has been working hard organizing things and had some fabrics she knew she wasn't going to use - mostly large print batiks. I am the lucky receipant of these which I will use for thread beds and tote bags for the merch booth. I had to weight the box for fun - 10.2 pounds of fun! Thank you Wanda!

Sunday I was pretty tired so it took me a while to get moving. I spent most of the day quilting on the pink t-shirt quilt. I circled the area that is now quilted. I am close to being half done.

I did have to stop quilting to mow the front and the one side yard. My yard is such a mess! I did pull out or break off the tops of some of the thistle that was getting ready to go to seed. My center flower bed is full of it even though I have pulled a lot out. We have some cooler temps coming next weekend so maybe I can get some serious weeding done.

Another road trip and thread

Friday night the band had a show in Lorain Ohio. I made shortbread cookies. It was hot and muggy, but there was a good crowd.

I stopped at Barnes and found some thread I needed for the pink t-shirt quilt. I haven't had time to quilt - maybe tomorrow.

Pink t-shirt quilt progress and a visitor

The pink t-shirt quilt was pin basted yesterday and I managed a small start with the quilting. I needed to make the meander small for this shirt so I could sneak between the swirly ribbon. On the other shirts the meander will be a bit bigger.

While I was pin basting I was enjoying the view out the studio window and seeing my coneflowers.  They have spread over the last few years.  They started out as a couple small plants I bought over 5 years ago.

Then I saw this little fellow show up so I had to head outside to get it's picture.

After encouragement from Kathy who is a blogging friend, I when ahead and tried to start some zucchili seeds as she said it was not too late. This morning I saw that one of the seeds had sprouted. The seeds were several years old so I wasn't sure any of them were still viable.

I put the little plant into a pot, gave it a drink, and set it outside to do it's thing.

So are none of the jalapeno seeds have sprouted.