Happy Labor Day 2023

Funny things one remembers- I remember growing up Labor Day was the official end of summer and one shouldn’t wear white shoes!! Probably white slacks, dresses and skirts too.

Galen was away for a few days last week Getting back on Friday, they had an interesting trip on I-37. There had been a shooting in Corpus Christie. The suspect tried to out run the Police on I-37. They put spikes across the road, he got out of his pick up wearing an armored vest and shooting. Not a smart move on his part. Fortunately no one else was hurt, but it was a good 90 minutes before traffic slowly started to move in either direction. This all started about 30 minutes earlier, so Galen was not close to any of it. Their plans of getting back early on the Friday before Labor day didn’t quite work out, but they still weren’t too late.

White he was away I found more partial blocks to press, measure and trim. If I ever get all this organized it will be amazing! 3 1/2 inch 4 patches. Think these will end up being centers for some scrappy star blocks. The red and black half square triangles were from me not using the correct size triangle paper! No problem, will get used some where.

I was able to get the rest of the blocks made for the Strips and Strings Rail Fence I had posted earlier. 48 blocks. On Saturday I put the top together using the webbing method. That took me a little while to get used too when I did it for the quadrille quilt last month. But it makes more sense the more I do it. Basically chain piecing rows together!! Everything lines up and doesn’t get mixed up! The top isn’t quite this bright-nice sunny day. But it is colorful! The top is about 54 by 72. Nice throw size. And no it did not make a dent in my scraps!

I have been enjoying watching the Hummingbirds coming into our feeders. The feeders are getting more activity this year since the heat and drought have really taken a toll on the flowers. We have some blooming but not like normal years. The Firebush is doing well as is the Pride of Barbados but not many others. Took this one thru a window with my phone. Not the best picture.

Lady and I took advantage of cooler mornings and had our morning coffee on the deck. Had been missing being able to do that. No it hadn’t rained, had just given some plants a drink.

Tomorrow is our 53rd wedding anniversary but we also have trees being trimmed tomorrow so will fix a nice dinner at home and we will go out later in the week. We need to get some big branches off that are over our roof once again. Hopefully we won’t have a winter like we had in 2021 and this year but you never know. It’s hard to imagine with all that came down or split and needed to come off after the ice storm in February, but the one big Live Oak really took off and unfortunately over the house roof. This evening we will have to get all the birdfeeders down and out of the way.

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend and have a good rest of the week.