Labour Week

It's a good thing we took Labour Day weekend off because we made up for it this week...

Starting with siding the last and HiGHEST  part of our house ....

Lots of up and down on a two story house.....

Quality time spent in the air in the bucket of the tractor ... Otherwise known as a farmers scaffolding!!

 I didn't realize how nice my flowers were looking until I was waiting for Arnold to cut some pieces for me

With all the scorching heat and no rain my gardens were pitiful till the rain last weekend!!!

These dahlias are making up for lost time!!!

So between installing a new furnace....

And loading semis out with our grain everyday....

This week has been super busy

Quilting was yesterday so I joined the girls for the morning 

There were some beautiful  quilts for show and tell and it was a full house!!!

Today Justin, my mom and I are off to Calgary to spend time with my sisters!!

And maybe......IKEA and a stop at Out of Hand quilt store!!!

On the road again

Christa

If This Bag Could Talk.....

Not me....This bag....

 

I called it 'Stepping Out'

 

It was my entry for the 2014 Hoffman Challenge

 

She has been travelling the States with the Hoffman Show

 

You had to incorporate this fabric....

 

Indigo Collection

 

 

This is what I did with it...

 

She had the honour of being with the Travelling Show with Hoffman Fabrics

 

I should have called her 'Runaround Sue' because she was all over the place!!

Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival in Loveland, CO

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Amish Country Quilt Show in Dalton, OH

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World Quilt Show in Davie, FL

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Hoffman International Fabrics in Mission Viero, CA

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Pioneer Florida Museum Farm Fest and Quilt Show in  Dade City, FL

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Carnegie Wing Gallery in Zanesville,OH

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World Quilt Show, New  England in Manchester,NH

 



Can you imagine if she could talk?!?!?

 

I should have installed a recording device so I could hear the things they said in Amish Country!

I imagine the peeps saying "Where would you 'step out' with that?"

 

These are the fabrics for 2016

 

"Crystalia"

 

There is a white version..

 

 

 

and a black version

 

I can see some potential with these!!

Christa

 

 



 

Deadwood or Bust!!

 

It was Deadwood AND bust...good thing Arnold was lucky!!

 

(it's was his turn....I have been his sugar mamma for years now!)

 

 

 

One of our favorite places to go is Deadwood,SD

 

The drive is beautiful...

 



 

Since it rained, we hopped in the car and went for the weekend...

 

We labour enough all year

 

 without spending the long weekend doing it too!!

 

We stayed in Spearfish,SD at The Secret Garden B&B

 



 

It was historical home from the Patti Hearst Family built in 1892

 

It was a quaint sanctuary

 

very well preserved...

 

I loved how the keys were on a custom made holder

 

This was our first experience with a B&B

 

Breakfast was outside which was nice

but

13C(55F) is just a little too chilly for ME!!!

 

We headed off to the Crazy Horse Monument....

 

 

 

The sculptor, Korczak Ziolkowski was asked to sculpt a replica of Crazy Horse

into a chosen mountain way back in 1948!!

 

 

Korczak had worked on Mt Rushmore when he was 16 years old

and

had the fortitude and drive to take on this new challenge.

 

He climbed 750 steps up a ladder daily to work on this project

AND

still managed to have energy to produce 10 kids!!!

 

 

He dedicated his entire life to this project.

 

He was an amazing sculptor.....

 

 

His family has carried on his torch,

 creating a source of income to complete this huge project

by

 building an interpertive center and university for Native people

 

 

The incredible arts of the Native people are displayed through out..

 

 

This star quilt was the first quilt I ever made...

 

 

I never knew the significance of it...

 



 

 

Their bead work is so detailed...

 

 

 

 

I loved this display of beads...too beautiful to use!!

 

I guess every hobby has it's stash!!

 

 

Artwork....

 

Rugs and dresswear...

 



 

It has taken 67 years to get it to this point...

 

 

And this is what it is destined to be one day....

 

 

You could take home your own piece of the 'rock'!!

 

That is one way to clear the debris...one rock at a time!!



 

It was amazing to see who far people had travelled...

 



 

 



 

 

We were probably one of the closest travellers!!



It is always a great escape!!

 

So glad it finally rained!!

Christa

 



 

 

 

Home on the Range

 

 

The antelope population did well this year....

 

This little herd has been hanging around our place all summer!!

 



 

This is not Vanna 'swimming'

 

She got stuck in the mud in the pasture dugout.

Thanks to a neighbour who spotted her, we gathered a rescue operation

and

got her back on to high and dry ground

 

My sister, Larissa is in Alaska on vacation this week.

 

 

Looks chilly to me!!

 

She has been wanting to see a moose or a bear.

 

But the only thing she saw so far was Obama

 as

she waited for his entourage to leave Exit Glacier so they could have a look!!

 

 

 

 

 

I haven't seen any bears around here

(other than me)

 

But this moose thought he was hiding in the corn!!

 

He had quite the rack!!

 

Have an amazing long week.

 

I hope it rains in MY neck of the woods.

 

Christa