Sunny Saturday

I'm having my second coffee of the morning on the deck, and my DH arrives with the new tent that we bought a couple years ago and haven't yet used. He proceeds to set it up in a few minutes after cursing about one thing or another and checking for better set up information than is included.

Now that it's just the two of us, of course this is when we have the biggest tent we have ever owned. This thing is 8' x 8'. For reference, way back when (37 years ago!) we started out camping in a tiny little just barely two person backpacking tent. 

He hasn't put the rain fly on even though it's getting cloudy. Monterey County, the next county over is getting rain, hall and dry lightning, so it's a little unsettled. Hoping none of that comes our way.

We are thrilled with the idea of standing up inside the tent, so much easier to change clothes.

And of course this means we may be bringing the Aero Bed air mattress. I'm quoting DH here: "We could even bring pillows and blankets!"

I have to say, it's pretty cushy and if it wasn't getting so hot, I might spend the day out here reading.

But will it really be camping if we're not on the ground on our mats and in our sleeping bags? I mean, we'll still be sleeping outside in Yosemite and all. I will report back after next week. I'm so excited, it's been years since we've camped in Yosemite and I can't wait.

 

Several Saturday Updates

There are several things I wanted to update on but weren't "worth" their own post. First off, a quilt finish, Checkerboard-ish is done and on my table. I was able to get it done in time to show it off at the SBAMQG meeting, as it was a mini-quilt challenge for that group.

I'm very pleased with how the quilting turned out.

I did indeed do a facing and it worked out very well, not distorting too much and very flat which is good as it is being used ar a table runner.

Just as predicted (and hoped!), zig-zagging the edges of the two woven 1/2 yards from this month's Color Collective helped quite a lot with fraying. Definitely worth the extra bit of time to do this step before pre-washing wovens.

Leeloo has now discovered the joys of lurking on top of the fridge. Thankfully she jumped down onto the counter after I was done chopping (this time at least!).

We did Passover at my SIL's on the actual first night for once, and it was fun. I got to be the Locusts this year.

The old bird feeder is now under attack by squirrel, and is also beginning to break, so it needed replacing. The red glass hummingbird feeder just needs refilling.

I got a supposed to be squirrel-proof gigantic feeder. We need to hang it out further from the pole, that's happening today, DH has been scheming on various squirrel-defying solutions.

I went to do my daily jigsaw puzzle in the app I've been using for many years and check out this ad! Yes, even puzzle games are in on the Pantone Color of the Year Viva Magenta bandwagon. I took the opportunity to post it to Instagram along with my fabric pull for my own Viva Magenta quilt idea for the 2023 Color of the Year Quilt Challenge.
 

That's enough updates for now!