Rounding Up
Not in the mathematical sense but the in the cowboy way. Things have finally slowed down a bit and I have some time to get my thoughts together.
I had been working on this little quilt for two weeks and finished it last Thursday. It is Hop, Skip, & a Jump from Denyse Schmidt Quilts and it's the perfect size for a lap blanket for those chilly days that I am sure are ahead despite the current heat.
On Friday I headed back to Reedsburg to pick apples off Momma's trees to make sauce. When I got there everybody was out picking sweet corn so I helped shuck for a little while before I was told to get up to the house and can more tomatoes before they rotted. Gretchen and I diced them up and canned nine pints, all while cooking batches of corn. I finally made it out to the orchard and picked a small bushel of apples and we made three gallons of sauce. Saturday morning I spooned it into pint jars to be frozen.
That evening Momma, Gretchen, and Aunt Janet came and picked me up for our next adventure, the Elkhorn Antique Flea Market that took place on Sunday. It was so hot but I still managed to find some junk I probably didn't need.
Behold my bounty. I found lots of tablecloths and a few aprons, a pretty vintage dress pattern, refrigerator jars, an enamel bucket and tub, cake cookbook, paper dolls from the fifties, an aqua-rimmed Fire King bowl, a bag of cut calico quilt pieces- enough to make ten dresden plates,
Three pieces of luggage, which I fully intend to use as luggage,
and a plastic deer that was thrown in with a bunch of guide books my momma bought from a seller whose junk was all a dollar. You just had to root through it all like a little squirrel. True treasure!
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