Quilt Project

Earlier this year, my quilt group made 30 plus quilts for a summer Hospice of Kona camp for children who had lost a sibling or a parent in the past year. This was the first time one of these camps was held in Kona but they are held by hospices all over the country. All the quilts we made were of Hawaiian prints. Each child received a quilt of their own, a teddy bear with a Camp Erin necklace and a backpack.

Originally this camp was supposed to be held at the beach but was moved to a ranch up the mountain. So the quilts came in very handy. We heard kids were wearing them all the time around camp. The nights got down into the high 30's! You can see some of the kids with quilts around them at the campfire.

Hawaii Today

Today we got the package that Franny had mailed before she left for Paraguay....a bobblehead doll of Kurt Suzuki, the Hawaiian Bruddah playing for the A's. We LOVE it....Here's Bob proudly posing with it (Kurt has his catcher's mask on so may be hard to recognize).

Today Mike spent most of his time working on getting materials and starting the cabinets. He came by long enough to do the grouting, put primer on the wall and a second coat of mud on the bathroom wall. He'll be back tomorrow, maybe with the beginning of the cabinetry. It's looking better, don't you think?

Nature

William recently helped Russ, a guy from Starbuck's, who runs a non-profit working with troubled teens. They were doing a conservation project in the area.
Second picture I forgot to add with the camping pics. We were surrounded by lots and lots of those trees -- really beautiful.

Day Four.....

Well, we're into that part of the project where it seems it will never get done...Today was a short day because the mastic wasn't dry under the tile. So Mike can't grout until tomorrow. Instead, he got the walls paint-ready, put a nice shelf into the corner cabinet and repaired the wall in the bathroom where Bob had pulled the tile bar out of the wall. Bob was ok but the wall behind the towel bar wasn't. Tomorrow will be grouting and painting and then Mike will have some work to do offsite as he builds the new cabinetry. The balance on that JA Trust check is shrinking!!! In the meantime, our neighbors come home tomorrow so I'll get our stuff out of their frig this afternoon. I'd hoped to have the frig moved to its new spot without completely filling it up but that plan didn't work out. Just have to unload it when we move it...

The Kitchen Aid will fit in here...we checked

Bathroom Wall Repair

Day Three - All Tiled Up

Monday started off slowly because Mike got here late. He did the second coat on the walls and got all the tile done, which took a lot of work. There was one area where he had to shave off some of the hardie board to get the tile to sit flush with the existing floor. And he had to do a bunch of skinny cuts along the walls. But it's looking good. I got a pretty good match for the existing tile at Lowes.

Ready for grout and primer.

Seymours at Wild Waters

The kids and I spent 7 hours at a water park in Clovis. The boys win the prize for going on every slide available including nearly vertical ones, a huge funnel, and of course the normal twisting and turning ones. Ana and Kristin did their fair share of sliding but Kristin opted for more time in the wave pool and less sliding. You'd think I'd have more exciting pictures but it's tough to get pictures of people on the big slides. The picture of the kids in the water was at the end of the day. They were waiting for the waves to start in the wave pool. Good day had by all.

More Happy Campers

The Big Pot

John made two of these pots several yrs. ago for a youth group camping trip. They're approx. 3 ft. high and 2 ft. across. Sat. afternoon whoever wants to can help prepare a feast for 100 or so people. Some people come up to visit just for the day and have dinner with the group. Dinner is: whole red potatoes, whole carrots, whole walla walla sweet onions, whole ears of corn and polish sausages. It steams for several hrs. and is scrumptious!!
So, adding pics is a challenge for me... this is Hillary's Forester.
The girls slept in the back of it. Joanna decided to join us in the trailer the 2nd night. Hmmm... wonder why?? The flowers on the table are next to the spot that chunky Hillary broke in the table. She was standing on it to get onto John's shoulders to reach something and SNAP!!