Bitty Booties in Kona

I have been working on booties for 3 pregnant friends...all of which are having boys. Alli got some booties from a friend of hers who got me started. These cute little booties are not easy because they are so small. Still they are cute. I'm going to finish about 12 pairs and then sign off on these so look fast.

Kona Happenings

Jeanie and I went to quilting then out to lunch for her birthday. Jeanie has a solid group of friends and this was a fun lunch. Of course afterwards some of us went to the quilt store so that was icing on the cake .....well, there was no cake actually. I made her a spice cake for her birthday and it was yummy.

 Here are pictures of Jeanie winding the warp on her reel, but of course you knew that. 
 Here I am sewing on the lanai. This is paradise!

 See if you can spot Paul inching over the rocky shore to get out to snorkeling. Hint: he's not in a gang even though he's "claiming" colors.

As you can tell, we are warping the loom before we load the heddles. 

This is my first experience downloading pictures onto my notebook then off to the blog. I didn't have editing software so hopefully you can see what you need to see.  We are having a great time with Jeanie and Bob. Aloha!

BREAKING NEWS!

Just wanted everyone to know that Michael got his permit yesterday! He had to try very hard but he is very focused and this is a great step for confidence for him.

YIPPEE!! I'm sure Grandpa Rick will take him out driving!

CONGRATULATIONS MICHAEL!!

Oregon Coast

This is the Astoria Column depicting the Lewis and Clark trail in pictures. We also drove the 4 mile bridge across the Columbia River into Washington. 

We are at the end of the tourist part of Seaside and standing at the Beach. It reminds me of Pismo Beach in CA. We had fish and chips and checked out the house we are renting with the kids in August.

The drive home on Highway 26 was beautiful.

Volcano Quilt Retreat

This past week was my annual quilt retreat at Volcano. As you can see, we had an evening with clear enough skies to see the glow at Halemaumau Crater at the top of Kilauea volcano. The glow is from a large hole in the floor of the crater that is open to a lava lake. You can see the wall of the crater behind the glow in the pictures. The plume is what blows over to Kona every day to create our "vog."

One of the things we did at our retreat was to sandwich and baste Mom's quilt top. There is a billiard table in the conference room we use that has a wooden top. It makes a great place to lay out a large quilt. But, as you can see, someone (moi in this case) has to get up on the table to do the stitching in the center of the quilt.

Rain, rain, more rain and flooding too

Julia told you about the snow. I will tell you about the rain and the floods. The rain rain rain came down down down. The fire station in Turner, where Daniel is a volunteer firefighter, was under water. They had to evacuate the whole town. Salem closed numerous streets because they had become rivers. I'm sure if you go online you can find more pictures and info. The water is receding but more rain is coming. Willamette Falls is officially at flood stage. Fortunately, the Molalla River and Johnson Creek have not reached flood level. We are not in danger but parts of Canby do flood when we get rains like this. Pat's Acres, where Amelia operated the Pineapple Express this summer, is now part of the Pudding River. I drove by it on my way home from work and it's a flowing river. We'll see what happens.

Here's the Turner Fire Station yesterday:

Snow Daze

I'm late getting this up as the snow is melted. But it did snow off and on for 5 days. Clark put some stickers on my window including this one so I got it in the picture. Nothing was interrupted for us as the snow was slight and it rained off and on too which took care of that. Big flakes falling are a nice sight though.