Where in Arizona are we?

We are leaving for Quartsite in the morning. On the 17th of this month eight motorhomes hit the road for a week of off roading in Sedona, Az. It has been a great time and I have some great pictures which is good because I sometimes for get to take a camera. This time I brought the camera but not the cord thing to transfer the photos to the computer.
The scenery and road trips have been just wonderful. Evenings are filled with enjoying our friends and bringing out our best camp foods...I stayed home today so that Puddin and I could get baths and I could do some laundry before we leave for Quartsite in the morning.
We will be dry camping out in the middle of the desert for Thanksgiving. Our feast is going to be centered around hot dogs roasted over a fire and S'mores.
Tonight we are having apple and pumpkin pie for Sweeties 60th birthday get together. We went to Cottonwood on Saturday to a cowboy dinner and show. Sweetie was turned in for having a birthday and he had to go forward to be crowned with a really funny looking birthday hat. I didn't have my camera. He was a good sport about it and everyone had fun.
That is it for now. Just wanted to give an update just in case I can't get online in Quartsite.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving.

Mom, What's for Breakfast

Yesterday I was actually thanked by a lady that was glad I introduced the concept of feeding our dogs vegetables. Her dog loves them and has lost weight. So decided to show you Puddin's breakfast.

Her breakfast is served in a desert dish. This morning she had some moistened kibble, broccoli, half a hard boiled egg(no yolk), carrots, 4 plump juicy blueberries and 3 sugar snap peas. She loves this and it actually has helped her lose the few pounds that she was over weight. I vary her breakfasts a bit each morning but it is always her healthiest meal of the day.

It works pretty handy for me too. I get my morning snack while fixing her breakfast. No kibble though.

A favorite afternoon snack of Puddin and mine is sugar snap peas. We eat several bags of them a week. Much better than chocolate; none of the low sugar let down.

Don't ask me about feeding veggies to cats because I have no idea if they would eat them. All I know for sure is that we need to be eating them.

Try eating sugar snap peas for snacks and deserts. They work for me.

Something Else to Vacuum

This is a picture of the dust I got off our mattress this morning.

I recently discovered that Dr. Oz show has a show of his own. He did an episode about dust mites in beds. So I have started vacuuming our bed every week when the sheets get changed.

What you see on that paper towel is pretty much how much stuff I have been getting off our mattress every week since we have been back to Yuma on Oct 6. Sweetie says that some of it is loose foam but a lot of it is dust. I have no idea about the mites but there must be some in there and I am not taking any chances. I am sucking up as many as I can.

I am working on the mattress in the RV too. Just in case my sweet niece and her family should drop in soon.

I hate

garage sales. But look at this find!

I had another back massage today and was so relaxed that I decided to take a back street way home. On a fluke I stopped at a garage sale and bought these 3 homemade flannel baby quilts for $15. I will donate them to Project Linus. Normally I wouldn't donate a garage sale quilt but these had not been used. Guess I could pretend that I made them myself. But then I would miss out on being able to boast about such a great find.

While I am on the subject of Project Linus I guess I should report on the Quilt-a-Thon we had last week. All in all we ended up with 500 quilts for the 3 three days. There were 77 ladies from the community that came to make blankets. That does not included the 30 or so blanketeers that were handing out the kits, sewing on labels, sizing the quilts to specific groups, cutting backings, cutting battings, and many more things that go with hosting the quilt-a-thon.

There were 144 kits handed out at the show so the rest of the quilts were made by us and others at home and then donated as a finished quilt.

Each quilt a thon gets larger than the last. We are all very tired at the end of the show but also very very blessed.

Have and awesome day and thanks for stopping in.

Tight Squeeze

This picture is from our Thursday off road outing. First one of this season. The people in the jeep are our neighbors and they passed thru the squeeze without any scrapes, but we were not so lucky.
We have a Jeep Liberty for our off road vehicle and it is a bit longer then the other cars in our group. I usually get out of the rig when I know we are going to get in a bit of a bind but this time I didn't and almost had a claustrophobic episode. It was a bit over whelming sitting in the car with the canyon wall crunched up against the sides so we couldn't get out without busting out a window.
We made it thru but had some pretty nasty scratches on my side of the car. A bit of boasting on my skills as a great wife; there were several guys in our group that were amazed that I didn't get mad or upset about the damage to Sweetie's car.
It is so much nicer to remember that day as one of great fun with good friends. Off roading is Sweetie's hobby and I don't want to be the one to ruin it for him.
Thanks for stopping in.

Got Sand

This is a view of the mountains from our living
room window. I love these mountains. Some days they are so many different colors when the sun is shining on them just right. This picture was taken this morning.





This picture was taken about a week ago. It shows how the sand can get blown around if the wind gets very strong. This doesn't happen all that often but it has gotten bad enough that we could hardly see the house across the street.

I don't mind it when it gets this way. It just gives me a great excuse to stay in my sewing room.

The house with the pick up in the drive way is where Cheryl used to live.

That is it for today. I am still resting from the quilt-a-thon. I will also be ready for another back massage probably on Friday. Tuesday is bible study and Project Linus meeting. Wednesday is quilt group meeting. Thursday is desert off roading run and dinner out with friends.

Fall Project Linus Quilt-aThon

starts this Thursday. These are the quilts that I will be taking this time. There are 4 string quilts and then the other one. I have several in various stages that I will be working on soon. Pretty much I will be working on Christmas gifts the rest of this year.

This summer I hurt my back and was trying to live with it. Finally decided that I just couldn't stand the pain any longer. The pain was getting worse and it seemed like it was spreading thru my whole body. Yesterday I had a back massage. Oh man I feel like a new woman! The gal that did the massage is a tiny Vietnamese gal that probably doesn't weigh 100 lbs but she sure could work my back.

After the massage Sweetie took me to lunch. I said "Watch this" and turned my head with no pain. It was such an awesome feeling. He didn't really realize how bad the pain had gotten and I was hoping that if I pretended it wasn't there it would go away. NOT

So my back is good enough that I should be able to get thru the quilt-a-thon but I am planning on several more massages. Hopefully then I will be just like new.

Thanks for stopping in.