First of all, it’s not raining today but rain is predicted for the next four days. The sun is out, a high of 64 degrees. A bike riding day for sure – my first of the new year. There are new bird houses at Hummingbird Park.
San Juan Reservoir on Fisherman’s Lake Parkway.
Sophia is on the 7/8th grade team.
She shoots, she scores!
The day after I got back from Montana, I got right to work on a project with a deadline. I needed to get started because I wasn’t sure how to make it happen. I started with a stack of t-shirts on Thursday morning.
The goal was to use one shirt from each year that 50 Bikes for 50 Kids occurred to eventually make a wall hanging. By the end of the day, I had this arrangement:
On Friday I went to a great nearby quilting store, Fabric Garden, and bought two fabrics, a white to narrowly frame each piece and a basic black cotton called “grunge” in the color “little black dress.” I cut, sewed, and pressed for the rest of the afternoon and evening.
Saturday, a second trip to Fabric Garden to buy more fabric for the backing and binding. I made great progress only to be stalled by not having a big enough piece of batting. I bought the batting on Sunday and started the minimal quilting by machine – LOTS of pinning.
On Monday, I sewed on the binding, folded it over and hand stitched it on the reverse side. Done!
Next, I will deliver to Becky at Jibe – it’s a gift for Abbey Stumpf who brought the 50 Bikes for 50 Kids idea to Jibe and organized the event each year it happened. She now lives in Virginia with her husband and children.
Thais took Avery to a volleyball tournament in San Mateo, while Lenin took care of Sophia’s volleyball and Carson’s basketball.
Christmas Day. Brenda, Kristi, Lennore, Tracy:
Monday December 26. Tracy, Kristie, Brenda, Jim:
Wednesday December 28. Tony and Maria:
Thursday December 29.
Tuesday January 3. Maria found an opportunity to ride in between rain showers.
Friday January 6. Maria, Brenda and Rachel:
At Discovery Park (flooded) , Barbara, Cheryl, Kathy:
In between visiting, I finished three more Joe Pickett books, became obsessed with finishing the jigsaw puzzle Phyl had started,
baked delicious oatmeal rolls with Phyl, which rose quite nicely in front of the heater in the living room.
I made beef short ribs one night,
and, the day before I left, we went to lunch at
Thanks so much Dave and Phyl for another great New Year’s vacation. Love you both.
I flew home on Wednesday to an “atmospheric river” of a rain storm in Sacramento.
Yummy food last night. Orange glazed meatballs, bacon cheese pull-apart bread, and cranberry cream cheese dip (not pictured):
And we watched two movies: Crazy Rich Asians (thumbs up) and Glass Onion (thumbs down).
In the afternoon, we all went to Chris and Macee’s for a taco lunch. Chris II is the son of Phyl’s younger son (Chris I). Chris II and Macee, Greg and Karen, Phyl and Dave, (in the foreground) Murphy and Chris III:
Phyl’s older son, Greg, and wife Karen moved to Deer Lodge about a year ago. They live in town and have a beautifully decorated home, especially for the holidays.
Montana where it’s considerably colder than what I’m used to. It’s the one time per year that I get to wear my warmest outer wear.
I will be at Dave and Phyl’s in Deer Lodge until after the new year.
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