Home Sweet Home

OK so I got home late Monday but today I got to see all the work Ron got done
yesterday. The yard was all mowed and trimmed and looking great. And the gardens have been doing pretty good.
Ron didn't get all the weeding done, so I'm gonna
go against my nature and try to weed a bit each day.

The green house great, the first corn planted is above my waist.

And I can make salads from the lettuce.

Even the potatoes are coming along good.

As well as the vine plants.

I finally got all my news caught up so check it out you'll have to go to the older posts but it'll be worth the trouble the pictures are great. And yes I did get homesick for Pa. especially when I crossed the creek and smelled the rushing water trees and green. Yes it was the smell of home. I really and sooo ready to move to Colorado. Bring on the Realtors.

Leaving Aspen

We were almost packed except for last minute items and we had breakfast and headed to Maroon Lake. About 10 minutes from the cabin we took a tour bus up. And it was neat Thought we were gonna hike a bit but that didn't happen but got a wonderful tour and some good pics. Figure this tells the story best.

This is an actual avalanche shoot. pretty interesting. Welcome to the Maroon Valley and the White River National Forest. Here we can explore a Glacial Valley surrounded by 14,000-foot peaks.view the vast fields of wildflowers, and be close to nature.

The Maroon Bells form a backdrop that epitomizes what the Rocky Mountains are all about.

Mirrored in the waters of Maroon Lake, the Maroon bells tower like sentinels over the valley, The red color and distinctive bell shape led explorers to give the Maroon Bells their name.

Good bye Little Deuce Coupe...We had a wonderful week. We're sad to go and hope to return again soon.

As we head home this is a view of a hot springs pool in Glenwood Springs

Good Bye Colorado and on our way back to Utah. We left about 11:30 am

And stopped in Grand Junction to have some lunch and check out a couple more shops. Pretty good shops they were and then it was back on the road but at 11:30 pm when Ron called to check on when I'd be home we were in Richfeild 2 hours away still. We filled up in Cedar and it was $54,00 each for the four of us not bad at all.

We dropped off Mona and Dave met us there and picked up Judy S. Then Judy dropped me off Ron woke up and unloaded my stuff and Judy headed home . She did and awesome job driving all the time and did a great job. Lots of generous people mad this getaway truly a wonderful success.

So it's Monday morning and Ron is back to work on his way back to Vernal and hopefully they'll finish by July 4th. I got all unpacked and did laundry. Then I laid out my purchases for the last Picture . I have 1 quilt and several patterns, a couple books and fabric , some is even for specific projects. Actually most of it is.

Sunday

HAPPY FATHER"S DAY Ron!!!!
Just Because I planned my vacation away from the father of my wonderful children doesn't mean I don't love or appreciate the wonderful dad he is to those children. Ron is a wonderful dad and I even made a little treasure hunt for him for after church. With Gator aid, popcorn and treats to eat while watching the movie I'd gotten him. He found it fun. Also we were able to talk a couple of times today. He knows hes and awesome dad and all the kids talked with him also and that was the best father's day gift anyway.
So it was the white pages we consulted last night and a new address for Hazel and Dorothy went out while we got dressed and ta,da, she found it. The Aspen Branch. and We arrived 20 minutes early to a very excited group. As the Bishop shook our hands he asked if he could transfer our records. Sacrament meeting was great and after one of the ladies asked if we were staying for class or bailing. She wanted butts in the seats for her session, Karen said with an invitation like that how could we bail. Most of us planned to stay anyway and those who had thought about leaving early stayed . both Sunday School and Relief Society were terrific lessons and we were glad we'd stayed.We drove up to Maroon Lake , but not open to public needed to take a shuttle and I didn't want to pay to go on Sunday so we decided to go in the morning before we head home. But about Five we decided to go to the little Rock church we'd drove by all week Judy S. was napping so the rest of us went to take pictures. We took time to smell the flowers. The Colorado State flower " Blue Columbine.

Some other flowers in the Meditation garden in the front...

What a tranquil place to just sit and reflect on all the beauty God has blessed us with.

Different angle of this neat old church built in 1969

The wonderful bottle glass windows designed by a French arcacatec Using the bottle glass brought in from France the windows depict the Be attitudes.

This is the view from the front ...

This is a Methodist church,originally but they call it a community Chapel . Notice the Dove of Peace on the steeple.

And so we headed back to the cabin for yet another wonderful meal, Corned beef and Cabbage. Later we had Crepes for desert. And Dorothy, Karen Judy R. and I played Wizard A card game till about 11P.M. Lots of fun. One last look at this neat chapel.

my accomplishments for the week

I finished this Winter Garden Trellis quilt I started a the retreat in January.
I will add a border then Quilt it for our bed in December.
Lazy Daisy Oatmeal Cake Quilt, needs to be appliqued with a buttonhole
stitch Then quilted and I'll make the cake that goes with it.

This is a BQ that I need to add a border to and quilt it for one of the

bunk beds in the grand kids room.

The square is to be a pillow for grand kids room

this will get Quilted next week and go to the orphanage in China

For one of the 400 girls that need a quilt for their own.

I got pieces sewn together for my Washington Temple but didn't get it assembled yet. And I got started on a Split 9 patch and ran out of squares I'm trying to get that done today between the catching up on my blog.

So It's Saturday night and Dorothy Karen and I decided to hook up Hazel and put in the address from the yellow pages of the phone book and find the church so we won't be late tomorrow. We drove up to the road stated turned on second turn on turnaround and went .8miles and were told that we had reached our destination....

So I wonder is Relief society in bus number 14 and Sacrament in 35. I thought that being back east in a small branch was tough.... so we decided to try to see if we'd chosen the wrong road one was drive and the other road . that led us to a private property road with a gated drive with a key pad entrance.OOPS as we were backing out the owner arrived confused by us being in his way. Next we drove into aspen and asked for directions we were told that is was out of town across from the golf course. So much for that idea it was yet another Private residential area. Did I mention that every time we tried a new route their was a cop pulling someone over just beyond where we turned. To break up the boredom we found some beautifully loaded lilac bushes so we picked a lovely bouquet. which promptly wilted. So we tried Hazel just one more time she's done such a great job yesterday in Denver. ........... You guessed it ..

Back to the buses. So we decided to go back to the cabin and Call. We received a recording giving us the time of church. Then we thought we'd try calling in the morning to see if we could catch them at their meetings.We played Cards took showers and went to bed. I actually observed the game so can play tomorrow.

Fun and games

So there was some time to play games. Usually after dinner dishes were done some of the girls played cards.
The games of choice were "Hand and Foot" or "Wizard"

I learned to play Wizard it's fun.

There was also some popcorn and TV time, good activity while binding a quilt

Judy R. quilt she started at Jan., retreat learned to bind

Dorothy spent her time working on her Hunter Star from Jan. retreat.

Karen was working on a black and white quilt for her brother Steve she got the

center done and she started a four block border. It's gonna be way cute.

What's a retreat without a bit of shopping?

So we ate breakfast and loaded up the truck with bodies and we were off to Denver. We visited with Karen's daughter Sheri, went to a Greek deli for lunch, yummolisious!!!

Then it was off and shopping we had the GPS named Hazel and so we put in the address' and we were off. we went to one shop that was three shops combined into one it was great. we spent alot of time and $$$$ there and can't wait to return it was a great store. I have a kit ordered it is a beautiful quilt.

The ladies were lots of help and we are all on file with them.

They have a web site so we can order on line. And oh, I even put

in a plug for a door prize for our retreat.

This was the best store. We also went to The Great American

Quilt store. It was OK but no where near as good as the first store.

We couldn't hit any other shops because quilt stores as a rule close

by 6pm So we consulted Hazel who found us a Bistro across the

street and we ate a wonderful dinner. Then we headed

back to the cabin in Aspen. We got back at 11:10 PM

so pretty much it was unload and go to bed for the

night. . What a fun day, long but fun.

Sunset in Colorado

So here is a little eye candy for you. Taken through the windshield on way home from Denver