The Magic of a River!

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir

I finally did it!  I finished my watermelon quilt.   It has been a UFO (unfinished object)  for a while now and I'm so proud of myself for getting it done.  It was the #1 project on my to do list for the summer.  The pattern is called Watermelon Picnic by Black Mountain Quilts.  All the log cabin blocks were fun to put together; just took some time.  I did add two borders--the small black stop border and the larger outer border that looks like watermelon rind.  Thanks to Michelle for machine quilting it in record time.









 



     I read a good book this summer- The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen.  It takes place in England in the 1800's.  I learned some interesting facts about the art of the apothecary.  After some twists and turns in the plot it had a happy ending.




     Each August we try to take a family camping trip to somewhere in Utah.  This last weekend we found a camping site near Flaming Gorge and had a blast river rafting down the Green River.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to my husband and his dutch ovens , we ate like kings on Friday night.  We had Chicken Cordon Bleu with rice and cracked wheat rolls.  Everything tastes so much better when it's cooked outdoors and someone else does all the work.