Fun For Me ... Music For You

Hey to everyone! Da -a -ang ... it's been a long time.

Yes, I'm still out and about. My posts will not be as frequent as they used to be, but I will try to get here a couple of times a week. You see, I don't have Internet at home ... it's the library for me!!!!!!!

I hope that you all are doing well.

My family has grown!!!! I have two new babies ... one named Biscuit and one named Percy ... yes ... they are puppies. Biscuit is half beagle and half basset, he is four months old. Percy is a full blooded basset and he is six weeks old today!!! I take them and do pet therapy at the local nursing homes and we are in training to get our certification to visit the kids wards and cancer centers at the hospitals in the area. I am very excited!!!!

Ohhhhh ... this brave knight tried to save the damsel in distress and appears to have lost his life in the process. Look at the detail of his hands and fingers.

Check out this lion! Those are some vicious claws he is showing there! Look at the marks in the sand where he left drag marks with his claws! And those eyes ... they're looking right at us!

Check out the dead pirates and the treasure chest!!! How do we know that they are pirates? Look a little closer ... that big one is wearing an eye patch!!!!!! Must be pirates!!!!!

There's my foot ... sometimes a girl just has to kick off her sandals and play barefoot! The music just sounds and feels better that way!!!!!

There I am with Benny, my tenor banjo!

Can't you just feel the rythm oozing from this picture?

There's Bernard and Jim ... I really enjoy it when Bernard sings for us! He knows a lot of good tunes!!!!!

There's Danny ... I must have just told him that the song was in "G"!

(Hee Hee ... inside joke)

Wes sings a mean "Folsom Prison" and a fabulous "Midnight Special".

There's John. John and I have a lot of fun together. John, Doug, and I can really get going on our fiddles! It is so much fun!!!!

And there's Jesse on his banjo. Now, this man is hard to get a picture of! But I did it! Ya-hoo! Go me!!!!

The quilt above has shirt pockets on it!

I liked the way that this dragon quilt was in squares. I found it very soothing.

This one was just as cute as could be!!!!

I found it interesting that I did not hide my camera at all. I was very obviously taking pictures ... with the flash on. I went through the whole quilt show and as I was preparing to exit ... I was approached and scolded for taking pictures. If pictures are not allowed ... that's okay ... my irritation was why wait until I'm finished, after they've seen me the whole time, and then make a spectacle of it? Oh well!

See the beetles in the upper left corner? I found them in a box in the garage of an old house that I used to live in about twelve years ago. The baby in the bathtub is from the dollhouse that I used to play with when I was a little girl. See the toilet???? And the toaster with toast in it????

The three Vess Soda bottles were from my Great Grandmother ... and there's the matching cat in a fish basket that was also hers. See the in the front row ... the birds with the yellow belly and blue heads? I found a set just like this locally for $45. No way was I paying that much. This set was my first E-bay purchase ... for $12!!!!! I was so proud of myself!

This is a special shelf. All of the ones you see in the above picture belonged to my Dad. He collected them as a boy when he was in 4-H and this was one of his projects. He told me that he used to display them in some of the store front windows down on the square. I think they're awesome!!!

Here's another special spot on the the shelves. The items on the tray belonged to one of my Grandmothers. There's a variety of figurines, salt and pepper shakers ... and that is her hair brush in the blue holder. It even has some of her hair in it.

Yes ... I'm sentimental!!!!!!

I treasure these things!

There he is in the tractor!

Yes ... I am one of those girls who thinks a tractor is sexy! Very sexy!!!!!!

And there he goes!

I decided that I wanted a picture of me on the tractor too. I handed the camera to Doug and climbed in ... very unaware that he decided to take this "butt shot" of me climbing into the cab! Thanks, Doug!

And there I am!