Marching Band Last Blast

Another great weekend back at college!

Here is the gang that got to go, just missing one kid! Hopefully we'll all get together at Thanksgiving and do some more family pictures.

And the lovely Becky

The senior band members were recognized at the Last Blast concert.

Becky and her boyfriend Ben.

The seniors presenting the director with a neat collage of band pictures and such.

What a fun weekend!!!! A half time show, a band concert AND a choir concert! Does she know how to entertain us or what?

too bad I didn't get any pictures at the brunch she hosted for all of us!

Left overs and a cat

Here's a little Halloween runner I made from some leftovers from Miss V's first Halloween quilt.

Now that she is doing a second one, I have another pile of cute little scraps to play with.

And the cat.

Mr. Big Bones. He seems to need to get up at 3:00 am to go downstairs to have a snack to keep up his strength.

This wouldn't be much of a deal, except now that cold weather is here and the heat is on, we keep the stair door closed. No matter, he just tromps downstairs and bangs on it, which causes loud rattling to echo all over the house. This is what happens when you have a 17 lb cat and old doors.

Random Photo of the Day

Sputnik Cow!!!!

Warning!!! This post is totally UN P-C!!!

I received this in my email earlier in the week, and since I am pretty much NOT PC, (more of a laptop kinda gal) I thought it was funny.
If you are the type to be easily offended, do not read this. There, you have been warned!



A Powerful Message from Stevie Wonder on Michael Jacksons Death
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Deep stuff huh?
It brought a little tear to my eye when he said
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UW Platteville Marchin Pioneers take Lambeau Field

If you are one of the lucky people who get to see half time shows when your stations show football games, the UW Platteville Marching Pioneers are doing half time at the Packer Viking game today!!




I'm a bit bummed because the Beautiful Becky will be performing there, just a hop (not even a skip and a jump) away from home and we won't get to see her. sad face.
Our local stations don't show the halftime stuff, and I have already attempted to drive through Green Bay on a Packer Sunday and I vowed NEVER EVER to try THAT again. We have been through rush hour in Washington DC, and I think I would take that over game day traffic here!

If you get to see it, this is what she looks like up close.
With a trumpet in her hands...........
and that smile always on her face.

This was homecoming last year, just had to remind myself that we got to see her in person that time............

and we are going down to campus later this month for the last blast show. More pictures!!!!

Have a great Sunday everybody and

GO VIKINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Progress on the design wall

Here is grumpy Cassie with my work in progress.

Such a look she can give!!

I did finish the top tonight and have a horrible picture to show for it. I tried to adjust the color when I downloaded the pictures, but I had very limited success.

sigh.

Still getting used to the new camera.

but if you sort of squint and tilt your head a bit, and then try not to let the overwhelming yellowness make you nauseous.......

well, you get the idea.

Then, of course, there were blocks I didn't use........... and more blocks sitting in the box.......... and they were awfully lonely.....

so of course, sigh, I have yet another work in progress.

I could just put it all back in the box and start one of the bazillion quilts that I have on this years list.

But, then would I feel guilty? hmm, I might but there might be something to help me get over that...............

yup,

I'm over it!

On my Design Wall

Look what I found in a box under my cutting table!

I had forgotten that I put some blocks in there that I never finished.

More of some scrappy fall colors.

I'm going to fill in the blanks with some more spare blocks I found.

and here is the big black cat napping near the new quilt since he can't actually nap on it yet. Zeller's nap surface is TWO full cases of batting.

Yes, TWO FULL CASES!!

A local quilt shop is going out of business, and I got them on sale. One is for me and one is for my favorite cousin who does quilting for me whenever I ask! now I need to get it to her................

I've thought about taking it on an airplane for a visit, but it's so big I'd probably have to buy it a ticket!