So it seems that I've lost the first two weeks of May...

Actually the last 3 or 4 weeks have been a bit of a blur! First thank you for the nice emails checking on me. My 96 year old Grandpa passed away the last week of April so I had to help deal with all that goes along with that. I really think it was his time as he outlived his wife and both of his children and that made him so sad. I believe that he is now at peace though.

However there was a lot of work to be done at his farm in Southeastern Colorado to prepare it for sale. It hadn't been lived in for 7 years and nothing had been thrown away for 60 years. I didn't take many pictures, but here's one of my brother burning the old grainery.

The wind was calm and quiet when we started, but it soon turned very windy and ugly outside....

Luckily my brother and Jay were able to keep it under control...whew! The farm did sell, although there are still some things to deal with.

I didn't sew one single stitch for almost two weeks....gasp....which means I didn't meet the April sewing goals that I had set for myself and even when I got back home I was just too tired for a few days.
But I finally made myself get back in gear and kept on going with the Pumpkin Quilt and here it is....Finished....finally....well at least the top is done.

Now maybe I can get it quilted before Fall. I'm actually pretty pleased with how this turned out...working on it was something that I usually had to "make" myself do and I'm not sure why.
I'm still stitching on the Pie's and Tart's quilt...it's just slow going. I've been fighting off the urge to start something new and then this arrived in my mailbox yesterday and the battle is over....I will be starting something new very soon.

So much inspiration!!!
It's a rainy, stormy day here in Oklahoma, wish I could just stay home and sew, but nope I'm off to work in a bit. Have a great weekend everyone!

ranette