SNOW in California

My wish came true. We had snow at our home in southern California and in Sept., too.

This past week we had snow.

A little snow tornado came in Tuesday afternoon amist the Santa Ana Winds and stayed a couple of hours. It was delightful. What a pretty little brown eyed snowbaby.

Then a sweet little quiet snow stayed for two nights. How sweet to have snow for two nights. This little blue eye's snowman makes you melt, that's right a snowman that can make grandma melt.

NOTHING NEW

Nothing exciting has happened here for a long time. So I have nothing to blog about.

It is just hot here. The weather here is hot and hotter. I can't wait until fall, then the temp should drop. It would be wonderful, if it rained once in a while. Sometimes I dream that it has snowed, but always wake up to no snow.

I just sew, make lace, read, cook and get fatter. My quilt is almost finished. I have just started a new piece of lace. The dishes are done. So I will make lace.

I will look for something to blog about tomorrow

DOLL CLOTHES

This week I have been taken back 60 plus years. I have been making doll clothes, for Jake.

I think I must of been born with a needle or etc in my hands. As long as I can remember I wanted to sew and make things, asking who ever I could, how to do this or that. Finding things around the house that I could use. I wasn't very good, at first, but I got better. If I wasn't sewing I was doing some type of hand work. I was self taught and then I figured out how to read patterns. I still love doing all of them, but lace making is my present favorite.

The bad part is I am making clothes for Jake. Poor little guy will have to wear them, too.

He wasn't very helpful when I wanted to fit it either. My dolls never wiggled all over the place when I fit their clothes.

So I just made it and hoped it would fit. Looks like it fits okay.

Now isn't that a cute little shirt. He looks so handsome and spoiled in it. Why isn't he more excited?

The Halloween costume is still being made.

This is what he thought of it . How can I get this thing off . hummmmm it will make a nice chew toy.

Home again

We just got home from Utah and visiting some missionaries friends from Chile (Austins and Wilsons). We stayed with the Austin at their cabin at Mammoth Creek, Utah. What a pretty cabin. What wonderful hosts they were. We did all the things that I love doing. Eat, eat, ride around looking at places, seeing neat thing, like the mammoth creek spring, lava flows, deer and antelope, trees, hearing stories about etc.,, building puzzles, playing games and getting up early to watching the sun come up. The wonderful time we were having came to an end and we returned to Southern California. California is not pretty just dry and brown and ready to burn any time.

No matter where I go. I love getting up and watching the sun come up. Adele is an earlier riser, too, so I didn't have to tip toe around with the lights out for fear of waking someone up. From the front porch at the Austin's cabin at Mammoth Creek, Utah. We also drove to Hatch and visited the Wilson's. I never got a picture of their cabin I was too busy looking at all the antiques she had, and remembering when we used them at our home. This is an antelope we saw there. One buck and 13 does. Maybe he was a mormon and had lots of wives. just a thought, it was mormon country,
Richard Wilson, Dennis and Victor Austin. The rest of the pictures didn't turn out. I'll get the wives next time.

Playing cards. We were playing cards outside and the wind kept blowing the cards. So the snacks became card holders. Better use of snacks than eating them. Notice the copper glasses from Chile.

We had a wonderful time. We loved seeing the places that they had talked so much about, in Chile. Now I am excited to go back and want them to come and visit us.

Our visit with Catherine

Daisy is always fun to see. She even remembered us. She did all her tricks for us. She is the smartest dog I know. Need help training your dog talk to Catherine and Greg. We went to the farmer's market in Fruita on Saturday. Just a small town vegetable market. Everyone is friendly and nice and helpful. I loved it. That was one of the things that I loved to do in Chile was go to the farmer's market every Saturday.

Catherine bought some roma tomatoes and we came home and made tomato sauce to can. It was real good. We also did some red beets . She had made the pickles before we got there. She plans on getting some peaches and doing them next. Call her if you need canning tips.

She is becoming a real good food storage person. Not just preaching it but also doing it her self.

Everything was yummy