Finished Projects

In our stake several of the ladies (5-7) meet every Tuesday at the church. Only from 9-12 am. We make quilts, sew, finish projects, etc. Everyone is really good to help any one with out putting them down. They are so sweet.

I started to go, because I wanted to learn how to make quilts. I have learned lots and still have lots more to learn. I mainly work on my quilt at the church. After 3-4 months, I have finish my first quilt. I even quilted it myself on my sewing machine. On Wed I meet with the Cross Stitchers in Redlands to make lace. This is the piece I finished this past week. It is bobbin lace, schneeberger lace.
On the Nov 7, I am going to LACE DAYS put on by Freeway Lace Guild. It should be fun, just being around lots of old ladies who have the same passion for making lace. No, we are not crazy wanting to make our own lace in stead of buying it.

POMEGRANATE JELLY

I made some pomegranate jelly this week.

This bush is in our back yard and it was loaded with fruit. We were lucky and got most of the fruit before the birds did. This is the hardest step. You have to take out the seed/berry by hand for the best juice. Pomegranates stain bad. So your hands are dark blue when you finish. We did a whole bag full for a quart and half of juice.
Aren't these berries pretty. They are good salads too. I love the taste, tart but still sweet.

Crushing the the berries.

The finished product, batch number one. I made two.

yummmmmmm!!!

Some of the little jars will be nice Chistmas gifts.

Now we have ours years supply of jelly.

If you want the recipe let me know, I found mine off the internet.

FRIENDS FROM CHILE, the Snow's

Last week we had the Snows spend a few days with us. Carol and Howard Snow. They were missionary friends from Chile. They were the PEF missionaries. We spent many hours with them in Chile, as we worked with the PEF students, too.Then every Sat morning we went with them to the ferie, dinner Friday night, and cards on the weekend,and etc.. Howard can make the best ribs I have ever tasted. We learned to love them and hated to leave them behind and come home. Corona, Redlands Temple, Anza, and Tom's Farms. Of course I left my camera home most of the time.

Then on Sunday we met one of my old college roommates. Anita Oliver, her husband, Gedge and their daughter. I hadn't seen her for 40 some years. No, I didn't reconized her. I had a sign and told them we would be in a white ford truck. They were arriving here from a 14 day curise and had about 8 hours waist until their flight left from the long beach airport. So we picked them up from the boat in the morning and showed them LA sights and delivered them to the Long Beach Airport that afternoon. Of course I never took my camera to take their pictures It was fun to catch up on families. How our lives have changed as we took different paths to the same place.

NEVER A DULL MOMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday Jake brought in the house a half dead mouse. He was so proud of it. He had taken it away from Zelda, our cat, who had been playing with it. It was almost dead. So I found a kleenex and took it away from him. Threw it in the trash can outside. poor little mouse.

Today, Jake brought in a little baby mouse, that he had taken away from Zelda, too. She doesn't want to eat them just catch them. Jake let it go in the computer room as I was checking my emails. So both Jake and I was on the floor trying to catch it. What a sight!!!!! Both for different reasons. I caught it first and quick took it to the field next door and let it go. This one was still alive. He is still looking for it.

What am going to do with him? I don't want mice in my house.

Last weeks pictures

I noticed how pretty the moon was last night as I stood outside waiting for Jake to potty. Grandpa's pumpkin.,Phoenix and a soccer ball. It only got to be about 80 pounds. It was so hot this summer the plant just gave up and said I can't do this any longer and died. It can still make a neat pumpkin to carve for Halloween.

my chilean Kapallo and the soccer ball. We got 3 and this is the biggest.

Dennis's brother Tim and his wife Sue came down for their class reunion. The brothers got together for a luncheon on Saturday. Terry couldn't make it and was missed). We ate on our patio. The food was good.

the three brothers spent the whole afternoon watching football games. They didn't even care who was playing. Laurie, Sue and I visited and shared picture of grandkids and stories of how cute they were. It is good thing that Terry couldn't make it, there wasn't room for him on the couch anyway.

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Tim and Sue went to their class reunion Saturday night. They knew lots of the old people there. They enjoyed their selves. Got up Sunday morning had breakfast with us and watched the morning session of conferances and then were off on their way back to Utah.

It was a fun weekend.