Outside

These gals and their friends have officially moved outside.

Woo hoo!

They now have lots of room to run around.

We'll let them free range in the barn lot when they get bigger.

The ducks think the water pan is their personal pond.

This was before they got all muddy.

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 We were outside ourselves this weekend.

We went for a walk out west.

Nothing unusual, same trees.

Same gate.

I stopped to take pictures of this tree.

I often take pictures looking up the trunk of a tree.

I don't know why, it's just cool to do.

This time, however, I noticed an insulator part way up the trunk.

We've walked past this tree for years and never noticed it.

If you look closely, it's in the previous picture.

I didn't notice it until after I took it.

It has to be over 15 feet high.

It's always fun to find a new treasure.

I realized on this walk that both of us usually take something to shoot with.

I use my Cannon and Dwayne uses his Silent Cat.

Mine sounds more powerful!

Young boys have to shoot daddy's gun too!

Finished

 

My mother's day gift was having time to work on my quilt.

I finished it today!!!

I'm so excited and can't wait to work on the next one.

I never dreamed I would like quilting so much!

Rainbows and a Quilt

I had to show another duckling picture.

It's funny to hear them running in their habitat.

You can hear their feet make thumping noises as they run.

We were blessed with two rainbows yesterday.

Dwayne drove through heavy rain and hail on his way home from work.

We didn't get much rain at the house.

Later we had another storm skim us to the north.

We received little rain from this one as well.

This was the second rainbow of the day.

For a short time there was a second faint bow with this one.

In between storms I managed to finish quilting this quilt.

I'm so excited to have this finished.

This is the first start-to-finish quilt for me.

The back shows the straight line quilting better.

This is my practice quilt.

I'm going to start the binding process this week.

I'm learning as I go.

When I'm done with this project I plan on trying to finish hand quilting Nolan's quilt.

It may take a while, but I'm determined to get it done.

I have to say that I enjoyed machine quilting and can't wait to start a new project.

I'm loving my new quilting adventures.

Especially with my new sewing machine!

(I never thought I would say that.  I used to hate sewing machines.)