Fun Weekend

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I sure appreciate the thoughts. When I was a kid I always wanted my birthday to be on a Saturday so I didn't have to go to school. As an adult I've never thought of it much but having my birthday on a Saturday this year makes me want to do it every year. I will get a Sunday next year as long as it isn't a Leap Year I suppose.

It's been so horrible here weather wise and it just happened to do a quick switch on Saturday and was a gorgeous day to get out in the yard. Yesterday I took cake to church to share. I never thought of it but my son-in-law asked if it's my birthday why am I the one who has to bring the cake. *LOL* Never thought of that. The minister loves goodies so he tells us (jokingly) that we have to bring a cake on our birthday. The congregation was small yesterday for a number of reasons but they sure went through that cake at coffee time.

After church we went to our street market that's here every summer. Yesterday was the first day of the season. It's very crowded - a lot of out of towners come which is good for business. Even a lot of the stores are staying open now and the Thrift Shop to take advantage of the shoppers. We park in my daughter's driveway and they were sitting ouside on the porch when we got back to the truck so we had a visit. Rilo has a new harness and leash so she can go outside with them. She's never been outside and panicked when she got "too far from home", which means off the bottom step *LOL*

A latest picture of her

She went to stay with my son-in-laws parents. It was only supposed to be a couple of days but ended up being two weeks. Their other cat was very ill. His kidney's failed. After two weeks of treatment they finally had to make the decision to have him put down. Meanwhile Rilo was having fun with the Golden Retriever and son -in-laws sister loved Rilo so much she decided to get herself a kitten. Rilo isn't even one year old yet and she's spayed but she decided that this was her kitten. She lays in wait for it and when it passes by she attacks it and holds it in a headlock while she cleans it. She's back home now but goes over for a play date at least once a week cause she's very lonely with the other cat gone and after having so much fun for that two weeks.

After saying goodbye to the kids we stopped off at the local Memorial park because there was a bandfest all weekend. I loved it! I haven't seen a real band sitting up on a band stand for years and years. They were all wearing vests and bow ties and they had old fashioned straw hats with the matching hat band. There were different bands from all over the lower mainland of British Columbia playing for two solid days.

I'm working on hand quilting my daughter's quilt still. That's going to take another year, I can just tell. But I also made a couple of samples for the Quilt Shop last week while the weather sucked. I wasn't crazy about the quilt and it didn't turn out well in the picture anyway. It's called a folded star which I'd never tried before. It wasn't difficult at all. Then she also has some Homespun Magazines she wants to get sold and one of them is the Red issue so I offered to do one of the redworks for her. It's kind of cute

I haven't even started my Catalicious for this month or my Gifts of Grace. The Cat one looks like a simple one again which is great. I really don't want to fall behind cause then I'll keep putting it off.

Have a great Monday everyone.