It was a short weekend, and a fairly relaxing one. I had laundry to do at Ann’s & had to prep our apartment for guests arriving today, but paced it out nicely — it doesn’t always work that way!

While I was waiting for the dryer to finish at Ann’s, I did some research into making Half-Rectangle Triangles (HRTs) and Flying Geese using HRTs… something I should have done earlier! Most of what I’ve done/cut is correct, but the sewing up & trimming isn’t as straightforward as when using the much more common Half-Square Triangle (HST) ratio. I’ll have to pay attention. Meanwhile, the Tuesday Quilters meet tomorrow & I’m looking forward to that. I haven’t done a thing in regard to that project, other than choose fabrics, but this will get me on track & focused.

I took a walk around The Butterfly Pond with Kate & Kai on Saturday morning, a slightly different/longer route. I love that there are a few different ways to navigate that trail.

Things are starting to change out there.

I get a very good view of our backyard/garden from the bedroom windows every morning, but it’s been almost two months since I was actually down there, mainly because it was so painful to descend stairs. Yesterday, I walked down with ease — still using the handrail, of course, but not with an iron grip.

The main attraction was our one-and-only head of broccoli! There are three or four plants, total, and suffered from an early season CHOMP by deer (probably), after which they were corralled & protected with chicken wire, but they’re probably a bit crowded. It’s a learning experience & definitely not discouraging. We also have leeks & celery growing down there & they’re both doing great! Kate made a pot of cream of celery soup last week & it was so good… celery from the garden is nothing like store-bought.

I’ve been rewatching THE BEAR on TV — I’d already watching seasons 1-3 (maybe 4?), but no one else had, and I’m not sad about seeing it again. Season 5 was released earlier this summer & is the last of the series.

I’ve been crocheting during TV time. I used up all the random stray balls of Felted Tweed last night, so I don’t have to think about them anymore… and now there are a bunch of partial granny squares to finish. I’m going to have to start a new stack because the current one is going to topple over pretty soon.

Hope you had a great weekend!

I ran across an event on Facebook last week called “Textile Arts Day” at Heritage Hill, a State Historical Park in Green Bay, and thought it would be a fun thing to do with the girls. The boys would have been welcome, too, but Junah had just returned from a week at camp (I saw him later that day and, wow, he still looked completely wiped out from a busy week) and I don’t think Davy would have had much patience. Plus, it’s been a long time since I had a girl date!

There were exhibits & demonstrations of weaving on a few types of looms, spinning, and embroidery, plus examples of knitting, crocheting, and sewing. Both girls had an opportunity to sit down at that adorable little loom and, between them, added a good few inches to the project.

We walked the whole park & stopped at every building on the property — church, blacksmith, print shop, lawyer’s office, hospital, kitchen, garden, barracks & residences, jail…

…and the Belgian house (and barn, at left, which had been relocated from the southern end of Door County & was charred on one end from the Peshtigo Fire). There were some adorable outbuildings, too.

I could have spent a little more time poking around in that house!

It’s a popular place for school field trips (Ginny’s already been), but it had been decades since I visited Heritage Hill!

The girls were each able to choose some fabric squares to eventually make into a quilt square. First, Nona will have to press & square up those blocks! Yikes, there wasn’t much care taken in cutting.

We went out for lunch after that, then to a thrift store, and the cookie shop for dessert… but that wasn’t enough!

I’d also read about the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass “Festival of Glass” which had been relocated to Appleton from Neenah because of the recent tornado & the ongoing recovery effort.

It was fun to see so many different types of art glass from all over (including an artist from Scotland), and the girls each chose beads to make a necklace. Too bad it couldn’t have been outdoors, as originally planned, because it was such a gorgeous day, but it was nice. We also sat down at the kid activity area & made some pinwheels.

It was nice to sit down! Wow, that was a day for me — almost 7,000 steps! I had some ice packs in a cooler in the car, and used those while we drove from place-to-place.

Needless to say, I took it pretty easy yesterday. It rained much of the day, but I went to the store with Kate so I could walk around a bit, because I knew I’d get a “restless leg” feeling as I tried to fall asleep last night if I didn’t.