Diane's Quilting: Gettysburg

Monday, October 21, 2013

We spent the weekend at The Mount.

It was family weekend.

During a break in the activities Paul and I drove the 15 minutes up to Gettysburg. It was chilly and very overcast.

But we got in a short visit on the East side of Cemetery Hill.

The foliage is beautiful. This is a shot from the car on PA 76 right before going through the Allegheny Mountain tunnel on the way home.

We weren't able to head out until Friday evening as Paul couldn't take the day off and actually had to stay late. So although that meant we missed the Friday evening activities for family weekend.

It gave me some extra time at home.

I finished my little (36 x 36) community outreach baby quilt for the guild.

I also got the quilting done on my two Urban runners. I loaded them together on one piece of backing fabric. I wanted to take a picture before I cut them apart, but forgot.

I'm going to go make the binding now and hopefully finish them both today.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

It's good to be home...

only because there is a hurricane poised to hit the Outer Banks tomorrow. I hope everyone is prepared and the damage isn't bad....

Otherwise, I'd be wishing I was still there...doing nothing but walking on the beach early in the morning

and in the evening.

Sitting in a beach chair watching little kids build sand castles...TOO CUTE

boogie boarding with Meghan until we couldn't boogie anymore.

A little retail therapy in the evenings and a few delicious meals out here, here and here and some pretty good ones in our condo too.... and I was ahhhhhh so relaxed.

Meg and I worked another puzzle.

The sky on this one was soo difficult, we started to think we wouldn't get it done. But we did and it's been "Mod- Podged"

and now just needs to be framed.

My sister, her husband and my nephew (Sam- U- L)

"HI Sam!"

(he is one of my followers!)

came down and we spent Friday and Saturday together at the beach!

On our way home, we stopped at The Mount and visited our oldest son Paul. We got a quick tour of the grounds (Beautiful) and the buildings (Beautiful) and met a few of the other seminarians.

Since the university is 11 (yup eleven) miles from Gettysburg you know we had to go there! We showed Meghan The PA monument, went up inside and from the top we could point out many of the other big monuments.

We only stayed about 1/2 hour which was enough for Meg- it was hot as heck, we'd been on the road since our 5:35am departure and we still had about 3 1/2 hours driving to get home.

But FIRST we ate an early dinner at the Lincoln Diner.