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.  

Curve it Up QAL

I've started a new QAL.

I know, I know.

I'm not suppose to do this.

I even bought fabric for it.

I know, I know

I'm not suppose to do that either.

I bought Jenny's Quick Curve Ruler and her Urban Pods pattern a couple months ago.

I hadn't started it yet so when Jenny posted that she and her sister were going to do this QAL, I thought about it and decided it would be a good excuse to start another project way to get used to the ruler and sewing curves again.

The first block is called 'Curved Churn Dash'.

16 inches (finish size)

It was quite easy to cut and sew.  

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Paul and I spent the weekend at The Mount -our 2nd family weekend there!

The weather was beautiful and the leaves on the drive out were spectacular.  Of course, I forgot my camera.  

I had a bit of an adventure, so to speak.  I was stranded at the 'mall' on Thursday evening, in a torrential downpour, with a dead battery. It's a long story, but everything worked out and thank goodness (hindsight) it happened at the mall and not on the turnpike 1/2 way to Emmitsburg--that would have been awful.  

But having it happen just threw all my well laid plans into turmoil. 

We got a late start Friday afternoon and I didn't even think of my camera until I saw the gorgeous mountains while I was driving through Somerset Co. and thought, 'oh dang, if I weren't driving I could take a picture...." LIGHT BULB went off-my camera is on the table at home.

So even though we have no picture record, we had a great time with Br. Paul and even got to drive up to Gettysburg for the afternoon and walk around some more.

fun times, fun times.

Life is Good.

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.

I kid you not, eating here and spending about 1/2 an hour at the battlefield in Gettysburg was the highlight of Paul's vacation. 

A beach bum he is not! 

And now we're home and between dogs getting groomed,

Mr. Otis

groceries, uploading photos, figuring out that my camera is not ka-put just the scan disk (whew!) a surprise bday dinner for my FIL (84!).....

....and I think I need another vacation

*wink*

I've thought about quilting, wistfully but all I've gotten finished is the binding on Debbie's Beau

32 x 38

and a Zentangle birthday card for my niece.