May 20, 2014

We had a good time on Monday this week, that would be our Pday.  We

went in to Evanston and the weather was fair, not snowing and raining, but 

the wind was still out playing.  Jeff and his favorite companion went

golfing at the Purple Sage Golf Course.  It was really nice and to

use it to our best advantage we walked the whole 18 holes.

One the first 9 Jeff was his own caddy.  There were several hills that we

called Women's Pulls.  They were pretty steep.

On the back 9 he was tired so I became the caddy.  Walking the course

without the clubs was a lot nicer and easier.  But, you have to admit

I look great pulling up the hill with my "Cart" behind me.

We had fun and Jeff was happy with his score.  He hasn't played for over

a month so his goal was to shoot under 90!  He shot WAY UNDER that so

he felt good.  It was nice to get away.  But, don't look, you

see I wasn't in my dress.  There was no way I was going to walk

the golf course in my dress.  Don't tell the Pratt's!  Actually, they

wouldn't care either.  

We went riding a trail today and Jeff got looking around for stuff on

the ground and wasn't looking where he was going and met head on

with a service berry bush. 

As you can see the bush won!  Everyone had a good time

teasing him about his injury and the need to find 

animal skin to make thread to stitch him up!  Lots of great advice!

We are working with a bunch of crazy people, yep,

people just like us.  Crazy enough to spend the summer

with a bunch of people hiking in dirt, covered in ticks

and loving every minute.

All those rainy cold days spent inside were not wasted.  We have made

19 quilts to give away.  We are giving 16 of them to the Women's

crisis center in Evanston.  Three of them are going to some special

people who have helped the work and the D.L.& L.

We took pictures today of the quilts because we were delivering them.

Most of them are small baby size quilts.  Some are larger.

We had a ton a fabric donated by a former trekker who came to

do a fireside for us.  Some of them had been started last

year but never finished.  We had fun doing them on those

cold, Yucky days.  

 I have to admit, I am glad to be done with them and outside riding the

trails.  I actually feel like I could find my own way without being lost,

well mostly.  There is one place I can't seem to remember, it is a camp

called PM camp and for the life of me I never recognize it when we

get there.  I told Jeff today, we need to make sure I'm not

out in front when we go into that camp or we will never get there!

This is Sister Pratt's Old sewing machine  I'm not sure if I posted

a picture of this before, but it is so cute I added it again.  It

was made during World War 2.  She did most of the sewing

on it.  What a fun thing to watch.