Labor Day Weekend

It's Labor Day Weekend and there's lots of labor going on here, mostly by Nathan. My house is going to look beautiful. It's great weather for painting - I hope it holds up.

The front is done.

Here's today's part - the sunny side.

In case you couldn't tell from that picture, he's really high up!

Here's the ladder watcher.

Happy Labor Day!

I finished a project!

I rearranged my office and all of a sudden I had a blank wall (with some holes in it, but that's another story). I really needed to make a bright, cheery thing to put in that space. Or maybe I needed an excuse to do another quilt project. Anyway, here it is - ta da!!

What do you think? Is it going to keep me awake? I guess that wouldn't be so bad. :-)

Many More Lake Photos!

Here are a bunch more lake pictures. I hope you can stand it. I don't know why there are so many, but the place is pretty photogenic.

Here's Sarah working on a pretty crocheted flower.

A major gardening project - here's the gardening team.

Dad's garden

Sweeties on the dock

Pretty Mom

Hard work on the afghan

All dressed up and ready to go out for birthday dinner

Mom's garden - so colorful!

One of the first activities when you go to the lake is eating breakfast at The Wagner. It was Father's Day, so pretty busy.

The cottage is looking good.

I love how people here plant things in old shoes. :-)

Some Mennonite kids having their lunch.

One of the Mennonite quilt shops - amazing work.

Can you believe these are all hand-quilted? Wow!

It was strawberry season so we had to go picking. Once you start you can't stop.

We ended up with 7 quarts I think. Delicious!

The old stone barn in Bellona. It has a new blue roof now.

Another Mennonite quilt shop - we were on a research mission so we had to visit several. So sad! (-;

Many, many quilts

Why are we wearing the same shirts? It's a mystery to me, but the funny thing is that no one noticed for a long time.

You often see these out on the roads.

Steve and Lucky

Happy Birthday Mom!

Strawberry birthday pie

Glenn's beautiful shed

A view from the car

Sarah and Nathan at Rooster HillThere's a storm on the way!

But we went shopping anyway. Here's the bulk food store - so many goodies!

A few more views

What a beautiful lake!

Gridlock Pillow

Here's what I was making with that big basket of yarn you can see in the previous post. It was inspired by Kaffe Fassett's gridlock pillow. Very fun project.

Here's the reverse side - wild, right?

Now I have to figure out what to put on the back of the pillow, but the front is done anyway. Yay - I finished a project!

Projects at the Lake

I think I have slow-blogger's disease but I'll try to catch up. I had a great visit with family at Keuka Lake. I took a bunch of projects to work on while I was there. Everyone else was working on projects too. Here are some of the project pictures. I'll add some more when I get them all together.

Susie's working on a cool babette blanket. Dad always has a good book going.

The knitters...

It finally warmed up enough to take off jackets.

The jigsaw project

Mom made this cutie little mouse. Now it lives in my office.

I made two pairs of booties - aren't these the cutest?

Baby crocs

The animals are good models.

Wine decorations