You did it!!! You did it!!! Oh, Caroline, I am so happy for you. And tremendously impressed too, not only by the physical difficulty of the trip, but by your dedication to a good cause. What an amazing thing you did. I can hardly wait to see your photos. Welcome back! Now you can sit back and watch the Giro d'Italia starting on Saturday. (Universal Sports, on TV & online) You'll have new appreciation for the pros putting in over a hundred miles a day in mountainous terrain LOL! Wow, you are one tough cookie...

Yes, I'm working on the last assembly to a log cabin quilt. I've done pillowcases in this pattern, but wanted to have a full sized quilt. I had a few very large pieces of material I can't see using for anything else, and wanted to work them down in my fabric stash, so make it using those and they wouldn't have been my first choice. But you know how quilts are. Somebody would really like it even if it's not my cuppa tea. I have worked on it one to two hours a day since Sunday last, so essentially it will have taken me a week to do it because I wanted to try to do one entirely by chain stitching in an assembly line to see if it really does save time and still not be boring as heck. (I like the instant gratification of doing one block at a time). The answer is yes, it does save a lot of time and no...I wasn't bored silly. I have another quilt I sort of lost interest in because it was a humdinger hanging on the design wall. I have one more dresden plate to do, cut into quarters and use them as a cornerstone in each corner of the quilt and then I can assemble those blocks. This one is paper pieced and is one of those 'keepers' I'll spend time on, and prolly hand quilt. So........yes, I've been pleasantly busy messing around in the sewing room. We'll do thanksgiving on 'the day' at my my kid's farm. Over the river and through the woods etc. I'm cooking the bird, some pies and homemade noodles.

I agree, the right team won. I would have been so mad if the frat boys had managed to pull it off. In fact, I would bet you that the frat boys never finished that last task of remembering the things and finding the correct photo for all 10 legs. They didn't look tired enough at the end. lol Yea for Nick and Starr, I'm very happy for them. And I read that Starr and Dallas are dating, so good for them, too! I really think that Ken takes a lot of abuse from his nagging wife and I hope she saw what she did to him over and over and changes her tone of voice when she talks to him. He's way too nice for her type, IMO. She needs someone who will stand up to her, whether she thinks so or not.

Thank you, Jasdip. Our house is all adobe. I designed a lot of it including our kitchen. It’s very definitely influenced by our wonderful New Mexican culture.