I've had a glorious week enjoying sunshine and warmth - delightful! We flew to Las Vegas, rented a sleek new Camaro and had a wonderful week of exploring.
We explore differently than many folk - it's mostly crop touring! This year, we visited some of the areas that my DH worked at when he was with Massey - early 80's - he was with their R&D team. They worked with some large operators in the Imperial Valley. So we toured El Centro, Calexico, Brawley and area. Wow - what they've done in the middle of the desert! So amazing to see fields of irrigated vegetables and hay, and huge cattle feedlots.
It was also a bit of a 'dam' vacation - toured the new bridge at the Hoover Dam, the Davis Dam, and there was at least one other dam :) Also saw the London Bridge - in its new home in Lake Havasu City AZ.
Definitely life and industry revolves around water.
We found a really nice quilt store in Wickenburg AZ, M's Quilting Inspirations (http://www.msquilting.com/). Just after a terrific lunch at the Tumbleweed Diner, I got to explore this lovely quilt store. There was a workshop in progress, and they had no trouble with me peeking in to see what they were working on. Lots of rooms to explore - lots of themes. The staff were so helpful and friendly.
Got a lovely kit in southwest colours/theme, and some nice FQ's. The fabrics are from FabriQuilt's "Woodlot" series - like this ...
Found a sample with a different cathedral window treatment that I just love! This is Shelley Swanland's pattern - had to follow me home too :)
We explore differently than many folk - it's mostly crop touring! This year, we visited some of the areas that my DH worked at when he was with Massey - early 80's - he was with their R&D team. They worked with some large operators in the Imperial Valley. So we toured El Centro, Calexico, Brawley and area. Wow - what they've done in the middle of the desert! So amazing to see fields of irrigated vegetables and hay, and huge cattle feedlots.
It was also a bit of a 'dam' vacation - toured the new bridge at the Hoover Dam, the Davis Dam, and there was at least one other dam :) Also saw the London Bridge - in its new home in Lake Havasu City AZ.
Definitely life and industry revolves around water.
We found a really nice quilt store in Wickenburg AZ, M's Quilting Inspirations (http://www.msquilting.com/). Just after a terrific lunch at the Tumbleweed Diner, I got to explore this lovely quilt store. There was a workshop in progress, and they had no trouble with me peeking in to see what they were working on. Lots of rooms to explore - lots of themes. The staff were so helpful and friendly.
Got a lovely kit in southwest colours/theme, and some nice FQ's. The fabrics are from FabriQuilt's "Woodlot" series - like this ...
Found a sample with a different cathedral window treatment that I just love! This is Shelley Swanland's pattern - had to follow me home too :)
