TAHOE!

The whole family has been in tahoe this week. It was beautiful. We had sun, rain, overcast--every day was different. I brought along this quilt ^ I worked on it a bit. It is my map of the US quilt. I am quilting it by hand using circles that start at the state capitols. I want to find some beads (maybe star beads) to mark the capitols. Riley has already slept under it (she always wants to sleep under all of my quilts whether they are complete or not (Riley under the crab quilt-->)


I have 9 of the 50 states quilted so far. I had the idea for the US quilt last year. I want something colorful and educational to hang on the wall in the kids playroom. It has already been somewhat educational -- I've already quizzed the kids about the states... Riley's response to Kansas: It's hot in Topeka( a line from a cartoon) some times she just says "I'm a hot topek-er" which sounds like 'toe picker'... I'm so proud that all of my hard quilting work is paying off...
JK I love quilting and my kids love my quilting.

I was going to enter this one in the fair but I missed the entry date so I haven't rushed at all.. I do want to get it done for my guilds show in September.




My favorite part of the whole week:

Kayaking! I love Kayaking. This picture is of me and Riley at Fallen Leaf Lake(the lake we camped at this week). Fallen leaf lake is only 5 minutes from Lake Tahoe. It's smaller and not very crowded. The shoreline is made of lots of stone/rock/pebbles. I didn't have water shoes and my feet suffered. It hurt...temporarily. I'm suffering still from the sunburn. I didn't put sunscreen on my legs. I am so sunburned- I can barely walk...my legs are still swollen. I can't believe I didn't use sunscreen! I remembered to bring the sunscreen... I put it on both kids, had some left on my hand and wiped it on my face and arms...but not on my legs.

Last night my legs were so painful and swollen I was afraid I was going to have to go to the hospital. And to be honest, I wasn't all that hot at the time. I didn't even know I was turning red until we were done and about to leave the lake. Then ... over the next 2-3 hours my legs got pinker and pinker and more painful... That night I was in agony. 2 1/2 days later I'm still in pain. I haven't been sunburned like this since 97 or 98 ? ? I don't remember.

The one thing I'm realizing about hindsight is that it wouldn't be hindsight if it were foresight.

(nancyism)

We did have a great time hiking, boating, kayaking, swimming, biking, visitor centering, enjoying each other and the beauty of Tahoe. We even saw bears! It was the best!