I LIKE Thursday #288

I plucked this from the blog, Wedding Dress Blue . Are you a visitor to her site? I love her use of scraps. 

I made a version of her pattern, Growing Up Odd. It’s a favorite. 

Not much to talk about this week. Still doing PT on  my left hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder, 2x a week. I’m still having some pain, mostly discomfort. Kind of like a nagging headache. Not a migraine!. 

Still no sewing done. Though I did do some pressing of some laundered capris. I use my right hand most of the time when ironing. 

We are still in Home Improvement  H-E-Double Hockey Sticks.   Sleeping in the guest room is fun. All our personal items have been relocated. Steve couldn’t find his deodorant, I’m not sure where my curling brush is. FUN! FUN!  

LeeAnna posed this conversation starter: 

 a vivid memory of a family vacation you'll always remember... when you were young? or after you grew up, either. What made it stand out and memorable? People, place, activity, etc

The first event that came to mind was a family vacation to Yellowstone National Park. Probably 1958 or so. I remember being old enough to “get the joke” and being mortified. We were traveling with family friends, my Dad was the photographer. He and the other dad thought it was great fun to catch the moms and us adolescents girls coming out of the outhouse. Now remember the time period. My mom and the other mom wore full skirted dresses. We girls wore sleeveless tops and pedal pushers. Thinking back, I don’t know why I was mortified. Just embarrassed about pictures of using the outhouse. 😁

We had lots of fabulous vacations camping and sightseeing in our area. Later Mr Busy and I took marvelous vacations with a motorcycle club, to places all over the US. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful 

TO-DO Tuesday # 154

Joining Carol @ Quilt Schmilt! 

1. Keep stitching on Mini Sunflower Sampler. ✅

I’ve started on the sunflowers!

2. Sew birches at SIYOB Retreat. ✅

3. Make some jelly! ❌.  

  I just ran out of time. 

4. Pack and go on a short road trip to the Black Hills. ✅

We drove through fog on our way early Monday. 

We rode on the 1880 Train. In the car named Mystic. 

The white house in this photo was purchased  from Sears and Roebuck catalog and still is lived in by family of the original buyers. 

The remains of an old mine shaft. I think they mined tungsten in this one. Not gold!

Another old cabin.

The cabin where we stayed had early morning visitors. A doe and her fawn, still spotted.

And a flock of turkeys! 

My brother in law had bought cracked corn to feed them. They loved it! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday. Vacation spots!

I LIKE Thursday! 

LeeAnna's prompt for this week was:  

 

a place you always go to in the summer... a vacation spot, a cabin or town, camping location,  in childhood or nowadays

tell us why you like it, what it's like, how it makes you feel is it relaxing or exciting or both. If you can find pics all the better. 

ok well....As a kid we camped a lot! My parents had access to a cabin in the Black Hills of South Dakota so many weekends and vacations were spent there. I don't have photos, but picture two rustic cabins, no electricity, no running water, heat only from a pot belly stove in the middle of the room. My mom cooked on a kerosene stove. It was very fun. There was a stream nearby that was deep enough to wade up to your knees, but not too deep. My dad owned a roofing company, so we didn't go far away for vacations. But when you live and work in the Black Hills of So Dak, you aren't far from vacation.

When I graduated high school and got married. my DH and I camped too. In fact ,our daughter was born in December and that very first July, she was barely 7 months old, we camped with family for the 4th of July.. Later as our kids grew we acquired a pickup camper and then a boat. We spent most weekends at Pactola Reservoir in the Black Hills. One October we took our PU camper to Bozeman MT to visit DH's brother and family. We also drove home through Yellowstone National Park. A perfect time to see the sights there. Not too many visitors in the fall and the colors are amazing. 

Later after out kids left home, we purchased a Gold Wing motorcycle and spent many summers riding with friends to rallys and vacations spots across the US.  We went to Canada, Montana, Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico. Also to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Niagara Falls, And lots of states in between. 

(All of my photos of those early years are not digital , so no pics! Sorry)

We have also vacationed in Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Nashville, and the Bahamas. My retirement gift from my employer was a Caribbean Cruise. I love to do that again.

After we retired,  we purchased a used 5th wheel camper. 

We spent lots of weeks in our favorite place in the Black Hills. 

This is the best part about camping! The campfire! 

If you waded through this “wordy” post, here are a couple of LIKES! 

My daughter and I have been watching, Only Murders in the Building on Hulu. A funny, sometimes silly, but well acted comedy starring l to r, Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez. 

I’m also reading: Family Jewels by Stuart Woods. I’ve not read Stuart Woods books in the past. This is number 37 in the Stone Barrington series. I normally don’t read books out of order, but these are simple enough, fluffy enough that I haven’t missed anything except Stone’s other former sexual exploits! It’s OK though! A fun easy read! 

This is number 13 in my Goodreads 2022 Reading Challenge. 

 I didn’t set a high bar. 12 books in 12 months. 

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/33561170

Now go on over to  Not Afraid of Color  and check out links to other’s vacation favorites! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!