Sunrise from Sparks, NV
Sunrise from Sparks, NV…cool clouds.
Same sunrise, only from UNR and about 20 minutes later.
It’s going to be a beautiful day for geocaching!
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A Wednesday Round-up ~ It’s been a while!
Wow…it’s been quite a while since I last blogged. Pop some corn, grab a beer. 🙂
Quilting & Sewing:
Since I brought my new Brother sewing machine home, I’ve putzed around with it. I’m still learning what it can and can not do, but all in all am getting the hang of it.
1930’s HST baby quilt.
Patch quilt top in the making using Nordika. I have 1/4 of it sewn together now.
I’ve made up a few of these cute totes, modifying a free pattern.
Totes with pencil/crayon slots.
Had one crafting day with friends…another one coming up. We’re gearing up for a November craft fair.
Day of crafting with friends.
Canning:
Made up another batch of mustard! Loving the smell and taste of this one! I used Stone Smoke Porter, yellow & brown mustard seed, apple cider vinegar, ground mustard, salt, pepper, allspice, nutmeg. I adapted two recipes I found (Homemade Beer and English Mustard)…it made up 10 4-oz jars. I plan on making a Cranberry Mustard too.
Spicy Beer Mustard
I was given a bag full of clipped lavender from my MIL’s garden earlier and dried it. Part of it is now in a big old canning jar of local Nevada honey with my own dried rosemary. I’ll be putting this into 4-oz canning jars in about two weeks after it’s been strained.
Lavender Rosemary Honey.
Ghost Hunting:
My sister has quite a few ghost hunting equipment and she booked the Miner’s Shack up in Gold Hill (just south of Virginia City on the Comstock). My niece, Hannah, and her friend Maddie, my sister and I all spent an afternoon in VC and the night in Gold Hill. That was fun! Definitely want to go up with them when they do the Washoe Club in VC.
Miner’s Shack, Gold Hill, NV
Yellow Jacket Mill
Fourth Ward School, Virginia City, Nevada
Fourth Ward School, Virginia City, Nevada
Bottle Tree.
I know my niece, Hannah, took a bunch of photographs, but I never see them…hint, hint…if you’re reading this, Ms. Hannah.
Hannah.
Mackay Mansion grounds.
Carnelian Bay, Lake Tahoe:
Took a Monday off so we could spend Sunday night up at Tahoe. Spent Sunday at one of the free public beaches and Monday morning we tried kayaking (waterman’s landing). So…I’m saving my money up for a sit-in kayak now. 🙂
Carnelian Bay from the Gar Woods pier.
Kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
Mergansers.
Truckee Trestle Tour:
We finally made it up to Truckee, CA for the Hobart Estates Trestle Tour! They’ll be having another one in October if you’re local! We toured the lumber railroads and mills.
Remains of a flat car near Hobart Mills.
Railroad maintenance shop, Hobart Mills.
Lumber railroad trestle remains.
More trestle remains.
Baseball Bingo:
How to have fun when your minor league team, the Reno Aces (Arizona Diamondbacks), is losing. Sorry guys for wishing one of you got beaned by the pitcher! 🙂
Baseball bingo!
Miscellaneous:
God-Awful Rim Fire smoke from Yosemite…Reno/Sparks, we can’t breathe.
Sheaffer’s Balance Blue fountain pen my husband found for me.
Sunrise with a little bit of Rim fire smoke in air.
Wordless Wednesday ~ 29 August 2012
For Today ~ 20 August 2012 ~ A Simple Woman’s Daybook
FOR TODAY … 20 August 2012.
Outside My Window…
Reno, Nevada sunrise ~ 20 August 2012
I am thinking… It sure would be nice if autumn would come sooner than later. I’m really tired of the heat and wildfire smoke here in town.
The red maple out front is starting to turn colors.
I am thankful for… Friends. Love them to pieces.
From the kitchen… Pork chops and rice for dinner tonight. One of my favorite dishes that my Great Aunt Hazel would fix my sister and I when we visited.
I am wearing… cropped olive green/tan pants, olive green shirt, and sketchers sandals.
I am creating… I’m multi-tasking at the moment. Just finished another wire-wrapped pendant yesterday. Am still hand-piecing a Farmer’s Wife quilt block.
Wire-wrapped piece of petrified wood.
First pendant…with the copper “antiqued”
I am going… have to start looking for craft fairs coming up! Ruth, Reva and I have been making stuff all year long. I found one in Portola, this October, for $25/table. Need to find some in town.
I am reading… Finished all three stories in Mary Downing Hahn’s Haunting Tales, will have to just close my eyes and pick another book on my nook.
I am hoping… That I my copper wire wrapping becomes better as I really would like to use the silver wire! LOL!
I am hearing… a small plane overhead; traffic on McCarran; me.
Around the house… Laundry.
One of my favorite things… creating with my hands.
A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week… Try out a few new dinner recipes; buy a good pair of flat-nosed pliers for jewelry making; finish up a few leather wrapped bracelets.
Here is a picture thought I’d share with you… (LOL! I’ve been sharing pics like crazy up above, but will find another)
Spent wildflowers outside of Portola, CA.
Sort of a Wordless Wednesday ~ 15 August 2012
15 August 2012 smokey Reno Sunrise
Lucy finally discovered the cat tree.
Mine…all MINE.
14 August 2012 Reno Sunrise…lots of wildfire smoke
Thursday’s Rambles ~ 1 March 2012
Some fabrics I pulled out of my stash for a 60×60 quilt someone wants me to make them. Just has to be blue and grey with the state of Nevada somewhere on it. I have a design in mind. 🙂 After seeing them in the picture, I’m not sure about the two in the middle of the pack. I’ll have to go pick up a few FQ’s from Windy Moon.
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A small project I’m working on using Lauren & Jessi Jung’s Flora fabric…using English paper piecing hexies.
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Saw this on the way to work…looks like someone was drunk and didn’t realize that you can’t barrel through two work buildings and go down the hill to the road.
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Tuesday’s sunrise with a big ole fog bank….
Today is windy with more snow on the way…just like yesterday.
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Last Saturday after driving up to Pyramid Lake we came back home via Wadsworth to 80…just before Reno is Lockwood where we spied a new park. They’ve re-dug the riverbed in that area, un-doing the damage by the Corp of Engineers so many years ago…now the Truckee River flows through lots of meanders. The fishies are a lot happier too.
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One of the resident Red-Tail hawks at Rancho San Rafael Park.
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We rented a great movie the other night. The Way, an Emilio Estevez movie staring his dad, Martin Sheen. Highly recommend it.
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The Moon and Sun ~ Reno, Nevada
We had a beautiful sunrise this morning…if it wasn’t for the fact that I did a huge backwards stretch in my chair I wouldn’t have seen it. LOL! Grabbed my camera and ran outside, setting off the door alarm (before 7 am and the doors were still locked) as I did. Sheesh.
The moon and Mars this morning…taken on the way into work.
Then the moon yesterday morning, also right before entering my work building.
