After a lovely morning of stitching with friends at my Wednesday stitching group,  my boys and I headed out fishing.

We have a great fishing spot in the reservoir behind our house.  This reservoir is used to water the cranberry bogs. 

The Bait!

The Catch!

Avery on his first kayak trip into the reservoir.

Caught another one!  In all we caught about 7 fish.  We had a great time on a lazy summer afternoon.

Uneven Evenweave!

Good Morning from steamy Massachusetts.  I was wondering if anyone has run into this problem before.  I am a little frustrated by the fact that I pulled some fabric from my stash to work on LHN August Sampler.  I stitched the border for the design and it should be neat and square but it looked a little off.  I counted and recounted my stitches 69x69.  Ok then I measured, and low and behold it measures 5" x 4 1/2".  What the heck!  It can only be determined that the fabric, 28ct evenweave is not so even.  I would love to hear from anyone who has experienced this.

Just spent some time out in the garden.  It's too hot now to work so I decided I would share these pics.  Top pictures are of the garden and the progress it is making.  We will actually be able to harvest squash this week.  We have lots of beans coming, green tomatos abound, and the first picked carrot goes to. . . . . .   You guessed it  DUTCH.  Boy what a happy bunny!!

A quick finish.  This is LHN July Sampler done on 28 count Pearled Barley. 

Hydrangeas from my many bushes.  As you can see I have lots of different colors this year.  Time to add some nutrients back to the soil to make them blue again.

Everything's in Bloom and it's HOT!!

It seems like everything is early this year.  Everything is in bloom at the same tme.  We have had upper 80's for temps and its hard to find a cool spot.  Yesterday at stitching group everyone was chatting about what temp to put the central air on and I was laughing because I live in a house built in 1876 and there is no central air.  We have fans and every now and then we'll get a breeze. My poor old girl, Jessee, was having a really hard time cooling off yesterday.  She decided to park herself in front of the screen house on the cement slab.  Stay cool everyone!

Sea Glass

A favorite summer pass time is collecting sea glass.  We spend lots of time taking leisurely walks along the beach at dusk.  When the kids were younger I taught them to look for sea glass as a way to get them to walk just a little farther.  Now each trip is who can collect the most pieces, who can find the biggest piece, who can find the colored ones.  This is a picture of what we collected our last trip out.  I have a jar on a table in the front hall and all summer long we continue to add to it.  I wonder if some day we will actually complete filling the jar?

Lizzie Kate Spring Fob

Here it is!  A finish!  Wow.  Anyways,  this is Lizzie Kate's limited edition Spring Scissor Fob with special scissors.  The scissors are so tiny that I thought the fob was too big so I stitched it over 1.  Then I tried ribbon rousching (not sure how to spell that).  For my first attempt it went pretty smoothly.  Only broke the thread once.  It was an organza ribbon so it was a little stitff.  The end result it too cute!!