Educational!!



The Spam Museum is not a dusty old collection of antiques...it's educational...and not just about spam!  We've enjoyed learning about the singing Hormel gals...something to check out when there!




They have really made it interesting...and all free...until you get to the gift shop!!



Interesting facts...how much do YOU know about spam?

Can't see it in the picture...but this guy has his hands on our.......



Morgan waiting for service...that never comes.



Everyone has to have their picture taken with the farmer.  Stop there next time you go through Austin...just off the Hormel plant exit.  And I apologize I don't have a picture of my favorite spam recipe...I really do like the stuff.  Wayne's favorite way is to cut it thin and fry it crisp.  Mine is to brown cubes of it and add to creamed potatoes...mmmm...think I'll have to make some for lunch!!
Jolyn

Thanksgiving

 Thanksgiving may seem like a strange title for the 4th of July.  But our country's freedom has been bought with the blood of thousands and thousands of soldiers who through the years gave their lives and futures so you and I could live with all the blessings we have.  So it is with great thanksgiving towards these heros that I celebrate this 4th of July and pray that we don't let what they fought and died for slip away.  If you like our current leaders or if you don't like them...we still have the privilege of our vote come November. 

On the homefront we haven't had pigs on the place for close to a month for the first time in over 50 years!  But that changed a week ago...here they come.

And thanks to ambitious grandsons...a clean house...at least for now!

And speaking of pigs...here's a place that's fun to visit...the Spam Museum in Austin.  Most of the pigs we raise end up at Hormel's.

We had picked up our granddaughter, Morgan in Rochester and wanted to give her a "high on the hog" treat...so we stopped.

Remember these???  I can still remember my Grandma Anderson's number...110 please. 
 My blog is giving me fits...I've loaded...uploaded...downloaded..unloaded these and a bunch more pictures...and the blog decides after about 5 pictures that it is done...even if I'm not.  So...the Spam museum is a continued story...whether I like it or not.
Jolyn.

Celebrating

Birthday boy with the best birthday cake ever...ice cream !!

And for the hunter...a new target for his bow and arrow.

Now the next couple of pictures are a little hard to see...but it was to be a flaming arrow...



to ignite this brush pile.




And this is where it finally took off.  The arrow went so fast that it kept putting the flame out..so they started it with a flaming spear!



Here's a size more to my liking!



Ok...let's see if you can make one hand make circles one way and the other hand make circles the opposite direction!  We all tried it...and failed.
Jolyn



$$$ Incentive

Yes...the porch needs painting!!

Money is such a good incentive!

For everyone!

Soooo...they came...

They saw...

They painted...

And painted...

And painted...

And then they celebrated!!!  (And doesn't the porch...and other things...look so much nicer!! )
Jolyn

The Master Quilter

At our last Blue Earth Area Quilters meeting we had the privilege of seeing quilts made by a master quilter!



Now I had these all in order...but my computer decided it preferred them another way...



This is made of 1" finished squares! 

Here's our quilter...Lyn Hilgendorf!

And this was her FIRST quilt!!

She decided to try paper piecing...

Her watercolors are amazing!!

We usually don't have a guest speaker but Wow!! were we in for a treat  with Lyn!!  Notice I didn't provide names for any of the quilts...I was too busy drooling!!
Jolyn

Additional Quilts

Barb has retired and is fired up for sewing!  Here's a vintage bag...



two wonky pillows...




and a spring table runner....plus the shirt she's wearing!



Corrine showing one of her finds from the Trash to Cash event.  It's amazing how someone can have something in their stash for years and decide they either won't ever get it done or don't care for it any more and someone else buys it and here it is!



Here she took a boughten bag and livened it up with a panel!  Creative juices flow in our group!!




Sharon showed a crazy quilt her grandmother had made.



By the shoes...I think this is Sharon again showing a quilt.



Cele made this tablerunner and placemats for Easton's Friendship Days.
And more is yet to come...so stay tuned...
Jolyn