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Yep, I’m Still Here

November 19th, 2012

Have you heard of the saying; life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.

Life seems to be going at breakneck speed and the days fly by with so much to do.

Since my last post there have been two International Quilt Markets. I traveled to one of them and made new patterns and quilts for both.

My son got married to a beautiful girl.

A new grand baby is on the way. I had no involvement with that one

I took my horse Boaz to a three day horse clinic and learned so much about horsemanship.

Traveled to Oregon to teach during the Sister’s Show.

Went on a women’s pack trip into the Bob. (Bob Marshal Wilderness) Came off Dillon and hurt my bumm.

On Labor Day, my horse Boaz died. I grieved terribly. He was that once in a lifetime horse that I bonded with. He would see me and come running across the field as if to say; where are we going? Lets go!

Eventually found a new horse, Tobiah is his name, which means the Lord is good.

He is a good boy but not my Boaz. Maybe with time.

I try to ride Dillon and the new guy when I can but we have had rain, rain and more rain. Some snow and ice and mud. When it isn’t muddy it is raining again.

I’m working on getting my new patterns written and printed and online.

This is Adalynn’s Garden quilt pattern introduced at Spring Quilt Market. It is named after my 2 year old granddaughter.

The fabric is from Robert Kaufman and is a mixture of floral prints and batiks. A beautiful combination.

Another colorway

Enjoy! You can find the patterns here. You will also see a third color way in this design on the pattern’s page. Let me know what you think.

Elisa

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The Patient

November 16th, 2011

Because of the foot of snow we had received it was quite an eventful trip to the vet. They had plowed our road that morning and then it snowed again. The new snow on top of the smoothly plowed surface was slightly melted so it was slick as, well, slick as melting ice. We had to chain up the truck and the horse trailer. A tow truck was on the steepest part of the road pulling people out because people were sliding off. The driver of the tow truck said that if I started to slide, go into the ditch and he would get me out. Um, sure, gulp. Another truck pulling a trailer had jack knifed across the road. Some people had parked their cars at the bottom of the hill and were walking up. It took us two hours to get up to my house, and back down the two mile stretch of road.

This was Dillon after we arrived at the vet. He was given a shot and was very sleepy.

He has some pieces of flesh cut off (gross) and then his foot was wrapped and wrapped and wrapped again with different types of bandages.

And then they made a shoe out of duct tape and put that over the bandages. And then another tape at the top to keep the duct tape boot on.

And while he was there we checked his teeth and gave him a teeth floating. I am not sure why they call it “floating”. It is kind of like a sander that they use to smooth the rough edges of his teeth so that they don’t hurt his tongue and cheeks as he chews. He had quite a few sharp points in there.

Then he got a tetanus shot. He was a good patient and didn’t really seem to mind much. Of course he was a bit sleepy.

Then I called another friend and we trailered Dillon to her house. She has a stable in her barn that I will need to keep him in. He has to keep his foot dry for two weeks. Yea right. We have a foot of snow.

So it was time to go home and I called my husband with dire warnings about the road and to not drive up it without chains. He gets to our road and drove up it with no problems, scratching his head, wondering what the big problem was. When I came home later I saw that the road had been plowed again and sand dumped on it. No more treacherous road.

The other funny thing was that there was almost NO snow in town. We were trying to explain why we had so much trouble getting into the vet and they didn’t understand because all of the roads were dry. We had our own little snow cloud west of town that dumped its load on us.

This and This

November 14th, 2011

I really wanted to draw a name and post the winners to the drawing today.

But I woke up to this

and this

I left the image small, don’t look at it if you get grossed out easily.

And since my trailer looks like this right now

and I don’t have the truck here. (Not that I would dare pull the trailer down the hill in this weather on our slippery road)

I have arranged for transportation. Yes, there are people who will haul your livestock for you. And so it is off to the vet we go.

See you tomorrow, hopefully.

Elisa

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October

October 18th, 2011

Yes, I am still here. This is Boaz and me up in Glacier Park enjoying the last straggling days of fall before winter gets here.

It has been a busy summer for me with Amanda staying home and taking care of her new baby. I am a one woman team again and that leaves me juggling everything at once so blogging has fallen to the bottom of the “to do” list. I hope to find a new helper soon and that will help.

Don and I took Sunday off to go into Glacier for a nice long 17 mile long trail ride up to Trout Lake. This was my view for most of the day.

My view is through two little ears. What a cutie!

I also got to see this view a lot. Look at that handsome guy.
Oh and the horse looks pretty good too!

We were stopped on the trail because we had to saw a couple logs that were blocking the trail. The horses can step over a lot of them but these two were too high and some manual labor was needed. I use the word we lightly. I just held my place in line while the sawing was done. Don ended up adding his man power to move the logs out of the way. There isn’t much room on the trail.

We also got to see this.

See that bit of snow at the top? Brrr. In a few more weeks that snow will multiply. There is so much snow that sometimes the trails are not even clear from the snow in July. I would like to go one more time to Glacier before the weather really changes.

I have a lot to share from my busy summer. New quilts and patterns. I have not been idle for one second. See the new link at the side. I have another block in Quiltmaker’s and the blog tour will begin in November. Say tuned for more details.

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Camping Trip

August 16th, 2011

We took a quick camping trip with some of our grand kids.

Taking little ones camping is a lot of work but well worth it. This is a photo taken during our hike in Glacier Park. We did a very short hike and then played in the river. And then ate some more.

This is Zachary learning to skip rocks with Pa Pa.