New toy

 I found this old mangle on Craig's list the week before my

surgery and the owner was kind enough to deliver it.

I had my son in law put a new heavy duty cord on it.

I tried it out today.

I works like a dream.

Now to iron the other 77 pieces of fabric for my

Nancy Crow workshop before the end of November,

I am getting excited about going.

Especially since the knee Doc gave both of

my knees a shot of cortisone Tuesday.

Finally after 5 months the pain is gone.

If you are in NW Indiana Saturday I have

a table of decorating, quilting, cook and knitting books

for sale for $3 to $5.

E-mail me for directions.

Herons

 For some reason I am fascinated with herons,

they eat my gold fish in the Koi pond.

We have given up on Koi.

Just too expensive a fish food.

We now rely on free gold fish.

The birds are huge,

they land on the roof and

hop down to have a meal or two.

They must stand 4 ft tall.

A funny thing happen this spring.

A pair of barn swallows nested in the

wood duck box and when a heron landed to feed.

The swallows dive bombed the heron until

he flew away.

I think they kept him away enough that the

small koi pond was left alone.

Fun watching nature.

Wordless Wednesday

Work in progress

This is a work in progress that I started in August.

Then life got in the way for awhile.

I have it hanging on the design wall waiting

for January when

 I get back to working on next springs show.

I know where I am going with it

just need to finish the hanging leaves

and devise a way to attached the top

to some branches.

This will be for the show

In Harmony with Nature IV

I bought a mangle this fall and will

put a new cover on this morning and

start ironing the 200 yards of fabric

for the Nancy Crow workshop in December.

Time does fly.

December 10 will be here in a flash.