What to do for a sore wrist?

Go to the doctor? That would take a long time and you would probably be told to just rest it. Or the doctor may tell you to go to the hospital physiotherapist - another long wait. So the best option seemed to be to go to the walk in physiotherapy clinic in Treherne.

You know you are old when the physiotherapist is a previous student. You hope she remembers what you taught her in biology years ago!

Joanne discovered that one of the eight small carsal bones in my wrist is out of place. It has moved up. She massaged and applied pressure to the bone (slightly painful), and massaged the arm up to the elbow. Then she applied ultra sound waves which help the area heal by causing gas exchange at a cellular level. Lastly she did acupuncture. Interesting sensation seeing ultra fine needles go into your arm, but not hurt.

Lady Slippers

The transplanted lady slippers in our flower bed are doing very well. They seem to like our garden as much, or more, than the ditch where we got them about five years ago!

Baby quilt and loafers

Finished a tumbling blocks raggy quilt. It isn't for a specific baby yet. Just getting some on hand. Who will have the next boy baby?

Hail!!

Wow! Did we ever get hailed on last night! Large quarter-sized hail. Left the yard white by the downspouts and leaves torn off the trees. Not too much damage to flowers, garden or crops thank goodness.

Work in Progress

Quilta Vision is busy working on her new art quilt. What do you think?

Step 1
Draw a creative design on the dull side of freezer paper.  Cut freezer paper into the basic shapes that you have numbered.  Iron freezer paper to right side of material you want to create your design in.

Step 2

Applique all pieces (using your favorite applique technique) together on tear-away stabilizer.  Then add thread decorating.  Once that is complete, tear away the stabilizer.

Step 3

Now you have the top of your art quilt.  Square it up.  Sandwich it with batting and backing fabric.  Quilt in the background areas and around design segments.

Step 4
Bind the art quilt and include a hanging sleeve.

Step 5

All ready to hang.

Norman Rockwell

What an amazingly prolific artist. Enjoyed seeing his work at Winnipeg Art Gallery today with my special friends.

Aaron - Not your average son!

Yes, I have to admit that raising Aaron was always interesting.

Insert interesting (aka embarrassing) stories and early video topics here.....
1.  "Only two wittle ones?  Jesuws Chwist!"  While looking into a porcelain bowl.  4 years
2.  "This is all s#*t and we aren't going to take it anymore!"  To classmates, while standing on top of a desk, just as the teacher walks in the door.  8 years
3.  "My stomach feels funny.  Nervous?  What's that?"  On the way to a ball game where he was to be starting pitcher.  9 years
4.  First major video work, chasing after Lizzie as a pup, enough to make anyone nauseous.  11 years
5.  Second major video work, Marilyn Mineral, (aka Roger, or was it Dan?, dressed as Marilyn Munroe) for a nutrition assignment in Home Ec class.  13 years
6.  Third major video, involved blood and a garbarator.  Need I say more??!!
7.  Next (have lost track of the number of productions by now) video, involved a chest freezer retrieved from the dump, Don's loader tractor and a dummy dressed as Aaron.  Quite realistic actually.  Imagine a freezer falling from heaven on Wylee Coyote.

Boy, what some parents (aka us) wouldn't have given for dull once and a while.  However, that unique and stubborn child has developed into an amazingly creative (aka unique) and dedicated (aka stubborn) artist.  We are very proud of him!!

Check out some of his accomplishments:

1.  Awards with Uptown Magazine
              - 2nd place in Best Local Filmmaker (after Guy Madden)
              - 1st place in Best Local Visual Artist
              - 1st place in Best Local Band - Sit Down Tracy
              - 1st place in Best New Local CD - Sit Down Tracy, Twenty Something Winters
Uptown Magazine
Sit Down Tracy music here


2.  Short Experimental Films can be viewed at...
Aaron Zeghers Videos here

3.  Hear his band play at West End Cultural Centre on May 31, 2012 in Bands vs Filmmakers.
WECC site for Bands vs Filmmakers

Sweat shop workers

Sunday and Monday of the long weekend was spent at the Zeghers Quilting Den. Pantograms were used on three different quilts. Just as we got all details figured out and the long arm was running like a dream, we sold it!! The dear machine is off to Saskatchewan. Now we can get serious about upgrading.

Portage is Camelot today for Lorena

Big Brothers Big Sisters organization of Portage la Prairie hosted a luncheon with local Manitoba harpist Lorena McKinnett today. What a wonderful event, full of story and song.

Thank you to Auna for being the conduit and bringing the Lady of Shallot to perform in such an intimate setting. Awesome event!

Last year for plum tree

30 years ago this fall we planted two Pembina Plum trees in our yard. My Mom and Dad gave them to us as part of our wedding gift They have beautifully big and delicious fruit. However, I guess they have a fairly short life span. One tree died off a few years ago, and this one is rotting at the trunk. I guess we will have to take it out this year.

Charlie's hair cut!

I think the photos speak for themselves. I hope she's not too cold tonight!

First rhubarb of the year!

Yummy! Straight from garden to tummy.

Yes, we do have a very large patch of rhubarb.

Actually, here you only see half of it!!

Barnswallow Quilt Show

Attended the quilt show in Morden yesterday with Joan and Shirley. Met up with Yvonne and JoAnn. Here are some of our favorite quilts:

Saw this Katie Freisen quilt design in a few different colours, but we liked this one best!  Beautiful batiks prints in natural, beige, taupe, and brown.  (More colourful than the photo seems to show.)

A quilt that Grandma Yvonne may have to quilt for Sofia when she graduates to a big person bed.  (Sofia that is, not Grandma.)

All quilt designs from the book Quilted Symphony.  The three sisters need to have a quilting retreat to try out these designs.  We have had the book for ages!!

This quilt reminded me of a Hawaiian sampler quilt.  Similar to the first quilt I ever made (all by hand) in the 1980s.

More abstract art quilts that I liked.

Here is an excellent scrappy quilt.  

Good project to keep in mind to use up some of those scraps I seem to accumulate!!

An art quilt table runner done with circles/arcs, some are woven into each other.

(Nice photography work Yvonne!!  Or is it just the quick subject?)

Some more art quilts:

1.  Cabin and creek (top left) is done with an angular strip piecing method.

2.  Forest scene has a bargello background and appliqued trees.

3.  Garden gate is a gorgeous creation by Barb Westfall and Pearl Dueck.

Don is a Photo Contest Winner!!

Congratulations to my artistic husband, Don, who placed first in the International Category of the North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper Photography Contest with the following photo called Nile Crocodile:

This photo also won the peoples' choice award!!  Congratulations Don!!

Check out all the winners at
http://saskriverkeeper.ca/waterinfocus/gallery.php