Mountain Meadow Quilt Guild May

Lillian Arnold celebrating her 90th birthday at the guild meeting. I took Baltimore applique from Lillian in 1999 thru 2001. Great teacher and a wonderful person. She is still living in Sunriver and quilting.
The speaker was Kim Diehl from Idaho. She mostly appliques with invisible thread using freezer paper templates. It was amazing how many quilts she brought for show. On Wednesday, she had a workshop for 20 ladies which I was fortunate enough to attend by helping my sister in law with her quilt. Barb bought me the pattern so now I can try that when I get back from Alaska. Maybe I'll have some Alaskian fabric to use in my quilt.
These two quilts were some that she brought. Her books are titled "Simply" something. Like Simply Pleasures, etc. I think she has 4 books out now.
We learned how to make the flowers, leaves, and stems in the class. It was very interesting and lots of fun. It was great to be here during this week. Couldn't have planned it better.

It was great to see lots of old friends and enjoy the guild meeting. I felt right and home. Thanks everyone.


Sandy

Family and Friends in Bend

Finally in Bend and with family for Mother's Day. We had breakfast and dinner at Gini and Sean's with Barb and Tom. Then we played games and had a great day.
Terry and Phil fished for 3 days, once at Prineville for crappie (50+), the Deschutes River for rainbows (a few), and then floated down the Deschutes from Warm Springs on Tuesday and caught Red's. Phil took off work so they could go fishing while Terry was here. They had a great time.
Dinner at the Padrick's to met their new kitties. They found the two kittens abandoned on their street around Thanksgiving. At the time they did not think they would live according to the vet. Now they are approximately 9 to 10 pounds. Kevin is holding Mariah and they also have Pheonix. Karen and I together again after two years. It was great.
We really enjoyed dinner with Karen and Kevin, Phil, and of course, the family. Thanks to all for a great time.

Sandy and Terry

Drive to Winnemucca NM Saturday

Pretty mountains from Salt Lake to Winnemucca. Good day on the interstate after going down that mountain in Provo!! Drove 528 miles.
Winnemucca RV Park Sunday morning. Had a dead body taken out of the trailer across the lot.
Parked at Winnemucca. Mountains in the background. Good day for driving. Going up highway 95 north to highway 78 into Burns, Oregon. Sunny, great roads, two lane but smooth and noooooo traffic. We only saw about 4 vehicles on highway 78 until we got close to Burns (about 100 miles). Nice road thru the Steens mountains. Pretty.

Lunched at a small lake outside Burns that Terry and Phil used to trout fish. Very little water there this time of year. Disappointing. Arrived in Bend around 2:30 pm Sunday.

More pictures to come.

Stopped in Green River, Utah for the night.
Travels on to Salt Lake City on Saturday. Pretty mountains and scenery.
Snow covered peaks in the distance.
Snow on the pass going up Highway 6 toward Provo, Utah. Started having problems on the way down with an alarm sounding that our leveler was down. Very nerve racking. We also had spikes in the voltage and check engine light came on. There was no where to stop and this grade going down was about 8 or 10 miles!! After we got to Provo, we stopped at the Flying J for fuel and the problem had stopped. Strange. We drove thru lots of snow and rain this day. Got to Winnemucca, NV. that night. (528 miles)

Travel to Green River, UT

Some of the snow covered peaks on the drive on Friday into Utah from NM.

This rock was on the way into Moah, UH. Thought it was cool.
Drove 477 miles on Friday. Of course, I just sit. Terry does it all. I prepare meals!

Travels to Alaska 1st 2 days

Stopped in Santa Rosa, NM the first night after a long day of driving (540 miles) and fighting the wind. The winds were so bad on Thursday that we decided to only go to Albuquerque (120 miles).
Shut it down at American RV Park in Albuquerque for the day and waited out the wind. Gusts were up to 70 MPH. Too much to drive in heading west. Found out the heater is not firing up to warm the water and heat the coach. Had a small heater in the storage bay and used it to heat. Have some hot water that is warmed by elec. We will get it all repaired in Bend, OR.
Headed out of Albuquerque on Friday. Snow on the side of the road and in the mountains. Thought this rock was cool. Will post more later today.

Balloon accident

This balloon hit a tent as it was trying to come across the field during the competition this morning. The pilot fell out tumbling from about 25 feet off the ground and landed among some tables set up outside the tent. The co-pilot tried to recover the balloon as it shot straight up when he fell out due to loss of his weight in the basket. She pulled a cord that opens the top to let out air. Evidently she pulled it too much and the balloon started to deflate and plunged to the ground. Both the pilot and co-pilot had non life treatening injuries to legs and arms. It was very scary for awhile until the ambulances took them away.
You can go to koat.com and see video of "Man falls from Balloon".

We are having fun even tho there was an accident today. Yesterday some people were hospitalized when they had a bad landing in a mall parking lot.

This is not the safest sport I guess! Good thing Terrys doesn't do this.

More later. Below is a web site that has 459 pictures.

http://picasaweb.google.com/sunriversandy/BalloonFiesta200902?authkey=Gv1sRgCNWXm7mIoorP2QE#.

Sandy