Quilt shop in Rodeo. Unique isn't it.
Sunsets were like this each evening. We have many more pictures. It is hard not to take more and more.
Well, Slow could be my name, I really mean to keep up this blog better than I have been doing. We spent a week in a very small town called Rodeo. Most people would not know or care where this place is. It sits on the Mexican border in what is called the Boot Heel of NM. The owner is woman named Rusty. She is quite a talker and if you go in the office you are sure to be there awhile. We stayed here last year and enjoyed the area. The sunsets here are spectacular and the days all sun.
This year to my delight there is a new quilt shop. Since I needed fabric for a project that had to be sent home in March I got myself right into this shop. Next door to it is a feed and grain shop owned by the quilt shop owners husband. Also a gun shop out back. Virgil went to visit in the feed and grain and I did my thing in the quilt shop. Both of us were happy.
We did a ride into the ranch lands near by and also crossed the mountains on an interesting road. One lane and lots of rocks and dust. The only people we saw were the border patrol. They are everywhere. The ranches are hugh, more acres than you can imagine any one person having. Some of it must be leased BLM land.
Next stop Benson, AZ for a month. We have friends here from past years stays. Always nice to be welcomed back. Already been into Tucson for dinner with Pat and Harold Shoemaker and their friends from East Jordan. This has turned into an annual event. Always good food and conversation. Well time to get out and do something, more later.
well, this was a productive few days. In between other things, I sewed this tote bag. My friend Pat let me cut into her stash after I admired her bag. this is a large one and it sure looks like a quilter. I have my sewing machine set up so I don't have to put it away each day. One of the ladies here in the park came down one afternoon for an applique lesson. We had gone to a trunk show and lecture at the quilt shop last Friday and I happened to mention that applique was my favorite way to make quilts. Pat and her husband Jim are leaving on Sunday. They do volunteer work for the Lutheran Church. They help with building projects for the churches and will be doing one in Neb. for the summer. Sounds like fun to me.
Virgil and Harold are trying to figure out where to store the woodstove Harold gave us. They took it all apart and even then it was really heavy. It had been the heat source for their house before they moved in and had been sitting outside their back door for the last 15 plus years. They tried to sell it but no one wanted to buy. Lucky for us as we had been looking for a used one for Virgil's cabin. now all he has to do is get it home unbroken and put it all back together. He went on line and got the manuals just like that!! It is a 1983 model. You can find anything on line. Gotta love that computer. Before starting the stove project Virgil and Harold had installed and uninstalled a new hot water heater. Theirs had sprung a leak the morning we were coming in. They put it in three times before being successful, finally no leaks.
As is usual Pat and I attended the Tucson Quilt Guild meeting. I'm lucky enough each year to get to go to at least one meeting. They have the best speakers. The quilts shown were great and the speaker very entertaining. I am astounded at their budget. It had to be voted on, get ready, $195,000. I can't imagine a guild with that large budget. Wow
This I call "sights of the highway. We were on our way to Tucson and I spotted this truck. Rascal Flats all over it. I quickly got out my camera an snapped a picture. As we passed I waved to the fellow driving and got a beep on the horn and a wave in return. Always on the lookout for different trucks. We see some interesting ones.
