Good Morning!, and a belated Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there!

   Let's start right out with the NEW BLOCK!!  that came in this week! Ellen's Star is here (Gayle)--the next in the series of Arizona Hostess stars! This one is also available as a 9" and a 12" star! Thank you, testers, for doing these wonderful test block's for the site! All the blocks for this series and the extras to go with them are done and at the testers now so you should be seeing them all relatively soon, as the tests are complete!

    It's been a rather uneventful week here. We made two more trips to camp, and finally have the raking-up done. Now it is looking very spiffy down there indeed! The lake is high from all the rain, but not overflowing. There are NO other camps occupied in our cove yet, so it is still and SO peaceful! I got the windows opened up so that the place is airing out; now we are pretty much set to move in at our leisure! In the meantime though...BLACK FLY season is on with a vengeance down there.....ugh...

   After getting home from camp we transplanted my Mom's (app 70 year old!) Christmas Cactus into a better pot. This is one of those projects I put off to the very end...that plant is HEAVY! It's been in a painted round Mexican clay pot for probably 20 years, but the pot finally was disintegrating, and the poor plant was in dire need of a new home! Here's hoping it survives the move! (The poor dear has been through tough times already-Sam chewed it down to stubs when she was a pup...it grew back)

   Now that the star series is done, I think it's time to get back to some quilting! {One poodley part of having Lyme is that I have been having great difficulty concentrating on more than one thing at a time...odd and unpleasant sensation for us women who are so used to always multi-tasking!} I look forward to getting back to the quilt now! The poor thing has probably been terribly lonely hanging there in pieces on the design wall for the past several weeks!

   Still no news on the job front. Things are rather trying at this point. :o(  All part of life I guess...just not the good part! The trick, is to Keep the Faith, that things WILL get better! All prayers are welcome! :o)

   Time to get busy!  Have a Great week everyone!

Have A great Quilting Week Everyone!

Marcia :o)

 "She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along." Margaret Culkin Banning