Newport Aquarium

After Quilt Festival in Cincinnati, we went to the Newport Aquarium with Ron and Vivian Spreadborough of Heirloom Stitches.  It's a very nice Aquarium with a very good penguin display.  In the Rainforest display, we learned of a new tree in the Pacific Northwest.

Elvis is in the building!

While in Elizabethtown, we went to breakfast at Jerry's J-Boy and had the worst meal we've ever had.  Greg said it was worse than Army food!  But Elvis was there!

Tornado party

The weather in Paducah the week before the quilt show was terrible.  Thunderstorms and torrential rain and multiple tornado warnings.  As always, we stayed in an RV park, Cypress Lakes RV Park.  We were monitoring the weather channel and NOAA weather site when a tornado warning was issued for the county we were in as well as surrounding counties.  Everybody gathered outside the laundry room, it being the safest place in the park.  We all waited outside until really heavy winds started then a number of us decided to go inside.  The men, of course, stayed out.  I'm sure they'd have joined us if anybody saw a funnel!

Waiting for the siren.  Tarjais, aka Butthead, is in the mesh bag, Cayenne in the cooler.

Kitty transportation.  We were the only ones that brought cats to the shelter.

Food

After Quilt Festival in Cincinnati, we headed to Paducah for the AQS show.  We decided to stay a few days in Elizabethtown, KY.  From there we visited Bardstown and went to the The Old Kentucky Home.  Driving around Bardstown we found a butcher shop and decided to shop, hoping to find some lamb.  No lamb to be found, but we did find some unusual items that we would never find in Oregon, or anywhere else on the west coast!

Laptop help

This is what I have to do to work on my laptop in the truck because I can't see the screen in daylight.  Anybody know a better way?

Leaking Paint Truck

We followed this paint truck leak in Oklahoma on our way to the International Quilt Festival in Cincinnati.  It went on for about 30 miles then leaked off an exit.

Houston prize winners

We recently vended at the Houston International Quilt Festival, November 3rd through 7th.  Friend and designer Diane Carter came up with an idea to have a party on Friday night, the 5th.  She made up 200 adorable "Angel-Ina" pins that we handed out to party-goers along with a free pattern on how to make her.  We also handed out LOTS of chocolate.

The participants were told to wear their pins proudly for the next two days and we would wander around the festival handing out $25 gift certificates to the first eight people we found wearing them.  Here are pictures of the winners.  Congratulations to them all -- and look for our party in Cincinnati!!

Susan Rutter Knapp and me

Marga Tegtmeyer

Denise Lassiter-Vachon

Starr Nielsen, member Sarasota Surface Design Group

Barbara Jones

Diane Carter and Maida Hoffman

Mandy Downes (left) and Catherine Dewar (right), mother and daughter from the UK