A centenial quilt for Oklahoma!

What a beautiful, perfect day it was today! It was so comfortable to be outside. We had no wind, which is way unusual for Oklahoma! Usually, it’s so hot that we need the wind to stay alive, but it was just perfect today! So, I was able to spray the driveway where weeds were having their way. Don was a saint again and pulled a million weeds in the flower garden. I got the rest and then sprayed in lots of places. I’m so pleased to have the flowerbeds in order. WHEW! What a relief! Then as we came in to get cleaned up, he suggested we get started on the Florida room; of course we finished it. WHEW; another big task marked off our list. Well, tomorrow we’ll wash the windows out there, which is two walls, but that’ll be easy with him helping me. Then we’ll be done with that room. That’ll be nice; we can start having breakfast out there! Our drier vents out to the Florida room, and we keep a pair of panty hose on the end of the vent to catch the lint. (That’s the popular Hobart way of doing it; cool, huh? NOT!) Sometime last fall the hose came off the vent and lint was everywhere before we realized it. So it looked terrible out there and really needed cleaning. It’ll be fun to use it, again.

Today’s picture is of an awesome quilt that was made to celebrate Oklahoma’s centennial celebration this year. My good friend, Diana had the idea for women from Hobart to each make a quilt block for a quilt that we would raffle off in the fall to raise money for the city. She did an awesome job of promoting it and getting it completed. I wish the quilt showed good in the picture, but the details don’t show in the picture like they do in real life. These blocks are awesome. One lady’s block has a clothes line on it with a little tiny quilt hanging (literally in 3-D, not just a flat piece, but an actual little quilt hanging there!). Diana got a retired home economics teacher who teaches quilting at the vo-tech to piece the quilt, and then the Mennonite women did a beautiful job of quilting it. It is absolutely gorgeous. The tickets are $5 each and I think the drawing will be this summer or fall, if any of you are hooked on quilts, this one is certainly a one of a kind! Right now it's on display, hanging in the library here in Hobart; we're all really proud of it, and of Diana for making a dream become a reality. (She is married to another one of my classmates from Japan; they moved here a couple of years ago!) Remember, you can click on the pictures and you'll see a bigger picture; that'll help you see this quilt even better.

Have a wonderful week; God bless us all!