Isn't it funny one can go forever and not have anything new or exciting to blog about and here I have two in one day!!! DS and I just returned from a road trip and we both got a dose of CA traffic! We drove north from Ukiah to Willits and then west from Willits to Fort Bragg and then up CA Hwy 1 to Leggett & CA 101 then back down to Ukiah. A total trip of about 200 miles! However 101 North of Santa Rosa is sporadic divided highway, and the 20 from Willits to Fort Bragg and the 1 into Leggett are all 2 laners if you want to call them that! I, the one from S. Cal, didn't realize that the northern mountains of this state are straight up and striaght down! The round trip from Willits was just that all 2 lane, and all twisty curvey mountain roads. Now if I had been driving........................ Thank you Ben for driving! Upon arriving back in Willits there was a typical California traffice jam! 2 miles out from the first stop light in Willits the cars were backed up and slowly inching forward. Willits have 5 stop lights!!!!! geesh - sigh Tomorrow is Ben's interview and then we hit the return road. Such a quick trip. Oh yes, we did stop at a winery, and of all the thousands of wineries in the Napa/Sonoma valley we stopped at the Cohn Winery, I think, thta was formerly owned by the Dobby Brothers! Now how weird is that? sigh bought two bottles of wine for DD#1 and none for me.

I am sitting here in a motel room in Ukiah, CA. Ben, my son, has decided to interview here for a job. Relocating from Wyoming to Northern California will be quite the experience for him. At 26 he's "running away" from home! My! What will I do with him so far away?

Wahoo! Two posts within a week! I uploaded pictures of the quilt top that I made at Quilt Wyoming, two weeks ago. It is called Quick Rolling Star and the teacher was Jan Krentz! I am so happy that it is done - well maybe! The bottom picture are the pieces laid out at class, as you can see I changed it all around before I was done! Enjoy!

OK, so I check a couple blogs everyday, and one got me back here. Life is busy as you can imagine with a 16 month old in the house. Busy as a bee she is!! Right now Mikaya is sprinkleing bug juice on herself - well sprinkleing wasn't the correct word - we won't go there. Now she is "cleaning" her mess up with no clothes on! sigh - somedays.....I just finished a class over at JessicaSprague.com using Photoshop Elements!!! Whew I learned so much and had so much fun. I will try and add some of the pictures, maybe before and afters, so you can see what I have done. I am going to try to be more diligent about blogging, but don't hold your breath!!! sigh - I spent 2 weekends ago in Cheyenne at Quilt Wyoming - the state quilt guild annual retreat. I took a class from Jan Krentz - Quick Rolling Star - was hoping to get it done before I go the CA next week, but......... and then a class called Magic Squares - an architectual quilt. that one will take a while, but I have some of both done. Have a great week.

It's Springtime in the Rockies - and the snow is falling and the wind is blowing! I shoveled the driveway this morning and the snow was falling faster than I could shovel! Soon it will be spring. I have been taking an online scrapbooking class and it has been a blast. Scrapbooking on a Shoestring. Stretched my feeble brain into using office supplies, i.e. paper clips, transparentcies, staples, paint, etc. But I have some wonderful ideas to keep me going. Now I need to get back to quilting and get a quilt quilted soon. It needs to be in Seattle by April 2o. hmmm, maybe if I get it done soon enough, DD#1 and DSIL can hand carry it to Seattle when they go on the 16th! Ya think they would do that for their mom? alas probably no, with the cost of baggage now days!

I have no excuse for not updating this blog, except well, I don't know. What's happened since October? Hmmm, two trips to California, one with granddaughter Kristen and daughter Megan. It was to help with a wedding reception that was canceled, but "the girls" and I went anyway. Spent 2 days at Disneyland, and had a blast, then Megan and Kristen took a boat on into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Newport Beach -Dana Point to look for whales, while we saw no whales we did see porpoise and sea lions. Then home and back again with granddaughter Mikaya and daughter Katie, and out to see Mikaya's daddy. Nice warm weather. Then Halloween and Thanksgiving. We spent Thanksgiving in Gillette with daughter Jamie, and son, Ben and Megan came up from Casper. Then Christmas here with Megan, Kristen, Ben, Katie & Mikaya. Jamie and David had their girls for the holidays and didn't come down. Now the big 1! Mikaya is now 1 and such a beautiful baby. Gramma is partial don't ya know? Maybe now I'll keep up better.

OK, so I didn't get the Disneyland pictures posted in October, nor the Thanksgiving pictures posted in Nov, nor Christmas, Valentines pictures posted in their respective months. But I will see if I can find some today. Mikaya just turned one and oh my what a year it has been. She isn't walking yet, but it won't be long.