What is that on my deck?

Nick and I took our nightly dip in the pool after I got home from work and after about an hour I was ready to get out. I was ready to eat. As I climbed up the ladder I looked up and there was this thing staring at me. It was not the prettiest thing I have ever seen. Nick said that he had one outside his bedroom window and it kept staring at him through the window and crept him out. I think that he was a little scared of it. I knew that I had to get it on my camera so I hurried in to get it. By the time I got back out there it had climbed up to the top deck. Moves pretty fast. It does have some good traits Like after sex it kills and eat the male. And it eats bugs in my yard. Can you guess what it is?

It is a praying mantis. It was not a full grown one. I hope that I don't have to fish it out of the pool tomorrow night.

Happy Summer and Birthday

This is a flower that is in my garden. It was really pretty this year.I have these in about 4 colors. I used to have lots of flowers in my garden and then my DH decided to take over my beds. Now I have alot less because he thinks that he has to pull everything up by the roots.Ryan came over a couple of weeks ago and spent the night with Nick. The boys wanted to swim. Ryan was scared a first but I showed him that the floaty suit wouldn't let him go under and then he was ok with it. Ryan is Shawns second son. We don't get to see him very often. Of course Nick is like a little fish in the pool .This is the first year he hasn't had to wear a floaty. He is tall enough that he can touch without one.

Nicks birthday was on the 18th and he was lucky this year. He got 2 cakes, one on his day and one last saturday when we had a little party for him. He wanted Batman things so we gave him money and Mom gave him a gift card to Walmart. Shawn and Jamie gave him a Hot Wheels crash em up set.

I had to post this picture of DH. I looked into the living room one night last week and this is what I saw. It was soo funny that I had to take his picture. Don't tell him that I posted it. He might get a little mad at me. I just had to do it.

I haven't done any sewing this week but I did draw out 4 mariners compasses that I want to do someday.I don't want to do a big quilt just a small one as these blocks are only 8" . I need to draw out a couple more, maybe. Gotta go. I want to have some popcorn and I can't eat and type at the same time. Its not like eating icecream. Karen

My good luck

I haven't posted for a while so I decided to do that tonight. Nick's birthday was yesterday and we are having his party at a later date. It was going to be next saturday but he is going to New York with his family. Now I ask you what an eight year old want to do more have a party where you get cake and presents or go to a yucky wedding where you have to dress up? Last tuesday they drew my name out for the Eagles 712 club and I won $25. Today I did a craft show in Bradner with my friend Pat and while I didn't sell alot I did sell a small quilt and a quilted mat. While I was there I bought one raffle ticket for a 50/50. When I got home Butch and I went to the eagles to pick up my money from the other day and when we got home I had a message on the phone that I had won with my one ticket. I won $110.50! Hows that for luck? Shawn's girlfriend said that she is going to let me pick her lotto numbers.Our house is quiet tonight, no kids. They all went home this afternoon while I was gone. I haven't done any sewing this week. None! I have been really lazy but then when I start to go in to sew I can hear my raft calling my name and I end up in the pool. I know, what a life! It is nice but usually I have some kids in there with me and I don't get to laze on my raft like I want. They always want to play. Nick is getting to be quite the swimmer and the other two do really well with their floaty suits. They can zip all over faster than I can. Ryan was here for a couple of days and he was scared at first untill I showed him that his suit would not let him go under. He was ok after that but he hasn't found his water wings yet. This was the first that he has been in our pool.

Wow time gets away from me fast these days. I can't believe its been two weeks since I posted. I haven't had much going on. Just to work and back home. I have been doing a little sewing. I put the last seven blocks together for the guilds raffle quilt after all of the blocks where found. The last row is on its way to Lisa and she is going to sew it on the quilt. Now the quilt will be 108x96, nice size for a full to king size bed. I also got all of the center blocks done for my retreat challenge quilt. I still have to do the outer pinwheel blocks that go around the blocks that have the sayings in them. I did all of that insead of watching the fireworks. I have been working on the design for Brittany's quilt. She wants one for Hi-Society. Purple and more purple. Yuck!! For some reason I am not fond of purple. I use it but not a lot. Other than that I haven't been doing much. A little swimming once in a while. The water has been cold. It started warming up and then the rains came yesterday and now it is colder again. I will have to get back to this later and I have some pictures to post.