What I Found In My Watermellon

We went the the farm market sunday and bought some mellons, one was a watermellon. I cut it open tonight and this is what it looked like inside. I had never seen a yellow watermellon. Now I have! When did these come about? I have to say that it was as good as a red one.

Now I have to show what Butch does with Shawn when Shawn gets on his nerves. Just a friendly little tussel in the living room. Butch won this round.

Sorry to be showing this quilt again but I had an idea for the borders and wanted to know what you think. With all that is going on with all the different colors in the blocks how would a border of all the different backgrounds used in the center? I am thinking of a 2 1/2" wide and cutting them 4 1/2" long like the block units. I know that will be alot of work but if I use a fabric that looks like a solid for the outside border, the border of background would frame the blocks better that any color print. So what do you think? I still haven't decided what color for the outside border.

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Ok, I found the picture of my quilt center, not in my puter but on my camera. I must have deleted it last night some how. I do things like that sometimes and don't know that I do. Its still not the best photo but I tried to take another one on the deck and this was the better one. I took it on the living room floor and didn't have much room for it. I like it. I can't decide what color I want for the borders.None of the colors have jumped out at me and said I'm the one yet. It is 96x96 right now and the borders will make it plenty big enough for our bed. I have been thinking of adding something to the top and bottom to make it longer so I have more overhang at the foot of the bed. Square quilts never hang over the end the same as they do on the sides. I see Miss Kimmy is on it in this picture too.

Bits and Pieces of my Summer

This is something you don't see every day at my house. Both kitties on the couch, most of the time if one is up there the other one won't jump up there or the first one gets down when the other one jumps up.

It was haircut time and hubby was a brave soul to let Nick start it. Nick's short Barbour career
didn't last very long. Butch has what we used to call a pineapple in the 70s. Butched down except for some bangs. Nick didn't think about the bangs and cut some of them off. That ended that job for him and I had to fix it the best that I could.

We have been in this alot this summer. Nick was riding on the dolphin for a little bit. For some reason the kids have trouble staying on it. Maybe because it is round on the bottom.

Gabby was begging me to take her picture so I did. Look at that smile. Worth millions!! What is it with kids that they have to pose when you have your camera out? It took me awhile to get her to smile like normal. All of our Fremont kids start school next Tues. This is the first year that they have to wear uniforms to public school. Sure is going to save the hassle of what to wear. Our other grandson starts school tomorrow. Our county fair is this week which is why our kids don't start till next week.

I guess this is a teaser. I had a picture of the whole thing but when I browsed my pictures I couldn't find it. My secret sister picked this pattern for me to work on this year and I have to show progress on it when we get together every two months. I have the whole center together and all I have yet is the borders but I have to decide what I want to use. Around here nothing you put on the floor is safe from my kitties. Miss Kimmy had to lay on it as soon as I laid it down. I will have to post a picture of the whole center after I take a new one. Now I have to work on my retreat quilt to get that top done. I just need to finish putting the center together and make some more HST's for the border to put them on. I don't know what happened there that I didn't cut enough or I lost them. I think I just didn't cut enough, must have gotten in a hurry. Happy Quilting!!