Nice day today. Weather was beautiful. In the low 70's, sunny, no wind. Just great.
We went downtown to Springfield. We saw the Lincoln house, his law office, his church where they rented the pew, some old homes of the era of other people in his cabinet and etc. We had lunch at Zbistro and we ate outside. I love that but Leroy usually doesn't like to eat outside. So he did it for me. It was great. We went into the museum and library but didn't have enough time so we saved that till tomorrow. We went into the old capital where he was in congress and his boy laid in state. We saw the train as it had just gotten into town. Its a replica car of the train that brought his body back. The made an exact replica of his hearse, it was quite the story. I am interested in seeing it.
People were constantly coming up to you, especially if you had your map out, and they were asking if you had questions or needed help. People were around the town in period costumes. We got lots of great pictures. It was great. Business' and homes draped with mourning clothes. Quite an emotional and impressive status. Tomorrow they take the funeral procession from the train depot to the capital. Then Sunday they take the processional to the tomb at the cemetery. I hope to see that. We decided since we have the opportunity we would stay and see this. Lincoln was my favorite so seeing living history is great. All that walking and I still took the dogs on three walks. Got my hand projects ready to go so now I just need to finish my photographs.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
4/30/15 Thurs
Well we left the state park near Marion this am. We decided to stay in Springfield for a day or so. I looked to see what there was to see and this is Lincoln country. And then found out that this is the anniversary of his death and they are doing a reenactment of his funeral procession from the train to his tomb. There are many different lectures going on but I hope to get in on something. Its the first time it has ever been done since 1856. I plan to take pictures. He was one of my favorites in history so it is special to be in on this. I would love to read that big book that came out a few years ago about him that everyone was reading and I never got around to. His family home is here and etc. so will be following on about that.
You will enjoy our silly story. We took a walk about 730 last night. We couldn't get satellite TV in the site we were in and we do like our late night TV. So we decided we would move. There was no one in this section of this huge 200+ site campground. So Leroy ran back, put the side in and unplugged the elect. And down he came, as it seemed like we could get a signal there. Well we did get a signal BUT the dumb elect wasn't working. So we had to move it back to the original site and replace the sign, the elect plug in, the car and the RV and it was pretty funny. No we were not the worse for wear as we watched a video but we got a good laugh out of it. We are not happy we watch TV at all but we do limit it to an hour or two a night, which is probably still to much. We watch it more in the winter than in the nice weather as we are outside so much.
Today it is sunny and windy here. It is in the 60's probably but the wind is cold. I am still having those darn headaches so don't know if it is due to the head injury or allergies now that I am back in this area.
I finally ate today and stayed away from beef. Man that just isn't setting with me anymore. I had a tuna sandwich at Jimmy Johns and it was actually pretty good. Never eaten there before. And, it was quick.
I think I mentioned I bought some apple pie moonshine so if anyone wants to try it let me know.
Have been embroidering on a pillowcase as we drove today. I got this set partially embroidered at a thrift store. Brand new, in fact the one that hasn't been touched is really stiff with sizing. Was going to give it to my sister but haven't done a nice enough job so guess I will just use it myself. I am getting a wool applique (small) project ready to do. A store lady talked me into trying one and it did look like fun. Then I got a small quilt all laid out that I got at the QOR action a couple years ago. The squares are all done and three rows were but I couldn't figure out her pattern so I took them apart, found a nice pattern in it and have it ready to sew up. I found a PERFECT fabric in Paducah to use for the borders. I also have a small Amish wall hanging ready to sew up and I plan on hand quilting that. Can't do anything though till I get home as my machine needs a tune up, bad. I have been giving it a workout.
We applied or are applying for a workkamper job in California near Santa Barbara at a nature center. If we get that I will have a nice winter to sit and quilt and work a little. Will let you know more how that goes.
All for today, lets pray this goes thru the first time and I don't need to redo it.
You will enjoy our silly story. We took a walk about 730 last night. We couldn't get satellite TV in the site we were in and we do like our late night TV. So we decided we would move. There was no one in this section of this huge 200+ site campground. So Leroy ran back, put the side in and unplugged the elect. And down he came, as it seemed like we could get a signal there. Well we did get a signal BUT the dumb elect wasn't working. So we had to move it back to the original site and replace the sign, the elect plug in, the car and the RV and it was pretty funny. No we were not the worse for wear as we watched a video but we got a good laugh out of it. We are not happy we watch TV at all but we do limit it to an hour or two a night, which is probably still to much. We watch it more in the winter than in the nice weather as we are outside so much.
Today it is sunny and windy here. It is in the 60's probably but the wind is cold. I am still having those darn headaches so don't know if it is due to the head injury or allergies now that I am back in this area.
I finally ate today and stayed away from beef. Man that just isn't setting with me anymore. I had a tuna sandwich at Jimmy Johns and it was actually pretty good. Never eaten there before. And, it was quick.
I think I mentioned I bought some apple pie moonshine so if anyone wants to try it let me know.
Have been embroidering on a pillowcase as we drove today. I got this set partially embroidered at a thrift store. Brand new, in fact the one that hasn't been touched is really stiff with sizing. Was going to give it to my sister but haven't done a nice enough job so guess I will just use it myself. I am getting a wool applique (small) project ready to do. A store lady talked me into trying one and it did look like fun. Then I got a small quilt all laid out that I got at the QOR action a couple years ago. The squares are all done and three rows were but I couldn't figure out her pattern so I took them apart, found a nice pattern in it and have it ready to sew up. I found a PERFECT fabric in Paducah to use for the borders. I also have a small Amish wall hanging ready to sew up and I plan on hand quilting that. Can't do anything though till I get home as my machine needs a tune up, bad. I have been giving it a workout.
We applied or are applying for a workkamper job in California near Santa Barbara at a nature center. If we get that I will have a nice winter to sit and quilt and work a little. Will let you know more how that goes.
All for today, lets pray this goes thru the first time and I don't need to redo it.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
4/29/15 Wed
Here I am composing another repeat post. I am having the worse time lately with these posts and not sure they are all getting posted. It would seem Firefox is my problem but we will see as this time I went thru internet explorer.
The first day of the Paducah quilt show we went down on Wed. We met the volunteer coordinator and learned more about the RSVP program. It is all over the US, 750 spots and it is a federal program to find volunteers to use in the country. So we plan on looking into it further to see if we can volunteer at other events we want to see.
We cased the town and the joint but didn't really look around. We looked up Ricky Tims as Leroy wanted to meet him also since he is now in his yearlong photography class. I have met him many times so we had a really nice visit and Leroy got his picture taken with him. I had the nicest chat with Justin and reminded him of my son Jeff and Dustin going to their apt in Denver one time to visit. So that was fun.
We looked around the town. We looked up Carol Byer Fallert's old house and studio she built. She sold it and it is now owned by another quilt person, I forgot her name, and she uses it for studios space and classes and such. I am not sure if she is a quilter or just an entrepreneur. Any how the place is gorgeous and I had to take pictures of it, outside of course. Saw the studio building partly but not the inside of the house.
The town is bigger than Oak Harbor and it is spread out for miles. It is a nice town with an old town section and some history. Its a town you could spend some days there as it is interesting from its history. Plus the young people said it really does rock in the downtown area on weekends.
It reminds me of Sturgis, S.D. anymore. Many business not in existence and names and purveyors of quilts and quilt goods move into town, take up the store fronts and sell their wares. Eleanor Burns has three places, only one of which is open year round. Quilt stores from other places set up shop and there are hundreds of vendors at the show. The quilt show is in a bubble type air building and a convention center. The bubble building is where the RSVP volunteers guarded the emerg exits so the building wouldn't deflate if someone opened the door. We found one little gal vendor in a deserted crummy building and she said she was selling out some stuff someone gave her. I got three garbage bags from her of jean scraps, all cut apart. I have been wanting some but she sold me the whole bundle for $5, that's cheaper than the thrift store. Nice pieces, clean, all cut well. I plan on using them for practicing some embroidery and then putting some together for a jean quilt for outside. So how to store them in an RV. I had a great idea, we bought some yards of heavy canvas from her for only another $5, made a dog bed to fit the car and stuffed them in there. Then plop into the car and Sallee has a bed to sleep on. It will get squishier as I use some but for now its ok. Pretty clever I thought.
Lets see, we went into an old brewery that was converted to a legal moonshine place. So I had different shots of moonshine till I found one I wanted to buy. Its my souvenir so if anyone wants to try it, come on over. I bought Apple Pie and it is pretty smooth. Wanted to try it as my grandpa was a moonshiner, as many were in those days and my mother told stories of her and her sisters being made to work at the still out in the woods.
We tried a couple eating places that were recommended by locals. One was at the Goldrush Café and they had some very interesting things on the menu. I had a mac/cheese 3 egg omelet with (believe it or not) bbq sauce. I have to say, it was pretty darn good. Leroy had some kind of doctored up meatloaf. We ate at the Shanty outside where we chatted with the waiters who were on break.
I worked Thurs afternoon and Fri am. 4 hours each. I never let myself just sit and read so I took a book that was a complication of 3 books and I got the whole thing read in the two days. Not only was it a good book but it was peaceful where I was sitting and relaxing. Since we got in free we went each day for all 4 days for shorter periods. We got free parking too, both of us got passes, got some bling, free food and drink, and it was really fun. They will call me again next year I am sure. The coordinator is a young gal all bubbly and enthusiastic for her job.
Sat was camper appreciation day at the park so in the am we went to watch an eagle nest which was really neat. Not so far us you couldn't see and you could get fairly close as they have nested their every year and seem not to be to disturbed. Then we went to a tree necklace class, mainly it was for kids. And we came back in the evening to go to their potluck they were hosting. That was a nice idea, we met all sorts of people.
Sun we hit a few more geocaches and Mon I went in and went to the Quilt Museum. That is one cool place. The quilts were unbelievable. A nice mixture of different kinds of quilts from modern to old, applique, pieced, landscape, miniatures, etc. The show was heavy on applique, and modern I think but the small art ones were where I really enjoyed myself. I do love traditional with a modern twist with color or something to make them a bit more innovative. They had some there. Definitely nothing I could ever do or even dream up. But it certainly was inspiring. I took lots of pictures and I put them in my folder of quilt shows and just flip thru them when I want inspiration.
Tues we went down the Land between the Lakes. There is one huge lake that is kinda U shaped and there is a long peninsula in between the two lakes. About the size of Whidbey from what I can tell.
The federal government owns that and it is so beautiful and peaceful. There is a buffalo preserve, and a nature center and an 1880's working farm, gobs of wonderful campgrounds. I hope to go there again as it is loaded with trails and bike trails, and back country spots. A beautiful piece of land for the people to enjoy. Some of it is even in Tennessee. That was a long day but pretty darn good.
We ate at Patties 180's settlement restaurant and the bread was to drool for and I had steak and I brought, we both brought home left overs. I had steak the nite before also and after two nites of it I have realized that I can't eat much beef anymore. I haven't eaten beef since I got sick in Feb and it is just to heavy for me. So guess I will stick to chicken and fish. I was or have been sick since I ate it. I haven't eaten hamburgers even, ME, can you believe that?
This morning we started out again on the road. We didn't get out of there early even tho we were up early as we spent lots of time visiting with our neighbors of the last 2 weeks. Just the nicest couple, we had so much fun with them.
So here we are only about 150+ miles down the road in Illinois. I had a headache, Leroy was tired, so we stopped and decided to veg out. We are at another great State Park in Illinois that is really really huge but barely anyone here. We are by the lake. Lake Rend.
Think I got most of it down for anyone who wants to read plus for me to look at later.
The first day of the Paducah quilt show we went down on Wed. We met the volunteer coordinator and learned more about the RSVP program. It is all over the US, 750 spots and it is a federal program to find volunteers to use in the country. So we plan on looking into it further to see if we can volunteer at other events we want to see.
We cased the town and the joint but didn't really look around. We looked up Ricky Tims as Leroy wanted to meet him also since he is now in his yearlong photography class. I have met him many times so we had a really nice visit and Leroy got his picture taken with him. I had the nicest chat with Justin and reminded him of my son Jeff and Dustin going to their apt in Denver one time to visit. So that was fun.
We looked around the town. We looked up Carol Byer Fallert's old house and studio she built. She sold it and it is now owned by another quilt person, I forgot her name, and she uses it for studios space and classes and such. I am not sure if she is a quilter or just an entrepreneur. Any how the place is gorgeous and I had to take pictures of it, outside of course. Saw the studio building partly but not the inside of the house.
The town is bigger than Oak Harbor and it is spread out for miles. It is a nice town with an old town section and some history. Its a town you could spend some days there as it is interesting from its history. Plus the young people said it really does rock in the downtown area on weekends.
It reminds me of Sturgis, S.D. anymore. Many business not in existence and names and purveyors of quilts and quilt goods move into town, take up the store fronts and sell their wares. Eleanor Burns has three places, only one of which is open year round. Quilt stores from other places set up shop and there are hundreds of vendors at the show. The quilt show is in a bubble type air building and a convention center. The bubble building is where the RSVP volunteers guarded the emerg exits so the building wouldn't deflate if someone opened the door. We found one little gal vendor in a deserted crummy building and she said she was selling out some stuff someone gave her. I got three garbage bags from her of jean scraps, all cut apart. I have been wanting some but she sold me the whole bundle for $5, that's cheaper than the thrift store. Nice pieces, clean, all cut well. I plan on using them for practicing some embroidery and then putting some together for a jean quilt for outside. So how to store them in an RV. I had a great idea, we bought some yards of heavy canvas from her for only another $5, made a dog bed to fit the car and stuffed them in there. Then plop into the car and Sallee has a bed to sleep on. It will get squishier as I use some but for now its ok. Pretty clever I thought.
Lets see, we went into an old brewery that was converted to a legal moonshine place. So I had different shots of moonshine till I found one I wanted to buy. Its my souvenir so if anyone wants to try it, come on over. I bought Apple Pie and it is pretty smooth. Wanted to try it as my grandpa was a moonshiner, as many were in those days and my mother told stories of her and her sisters being made to work at the still out in the woods.
We tried a couple eating places that were recommended by locals. One was at the Goldrush Café and they had some very interesting things on the menu. I had a mac/cheese 3 egg omelet with (believe it or not) bbq sauce. I have to say, it was pretty darn good. Leroy had some kind of doctored up meatloaf. We ate at the Shanty outside where we chatted with the waiters who were on break.
I worked Thurs afternoon and Fri am. 4 hours each. I never let myself just sit and read so I took a book that was a complication of 3 books and I got the whole thing read in the two days. Not only was it a good book but it was peaceful where I was sitting and relaxing. Since we got in free we went each day for all 4 days for shorter periods. We got free parking too, both of us got passes, got some bling, free food and drink, and it was really fun. They will call me again next year I am sure. The coordinator is a young gal all bubbly and enthusiastic for her job.
Sat was camper appreciation day at the park so in the am we went to watch an eagle nest which was really neat. Not so far us you couldn't see and you could get fairly close as they have nested their every year and seem not to be to disturbed. Then we went to a tree necklace class, mainly it was for kids. And we came back in the evening to go to their potluck they were hosting. That was a nice idea, we met all sorts of people.
Sun we hit a few more geocaches and Mon I went in and went to the Quilt Museum. That is one cool place. The quilts were unbelievable. A nice mixture of different kinds of quilts from modern to old, applique, pieced, landscape, miniatures, etc. The show was heavy on applique, and modern I think but the small art ones were where I really enjoyed myself. I do love traditional with a modern twist with color or something to make them a bit more innovative. They had some there. Definitely nothing I could ever do or even dream up. But it certainly was inspiring. I took lots of pictures and I put them in my folder of quilt shows and just flip thru them when I want inspiration.
Tues we went down the Land between the Lakes. There is one huge lake that is kinda U shaped and there is a long peninsula in between the two lakes. About the size of Whidbey from what I can tell.
The federal government owns that and it is so beautiful and peaceful. There is a buffalo preserve, and a nature center and an 1880's working farm, gobs of wonderful campgrounds. I hope to go there again as it is loaded with trails and bike trails, and back country spots. A beautiful piece of land for the people to enjoy. Some of it is even in Tennessee. That was a long day but pretty darn good.
We ate at Patties 180's settlement restaurant and the bread was to drool for and I had steak and I brought, we both brought home left overs. I had steak the nite before also and after two nites of it I have realized that I can't eat much beef anymore. I haven't eaten beef since I got sick in Feb and it is just to heavy for me. So guess I will stick to chicken and fish. I was or have been sick since I ate it. I haven't eaten hamburgers even, ME, can you believe that?
This morning we started out again on the road. We didn't get out of there early even tho we were up early as we spent lots of time visiting with our neighbors of the last 2 weeks. Just the nicest couple, we had so much fun with them.
So here we are only about 150+ miles down the road in Illinois. I had a headache, Leroy was tired, so we stopped and decided to veg out. We are at another great State Park in Illinois that is really really huge but barely anyone here. We are by the lake. Lake Rend.
Think I got most of it down for anyone who wants to read plus for me to look at later.
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