Pardon me, but …

Dare I own up to this incredibly bad pun? Sure, why not. Because who among us hasn’t had the sad realization that the back end of a beloved pair of pants has become threadbare? And no, I’ll spare you the pictures of that.

Instead I’ll show you how this wonderful $2 thrift store prize of a fine-woven cotton skirt …

provided just the right weight of patching material upon which to darn a repair to the back end of my 10+ year old cotton linen capris …

Wildflower Season continues to delight us … the current display of Prairie Sunflowers being worthy of Sting’s Fields of Gold as a background melody (click to enlarge images) …

And then there’s this from Don, who put a sealer on the discarded acrylic paint brush water he has liberally applied to the back porch over the course of one year (dare I call it the backsplash?) …

And some grandkiddo pictures, of course …

Notes:

For those who might wish to indulge, here’s the recipe for snack batch cookie dough, which Griffin made with a friend after learning the ropes during a visit to our house.

And here are the “rules” for Scrabble played my way:

  • The object of the game is to use all the letter tiles … there is no scoring.
  • Each player gets 7 tiles and picks up new tiles after each move, as in traditional Scrabble play.
  • Trading tiles is encouraged. Example: “I really need an R … can anyone trade for a vowel?”
  • The Official Scrabble Dictionary can be used before any move to confirm a word or even to get ideas on how to use the tiles at hand.
  • When seven tiles remain amongst the players, the tiles are revealed and everyone works together to use them up. A letter can be swapped within an existing word on the board as long as the swap leaves a valid word in its place. Example: swap out the T in RATE and replace it with a Z to make RAZE.
  • Celebrate by taking a picture of the completed board … everybody wins!

Half of a half

I’m halfway through quilting one side of My Heart’s Compass … of which this is about half … so I guess that makes it a quarter-side of cloth …

Not exactly a fascinating reveal, but I continue to enjoy the simplicity of the going … even the circular shadow stitching, which I had been apprehensive about.

Here’s the other side, which I’ve managed to keep knot-free …

I don’t plan to put it on the bed “other side up” when it’s done, but I do enjoy looking at the other side when I take a break from stitching.

In the “life happens” category, we went to update our wills, last done ten years ago. A mundane exercise, but our lawyer advised adding a provision that will allow our executor to access our online accounts (who knew?) and we now have everything set up to “transfer on death” which will avoid probate. So we celebrated by getting new shoes, going out to lunch, and buying a small oil painting from our favorite Wimberley gallery, Art on 12

And for those of you who enjoy such things, here are some more end-of-school-year pictures of our grandkiddos (click to see full images) …

Suh-weet …