This has been a busy week dedicated to preparing for Quilt Market in Houston. The new pattern covers arrived and then the pattens. The patterns come needing one final fold, collating for the one with two pages, and insertion into the plastic bags. Then everything needs to be organized and packed and stacked ready to load into the car. In conjunction it always happens that some reorganization of the storage area needs to be done in order to accommodate the new 3000 patterns and 10,000 covers!

Outside, yesterday afternoon was one of those “to die for” autumn days so at 2 o’clock I quit for awhile, grabbed a book and retired to the hammock for a few hours of quiet reading and contemplating nature. It’s hard to read with so much nature going on! I had just settled in when a great commotion happened, rustling the dry fallen leaves and I looked up to catch sight of something fleeing for it’s life with a large garter snake in hot pursuit- it was such a blur I am not even sure what it was, something small and light colored leaping over a clump of day lily leaves and it did get away. The snake spent quite some time hunting for it, raising up and pivoting his head around like he was looking, probably more sensing with his tongue, but with no luck. Later a smaller garter snake passed under the hammock on his way to somewhere. I guess it was a perfect day for them too. The sky was so amazingly blue I went inside and got the camera to capture it but later when I checked I had nothing; I guess the batteries were dead. I find it very hard to see on the camera screen, outside in the bright light if I have a picture or not.

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