CHRISTMAS AT HUNTER KNOB

I decorated the deck posts with red velvet bows.

MORNING FOG when the early morning temp was ten degress and windy.

Fog on the valley.

Chrismas day the weather cleared and was blue skies and much warmer.

WEDDING QUILT

As a gift to Emily and Scott I made this signature quilt that the guest at their wedding signed.
The quilt was ready to give to them this
Christmas. They chose the christmas
Color theme for the quilt
Fabric strips were shared by many
of my quilt friends. It was put together
by machine and I sent it to Maggie
Honeyman in Texas to machine quilt
for me.
The quilt was appraised at $950.00.

Emily and Scott enjoyed reading

some of the messages on the quilt.

GRANDSONS

CARTER IS 8 MONTHS OLD.

GRAHAM IS 2 1/2

RUN RUN FAST AS YOU CAN YOU CAN"T CATCH ME I"M THE GINGERBFREAD MAN

I bought this awesome large cookie pan to make a gingerbread man with Graham. BUT we used Refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough.

Checking to be sure he is cooking and had not run out of the oven.

Decorating the Chocolate Chip Man.

Family together

Merry Christmas from our family all together at Hunter Knob.

HAWK in FRONT YARD

We have been seeing a HAWK in
yard recently. Michael was able
to get this awesome photo
on Saturday morning.
Good Job Michael.

UFO's now WIP

I guess my 12 days are now officially work in progress.
I completed 3 blocks this week.
Here is the Piper Piping

The Lord a LEEPING

The Maid A Milking

POOR MAN'S TURTLES RECIPE

Here is a good holiday candy recipe from
the Food for A Princess Cookbook

POOR MAN'S TURTLES
by Becky Hoffmann

Ingredients:
10 oz. small square pretzels
12 oz. Rolos candy
10 oz Pecan Halves

Directions:
Place single layer of pretzels on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
Place a Rolo on each Pretzel.

Preheat oven to 325 Place cookie sheet in oven for 2 to 3 minutes. Watch closely and
as soon as the Rolos are soft, remove from the oven and place a half pecan
on top and press lightly to cover the pretzel.
Cool and Enjoy

REMEMBER THE 12 days of Christmas Quilt?

Do you remember the 12 days of Christmas quilt that began in December 2003 in Quiltmaker Magazine?
During 2004 the series or patterns were published in the magazine two at a time.
My plan was to make the quilt as they patterns arrived. Easily done in a year. RIGHT?
WRONG.
As I never do things by the book I reduced the block size so the quilt would fit on my quilt hanger in the living room.
THIS made some of the smaller pieces very small and difficult to hand applique.


Decorating Hunter Knob for Christmas I thought about the quilt in progress. It would be perfect hanging from the loft. SO I opened the drawer to see how much I had completed on the quilt.
Here is the center block. It just needs some leaves. Note the tree is facing the opposite direction from the pattern.
FORGOT to reverse the pieces... No problem since I don't do things by the book.



These two block are completed.

This entire row is completed. Just needs a few leaves on the four calling bird block.

STAY TUNED as I am now working on this quilt again.

MAYBE by Christmas 2009 it will be completed.

I'll try and post photos of the blocks as they are completed.

WISH ME LUCK.

TEDDY BEAR

I found this adorable Teddy Bear
For Carter at the Mall this week.

I put it on the sofa to photograph

it and Brandy thought the bear was for her. :-)

DO PUMPKINS GROW IN FLORIDA?

In June I planted pumpkins both in Georgia and Florida. The ones in Georgia didn't make it. BUT the VINE in Florida is thriving......

And thanks to the 90% off sale at Michael's it has pumpkins.....

Actually the flower in the photo is real. The vine produces a very tiny fruit then in gets all squishy and rots... I couldn't resist a photo with these added pumpkins to the vine.

Maybe next year I will do better with the pumpkin patch at Hunter Knob.

HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPE

A friend recently shared this recipe for hot chocolate and it's awesome.

Heat a mug of milk in the microwave.

Stir in two small dove chocolates. top with cool whip.

Wrap your hands around the mug and enjoy.
There are several varieties of Doves so you could pick a different one for each night. :-)

SASS CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON

Our Sass group had our Christmas Luncheon today at J. Christophers.
We enjoyed using the private dining room for our luncheon.
Thanks to LaVeda and Annorah for sharing these photos.

Pat
June and Emily

Annorah and Sharon are hand quilting

the Library quilt that SASS is making for the Austin Davis Library.

We voted on a title of the quilt.

June's suggestion was the winner.

AN OPEN BOOK IS AN OPEN DOOR

Annorah is happy she was a door prize winner.

Here I am showing my traditional breakfast meal.

Emily is enjoying her lunch.

We had a great time eating and visiting.

I had prepared little favors with Dove Chocolates. We enjoyed reading the message inside.

Mine was CHOCOLATE WARMS THE SOUL.

WOOL SCARF

I finished my new WOOL SCARF and headband today. It should be very warm.
The yarn says you can felt it but I'm a bit concerned that it might shrink too much so don't think I will try felting it. The yarn was really fun to work with. You may remember several posts back when I started working on it. I took that one apart and started over making it not quite as wide.

JUPITER THANKSGIVING

Colin age 4 entertains with his thanksgiving songs.

Ashley, Brandy, and Bet

Michael enjoying a roasted marshmallow.

FIRE PIT heating up.

Group photo. We are all ready to roast the marshmallows and enjoy the firepit.

THANKSGIVING 2008

HEADED TO JUPITER MICHAEL WITH HIS COFFEE AND BRANDY RIDING SHOT GUN.

LEAVING SO EARLY IN THE MORNING GAVE IS THE ADVANTAGE OF SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE.

MY SISTERS NEW KITCHEN ready for preparing the feast.

Dotty reading the manuel for the new stove.

TWO TREASURES FOR HUNTER KNOB

My friend LaVeda and her husband Mike offered us these two antique desks for Hunter knob. We went today to look and them and
we loved them both. This larger one has 3 drawers. Both are solid wood and very
stressed. Really special indeed.

The smaller one is an old school desk. It even has some initials carved on the top of it.

It has a hinge that opens for the storage area.

Both are awesome and will find a good place in Hunter knob possibly in the quilt room.
THANKS LaVeda and Mike.

Yuppie Puppy

Brandy went to the groomer this week. She is always very proud of how she looks after the grooming and we call her the yuppie puppy. she looks like she loses 5 lbs after she is groomed.

Retirement Gift

Michael is trying out the retirement quilt I made for him.

The top is made of wool and the backing is flannel so it is a very warm quilt.

STILL FALL at HUNTER KNOB

In mid November there was still some fall foliage. This is the VIEW from the deck with the leaves off the trees.

My favorite red oak still has a few leaves. It was the last tree to turn color as it was still green when we were there in October.

The leaves on the ground are pretty neat to see also.

These trees are along Hwy 66 heading to Hunter Knob.

I am not sure but I think they might be Bradford Pear trees?

I guess I will know for sure this spring if they are full of blooms.

This is the dogwood we planted in October between the driveways.