Rootstalk Festival

 Last Thursday thru Sunday was the first annual Rootstalk Festival just out of Salem.  The Festival was sponsered by Mountain Rose Herb Co.
 5 of us from our local Klamath Falls Charming Chicks chapter of MaryJanes Farm Int. went and we had a great time.

It was all tent camping and was quite an ordeal to get into our campsites but after all was done we had a neat campspot.  We had 3 tens among us. 

 The festival was a celebration of our Earth and all food was organic and there were classes going on all day to learn about Organic gardening, Herbs and medicinal Herbs and natural body lotions ets.  There was entertainment nightly with many different kinds of music.

This is the tent Robin and I slept in
 

The gang with MaryJane, She gave a talk on Organic farming.

We got dressed for the FESTIVAL MASQUERADE PARTY

ENTERTAINMENT BY A SAMBA BAND THAT MARCHED THROUGH THE CAMPGROUND.  iT WAS SO COOL.  YOU COULD HEAR DISTANT DRUMS AND THEN THEY GOT LOUDER AND CAME INTO EACH CAMP AREA.

A LIGHT SHOW ON THE LAST NIGHT WAS DIFFERENT. HAHA

Saturday Sampler at Tater Patch Quilts

Well Saturday I went to another Saturday sampler and had so much fun as always with all the gals.  They drew a name for quilt princess and my friend Heather won.  Well, she was the model to show off a little stash your cash bag that is to be tied into your bra and as you can see they had a "Special
Bra" in mind.
We also had show and tell and there were too many quilts to show but I did take a picture of one special one.

I also have pics of the chair cover that I quilted the star for out of suede fabric.

Jets and lava beds

Last week my granddaughter Nichole was here visiting from Jackson, Calif. for a week.  We first took her to the lava beds and climbed all over Cap't Jacks stronghold( the last indian war fought in American)  where 60 indians held off 600 soldiers for 60 days untill all killed or captured.  After walking the trail I can see why so few Indians could hold off that many for so long.  Then last weekend we went to the airshow.  Saw all the jet manuvers and Nichole liked the fly boys .

Klamath Falls Charming Chicks June Meet and Fiesta

 Today was our Klamath Falls Charming Chicks June Meeting and Mexican Fiesta PotLuck.  We had a wonderful time and our hostess Robin has such a beautiful shady yard that it all made for a fine afternoon.  We had many great dishes along with some varieties of fruit wines to choose from.  Mary brought some Chicken,Tequilla, Lime tacos that were sooooooooo good.  There was a couple great casserole dishes and homemade totillia chip and salsa. yummy yummy. To finish off there was a fresh homemade strawberry and blueberry pie.  Also there was fresh watermelon and the biggest strawberries ever.  We planned some upcoming events to earn money for charities we donate to and discussed how we could all help out.  We caught up with all thats been going on with everyone as now that summer is here we don't get to see everyone at all the meetings.    We had a great afternoon and will be back at Robins in July for the Century Eagle Air show.  The airport is in her back yard so we will have front row seats.  We are having a pot luck then also and families are coming too .  Another fun time to get together.  Our group was small this time as some are traveling, sick, or caring for other family members but whether its two or twenty us farmgirls always have alot to share.

Oh, what a great bunch of farmchicks we are!

2nd. Annual Tea Party

 Mary and I hosted our 2nd annual tea Party  last
Saturday and as always it was lots of work and fun.
we played some tea games of Proper Tea Etiquette
and learned many things we didn't know. lol
We also played the penny game and all was fun.
We had gone to a specialty tea store  and got some nice teas as prizes.  Whenever we get together we have alot of fun.  We gave each guest hardbound tea books with recipes for scones, and other nice things.

At the Tea Party we served Chilled shrimp, chicken salad sandwhiches with pine nuts in them and cream cheese cucumber sandwhiches and also small stuffed baby peppers with artichoke cream cheese.

For our sweet tooth we served apricot scones, lemon yogurt bread, and walnut pie.

For beverages we served victorian iced tea make with spices and apricot nector and club soda (so good) and of course traditional hot tea.

more new things at tater patch quilts

Saturday was our Saturday Sampler and as always it was alot of fun.  I have friends their who are in my local quilt guild and we all sit together.  Another friend (Rose) gave me all the block patterns as well as some with fabric to last years Sat. sampler quilt.  That was so nice of her. 

The quilt was in all dark greens and mauve or dark maroon and here is one someone did in blues.

Went house hunting in the Bonanza area and as we got closer
to the address I was looking for I spotted this and just laughed out loud.

After driving my roll up window truck with a 5 speed on floor  for 17 years I decided to get a new car.   This is my new 2012 Honda Civic LX.

Bobs Birthday

Sunday was the day we celebrated Bobs' birthday.  His daughter Denise and her family and grandaughter Nicole and her family and great grandson Blake were all there and friends and neighbors.  His cake was cute, He is a retired Superintendant on heavy equipment jobs and they had dump truck and backhoe and dirt (chockalate sprinkles) on his cake.  So cute, and we all had a  great bbq.  We did ribs and chicken , potatoe and macaroni salads, baked beans, artichoke torta, corn on the cob.  Wow!   and I was pretty good except for a piece of cake.

Later I went into the hot tub with 8 month old Blake.  Best hot tub buddy ever.

Some of the gang got out the atv's and went riding around the hills.  This is Nicole, Blakes mom.