No Sewing Zone

I'm not spending much time at the sewing machine these days so there has been very little in the way of sewing going on around here this month. I actually pulled the mower out last week. The only thing green around here is the yard because I have been watering like crazy just trying to keep the trees alive.

I've also been spending my time:

*cooking for company
*cleaning up fabric piles so company has a place to sleep
* enjoying our girl when she came home for one night
* chausing the neighbor's cattle off of the hwy when some nut decided to cut the fence in two places. Who does that?!
*working in the yard and garden
*Bouncing across the pastures when DH feeds
*Going to the trap range and giving Tim the quilt Gail and I made for him
*Doing taxes
*Waiting for the pilot car every time we go to town
*teaching myself to crochet and working on that when I am waiting for said pilot car
*missing our boy
*enjoying more suppers by the fire
*replanting seeds when the wind whipped all of my little seed cups down and scattered them across the yard. Our sweet 15-yr old cowdog rushed to help and promptly covered what he could by plopping down on his belly in an attempt to shield them from the wind. Sigh. I fussed at him and he gave me that pitiful look. He can't hear a thing these days, but he knows my, "OH, No! GUS!" was a scolding. Then I felt badly and sat in the yard for 20 minutes with a 60# dog in my lap while I told him he was the best dog in the world, because he is.

Most of the time, sewing takes a back seat around here and I'm good with that because I know I'll get back to it eventually. I've got a quilt that needs to be ready for a wedding, but I've also got a hubby that's about to head out to work on a water trough and I think he could use a  trusty sidekick this afternoon.