This is the last day before school starts. Gramps and Sammy are locked into an endless game of Clue. Neither one of them has the slightest idea of how to end the game, deductive reasoning is a little out of their sphere. Sammy because he is only 5 and Gramps because he is clueless. Sooner or later Sammy will decide it's time to go do something else and declare himself the winner. Then Gramps will put the game away and get a cup of coffee. They both enjoy themselves tremendously and it is absolutely hysterical to listen to. I think Sammy makes up his own rules too, but Gramps never seems to mind. It's not going to be too long before our Sammy will be too old for that sort of thing and then Gramps and I will miss it so much, but they must grow up, the alternative to that would be heartbreaking. The house will be quiet again tomorrow, we might rest up a day, the activity level has been hectic and loud, but lovely and tiring too.

Still no part for Juki, I will be so glad to have her running again. Brunehilde is a wonderful machine, but she isn't the best thing for piecing on, tiny pieces tend to jam up under the needle because of the wide hole in the throatplate for the zigzag. She works however, so I won't complain, but just work with it. For the rest of the day I will work down here on Ernestine on the Tumbling Starts top and hope for the part tomorrow.

I have worked up the drawing for Log Cabin hearts and broken it down into blocks, so I will try to get those posted tomorrow, then I can figure out the rest of the drawings for the individual block layouts, it shouldn't take too long.

We had snow last night, but not a lot, if we don't get more there will be a drought this summer, the poor farmers just don't seem to be able to get a break with the weather, but there is still a healthy chunk of winter left to go, and as Leon says he has seen snow as late as June, I have to believe him, he has lived out here longer than I have.