WARNING, this will only excite my quilter friends out there, sorry duck lovers, but I have to show off my found treasure from Saturday’s garage sale-ing. Yes, I know it’s not a real word , sale-ing, but it’s what I say so I gotta use it!  And when I say vintage, it scares me a little because I was in this world back then.  Vintage is good, right?

One lesson I learned a long time ago is to always look in nondescript bags at garage sales!  Inside might be some of the best stuff you’ve ever seen.  My find was in a small, white, ugly bag with a .50 sticker on it!!!  Gotta look in that one….

This is the beginning.  At least 12 FINISHED blocks, yellow and white, all handstitched.  I’m a hand stitching fiend, so this is good!!!

And lots of partial blocks and pieces AND at least 2 yards of the yellow fabric.

I found the bright block in a sealed bag.  Guess it makes a difference to seal your work!

The best piece of this puzzle was finding this on the backside of some notes the quilter had made about the pattern…

But for me, this was the GOLD….

Because I’m so addicted to hexagons right now and can’t stop.  This only added to the problem!!

Can you believe it?? (only fellow quilters can answer this question!)

I enjoyed the treasure for awhile and then made myself put it all aside for later.  I’ve got a daughter’s wedding next week so I can’t EVEN be tempted!!  BTW, I’ll have a giveaway coming up. 

I think I’ll share something from this fabulous stash

This morning I looked all over for number 3 Hoover girl. She won’t move off the nest until she’s popped out that egg. Of course, I found her in the forbidden garden zone!

I think she camouflaged herself just so she could stay in the garden a while longer and eat spinach!  Can you even see her??

I still can’t figure out how she got in! 

My friend, Nico, came over and we collected eggs and picked the first radish out of the garden.  He wanted to see what was inside the duck house and said, “They even have their own phone!”

And then it was out to “walk” the ducks.

HUP….2…3…4…HUP….2….3….4!

What a fun fishing weekend!  My hubby, my dad, and me!  We started out Friday near Cawker City.  First stop, the Little Bait Shop for minnows.  And just a few miles away is Glen Elder Lake.

I just gotta say, if you find your fishing honey spot, life is great!  Here it is……

The secret spot.  Now don’t tell anybody, especially anyone who lives in Kansas that likes to fish, but we caught (put in the boat) 58 crappie in an afternoon.  Maybe another 40 were lucky and got to stay for awhile longer because, for various reasons, we lost ‘em before they made it to the boat!

One, after another, after another……..you see how it goes?  Pretty much wears a person down!!

What a beautiful day!  Calm, warm, just perfect.  One last cast……

You must call LAST CAST on a day like this or you’ll NEVER leave!! 

Because when you leave a lake in Kansas, you might never know what’s behind you…..

Only then are you glad you had your last cast when you did!!

WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! First, I have to tell you how I came up with the winner, right??  I thought about you guys a LOT while I was hard at work this weekend!

I decided Saturday morning that whatever the number of fish we caught between 3 of us on Saturday, would be the comment number I would choose.  Very fair and random, keeping in mind there were loads of great comments from lots of deserving folks!!   BTW, we caught 58 crappie on Friday!!  WOW, was that fun!  I’ll give you that story tomorrow.

This, my internet friends, was fish (walleye) number….5!!!

Congrats to WENDY, comment number 5, who was either going camping at Texas State Park or to the San Antonio Zoo.  Whatever you did, Wendy, I hope you had loads of fun!!  I’ll be sending this lovely your way!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by this weekend.  I sure enjoyed reading all your weekend plans.  I’ll be doing this again cuz it’s just so much fun.  Maybe in a few weeks to celebrate the marriage of youngest daughter.  YES, that would be a good reason for another giveaway.  Her wedding date, you ask?  May 22!!   Woo hoo!!  I should probably quit sewing and start planning, maybe?