Doing Favors for friends....

and then finding out you are going to be responsible for another mouth to feed.  We agreed to watch a friends pet so they could go on vacation; however, the people failed to tell us they were actually moving to another state and did not want their family pet any longer.

Now we have 2 Shih Tzu's, 2 cats, 1 Great Pyrenees and a loud ballistic Yorkshire Terrier.  My days of keeping animals are now numbered.  The cats have moved outside and come around very rarely.  My Shih Tzu's are getting old. One is blind and deaf now and the other is wondering why the littlest and newest won't leave her alone.  However he thinks the Pyrenees is it's mother.  Go figure.

Garden Cuties

The cats laying around. Don't we look

so cute.

Jake's watermelons just about ready

to harvest.

A baby bell pepper. 

My first tomatoes.

I know I started my garden late but it is so nice to see it starting to produce. Just praying this crazy heat doesn't kill them off. The heat did kill off my strawberries. 

Something New

Finally got myself a desk for my sewing machine. So, I feel as though I can get back to sewing. Yay! Just hate working on a cluttered table. Though I have been doing handstitching on my quilt tops. No where near being done on those or on my 'Happy Hens' cross stitch.

Bought me some needle pullers and I think they're just great. Been able to get a bit more stitching done before my fingers start complaining. Especially for those bulky spots in the quilt and the needle just feels stuck.

Also bought me a pretty jellyroll from Hobby Lobby. Just figuring what to do with it. Its so so pretty. I do need a slightly bigger purse. Hhhmmmm. With plenty of pockets.....

July 4th

Dragging

Been suffering the don't wannas for awhile. Still have plenty of things to finish, just no motivation. My mom would probably call this my Eeyore phase. Though I am trying to shed the doldrums.

Organized my next set of pixel blocks. Though I dismantled my sewing desk and am rearranging the craft room yet again. I'll be sewing at the table for a bit. Did acquire a nice kitchen hutch to store my fabrics.

Also whipped up some collapsible bowls for game bits. Just glue and snaps, no sewing involved.

My hutch that I found on Offerup for free.

Yippee!

My garden looks healthy though I

started late, it will be a late harvest.

The collapsible bowls. Craft foam, felt,

tacky glue, and snaps.

BGG Goodies

We had a grand time. At registration we each got 3 new games each, at the charity sale we got a total of 6 used games, and at the game bazaar we acquired 4 more games. Of course we each have our own haul.

Before The Wind, Yardmaster Express,

Smugglers, Venetia, Gone Viking,

Pedregal, and Breitenfeld

Return of the Heroes, Lionheart,

Dungeon Scroll, That's A Question,

Zooscape, 3 to 4 Headed Monster

Samurai, Bomb Squad, H.I.D.E.,

3 to 4 Headed Monster, and Breitenfeld

Piratoons, Acre, Forbidden Desert,

Zooscape, and Dice City All That Glitters 

It was a lot of fun and we are already making plans for next years. Of course, the question is which game will we play tonight.

It Ends

Today was the final day. Which of the games would make it out of the library vault? What would our intrepid players pick? Only 6 hours left to play!

Key Flower

Rating ****

Escape The Aliens in Outer Space

(We only looked at this one. Another table was playing it and having a lot of fun. One we hope to try next year.)

Odd Ville

Rating ****

Village

(This one we had only enough time to open and look before we discovered there was not enough time to play. Next year won't get here fast enough.)

We did play another game of Vikings Gone Wild and Fairy Tile.

Day Three

Once again back into the minefield of games the 4 intrepid gamers searched out games new and old. Twelve hours of gaming and 9 games explored.

Histrio

Rating ****

Photosynthesis

Rating ****

AssassinCon

Rating ***

Vikings Gone Wild

Rating *****

Splendor

Rating ****

Pie Town

Rating ****

Near and Far 

Rating *****

D-Day Dice

Rating *****

Forgot to get a picture of one of the games we played. It was called:

Sagrada

Rating ****

Only one day left to this adventure.