The Avant Garden

the days are getting shorter, the weather cooler, and brown leaves scratch across the driveway. I have moved my energy indoors early this year, so it seems, and the projick known around the Rockpile as "The Time-gobbling Quilt-top" has cost me waaaay too many hours with waaaay too little to show for it. See what I mean:

But I have fallen in love with the thing, so onward I sew, once Elsa (my sewing machine -- she's from Switzerland) gets out of the ER. In the meantime, I dragged my old sewing machine -- which is great for sewing in straight lines -- outta the cobwebs and did this blanket repair for my friend Erin:

The tag says, "Grandma's tripping again."

She wanted this yellowish thing re-sewn, and it looked thusly this morning as I laid it out on the floor:

It will be just a little different when I return it to Erin, but she said I could get creative with it.

On the rockstacking front, I finished the mailbox post for the cabin out in Maggie Valley. Here's how it woulda looked back in the 1950s:

Overall, I was pleased with it. I might go back and make a few improvements that occurred to Rob while we were installing the thing. Still thinking.

Speaking of Rob, his daughter Chris came down from Michigan for a visit and took this pic of the debris that Rob's Upstream Arch  collected during one of our recent high-water events:

 That's enough for now. I have to go upstairs to stir the stew. Hope we see more good stuff in October. It's gonna be a good month.