Back-to-school? Not for me!

It has been a lovely, quiet week here on Parker Street.  Green beans are in full harvest.  I sprayed again for Japanese beetles.  I am loving the fact that I have NOT had to attend all the before-school teacher orientation meetings that have been going on since Wednesday.  I have been finishing up my quilts while watching movies with Elise - Wuthering Heights (boy, what a downer!) and Jane Eyre (channeling the Bronte sisters).  Here are my finished quilts! 
 
There are twenty in those two stacks!  They are all small or smaller, nothing to cover a twin bed - just lap-sized or baby receiving-blanket size.  Most will go to our stake humanitarian efforts.  See the brownish-blue blankets on the top right stack?  I still have enough brown/navy wool fabric squares to make about six or seven more so, I am really not done.  BUT, I am ready to take these over to Laura Jost's this week.

Steve and I went to the theater to see Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation on Monday.  And throughout the week, we watched  Unbroken and The Guardian (the one about the Coast Guard) on DVD. 

We are settling into having Elise back home.  She has joined me on several of my evening walks with the dogs.


 She joined Steve and me in a trip to the Amish on Friday.  We always buy too much stuff when we go there.  I, personally, got a huge bag of those circus peanuts. Mmmmmmmm!  I know you are all gagging but I love them.  She also went with us up to the Fayette Branch for church meetings today. I was assigned to speak.  They always have a potluck on their third Sundays - love it!

Both the Volvo and the truck are parked at their respective repair shops right now.  Thank goodness for Elise and her car!  The Volvo started acting up Thursday night and it died on Steve as he was driving back Friday evening from a funeral visitation in Mexico, MO.  The truck will, on occasion, not start on the first try and we fear that it will ultimately become a regular problem.

I picked out new music for the Mid-Missouri Community Orchestra.  Time to get rehearsals going for that group.