What a challenge!

Let me tell you about this lovely hooked pumpkin! My friend, Delores does a wonderful job of hooking but she had some trouble putting the hooked sections together, so I lovingly said... " I'll see if I can do it..." WHAT WAS I THINKING????? This booger has crippled my fingers, challenged my mind and made sure that I will probably go to the 'bad place' for cussing so much...I'm not sure who came up with the instructions to put the finished hooked pieces together, but I'd be glad to revise them 'cause the original ones DON'T WORK! I sure hope my friend likes the end result...doesn't matter. I don't think she'll hook another one and I sure ain't puttin' another one together...LOL Love you Delores! : )

Great Weekend...Good Folks

We were here in Afton, VA

What a fun weekend!

Gathering at the Cabin, Afton, Virginia

Hot day but at least no rain!






All our goodes ready to offer!








Don Smith of Southern Star Antiques
...Thanks Don




Donna Smith of Southern Star Antiques isn't 'sweatin' the small stuff! Just sweatin' like we all were! LOL
Thanks for everything,
Donna.


Dinah entertained with some wonderful music on banjo and dulcimer...

Silly gals...Sweet Cecilia of Henhouse Primitives and friend, Adrian.

Beautiful Setting and Fun Gathering

So talented...Lori Brechlin of Notforgotten Farm demonstrated her needlepunch






Good to see 'olde friends', Kay & David Brown

Lisa & David of Homethrown Pottery took a
weekend trip from N.C.
Always good to see their smiling faces!

SUMMER GATHERING AT THE CABIN

YA'LL COME !

We'll be there with great 'simple goodes' just for you...

FUN FOURTH!

Even Callie got in on the fun...

















Jonathan,Matthew,David & Papa making homemade icecream...YUM



This ice-
cream is
never
going to
freeze.
















I LOVE
HILLBILLY
BASKETBALL...






I knew I could beat my big brothers!

Jennifer & Chris had fun putting up the tent for the boys to camp out...

OOPS!

Now this is not good! We were heading for S.C. for our next show this past weekend...zooming down I85 when Giles says he hears an 'airplane'...WHAT? I hear a loud roar, look in the side mirror and rubber is flying in all directions from the trailer...we had a blowout! Pouring rain and a highway full of trucks and we have a blowout! NOT GOOD! Of course, we don't have the right lug wrench...so we drop the trailer, head for the next exit ramp and low & behold, there is an auto shop with a nice man who loans us a 4way lug wrench...back we go on the interstate to find the exit nearest the trailer. Giles tells me to get back in the Jeep...UH UH...I'm watching the traffic in case someone veers in our direction...I've already planned to grab the waist of his britches and drag him out of the way...Finally, he's changed the tire and we head back to return the lug wrench...I figure if things get bad, Giles can get a job with the pit-crew of some racing team~! Don't know which was the worst...getting soaking wet or stressing over all the fast-moving traffic while he changed the tire... OH! We tried to pay the man for using the lug wrench, but he said that's how he gets 'Blessings'...by helping others. ~AMEN~

ANOTHER SHOW HAS COME & GONE

Another show has come and gone...of course we had some rain late Friday evening, but by then we already had our things set-up and secured! The show was good...weather on Saturday was very nice...not too hot and NO RAIN...Saw several vendors we had not seen in a while and some of our regular customers came by to say hello (and they were buying also : ) Ann was working so hard to make things pleasant (with the help of her sweet grandson)...I know it must be difficult to handle such an undertaking, but especially without Al's help...Al has been quite ill in past months...Please keep Al & Ann in your thoughts and prayers.

This was one of our 'scare-people'...Giles cut out the head from tin and I patched the overalls...sold all but one. Sooo cute!

Little Gardens need Little Scarecrows...

I thought the scarecrow we had last year might have kept the varmints out of the garden...SO?!Maybe a little scarecrow might keep little varmints out of the little flower garden! LOL

Oh Well...I'll enjoy looking at it...; )

Plantin' and Growing Season Late...

Our flowering season is later here and no one dares to plant a garden until after Mother's Day...Our Iris' are blooming like crazy as well as the Laurels and Rhodedendrons (I know I didn't spell that one right : ) Falling tree blossoms and the winter's algae had made the fish pond very murky, so Giles cleaned it out this week...Wow! Those fish have a clean, clear pool now! It's a good thing we have a couple of big Birch trees hanging over the pond or our little fishies would be 'food' for some bird of prey! We have three fish...Big Red, Dennis & Eileen...although we suspect that Dennis is actually Denise and Eileen might be Allen..LOL Anyway, just wanted to share a few pics of 'what's happening around the Cabin In The Woods'...