We arrived Thursday evening, and set up camp, so to speak. We rearranged furniture, set up sewing machines and quilting equipment, plugged in computers, and we were off and running.
Elna, Orva, Ann, and Amy worked on the Cary dresses quilts that they've been working on for the last couple of years. They found more fabric they wanted to use, so they are re-doing parts of the quilts. They will be stunning when finished (both the sisters and the quilts!).
Sally and Jennifer did various projects on their computers. I spent the first day switching between doing some machine quilting, and working on some slide scans from Ray's mission. I ended up abandoning the quilting (knowing I would get to it at home no matter what) and just worked on extracting the slides from the scans I'd done earlier. I really got a lot done.
We are not always so ambitious. Sometimes we just sit around and talk, a luxury we don't often have with one another. Over the years we've sort of evolved into doing what we do now - bring something to work on if we feel like it. We bring things that we can do while talking. Talking is the best part of the weekend for me. Some of us see each other fairly frequently, but we never really have time to sit and visit uninterrupted by spouses and children and grandchildren. So this one weekend a year is precious to us all.
Perhaps the best proof is that we keep doing it every year. Since 1991, to be exact. And now we each do the same thing with our own daughters.
This year we did not take many pictures. We did eat well, as evidenced by this outlay of delicious vegetables all ready to be put into our soup:
Each year we also give a "party favor". The same gift to each of us. Here's our haul for this year:
And finally, we always take a group shot. Usually we have someone around who can take a picture for us. This year we realized very late Sunday night that we never took a group picture. So here's a "selfie" of the group:
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| Top row: Sally, Ann, Amy, Jennifer Bottom row: Diane, Elna, Orva |
I love hearing about this special girls getoghter! Loved the photo of all of you!!!
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