New Northcott Fabric

Over the summer, since our families are so busy, Nellie and I rarely get to see each other, but a couple weeks ago we had to get together so that we could check out Northcott's new line of flannel fabrics called "Winter Sports" by Laurie Godin. Patti Carey at Nortcott (http://www.northcott.net/) sent us shade cards and digital images of this great new line and we designed a quilt in EQ6 that we will be publishing as a pattern. We have never worked on a new design like this before - we have always had the fabric in hand first BEFORE starting the design. Patti says that the fabrics will be out mid-September - I can't wait to get the "real" fabric and make the "real" quilt. There are a total of twelve fabrics in the line - here are the fabrics that we chose to use in our pattern:

The new lawn tractor

We have a very large lawn (3 1/2 acres) so we need to have a lawn tractor to keep it looking nice. Last summer, our tractor decided to stop working, so for Father's Day and his birthday this year Mike got a new John Deere. As a treat he decided to let the boys each take a turn mowing the lawn - they loved it!

More Fort Henry

Fort Henry is a great place to visit and if you go make sure to take one of the free guided tours - we learned quite a lot about fort life in war times. The kids decided that none of them would have wanted to live at the fort under those conditions.

Here Alexia and Carson dress up as soldiers:

Alexia and Carson descending the stone spiral staircase:

Lynn and I decided that this would be the best place for all three - we jailed them for "disorderly conduct" but they were paroled by lunch :

A trip to Kingston

I was on vacation for the week that Lynn and Alexia were in Brockville, so one day we decided to take the kids to Fort Henry in Kingston for a little (fun) history lesson.

We got to meet the Fort mascot - David the Ninth:

We also saw a cannon race between two teams which was very interesting (and VERY loud).

Up on the ramparts we could see for miles and got to get up close to some of the cannons.

Our "baby" is getting bigger

It's been almost a month since we got our puppy Willow, but I think in that time she has almost doubled in size. Her paws are getting HUGE - and she has attitude to match!

Before she arrived Pugsley never played with any of the dog toys that we had - now he fights her for every one.

Our friends from Oakville, Lynn and ALexia, were down last week so they came to meet the wild new puppy - they fell in love just like we did!

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