You will be missed

Robin Williams died yesterday. Such a loss.

So, I was on my way to the annual mid-summer sale at Alewives - represent! - and I had the most random thought. Just popped into my head. I thought well thank goodness I'm not still married to him. And I felt happy thinking that. Super happy. Make that jubilant! I have not had a day without thinking about my husband since he left, and we're talking years now. I think about how much I miss him and how much I hate him but this is new and I take it as a positive sign. I mean, when I thought it - thank goodness I'm not still married to him - it was heartfelt. I really am so much better off. And apparently I know it deep down, I'm not just trying to believe it. So, yay for me!

As I said, I was on my way to Alewives and here is proprietor, Rhea, appropriately in the batiks section. As you probably know, Alewives is my most fave fabric shop in the whole world and I did some serious damage there as always. In fact, I went back two days in a row!  ha!

My friend, Stacy, and her family are visiting Maine for the week and since my friend is camera shy, here is a picture of Joy and her two corgies. She stopped by Stacy's rental to say hey on her way from Virginia to a week downeast. These next pictures are taken at Beth's farm stand. I couldn't resist because it is just so beautiful there.

Stacy's box

Just picked corn

Look at these gorgeous onions!

Beth's

So, that's all I got today. It's going to be another beautiful day in the 70's here in Maine. I'm going to have breakfast with my girlfriends and then spend the day with Stacy and family. I am feeling such gratitude for the love and affection of my friends. Friends in my own right, nobody to relegate me to the corner while he sucks the life out of the room. Thank goodness I'm not still married to him.  Yippee!!

Well, I had a super fantastic visit with my niece and my grand-niece. Each of the girls made three pillows. Annie, who has the magic touch with modern fabrics finished her three and I did not take even one picture - what's wrong with me? And, Lucia made a squirrel pillow for herself and two clover pillows for daddy and brother and she did a fantastic job. She is a natural with the sewing machine and I visualize bigger and better projects in her future!

hard at work

clover pillow

Lucia and Annie love seafood like I do and we had a great lobster feed on their last night. The child cleaned out her lobster like a pro. Ate every little leg.

Grand-niecie, Lucia, and her mum are visiting me and I couldn't be a happier Zia! Sewing, swimming and eating are the order of the day so stay tuned for an update . . .

Happy Anniversary, Mummy and Daddy!

 Congratulations, you crazy kids!  

Not much to report as I've been a busy little bee lately, sewing my fingers to the bone - well, not really - and enjoying the ever changing view from my windows. We've had foggy misty hazy mornings and beautiful cool sunny days, more like the fall than late summer.

A waterskiier ghosts by above and below, what looks like campers in canoes. That's my umbrella in the foreground.

Giving way to sunny blue afternoons.

My workstation

I'll need to stir myself today and do some housework and shopping. See? Told you there wasn't much to report.