Gone to the dogs

Where on the world have I been? I got a puppy in May and find myself with a little less time to quilt or blog about it. I have finished a bunch of stuff but not take photos. Sorry!

Also just came back from Hawaii. 

Today I got out Bonnie's Mystery quilt stuff. I started step 1 before I left but did not get step one done. So maybe this month I will work on it. 

Sewing Season is Back

I did do some patchwork over the past 5 weeks but was just too busy to show it here. I have 4 pretty little red sampler blocks. I got them done the last week of July.

Next up is the string triangles. I have no idea how I will use these but they are added to the rainbow stash of blocks.

Here is all the red I did back in July for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I love these shots as it show I did get so much done in one month. 

I have also sent some time working on my Dear Jane blocks again. Aug was light Green so I worked at planning out my green fabrics and blocks. 

Here are the blocks I got done in green so far. I have a another handful started but not done yet. I see Sept is Orange. I have added my post to Soscrappy with Saturday fall brights. 

We had a great holiday, spending the last weeks in British Columbia. We drove and spent all our time with the dogs and staying in hotels. We had all our nights booked so we knew the dogs were welcome were we stayed.  

Here is Gemma and I at Lake Louise. She wanted to play in the water so badly. 

Sunday Thanksgiving

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving. I did not get to quilt today, so much to do with family and food. I have made tomato sauce with fresh garden tomatoes. The family eat Turkey but I can't eat it. So I make something else for dinner for me.

I hope to get a little sewing in holiday Monday. Hope you have all had a good weekend.

Horse Camp More Photos

My Husband took his camera and I thought I would show you the photos he took on our trip to Horse Camp.  Once a year we try to make it in to the Rockies for a horse camping trip. A week of hard riding. This top photo is my dad, Don, on his horse. There was a chance of some rain so he has his long rider coat on. I should tell you my mom comes to camp but does not ride ever. This trip we are four horses and five riders so each day someone stays at camp with mom. 

Socks, my husband's horse, on lunch break.

Love this photo of my boys each on their horses. They hardly know a photo is being taken so it's good.

Here we are getting back on after a lunch break. It shows the mountain so well. We camp out next to the Hummingbird creek and had ridden to the top of the Canary creek. Up here we are getting close to the tree line. I should tell you we had great weather most days. Just a little rain and warmer at night then some years we have gone.

Here I am at my lunch break. This horse is Scotty, my older son normally rides him but on this day I rode him. I still ride in my English saddle. I had extra rings added to it so I can get a good set of saddle bags and my long rider coat attached to it.

We rode our horses again today. It was nice to have another family ride around our place today. Next is getting ready for school and the end of our holidays.

Horse Camp 2012

I just got back from Horse Camp last night. We have tons of unpacking still to do. We (the family) packed up the horses and the camper and head to the mountains to do some serious trail riding. Lex our Chesapeake Bay Retriever also comes with us to camp and trail ride for a week.

This was one of our highest climbs. We are more than 400 m above the level of our camp up here. We had a seven hour ride this day. We rode up the Hummingbird trail and down the Canary Creek trail.

This was part of the way down, though the valley towards Canary Creek. The view is beautiful here.  

This is the Hummingbird Creek were there is the cutest little step falls. I have been here one other time and have the photo on my face book profile.

The dog and the kid were sleepy.

The horses were sleepy too.

I sure hope we can camp again next year. It is so much fun.

Horse Creek Ranch

Brad and Socks

 Horse camp this year was at Horse Creek Ranch. We loaded up four of our seven horses and went camping at the ranch. The ranch is next to the Fort Assiniboine Sand Hill Wild Land Park and has great trails. There are five riders in the family. Me, Brad, two kids and my Dad. We took turns riding and one rider stayed at camp with my mom.

Wyatt on Scotty then Adam on Honey and me on Tonto (dad's horse)

 This was a look out point not to far into the park. We could see the Athabasca River from here. I hear tonight many parts of the river are now at rick of flooding because of all the rain this weekend and it was high to start. We did come home one day early from our trip because it was raining so hard on Friday.

Honey the horse. She is so sweet.

 Adam was getting along real well with Honey. He has not ridden her much until this trip.

Wyatt and Scotty were paired up for part of the week. Honey is Wyatt's horse but we moved him up to Scotty when his younger brother came on the trail.

Horse Camp

 We have just returned from another great horse holiday. We have taken the horses out camping. Our family Horse Camp. Here is a photo of Wyatt and his Quarter horse mare Honey. She does a great job of taking care of young riders.

This is Adam on Honey and my husband Brad on his Scotty.

Now I can not lie. This photos are from last years trip. I have not unpacked enough to find the camera. I have miss placed my camera for a full month now and I have used Wyatt's for a few weeks. Now his camera is in my saddle bag still in the horse trailer. We can home one day early as it is pouring rain. Maybe it will be dry enough to unload the tack on Saturday.

This year trip was to Horse Creek Ranch and the sand hills. What great trails. Last year we were in the mountains at the Hummingbird creek.

I hope to find Wyatt's camera and down load my photos soon. then I will have the correct photos.
I wish I could find my camera. 

Maui Trip

 Brad and I at our Hawaii Dinner.

Wyatt on the Beach

Flowers in our resort yard.

What more can I say. We had a great time in Maui. We will look forward to the next trip.