VW Camping Gods

What is this you say? This, sadly is the reason why I'm still sitting here at home, and not on the road to Union, Oregon. This is a VW water pump. This was replaced in our bus not quite 3 months ago and $500. This decided to start dripping and left a nice puddle on the drive late yesterday. The puddle was discovered early evening, as we were starting to do the final packing for our camping trip.

The VW Camping Gods don't seem to want us to go on the biggest camping trip of our whole season. The trip I've looked forward to all year. And for ONCE the weather between here and there isn't scorching hot so the trip would actually be somewhat enjoyable. Can you say disappointed? Can you say really pi$$ed off? The bus is at the mech's shop now. It was delivered there before 8:00 a.m. Unfortunately he is swamped today and it is a 3 hour job to replace said water pump. No, the VW Camping Gods are not smiling down on us right now...

I should be Packing...

....for our camping trip. But instead I'm sitting here, in front of the computer catching up on blog reading and such. In the process I found a cool new site. So, naturally I just had to see if I could get it to work here.

Tomorrow we are off to the 12th annual Re-Union Campout. I'm looking forward to it. The weather is supposed to be absolutely perfect and there will be lots of old friends attending that we haven't seen in a year.

Have a great weekend all.

So Much for Good Intentions..

So, here it is, the end of a 3 day weekend. Instead of working on one my UFO's for Finn's challenge, I did something I've never done before -- start a mystery quilt. When I read Bonnie's intro for her Old Tobacco Road I knew immediately that I had to do this mystery. Since I have a rather large bin of browns awaiting me for the Beige Behemouth, and, since I had decided the previous weekend that we needed a couple quilts for the bus for the warmer weather quilting....well, as a quilter, you know how easy it is to succomb to such temptation. I admit it, I have NO WILLPOWER! None, zilch, zippo. Besides, the pictures Bonnie posted of the tobacco fields, all rosy and glowing were just breathtaking. And, since our beloved bus is brown, well, that's enough justification for me.

So, here it is, almost midnight on Monday evening. I'm still working on all those darn windmills from Part Two. But, I had to cut all my browns this afternoon just to "see" how this is going to look. I'm getting excited. I'm hoping to finish the pinwheels tomorrow. But, between the endless list of things that have to be done before we leave at o'dark hundred Thursday for the Re-Union Campout it's highly unlikely that much more is going to get done for at least another week. :-(

Between lunch with friends, trip to Olympia to see Dad and get that bigger battery for the fridge I just didn't get as much sewing time in as I had wanted. However, I have all winter to sew and only a short amount of good camping weather left so, camping it is.

Hhhmmm, there's always November & December for Finn's challenge.....