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On Tuesday my DD and I were rolling up to our usual parking spot in the parking structure and she yells out, "STOP the car!!" and I thought she was going to be ill. Instead she leaped out and ran to the half wall. I parked and went to where she was and this is what she spied,

A Dobson Fly. It had huge pincers and ginormous wings. The creepiest part? When I walked up, it turned it's huge head and LOOKED AT ME!!! EW! So of course she had to catch it and bring it into the lab to show everyone. We dropped it off with DD2 (the fishery and wildlife dd) at her work, since we drive right by it every day on the way home. Apparently, these males of the species mature, and have 3 days to mate and then they die. They don't even eat during that time! We were going to let it go and hope the poor guy got a chance to mate before he died. What's up with creep bugs this year??

OK, on to better things, or at least quilty things! Last night at quilting, one of the women that comes sometimes brought a raffle quilt that had been quilted by a local LAQ. The quilting was done poorly and since she had pieced the top, she was going to rip all the old quilting out and have it re-quilted (hopefully much nicer). Everyone dropped what they were doing to help. We were laughing that we all thought we would be involves in a quilting bee someday but NONE of us thought we would be involved in an *UN*-quilting bee! I laughed so hard but managed to snap this pic of everyone.


Remember that block that I was whining about the other day? I just decided it was NOT worth the time and effort to make it work and decided to make it into a lone star type of block. Here is what I have done so far.

I am much happier and have decided to make my second block a Halloween themed one. More on that later though.

I managed to get one more Tisket A Tasket block finished last night too so here is the July one.

Appropriate for the Fourth of July right??

I am going to head out soon for the day then off to the gym and hopefully some sewing too.

Info you need to know

Kate Spain is having a give away on her blog of a layer cake of her line, Verna. Pop over to her blog and check it out.

On top of that I found out some interesting info from C&T Publishing. They have something they call the "Creative Troup". You need to go and check it out on their blog. You join up, once you are approved you can go to their website and find a book you want to review. Then you send the title to the email contact and they send it to you as an e book. You read it and have to write and post some reviews. The cool part is you get to read it and it is yours electronically and you don't have to pay anything! They also have another program where you can get paid if you get something published using their materials. You will have to read about it on their blog, there is too much to explain here.

Well, what are you waiting for? Get going and check it out!!