Mud, Maple & Fabric

The Maple Open House weekend was as expected... lots of yummy maple and lots of sticky mud. Jed's had their line of tasty product out to sample. We had our sugar-on-snow, warmed up in the sugar house, made our purchases and walked back to Eric's folks house. We even got a little free entertainment by watching the flatlanders try to take a muddy dirt road at 50 mph. hee-hee.

Corie and Zakary trying to chew their sugar-on-snow

The Shop Hop was great. I have already started another project with some of my new fabric. I posted the pictures on a Picasa album in case anyone is interested. Our first stop was Knits and Bolts. We had initially scratched it from the list due to its out of the way location, but a previous promise of a pecan pie to be delivered to my cuz, Sandy, had us reroute our trip. We were rewarded with a wonderful shopping experience. The shop had an amazing selection of fabric (and yarn for you knitter/crocheters), and to top it off they had a long table full of goodies for the shop hoppers (which included hot coffee and Girl Scout cookies). We hit four more shops before the day was over. We arrived home exhausted, hungry and poor, but with our minds buzzing with all the great fabrics and amazing projects we had seen.

Eric & Zakary working on the driveway.... again

While on our shopping trip we listed to The Water Mirror on CD. The story was great but instead of ending it just sort of stopped. A quick check on the internet explained why. It turned out to be the first book of The Dark Reflections trilogy by Kai Meyer, and now we were both hooked. Since then I have read the last two books of the trilogy, and I highly recommend them. They are written for 9-12 year olds but so were the Harry Potter books, and I couldn't put those down either.