Fall on the horizon

 Fall is on the way!!!  Yes it is!  But a couple of weeks ago we took another marvelous adventure with friends, packed a peanut butter sandwich and headed out to take in some of our high desert beauty.  Look at what we found!  Among the wild flowers and miles and miles of nothing...no vehicles, no homes, no people -  these ancient stones.  So many are perfectly round, some embedded in others.  What ever caused these?

 Here are some of the other formations, all are sandstone, weathered from the wind and at some point, probably water, however this is now a desert with only a few antelope and lots of gas wells.

So on another note, I still have a couple of stepping stones for people to get finished and hope to get that done this week. But I needed more mortar and it apparently only comes in 80 lb bags.  Really? 80 pounds? For a couple of old people, 80 lbs is HEAVY.  Not to mention the fact that we bought a new mattress and foundation so we took the old one upstairs and brought that older one downstairs.  More HEAVY!

Thank goodness for my quilting group.  Really it is a sewing group I guess.  We sew quilt tops...and don't do much actual quilting. I don't think I could handle another winter (which comes after FALL and sometimes skips FALL), without the support of these gals.  As I age, the arthritis kicks butt during the winter months and I have a pretty high tolerance for pain, but winter is long here.  So if the roads are not closed on Mondays, I will survive winter.  My buddy and I are starting a big quilt project and I will start to post these...but we have to get the vegetable garden and the watering system ready as it is supposed to be 28 degrees tomorrow.  FALL? give me a break.  We are skipping fall this year I fear.