Old Movie Scene

         I've been watching old movies on YouTube recently while sewing and doing chores in the house.  I found one called "The Madonna's Secret"  with a very unusual scene in it.  There is a scene where one of the characters goes into a night club.  There is an act on the stage when he walks in.  It's a knife throwing act.  The girl was standing in front of a board painted like a tree.  She stood very still with her arms at different angles gripping the board.  She has a beautiful sexy glittery costume on and she sings a slow ballad while the man throws knives at her from across the room  I had never seen a singing knife throwing act.  It was mesmerizing.

   Here's a link to the movie. The Madonna's Secret - Old Movie.  This scene starts at 9:58 minutes into the movie.

Yard Work, Family Reunion, Family Wedding, And Quilting

     I've been busy cleaning up my yard for the past month.  It was a complete mess.  I have tons of leaves to shred for mulch, big sticks to take the chain saw to, and at least 32 big black plastic bags of yard waste ready to go out to the curb.   I spent every night and every minute I could out in the yard during the month of May.  It was not fun.  And then to top it all off, it was really dry the month of May and with all that dry weather, the pine straw started falling as soon as I finished raking up last year's leaves.  I had to rake up all of that pine straw and I filled up another four bags of yard wast.  I mowed the grass last night and I'm all caught up with big yard word.  Tomorrow I'm going to poke around and do some weeding in the front beds.  Easy work after all the raking and bagging.

     Another easy outdoor project I have to do is get some some summer flowers to put in this big lovely pot.  My daughter gave this to me last month because of the sea turtles on it.  It was nice of her to think of me when she saw it.

     

    At the end of May, my DD and I went travelling.  We flew to Colorado to attend my niece's wedding.  It was also a mini family reunion, meeting up with both my brothers, their wives and one of my first cousins and her husband on my Dad's side.  Daughter and I always have a good time when we travel and meeting up with family this time was really special.  All of us out-of-towners in our immediate family gathered at the hotel on Friday night, May 31st. to decide where to gather and eat some dinner.  We went to a fun bar and grill and had a great time catching up.  The next day we were on our own until we had to go to the late afternoon wedding.  My niece was radiant and her husband must be a great guy to want to marry into this family.  LoL.  They both are very happy.  Her father, my brother, was so happy that the wedding was over, he was jumping around on the dance floor like a nut.  It was a fun reception.  Everyone danced and enjoyed themselves.  It didn't hurt that there was an open bar.  On Sunday our family, my sister-in-law's sister and husband, and the groom's parents gathered for brunch at a fun local restaurant for a lovely meal.  Then our family spent the afternoon at my brother's home talking, laughing and eating pizza.  It was a lovely way to wind down.  DD and I had to leave early on Monday.  It took all day to get back to Florida.

   This week I have been working on my Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt this week.  I finally finished row four.  The quilt top is officially half done.  Here is a picture of my progress so far.

 

     The last time I posted a picture of this quilt with three rows done was January 16, 2019.  That's a long time in between rows.

    Now I'm basting more hexagons to make the rest of the flowers for the last 3 rows.   I need enough hexies to make 14 whole flowers and 2 half flowers to finish those last rows.   Time to get this done.