Far from the Lazy days of Summer ~ Back to Larkrise: Primitive rug hooking at the Country Loft

The weeks are flying by and I can hardly wait til it cools down and it's fall. I am super busy baby sitting little Jack and catching up with my projects. This week I am trying to cut back a over grown climbing rose because the old sprinkler finally broke. I need to crawl under the rose branches to find where the leak it is a job! I have been waiting til the evening when it cools down to prune back the over grown Cecile Brunner climber.

Looking back at my teen years I realize now how as a kid you never realize how busy life will become. The summer of my junior year of high school I can remember regretfully how foolish I was to have not enjoyed fully the summer of driving to La Jolla shores all the time! My girlfriends and I were on a mission to go to the beach at least a couple times a week that summer.As long as we could all chip in gas money we would pile into someones car and off we went.That summer we were always trying to look bored and mature.We were such silly girls.We always drove to La Jolla shores never Mission or Pacific Beach .La Jolla was such a beautiful beach but had lots of rip tides so you had to be careful in the water.

Once we were in La Jolla The gals would spread out one by one and lay out like a bunch of harbor seals in a circle with Julie the hot bod teen as designated queen bee.

The girls were obsessed trying to get the perfect tan which meant they were always laying out and baking their faces in the hot summer sun. Every where we went that summer they had to layout even if it was just someones backyard.We would all read glamour magazines and be fighting over Victoria Holt and Daphne du Maurier Gothic romances. Leslie and I would munch on of all things cottage cheese and Frito's reading away the day.
Those silly girls would put baby oil all over their bodies like buttered toast which I am sure wasn't the smartest thing to do. I already had a olive complexion I didn't need to layout! I was the one who just couldn't get with the program. I seemed like the only one of my friends in the waves whenever we went to La Jolla. My then girlfriends didn't want to step in the ocean because of the baby oil slathered all over their white bodies.That summer in high school was the carefree days of youth no responsibility . I had no way of knowing how busy life would become.
Years later instead of playing in the surf I am wiping a runny nose from a grandson and wondering how did my life go by so fast. I am needed by so many and totally enjoy the simple act of just being home reading a murder mystery and having a sip of ice tea.Instead of a Gothic romance with the girl running thru the old castle in fear from the brooding master with anger issues.Today Gothic romances are vampire love stories. Now a days I am reading murder mysteries by Anne Perry and enjoying my iPad where I can get books from the library when ever I want.I am still a reader which is my biggest passion and now when I drive down near the beach its to just look at that amazing Pacific ocean while I drive to a plant nursery. Life is such a journey I only wish I had really not taken those days for granted. They were so blissfully carefree!
Now lets catch up!
I have been busy rug hooking and I am almost done with my little rug.Little Jack has a cold and so he is a little booger boy! Being a Nana is like reliving your young mom days it all comes back to you.

Here are some quick pictures of what's been happening with our little group of rug hookers and of course the cross stitch ladies too. I added a picture of my first quilt I ever did and some other pictures around the house. I forgot my camera so Michele thank you for sending the pics. Hugs Cheri