Mistletoe And Wine

Spreading the sounds of the season

Let's spread the joyous sounds of the season.

Jingle Bells by Ricky Tims

Quilters DO have a sense of humor!!!!!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Irish Tenors are coming to town.......

Hubby and I have a date night coming in the future!

We have tickets !!!!

Can't wait......

Great White Hunters Are Home

This past Thursday DH & DS flew to South Dakota for a fun filled

weekend with "The Boys".

It was the annual pleasant & quail hunting trip that their boss gets up for

a few employees & customers.

Their destination was the Thumbleweed Lodge in

Harrold, South Dakota.

Here they are standing behind the birds from Friday mornings shoot.

Just a close-up of all the birds.

They got home Monday night, tried, but full of great memories. You ask DS about the

hunt and all he can say is "awesome".

(It was his first experience at a nationally known hunting lodge)

And guess what was on our doorsteps Tuesday evening when I got home?

A box of 164 dressed pleasant breasts.

So I guess we will be eating pleasant this winter and some will be shared

with friends & family.

Two More Great Weekends

(Gee, I started this poster 4 days ago....maybe I'll get in finished now.) 

Two weekends ago DH and I went to Asheville for a few days of R & R.   It was a well desired treat to ourselves after the wedding.  We stayed at the Grove Park Inn and had a great time.  Of course we went into Biltmore Village for a little shopping and down town to "Topps" (a great shoe shop).

Our last night at the Grove Park we ate on the Sunset Terrace for supper.  This is the view facing out from the open air porch.

Here we are after  the sun went down. 

The weekend after, I traveled back up I-40 to Montreat, NC for a quilting retreat.

There were 21 women total.

 We pieced, laughed, talked, pieced, laughed and talked some more.

Designer Stitches came in Saturday morning to join us.

Quiltkemosabe got a few paper-pieced stars for the LQS block of the month finished.

LP got her LBB's all sewn in rows and attached to a quilt she has been working on for over 6 years.  Was she happy to have it finished.

All in all everyone had a great time and no one would believe how many

 quilts got completed.   There are two quilt shops in Montreat, so of course, 

there where trips to them to see what fabrics we could find.  Some even made more than one trip.   Also a few drove into Asheville to the quilt shop near Biltmore Village.   

Quiltkemosabe & I even ate lunch in the village on Saturday after

 visiting the

quilt shop.

Looking forward to the trip up the mountain in the spring for the next retreat.

Memories from a month ago.....

Just a few of my favorite pictures that I took October 9thMr & Mrs Fogle
Bridesmaids on the way to the church......

Rehearsal dinner with the cousins.........

Dad walking her down the aisle

(this made me tear up a little!)

And purple shoes....

What a great weekend.

Long time no Post!

Things here on Fernleaf Lane can now get back to normal.

The day after my last post DH, DS & wife and DD & boy friend went to Asheville

for "Christmas at Biltmore"

After dinner in the Stable Resturant and doing the candle light tour of the house, Allen dropped to his knee on the front steps of the house

and asked Ashley to be his wife, with all of us watching.

Of course she was surprised and said YES!

So-o-o there has been dress shopping, contacting vendors, cake tasting, etc., etc., etc

to be done.

Portraits to be made (one of many shots), a ceremony to be planned and the list goes on and on. And of course I have been sworn to secrecy.
But now I can introduce.......
Mr & Mrs J. Allen Fogle!