I Like Thursday #77

Welcome to my 77th I Like Thursday post.  Every week LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color encourages us to write a positive post with a list of things that we like during the week.

I was paper piecing for a challenge quilt for guild and kept making mistakes and realized wow it is Wednesday, and almost 10 pm and I can't think of anything that I liked this week. (Plus it is perhaps time to stop for the night, I can start fresh tomorrow due to all of my mistakes).  Then I checked my phone.

I can be such a girl at times but I like it when I get a text from someone that says hey I am thinking of you or I miss you.  Yep I had a text from John and it made me smile. 

I then looked at my pictures on my phone and wow I had been snapping away with things I liked!  I like it when I do something almost as second nature, like taking pictures of things during the week to put in an I Like Thursday post!

There are many plants that need to be planted in the fall.  Butterfly bushes, hydrangeas, sedum, just to name a few.  So I attacked the thistle and pig weed (also called Amaranth) to clear out space to plant.  I like a huge cart full of weeds.  It feels like a ginormous accomplishment.

Yes I still have more to weed, but I did manage to get my plants planted.  Right now we have rain in the forecast for a day or two so the weeds will wait.

While weeding I looked up and spied something on my mailbox.  Remember when I said I have things that appear in my yard?  Somehow my mailbox acquired a sign. 

Not that I play in or even near the road.

Walking down the driveway I played tag with this guy.

There are a few flowers blooming in my yard still.  I will call it He, flitted back and forth in front of me as I was walking down the driveway the other day.  I pulled out my camera and then of course he got camera shy. 

I like Fat Quarter Bingo at a LQS called Textile in Milan, Michigan....not to be confused with Italy, no I am not gadding about more.  For $26 you get 6 fat quarters.  Each round to buy in you put in a fat quarter.  If you Bingo you get 10 fat quarters, they usually have 2 bundles of 10 fat quarters per bingo game and a consolation prize of 2 for the 3rd Bingo during a game.  I won a round, and then also got a 3rd so I came home with 12 Fat Quarters!

The Life is Sweet Bakery and Cafe has a back room where the Fat Quarter Bingo is held.  They have awesome grilled cheese sandwich sticks, as well as yummy desserts.  I also love their decor.

Every bakery needs a coat rack made of rolling pins!

I love this settee in the bakery while the seat pillow is a wee bit worse for wear, the tufted aqua velvet back, and the white paint on the ornate carving is swoon worthy. 

A quick trip to the grocery store for bread, coffee creamer, and glue sticks I spied this fall pug towel.

Doesn't he look so sophisticated?

My mom set me this pictures stating her birthday was coming and she thought I should make her a birthday cake like this with 76 pieces to match her upcoming age.  She said that I could just use my stash.

My comment was 76 fat quarters do you know how expensive that would be?  My mom insists that these have to be half yards.  (insert rolling eyes emoji).  I shared on Facebook and it has elicited quite the commentary.  LOL

Finally I had heard of a book a while back but could not locate it.  Could be that I could not spell the title correctly, but I found it at the local library!

Fly fishing has always looked so intriguing to me.  There is an art and science to it.  My brother used to tie flies.  Fly fishing, a handsome artist and fly fisherman, a beautiful chanteuse, a death, gorgeous Montana rivers and landscape what isn't there to love?

Now head over to LeeAnna's to check out the other I Like Thursday posts.