26 August 2007

Our ward has a group called the Friendship Circle that meets once a week to work on Humanitarian projects. The local Salvation Army recently asked them for 45 quilts. To speed up the process, the Friendship Circle assembled bags of quilt squares and asked others to sew them together into quilt tops. The Friendship Circle then takes the finished tops, adds borders, batting and backing, and machine quilts them. Sophie picked up one of the kits to assemble and sewed it together herself. All of the materials for the quilts, as well as the labor, are donated.

Two years ago we planted an Asian pear tree. We're training it in an espalliere on the side of our garage. This week we had our first harvest- 8 pears. They are amazing -- crisp texture with a rich, sweet, butterscotchy flavor.


Update on the patio -- Brandan has finished placing the stones. It took 6000 pounds of slate. We discovered one problem: kids love digging out the sand between the stones. On Saturday, he and the kids built a sandbox to dig in instead of digging in the patio. The photo below shows the kids digging a hole to put the sandbox in.