Weekly update: hikes, Equality Day, rummage sale, a bunch of blocks, and 44 years!

 We checked three more forest preserves off the Hike Lake County list.  Wednesday:  Lake Carina is a reclaimed gravel pit  quarried to build the Illinois Tollway, traffic on which can be heard though not seen from the one-mile trail around the lake.  Friday:  Capt. Daniel Wright Woods and Half Day are adjacent but divided by the Des Plaines River.   Though there's a bridge to cross the river it wasn't on the marked trails this year so we drove from one to the other.  

Top: water lilies at Half Day, thistles, Jack-in-the-Pulpit seed bundle. Middle:  burning bush seeds, river at Half Day, Lake Carina.  Lower:  boneset, the sign to look for, and trail at Daniel Wright.  

I could get close to the blue lobelia but the cardinal lobelia was farther away.  (Both at Daniel Wright.)

It has turned VERY hot -- low 90's today (Sunday) with higher temps in the forecast Monday and Tuesday.  We are staying inside in the air conditioning.

Four more trails to go!

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The Lake County Women's Coalition observed Women's Equality Day on Thursday evening. The program was terrific!

Performers Catherine and Anita sang a medley of songs from "Sister Sufragette" to "I Am Woman" with many more in between.

I contributed this quilt to the raffle (my friend Steffi won it) and in turn I won a gift basket with wine (the LCWC president owns a winery).  

And I was home in time to see Kamala Harris give her acceptance speech.

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Our church has rummage sales in May and August.  Mary Lou and Laura are the long-time chairs and they have their process perfected.   I helped set things out on Monday (I always get women's pants and sweaters, and this time I also got books and media).   I had selling stints 9-11 on Friday and Saturday.  The perk is that helpers get 1/2 off the already rock-bottom prices.  Saturday is $5 to fill a grocery bag (no discount).   

I spent a grand total of $21, which included two of those $5 bags.  My bargains included a never-worn pair of khaki jeans (tags still on) and a Talbot's long-sleeved t-shirt.  No actual quilting yardage but I got a Laura Ashley twin sheet set, all-cotton, for $1, and a half dozen men's shirts (bag sale).   

All of these hankies were $2!  A number of them were unused (I could tell from the creases).  

The original owner saved some of the stickers.  

Preliminary proceeds for the sale: $3000.

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And, yes, I got in some sewing time.

These are 100 8-1/2" jewel box blocks  for Cynthia's next block drive.  (The instructions:  purple/blue/green and WOW for the HSTs, white/black and black/white for the four-patches.)  6-1/2 yards!

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August 23, 1980

 

Happy 44th anniversary to us! 

We are still smiling.  

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