Friday check in: sunshine, a meet up, and placemat progress

 

Sunshine, heat, but low humidity make it good walking weather.  I added two more forest preserves to my 2025 Hike Lake County log.  

(They designate 14 trails.  Participants have to walk (run, bike, jog...) seven of them to get the little commemorative medallion.  I overachieve and do all 14.)

I picked as many black raspberries as I could reach and carried them in my cap. They were great with vanilla ice cream.

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Yesterday was a Magpie meet up.  Marie lives in Texas and came to visit her nephew Austin.  He lives in a Chicago suburb northeast of Anna and southwest of me.  We four met for lunch in Glen Ellyn and enjoyed a little retail therapy at A Different Box of Crayons.  The quilt shop is terrific but the company of longtime friends was even better.  

(I bought two FQs and that was it!)

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I'm not quite finished with a time-specific project -- photos and the story in my next post. 

Meanwhile, I've made four placemats out of the ten for my monthly goal.   The orange HSTs are the cutaways from this month's top-along. 

Linking up with Finished or Not Friday