Here is our crew. We were strangers when we arrived and 6 days later, we had become a true team of friends. 
Dan and a few of the team built front porches for the two homes. The majority of my time was spent on siding. A pleasant surprise when we arrived at the meet & greet potluck was to find a past friend and neighbor from Salem had moved to Sisters and we got to work together on Wednesday. 
We were finished with work by 2 in the afternoon so I spent a bit of time most days at my sewing machine. 
These are the first few blocks for a baby quilt I want to get put together by December.
We stopped in Rome at the Lower Owyhee River boat launch. Just over 33 years ago we set off on a family boat trip from here and this is the first time we have been back. 
We drove on to spend Sunday night at C J Strike Lake near Grandview, Idaho. Being a holiday weekend we were not sure if it would be hard to find camp spots, but we were lucky. 
Today as I write this we are camped at Stone Reservoir. A little lake in southern Idaho a few miles from Utah. 
I was able to quilt with a view for awhile before settling done to write this post. Tomorrow we will visit a friend I have known all of my life who lives in Ogden. 
Dan and a few of the team built front porches for the two homes. The majority of my time was spent on siding. A pleasant surprise when we arrived at the meet & greet potluck was to find a past friend and neighbor from Salem had moved to Sisters and we got to work together on Wednesday. These are the first few blocks for a baby quilt I want to get put together by December. We left Sisters on Saturday and are heading generally east and then south. Our first night was at Chrystal Crane Hot Springs near Burns, Oregon. We had a nice late afternoon soak, although the water was not as hot as we would have preferred. The morning temp was a chilly 34 degrees on Sunday.
We stopped in Rome at the Lower Owyhee River boat launch. Just over 33 years ago we set off on a family boat trip from here and this is the first time we have been back. We drove on to spend Sunday night at C J Strike Lake near Grandview, Idaho. Being a holiday weekend we were not sure if it would be hard to find camp spots, but we were lucky. Today as I write this we are camped at Stone Reservoir. A little lake in southern Idaho a few miles from Utah. I was able to quilt with a view for awhile before settling done to write this post. Tomorrow we will visit a friend I have known all of my life who lives in Ogden. This interesting spider web picture was taken by my friend, Cathy; I like thinking of the web of folks in my world. New friends, old friends, and friends I haven't yet met. When I titled my blog with the word "Thready" in it I was thinking of my quilting, but I was also thinking about the threads that connect us all.
"I want to spend my soul, playing it out like sticky string into the world, so that I can catch every last thing I touch" from "Are You Saved" by Linder Unders.
If you are reading this I am grateful for whatever threads that bind you and I together. And together, what can we weave?
jb
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