Today's outing, with Mom and Marcie,

was to see the Mavericks' Quilters Calories Don't Count exhibition.

While there didn't seem to be quite as many entries as in previous years, they certainly were creative. But one was especially impressive.

It even came with sound effects!  Opening the doors

pulled on the wire that suspended this church mouse 

which started a recording of the song Hallelujah - what a hoot!

Here is Wanda's delicious Kaffe Kake.

Some of the quilts were for sale,

but not this Pace Yourself, which Mom really liked.

High Tea would be a nice decoration for almost any kitchen.

Effective quilting on Desert Feast - But Is It Organic?

Couldn't tell if A Study in Pears was hand-painted or hand-dyed.

Art Feeds Your Dreams!

Battle of the Bulge (that's a bathroom scale) made us smile.

Can't argue with this... Calories Don't Count After the First 100 Years.

The Soft Side of Me was cute.

There were other quilts, but those were the ones I liked the most.  After we were done there we headed up to Carefree for lunch, and I definitely pigged out.  I enjoyed my bowl of delicious French onion soup (today was windy and chilly, and somehow I'd forgotten to grab my sweater) and some of Mom's huge salad, and took Marcie up on her off to share her French fries - yet somehow still saved room for dessert: chocolate decadence!\

Alex is home; he and the guys had a great time in Vegas (it probably didn't hurt that most of them, including him, came out ahead.)  Today he was dog-sitting for Tyga (who may not be moving to Colorado after all?) so Mom got in some dog time.

Marcie brought Latina over to play with Tyga.

We took the pooches outside to run around, and invited Carlo's dog Buddy to join the fun.

Latina still hasn't quite gotten the idea of how dogs play with each other,

but the guys had fun running around.

Of course there was a lot of sniffing -

but if they're looking for Pokey

she's sunning herself by the lemon tree.

Glad to report that Carlo is finally starting to feel a little better.