For some reason <G> this didn't post last night.  
So even though it says Friday, it's all about Thursday!

Woke up to another rainy, dreary day.  So it was especially delightful to see all the bright splashes of color in Mary's owl quilt.

We picked up Marcie, and were soon on our way to see the Delightful Quilters' exhibit.  Took a few detours on the way, and plowed through quite a lot of water running across the many low spots on Scottsdale Road - but we made it.

There were four groupings of wonderfully creative quilts.  

Here's the first one.

and a few close-ups: 

  

The next grouping:

Somehow I didn't take a picture of this group as a whole!  :-(

I did remember to take a picture of the third group:

The final group:

No photo of this group as a whole, either!  (Good help is hard to find...)

After all the hard work of drooling over the quilts (no way we could pick favorites) we headed into Carefree for lunch.  It was incredible how low the snow on the hills had come.  We stopped in at Wanda's daughter's store (lots of southwestern-style home furnishings) so  Marcie and Mary could see it - and both of them made purchases.  I saw a grandmother storyteller doll that I liked - though not the price tag, so I didn't bring it home with me.

About the time we were ready to head out the door the skies opened - hail, sleet, snow!

It's been a LONG time since I've driven in snow.... decades!   Happily we didn't have to go far to find that same restaurant where Mom, Marcie and I ate last year after we did the quilt exhibit.  It was as delicious as ever - and we celebrated Mary's birthday.

I called Tom from the restaurant to report the weather up there.  He said it hailed here for a bit also, though there was no evidence left by the time I got home.

Got an e-mail this afternoon that irrigation, scheduled to start on Monday, has been cancelled "due to excessive rain" - so we may never find out if new box works <g>