This past Saturday was a trip to Prescott for another quilt show.  When Jan and I were on the way to pick up Wanda I'd checked my car's address book and was relieved to find that Sharon was still in there.  She lives north (Jomax and I-17) and since we would be collecting her last I hit cancel for that route.  However a polite British voice was not happy with us heading to Wanda's, and valiantly kept trying to reroute us, I assumed to Sharon's.  We were virtually at Sharon's when he got annoyed with me, basically repeating something to the effect of, "Get with the program! Get with the program! Get with the program!"  

It was at that point that I finally realized it was coming from my phone (I'd looked up the Prescott High School on the map app that morning.)  Since that was the first time I'd gotten that app to speak to me (long story this past winter, trying again and again on various trips) it actually wasn't that surprising that I'd assumed it was the car, which always spoke to me.  Still, I did feel somewhat foolish, though we all got quite a laugh out of it.

Other than that it was a reasonably uneventful drive to the show (after a much shorter pee/milkshake stop at a McDonald's than the previous Saturday) though of course there were the usual idiots on the highway trying their best to cause an accident.   

I was stopped behind this NEG IQ driver at a light last week, and wondered why anyone would want to flaunt their stupidity...

Following our voice instructions we actually took a 'detour' before we got to Prescott Valley, bypassing all the traffic/stoplights and arriving at the high school via a route totally unknown to us.  Everyone enjoyed the show (Jan even won a door prize within a couple of minutes of us arriving) and of course I took LOTS of photos.  If I could have brought one home with me it'd wouldn't been difficult to choose between these two.

These are just a couple of their "Bloom Where You Are Planted" Challenge quilts on display.  Though I really admired them they will not be happening at my house. <g>  However Sharon should be getting the pattern, and I know hers will turn out lovely!

I was correct that Linda would appreciate this wholecloth SBS - as did I.

There were several chicken quilts (this was the cutest),

a couple of horse quilts, 

and several dog (and cat) quilts.

Wanda, of course, ran into people she knew, and after the show we ended up having lunch with her friend Carol at Gabby's in Prescott Valley (where we'd eaten on our last quilt show trip up there because it's a wonderful restaurant.)  I didn't get home until around 5:00, so it was another long (but delightful) day.

Sunday was Father's Day.  Sure miss Dad!

My last photos of Dad, taken during my visit just a couple of weeks before he died 

when I flew in for a week of celebrating his 90th birthday.

It was a great birthday celebration!

I didn't take as many pix that week as I should have - 

For Sunday's FD feast I'd picked up some rib eyes (which Alex grilled), corn-on-the-cob, cole slaw and potato salad, and had made up a platter of my 'famous' deviled eggs.

I also whipped up my first peach cobbler - from scratch (!), with peaches off of our tree.

We ended up having cobbler a la mode as an appetizer, with cobbler warm from the oven, and then as dessert later.  It got RAVE reviews from everyone - and there were no leftovers.

First thing Monday morning I finished up the last two seams on my Open Borders top.

Then, while warming up at the gym, I finished up my audio book The Properties of Thirst, which I highly recommend!  (Thank you, Marilyn!)  The writing is absolutely wonderful (I'm going to look for some of the author's other books), and the storyline (historical fiction) really captivated my interest.

My right hip had been achy for a couple of days, so I was glad to have an appointment at the chiropractor later that morning.  For a change he was a little confused about the issue, but tuned me up and sent me on my way.  Then even though Karen couldn't join me for lunch (she's at quilt camp in Prescott) I popped across the street to Sushi Love for a lunch of Monkey Brains. 

Sadly by Monday afternoon my left hip had become VERY unhappy (as in I couldn't stand/walk correctly) plus the pain was shooting all the way down my leg.  Happily it's been a long time since I've had pain issues like that, though I sure wasn't happy yesterday; I could not get comfortable even stretched out on the couch no matter how I arranged my body.  The heating pad helped, but with our triple digit heat (and the One-Tweens predicted shortly) it wasn't the first thing I tried.  

At least it's not as bad here as predicted to be in Mississippi on Sunday!

With weeding off the agenda until another irrigation, Plan A was to do some pruning with the electric trimmer because there's LOTS of that needing to be done.  But even though my back isn't as unhappy this morning, I've decided to skip that for a few days.

Shortly off to get my hair trimmed, and will deliver more of the Wandering Jew cuttings to Shelley.  Her yard guys wiped out the last bunch she'd gotten from me.  After lunch I'll be heading across the street to tutor Tommy and Annalise, and than late this afternoon (after naptime for the little ones) the gang is coming over to swim.