Ward Wanderings

February 2022

The air conditioner unit outside our bedroom is a step from the street. I put these ceramic and plastic things on it just because I did not want to throw them out yet (nor do I have a space inside for them). The school kids walk by here every day and usually re-arrange the objects.

Thr horses on the wall Sara made years ago and are plastic circles ironed together. The wreath has sakura flowers.

The twins were acting like teenagers recently :-)

Willow is not at that point yet :-)

Christin and her daughters

Early winter in Ono

The Emperor Dahlia is in the yard next to your house. We had this back in Kita Kobe

Our house decorated for Christmas. There are blue and white flashing lights around the doors and gutters.

The AC unit there has many solar toys and other things on it. The school children that pass by daily always rearrange them for me :-) Snoopy flag is a favorite of mine.

Woke up to snow this morning 12/18/21---a surprise here in Ono. It will melt once the sun hits it.

My snowy flowerbed wall.

Latest Quilts 2021

This is the back of the quilt below, made of miscellaneous Christmas prints and blocks

The front of this quilt is pink and purple strips, favorite colors of a friend. This is #383 in my quilt catalogue.

I made two of this Christmas star quilt for two ladies that attend church here in Kato

This quilt is for the owner of our building who has come to church nearly every Sunday for over two years. It is a disappearing nine-patch pattern; the edging is from a bedsheet.

My Neighborhood quilt is for a near neighbor here in Ono who also attends church. She recently accepted Christ as her Savior. Below is the crazy-patch backing which I do for many of my quilts. It is made up of scraps with no particular design in mind. :-)

These are embroidered hats, boots and flowers that were given to me some years ago, but I forget who it was that gifted me. This quilt will be for me :-)

Another crazy patch backing for the hats and boots quilt.

Grandbabies in the Fall 2021

One of the twins at an Animal Farm

Peter and Elorie

All dressed up for the Harvest Festival

Isn't she cute!?!?!

Peter's van decorated for fall festival where they had pumpkins, a hayride and lots of food

Elorie on a tricycle. Mom was near :-)

Alora and Clarity feeding baby goats at the Animal Farm

Alora October 2021

Pirate Clarity

Willow, Clarity, Alora

Willow

The flowering bush is called suino--the flowers bloom daily, white in the morning and change to pink by afternoon and last just a day

Abundant rice fields in Ono City--mostly large rectangular shaped fields, so much bigger than in Hatacho where terraced farming is common and fields are much smaller.

The egrets like the rice fields, so do all the birds. :-)

Latest quilts September 2021

for a new baby girl

Little girl baby quilt

Blue Scrappy quilt, about queen size

Blue pinwheels also about queen size. These are numbers 372, 373, 374, 375 in my catalog of quilts I've made over the years.

New concrete area

Late October 2021

Henry knocked out a portion of the rock wall outside our back door a few months ago. He started to put concrete on it, but it was too big a job. He contacted the brother-in-law of our owner. He does this type of work--remodeling, repair. He arranged to have a cement truck come and pour the concrete in the area.