It's almost done!

It's now Sunday night, Phil went back home to Brissie with his wife Kym late this morning and I reckon he's saying "thank goodness that job is finished." Ian and Phil finally finished the roof and ridge capping, complete with whirly birds and 2 roller doors on Thursday afternoon. These two photos were taken on Wed arvo.

The photos aren't very good as I took them from the back patio of the house in the late afternoon. These digital cameras are good but I don't think they can compensate for everything, like bad judgement on where to take photos from.

Friday was Ian's 59th birthday and they celebrated by NOT working on the shed. They headed off in the ute to find out where the back roads around here end up and they found quite a few goat tracks and some very, very basic homes, some not more than hovels on their tour. The properties are tucked in the most out of the way places and you would need tractors to get in and out of the gate in wet weather.

Talking about weather — we had rain. Woke up through the night to the sound of rain on the roof, nice and steady and we checked the rain guage this morning and we had 36mls, that's almost 1½" in the old speak. The grass was turning green as we looked at it. My babies (the bantam chooks) looked very bedraggled this morning, what's wrong with animals that they want to stand out in the rain when they have a perfectly good house to shelter in.

After Kym and Phil left I got back into my (temporary - don't you love that word?) sewing room and cut out 80 x 2½" squares to make into 20 4patch units and 160 x 2 7/8" squares to make into 40 flying geese units, which when added to the rectangles and the other squares which have already been cut will end up looking like this.

This Ohio Star is one of 80 that my SIL Lyn and I are making for my brother Trevor's 50th birthday quilt. We are well in the running to have it finished on time. Trevor's birthday is the 19th October. At the moment I'm playing dumb because he keeps telling me that his SIL is making him a quilt. Lyn has only been quilting for a couple of years and so far has turned out some fantastic quilts, while I have been quilting for over 20 years and still haven't made Trev a quilt of any description. Gawd, you'd think in all that time I could've at least made him a lap quilt.

Ian took it easy for the rest of today, he had a 2 hour nap, before getting up to watch a Sunday afternoon movie. Don't ya just love retirement!