Surgery set for Thursday!

 It has been a fairly uneventful week here at Wazoo.  On Thursday we took a ride up to Franklin, NC to show Mr W the Handi Quilter I have my eye on. The mountains were beautiful! We are past peak for leaf peeping, but it was still nice. The trip in both directions was glorious!

If you have never seen them, these are the Smoky Mountains

On Friday, we went to Gainsville for my Covid test, an ECG, blood draw and to give them money... Afterward, Mr Wazoo took me to Wendy's for lunch. Then it was another trip through the mountains, this time the Blue Ridge and our favorite, Blood Mountain. It is a scary trip the first couple of times, but we have gotten used to going over Blood Mountain since coming here almost 8 years ago. We stopped at the top and visited the hiking/gift shop on the Appalachian Trail to snap a few pictures and get the grandson a Blood Mountain Bigfoot tee shirt for his birthday. That and a Lego kit to make three robots, a set of Matchbook construction vehicles, a quilt that looks like terrain with roads and buildings, and four wind-up butterflies that flew out when the box was opened. He's now 6, and a true builder!

Happy Lego boy

The Appalachian Trail going off into the woods atop Blood Mountain

The view south from the top of Blood Mountain, at Mountain Crossing, or Wylasi Yi.

On your map, it is Neals Gap.

Two goofballs trying to take a selfie.

My only sewing of the week was another charity quilt. I got the fabric for this on a recent shopping trip to Hiawassee. They had a sale going on, so I took advantage of it to get some more masculine-looking fabric.

I thought this was a lovely Autumn fabric

 

The supporting fabrics are really nice, too! I'll quilt it later.

Saturday, we rode over  to Clayton and Mr Wazoo bought some more plants for the garden and yard. We got a  blue spruce tree, a spruce shrub, two Adagio ornamental grass clumps, and a little something I thought my daughter would like. She collects Santas like I do, and this guy is too cute to pass up.

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This butterfly found one of the last blooming Butterfly bush plants at the nursery to rest on.

I managed to catch him between flaps of his wings.

This guy has a spring inside and bounces and jiggles when you poke him.

Yesterday we hooked up Penny and climbed to the top of the mountain. On the way, we had two families of deer run by and disappear over the ridge. There were two young bucks, some does and even some juvenile ones. Leaves were falling and crunching under our feet, and the air was fresh and cool. I love it! I took a few pictures on the way down so you could see the house from the backside for once! It doesn't get much better than this.

This is the second tier of the back garden, mostly shrubs and the trellis. Mr Wazoo made the walkway. All the rocks in the little wall were taken out in order to make the walk flat!

The lower garden, Penny's run and the back porch on the house. Penny and I often sit out here and watch the deer, squirrels and birds while I have coffee.

Penny had a good time taking in all the smells in the woods. She slept for hours after our hike!

I took an accidental selfie while negotiating my way up the path.

The tiki totem pole way on the left was a gift from a friend in Florida. It marks the back of our property. Beyond that is the Chattahoochie Forest. 

From the bottom of the  property you can see the lower flagstone path and the gravel path leading farther up the grade. Mr W planted all the plants and shrubs along here.

I'm standing in the same location as above, looking to the left at the house. My studio is where the barn quilt is.

Today, I made a huge pot of vegetable soup and added some more people to my Ancestry trees. I'm taking it easy until I go to Gainsville for the surgery on Thursday. I have total confidence in my surgeon and hope to be 100% after he fixes me. I'll be sure to let you know how it goes!