Take me out to the ball game. What a fun day the "Deeley's" had at Miller Park yesterday for the afternoon game between the Cardinals and the Brewers. Unfortunately, the Brewers lost 8-3 but aside from that it was a perfect day.

Attending the gala outing were Leif and Nora (The game was Leif's idea. Thanks Uncle Leif!!), Jeff and Kathy, with Matt and his new bride Kaoru, and Shane and his friend Roxie, George and Betsy and Betsy's brother Danny, Randy and Donna, Eileen, Leif's friend Bob and me. We had a tailgate party before the game in the parking lot. Nora prefers to eat vegetarian, so I brought marinated portobella mushrooms for her and me. They were VERY good. We also had salads, watermelon and cookies.

Tomorrow Matt and Kaoru, who were married in Japan a couple of months ago are going through a reenactment for he Deeleys and the Harveys (Kathy's family.) It should be fun. Randy is officiating. We will be dressed to the nines and really celebrate such a happy occasion. Kaoru is a lovely girl. We are so glad to have her as part of our family

Mary

My Dear Aunt Helen was born 5/20/1905. She died 12/22/1993. She was my best friend.

We found a shoe box with pieces of a quilt in a closet in her home. All of the patterned pieces and a lot of the solid border were in the box all cut out and ready to go. A couple of motifs were even assembled so II was able to determine that it was Grandma's Flower Garden. I added more solids,a backing and fill and assembled it in to a quilt. It took me seven years to complete it, every stitch by hand. So far, it has been entered in last year's Sheboygan Quilt Show and also displayed at Kohler Art Center in a quilt show for the Sesquitenial. I think Aunt Helen would have been pleased to see it finished. The fabrics seem to be from the 40s or 50s so she held on to it for a long long time. I call it Aunt Helen's Flower Garden.

Tomorrow I am going to a Brewer Game with the family. Should be fun tailgaiting with everyone. Haven't seen George and Betsy or Nora and Leif for quite a long time.

Cheers

Mary

Tonight was my trap shootin' night. I did pretty good. Rosalee and I each shot two rounds of 25 and I got a 13 on the first and a 16 on the second. Usually I collapse on the second round but not this time. Uncle Ken Thuemmler met me yesterday and is letting me use an 11 38 Remington Automatic which seems to fit me much better than the gun I have been using, Randy's 870 Remington Pump. I have a lot to learn but "golly gee" I got more than half on both sessions. Doc and Bill gave me some more pointers when I finished so I will keep working on it.

Guess What. I found nectarines for 58 cents a pound!!!!! I'm going to make wine tomorrow. Doesn't that sound fun. I tried the LAST bottle of the Oldenberry(Elderberry - Bobbie gave me lots of frozen elderberries last year and I made one batch of wine that we called Oldenberry and another Port type, we called Roberta Red.) Now it tastes really good, similar to Domaine De Sac and Beaujolais and woe is me, it is all gone. Hopefully, Bobbie will have a good crop of elderberries one of these years. You never know about those crops. I try to take advantage of excess fruit.

Later

Mary