Remember these Heather Ross "Far Far Away" fabrics I bought some time ago? Well, I've since added some more to my collection.
So here's the layout. It all fits on my table top without the sashing. So imagine sashing (strips of fabric) between all the pieces. I don't have the sashing yet but I'm going to stop by Periwinkle (on 8th in Grosvenor Shopping Centre) and see what might work. I had previously eyed up a linen-look cotton that's available in two shades and there was also a deep Kona eggplant colour that might be right, too. 
The Rapunzel, Owl and Pussycat, and Sleeping Beauty fabrics are cotton canvas. The Unicorn, Princess and the Pea, Snails, and Frog On Lily Pad are cotton gauze. Aren't they pretty and girly? If this quilt turns out as nicely as I hope, I think I'll save it in case I have a granddaughter one day. No pressure, Hannah and Luke. Really. NO pressure. 
Remember this fabric?
"Longer duration of aromatase inhibitor use was found to be associated with increased risk of developing bone fractures and cardiovascular disease, but a lower risk of uterine cancer and blood clots. This conforms to previous findings that tamoxifen increases the risk of uterine cancer and blood clots. Five years of treatment with aromatase inhibitors was associated with a tendency toward increased risk of non-breast cancer specific death compared to five years of tamoxifen alone or tamoxifen for two to three years followed by an aromatase inhibitor for two to three years, but this result was not statistically significant. The authors conclude that the cumulative toxicity of aromatase inhibitors when used as up-front treatment may explain the lack of overall survival benefit compared to tamoxifen despite improvements in breast cancer-free survival. Switching from tamoxifen to aromatase inhibitors reduces this toxicity and is likely the best balance between efficacy and toxicity, according to the authors."Read more at the above link.
"A new study has reported that juice from organically grown tomatoes has higher levels of certain chemopreventive compounds than conventional tomato juice. The study was designed to compare the phenolic and antioxidant profiles of juice produced from organically and conventionally grown tomatoes in Barcelona, Spain."Read more about the study at the above link.
This summer we got a new fence with new gates at the back and front! I like it and so do our neighbours. Our neighbours on the right were especially excited because this fence allows enough light in their yard for them to grow a garden. So they tore up a stretch of lawn and have a nice crop of vegetables and flowers growing. 
Tonight we took in what has always been my favourite Saskatoon summer festival - Taste of Saskatchewan. Click on the link for details and menus. It was a spontaneous decision. We thought that with it being a bit cooler and windy perhaps it wouldn't be so busy as usual. We might have been right. The lineups weren't bad at all. That said, Kevin and I both give it a giant, disappointing THUMBS DOWN this year. I probably won't even go next year. I remember how disappointed I was to miss it for the first time since it started while I was having chemo. In fact, I think I was in the hospital when it was on two years ago. It seemed like extra punishment to have to miss my favourite summer event.
Kevin's and my mutual opinion this year was that some of the participating restaurants should be embarrassed by either the quality or the quantity of the dishes they were offering. I remember having the cheesecake in phyllo a few years ago (from Rembrandt's) and it was very good and a decent size. What they gave this year ... while calling it the same thing ... didn't even resemble cheesecake in phyllo. In fact I only found one little flake of phyllo. If not for it I wouldn't have thought there was any. And the serving was so tiny! More like a taste, which wouldn't have been bad if it had been a 1 ticket ($2.50) item but it was a 2 ticked ($5.00) dessert. They should be embarrassed! A particularly awful item was the beef skewer in a Pita from Peter D's. The beef turned out to be ground beef, which was a little surprising, and the Pita was so thick and dry that it was like eating chalk. It couldnt' even be made to "wrap" around the ground beef skewer. Kevin had just got his and we were looking for a place to park when we saw Carla from Kyle (and her kids) and she had just abandoned the same dish. I wish we'd run into her before we ordered ours because she was right. It was really too awful to eat.
We had Chorizo Sliders from Avocado's and they were quite good. Everything else we tried was just "meh". The Biranyi Basmati Rice, Chicken, and Middle Eastern Spices from Peter D's ... and the Mango Chicken Wrap from Somewhere Else Pub and Grill. I must say that the Black Forest Torte from the German Schnitzel Meister was quite good (but not exciting) and was real bang for your buck. It was designed to be a dessert for two. It was more like a small cake. The people working at the German Schnitzel Meister get credit for being festive, at least. That's another thing that seemed to be missing from the festival in general. The Schnitzel booth was the only one we visited where the people working there seemed happy to serve you and it's not like anyone was busy when we were there. And it's only day 2 of the festival so it's not like the people working it should be burnt out yet. A festival needs a "festive" attitude, I think. It seems to me that it used to be that way. Both Kevin and I got the distinct impression that the purpose of the event seems changed in that it now seems like more of a money grab instead of an opportunity to showcase, promote and try some new flavour sensations.
I hear that the Deep Fried Mars Bar is very good! The lineup at Wing World was testament to its popularity.
The best part of the whole event is, as always, bumping into people friends and neighbours.
He be huntin' wasps! 
For a little critter they pack a lot of pain. It really hurt. I Googled. I iced. I packed on a paste of baking soda and water. Then I used toothepaste. It sticks better. More ice. Frequent ice. While I believe all those things helped, the pain didn't really fade away until earlier today. It even woke me in the night. Of course, it would have helped if I'd taken a Tylenol or something like that but I'm loathe to take painkillers ever since I had a bad reaction to Advil. Bad in that Advil once caused me to swell up like a balloon starting at my feet and working it's way up my legs and even into my chest before I went to Emergency and Doctors determined that it was the Advil I had been advised to take for a badly sprained foot. No more Advil. No more painkillers for anything unless I really, REALLY need them. Unless it's morphine, of course. I've learned to love morphine which is why I don't let myself have that either.
I've decided to break free of white for the background fabric and am going with Kona Ash. It's the medium to light grey you see in the bottom left corner of the photo. Grey seems to be a popular trend in the quilting world. Well, I might be hitting the tail end of that trend. I had fully intended to use white but when I placed the ash colour by the fabrics, it really made the whites in the print fabrics pop and it toned down a bit (I think) the brighter colours.
Look what our garden has produced! I love garden peas. Raw and fresh from the pod. They're like candy. They're about the only vegetable in our garden that is doing well. Strawberries are starting to come. My radishes mostly drowned. The birds have eaten most of our lettuce. Our tomatoes look pathetic while everyone else's are looking great. The carrots ... jury's out. But our peas are great!
I've been enjoying some of the FIFA Women's World Cup games on tv. I've been feeling the pain with our Riders. Ouch! While watching sports I finished another handkerchief block and have another one almost finished. Progress! Yeah!
After not losing any hair to speak of since that one day last week, I was surprised to see quite a bit of it in the tub this morning. First I noticed more than the usual individual ones floating about and then I realized that there was also a "clump". Not a big clump but a lot more hair than one should be losing normally. That said, my hair doesn't visibly look thinner than it did. Yet.
"The bone loss associated with aromatase inhibitors [such as the Arimidex I was on for a while until my joints got so bad I could hardly walk] was significantly slowed with increasing supplements of vitamin D in a prospective cohort study of 156 postmenopausal women.
'The bone loss was less the higher your vitamin D level was maintained,' said session chair Dr. Thomas J. Smith of Massey Cancer Center of Virginia Commonwealth University. 'This is one of the first intervention studies,' he said. 'And the results are pretty striking.'"
This year the Kerr farm became a century farm. One hundred years ago my Grandpa cleared and established our farm. I always get very sentimental about our farm. I have very happy memories of growing up on the farm and I often wished my own kids had experienced the freedom and the carefree childhood that I knew. I have always felt very lucky to have grown up on our humble farm in our humble community. Life had a certain richness there that can't be duplicated in the city. And that's not just nostalgia speaking.
It was so nice to get to the lake for the weekend. Since we were really just back from our trip to BC, Kevin and I stayed home on Friday to do yard work and get a few other things done, too, and then we hit the highway on Friday night.
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