Home from camp -- long and somewhat OT

Camp had a few "growing pains" this year, since it's under new ownership now. However, it was still well worth going. My best quilting buddy and I met up -- as usual -- there and took a wonderful class from Helen Frost and Cathy Skow on how to do a variety of different kinds of bindings. I have a binder full of samples to refer to now, too. If you have a chance, do take this class! :)

We heard a lecture from the hysterically funny and tremendously talented David Taylor one evening; my cheeks hurt by the end of it. We also worked through some EQ7 lessons, which was fun.

So camp was good, and I'm already looking forward to the next one. :)

The bad news is that I had a repeat of my car "adventure" from last year. I was about 30-35 miles away from Flagstaff and hoping for a bit of lunch upon arrival when my car quit. I barely had enough power to get over to the shoulder and turn on my emergency flashers. I let the car rest, and it decided to start, but it repeated the process again a few minutes later. Luckily, unlike last year, it did start up again and allowed me to finish the drive to Flagstaff, so I didn't have to be towed or anything. However, I called DH while I was waiting on the side of the road and told him that I was *never* going to bring this particular car to camp again. He agreed, and we decided to shop for cars at some point in the fall, something we'd already been discussing.

Yesterday, though, he said he thought we should go look at cars, so off we went to the Toyota dealership. We'd planned to *look* at a couple of different hybrid cars, but we both couldn't bring ourselves to go anywhere else once we'd seen the Prius. So I'm now the owner of a lovely white (Blizzard Pearl -- the name alone should keep me cooler in the summer) Prius with *lots* of space in the back for sewing machines and fabric! Yay! The temperamental car is going to find a new home; it behaves beautifully except on the way to Flagstaff.

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Sandy
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Sounds like your old clunker doesn't like the altitude around Williams and Flagstaff, or maybe it doesn't like the climb up Ash Fork hill! It's WAY higher there than you are in Vegas!

Donna in Idaho

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Donna in Idaho

I suspect that Donna may be right about the altitude. We had a car that really rejected the notion of doing hills and highs. Just fine on flat but anything else was going to be met with a heap of protest. Anyhow, glad you had a good camp holiday and happy you have new fancy transportation. Did you ask the dealer if she 'does' altitude? Polly

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Polly Esther

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