Camping

Brandan had the fabulous idea for us to go camping this weekend so after I got off work on Saturday night at 6, we took the truck up to Schafer Butte and camped a night and spent some time in the outdoors and then came home. This was actually our first camping trip since we've been married despite that we have had the camping gear to do so for like 2 years now. It was a lot of fun and we will definitely be doing it again in a few weeks!
me and the sign

Brandan starting the fire

camping continued

getting ready to chop some firewood. that is the hatchet he got from my mom a couple of Christmas' ago, thanks mom!

foil dinners cooking, made by Brandan

we didn't know how long they needed to cook so we based it on the "smell test." Brandan was putting up the tent most of the time and I can't smell anything ever so when he got back, we just decided to look at them and see what progress was made. apparently the first rule of foil dinners is not to put them over the flame. they were totally ruined, we couldn't even eat the carrots even though they still looked good. so instead we ate s'more flavored poptarts.

with a dessert of real s'mores.

Brandan proud of the tent. he did a good job. he went to bed with a stomach ache that night but I felt pretty good.

camping continued

better luck with breakfast? I hope so, Brandan made pancakes.

they were delicious!

we went on a hike up the mountain, it was beautiful

i climbed

a nice meadow

Jason Roberts Cooking Show

Jason Roberts Cooking Show Boise, Idaho from Brandan Fisher on Vimeo.

My brother helped me out by being my cable grip for this show and thought it was pretty funny. I really wanted to show off a new piece of equipment that I got. Its called the spider brace. its the handle bars on my camera which make it so that camera isn't that shaky. it distributes out the weight of the camera more so you can go a lot longer with out being fatigued. I love doing this style of work. who knows I might be doing television one day.

Knitting

So when I get tired of quilting, I knit. These are my latest creations. Both of my visiting teachers are pregnant, one with a boy and the other a girl so I will probably give these to them. I know it's the middle of summer but I made them a little big so hopefully they will be able to wear them this winter.

Richmond, VA

I'm in Richmond doing a Church of the Bretheren Conference. We did the sound, lights, and Video.

a project finished (finally)

This is a quilt I made 3 years ago around the 4th of July and it was mostly done but I hadn't finished the binding so every year when I pull it out I strategically hide the side that isn't finished because it's mostly just for display anyways or for the occasional cold lap that never occurs in the middle of the summer. But anyways this year when I pulled it out I decided to cross it off my list and finish the binding. So here it is, 3 years later, a finished quilt. I started another quilt about 2 years ago that I need to finish quilting. It is queen size and is going to take forever. I have about 160 blocks left to quilt by hand so I figure if I do one every day, I might have it done by Christmas.