Way back in June I got an email from Groupon about a 50% deal on a one night stay at the Knik River Lodge in Palmer. I decided to snap one up and we could figure out a date later.
Well, I should say at the far end of Palmer at the very end of Knik River Road. The road follows the river and at the very end of the road is the lodge. Around the corner of the foothill of the mountain the river continues a ways until its start reaches the end of the Knik Glacier.
The lodge is actually 15 small cabins, a very small double cabin for the owner and his wife and young son, another building not much bigger than the cabins that is the kitchen and the Yurt that is the dining hall.
After looking at the calendar and knowing when we would be gone outside for visits to family and a school meeting, we decided on a Sunday and Monday (I paid regular price for a second night) to avoid the weekend rush and so that I could have a last fling before school starts on Thursday.
Our hosts were Dutch emigrees and couldn't have been nicer people. Most everyone else staying at the cabins while we were there were either from Germany, France or Poland. We decided to have dinner the first night at the Yurt. The food was very good, but a bit on the expensive side. Probably since everything was at the end of a 12 mile partial dirt road and was definitely the only delivery for Sysco on that road.
Back at the cabin that evening we decided to take it easy. Bert had been reading Two Years Before the Mast and had been asking me about various terms because of my maritime background. I had some hand quilting that I wanted to do, so he read out loud to me and I sewed away. About three hours later he was many pages further in his book and I had completed a great deal of quilting.
The weather wasn't the greatest, it's been raining a lot the last few days, so we continued in the morning where we had left off the night before. Bert reading and me sewing. We did get out in the late morning and the afternoon for some hiking, but those pictures will have to wait for later. Here is one view across the Knik River. On the other side of the mountains in the distance is the Matanuska River which flows from the Matanuska Glacier.
Anyways, we had a wonderful and relaxing couple of days just for the two of us.
The "finish a quilt" crusade continues. These pictures are of the latest unfinished project that is now finished. I can't even remember how many years ago I started this one. Something like six or seven it seems like. All hexagons as you can see and I sewed them all together by hand. The purple flowers are sort of like fabric origami. There are some in the book that are way more complicated than these but at the moment I'm too afraid to try them. I was going to sew the buttons on by machine, but decided that if I'd pieced it by hand, quilted it by hand, hemed it by hand, sewed the flowers on by hand, that I might as well sew the buttons on by hand, so, it is all sewed by hand. I know, I'm crazy. And I really do love the contrast between the teal greens and the purples. In general I like green and purple so this was right up my alley. I've got plenty of other projects to finish, including a Hawaiian quilt about a yard square that I'd started quilting but haven't finished. I think, though, that I want something different to work on to finish before I finish that one. We'll see. 
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