I decided to take the name that Crispy suggested for the flowery quilt that I asked about the other day. “Walking the Primrose Path” - thanks for the suggestion Crispy, it sounds right. Thanks to everyone else for their suggestions as well, I liked them all. I want to get outline quilted all around the flowers and leaves before we start our trip in the motorhome in May. Then by folding the quilt just right so the border is showing I can actually be quilting the border while Mike drives. The quilting will be nice and simple – straight lines and by having all the flowers and leaves outline quilted it will hold it all still and I won’t have to use a hoop – which would be awkward although do able but I would rather not use the hoop up in the cab of the motorhome if I don’t need to. I will be right next to the air so won’t get too hot unless the sun is shiny really bright while we are driving.
I haven’t gotten back to my pineapple blocks since earlier in 
the week. Yesterday – actually last night I quilted 3 more of the Insanity blocks from Dear Jane on the quilting frame. Row D # 10, 9 & 8 from left to right in the photo.
Today some time was spent on things in the camper. Only 2 weeks until we leave on our trip and I have to get things ready. I got the small rugs washed and dried and all the towels are in the dryer now to freshen them up. We plan on using some campgrounds this summer without electric hookups.
We are both coffee drinkers so I ordered a small stove top coffee peculator of of Amazon.com — you know the kind people use to use before all these automatic electric coffee makers were invented! LOL, it arrived yesterday and we tried it out last night. I know my parents had one but I did not remember how it actually worked. I didn’t want an explosion of coffee in the motorhome so thought I better experiment with it at home first 
In the photo the coffee pot looks kind of large but that is only because the 
stove top is so small – really — 2 burners only. You know they say a cup of coffee is really only supposed to be like 5 oz.!! who really pours themselves that tiny of a cup. I made an 8 cup pot last night in my experiment and we both had cups that hold about 12 ozs. or so and there was only a little bit left in the pot.
Yes the coffee 
turned out, but we watched it the whole time, I didn’t know if it would boil over or not – it didn’t – it perked. I looked up on line how to make it and there were so many different opinions, – boil the water, don’t boil the water, this, that, — I let it boil, turned the heat down to medium and let it perk for 5 minutes. It was strong coffee, I think I will put in a little less coffee grounds next time but do it the same way over all. Unless any of you readers know I should be doing it different that is!! Let me know.
This other picture on the left is of my working space in the kitchen in the camper. The refrigerator is on the opposite side of the wall not shown and the dinnette/bed is at the end. The lids over the stove top and the sink fold flat so you have a useful space when you aren’t using the sink or the stove. I will put in more photo’s another day. The dinnette turns into a bed at night and it is a little larger than a double size bed but quite comfy. This is not a large motorhome – it is a nice motorhome, but only 25 feet in length. Not big enough to live in, but comfortable for two people for fairly long vacations.
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