Monday, May 9, 2011

Diane, George and Fruitcake Heaven !

My friend, Janet Allen, had told me about Diane Rose the amazing quilter in Waco Texas.  One of the news shows did a story on her and she has become fairly well known as a result.  Why?  Because she is blind !  This woman makes the most beautiful quilts, hand and machine sewn.  Here is the link to her website and you can see the story that aired on television, see her quilts and you can even email her. http://theamazingquilter.com/

We put her address into our GPS and ended up at her house.  She was gracious enough to let us purchase some of her goods and I got a picture of her.  She was in curlers because she has a speaking engagement this afternoon.  She is a hoot...very nice and full of energy !  Notice that we were in the room where the news piece was filmed.  Here she is, Diane Rose-The Amazing Quilter


Okay, just down the street in Waco we happened across Collins Street Bakery, which Linda and Henry knew about because they get a fruit cake from them every year at Christmas. We got a sample and it was pretty delicious and I don't care much for fruit cake. 



Okay, we finally left Waco and headed to College Station, where we will camp tonight. We pulled in just at 2PM and had to jump out of our RVs and into a tow car so we could get to the Bush Presidential Library in time.  We made it and boy was this a nice library, Reagan's is still my favorite but this is right there too.  I took a slew of pictures and its hard to choose which ones to share on the blog. 





So, tomorrow we head to San Marcos...located between Austin and San Antonio.  Its very hot and windy here and Texas is in a severe drought situation.  We are doing well, RVs are running good and we are still having a great time.  xxoo  TML