UFO's in a western town

Quick, what song does my title sound like?! It's something something in a western town. A group from the 80's (90's?), Brits, and a little hint-they were boys and a place where you would buy a pet! Give me the name of the song and group. If there's a bunch of you, I'll draw a name and I'll send you a little something! Leave a working email too if it's not on your profile.

I thought I would get on here and show what I've been stitching on lately and road trip pictures.

This is the scene outside my front door. The monsoons have arrived and it has rained for 11 days straight here. Well, it stops and then after daytime heating, it's storming. Needless to say, the fire restrictions have been lifted. Yesterday's storm was pretty frightening though. It lightning and thundered and rained for 90 minutes and as I type I can hear a thunder boom. Places flooded, I had two rivers going by my house on either side. I'm thankful whoever built this house kind of built it up so we're on a slight hill. The lightning was hitting within 2 miles, sometimes within 1 mile. I sat here with my head inside my shoulders. I hope we don't get a repeat.

I've been flitting from stitching this and that. First, here is my 4th of July SAL FB project, Dear House by La D Da..

Before, all I had was the middle section of the brown flower and a portion of the chimney. On 35 or 36ct vintage examplar linen by Lakeside. That fabric is becoming my favorite. The SAL was you stitched a patriotic piece or one with red, white, or blue. So the floss is Midnight by GAST, a beautiful dark blue. The verse says-'Dear house, you are really very small Just big enough for love That's all'. Cute saying. I didn't stop stitching after the 4th, just kept going. It's a slow piece but it'll be pretty after it's done.

The next thing I stitched is Merry Hart by PSS...

I'm stitching this with a few ladies on a PSS FB group for #plumstreetsunday. Any Plum Street you have, stitch it on Sunday. Above is two Sundays worth of stitching. It's not a lot! I'm doing this on 36ct Platinum Edinburgh, coffee dyed a bit.

And lookie here! Frosty Forest by CCN! I decided it's too nice to be in the UFO bin.

The 4th block on the right is going in. I have to remind myself that I like stitching houses. Sorry for the wrinkles. I'm back to a block a month so I'll be picking Forest back up to finish that one for the month.

Here's another one from the UFO bin..Trick or Treat from the 2012 Halloween issue from JCS..

That is where I stopped couple years ago. I brushed it off and will be stitching on this when I'm done here typing. I'm using all called for fabric and floss. I'm a little worried about running out of the overdyes since these are older flosses. The dye lots are so different. I feel like some Halloween stitching. Hard to believe July is almost over. 

Okey doke, road trip! We went to Tombstone couple Saturday's ago, the 7th. It's a 4 hour drive straight down I-17 into Phoenix, then over to I-10 down to Tucson. We left early to avoid the hottest part of the day but it still reached 99 in Tombstone. Motel room wasn't ready when we got there so we went to the Boothill Graveyard..

The main characters of the OK Corral shootout against the Earps and Doc Holiday. The wooden markers have to be changed out every so often but they are buried there. There was money on a lot of the sites; probably to play a round of poker in the sky!

One of the more photographed graves. He was an agent for Wells Fargo and died in a shootout.

Playing cards was a dangerous occupation if you cheated!

This is an Ocotillo cactus..

They grow tall and the canes after they're dead are used for fences. We saw several of these 'fences'! 

I couldn't take a lot of pictures. My darn iPad kept overheating and then a full storage message kept popping up. So a few more pictures with my cell. 

Here is one of the characters who greeted us after wandering the cemetery. He was announcing a shootout show in one of the buildings. A lot of these people dress in the style back then and the women were just beautiful in those old west style clothing. My daughter and I wanted to dress up and get photographed but we were working with a budget!

We didn't ride in any of these coaches. It was hot so we wandered around in all the stores and mercantiles lining this road for shade and cold drinks.

There was one place I really wanted to check out and that was the Birdcage Threatre. My daughter didn't send me the good picture she took. They also charged for a tour through the building. We didn't take it, just stood in the front part. Still there after all these years, the inside looks how it did in the late 1800s. There's a poster that is still on the wall and it has the knife slits and bullet holes in it from angry miners and cowboys. The Birdcage was a poker place, theater, and bordello. Here's that poster of Fatima..

I know you can't see it but there's a knife cut down between her knees at the front and a bullet hole where her belly button is. The guy inside showed us all the bullet holes still stuck in the wood. 

And from our motel window, the rain starting up a little ways from us...

I have always wanted to see Tombstone and now it's off my bucket list. For some reason, I don't mind the 5, yes 5 hour drive to Las Vegas and Tombstone was only 4 hours away but it was a hard trip. I think it was because it was so hot. Halfway there, we stopped for drinks and snacks and it was 103 at 11 or noontime. I'll go back in the winter next time!

Oh yeah, the reason we went was for the ghost hunt! Interesting. Held inside the home of a Chinese woman. These old west towns had Chinese labor who worked on the railroad or in the mines. This woman had her own business. So my daughter got a dowsing rod and I chose a EMM, electromagnetic meter. Spirits are said to give off that energy if they're close by. We didn't get anything but when I held the dowsing rod and walked around, the right rod kept moving left. The left rod was steady but the right side kept moving so that was kind of cool! 

Leaving Tombstone though was interesting. We ran into a border patrol checkpoint! A bit scary. He asked us if we were US citizens and we said yes, and he waved us on. Tombstone is not very far from the Mexico border.

Alrighty, that is it. The lightning and thunder is firing up again. I'm just going to stitch on whatever yells the loudest but I do want to spend some time on Trick or Treat. Don't forget to play the little contest. If you're around my age, 54, you'll recognize it I think! 

Take care!