Every year or two during my travels through southern Missouri I stop at the Missouri Northern Pecan Growers coop and buy a bag of fresh, sweet, wild and organic pecans.  Because of COVID I haven’t been traveling as much and I’d run out. The horror!  How am I supposed to do any fall baking without pecans!

It’s a quick 90 minute drive from home, and the weather was about as perfect as it could be.  We’d had a light rain the evening before so I started out into clear blue skies and glistening corn fields.

Didn’t take long to get my pecans, and then I checked out the local quilt shop.  It was a small town so I was easily able to find parking on the street in front of the shop.

Inside the shop was delightful. They had a very nice assortment of fabrics, for such a little place out in the country I was quite impressed.  I bought a few yards of clearance fabric (bolt ends) and some fat quarters.

The cat prints were too cute to pass up, and I was super happy to find the woodland prints so I could expand my selection for making “man quilts” for the guild.

On the shop owners suggestion I checked out a local lunch place before heading home. It had a cute charm to it, and the sandwich was pretty good, too.

And then, back on the road for the drive home!