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Good morning, my friends. It's the last day of April. All along I've been thinking something along the lines of "When May arrives, then we'll have to get serious about..." And here it is. Time to get serious about our trip. As I'm writing, Mike is downstairs working with a small Canon printer I used when we made our trip around the USA Perimeter in 2017. I'm trying to think of a good comparison for size, but nothing is coming to me. Let's just say it's about the size of the average hardback ...

Good morning, my friends. It's the last day of April. All along I've been thinking something along the lines of "When May arrives, then we'll have to get serious about..." And here it is. Time to get serious about our trip. As I'm writing, Mike is downstairs working with a small Canon printer I used when we made our trip around the USA Perimeter in 2017. I'm trying to think of a good comparison for size, but nothing is coming to me. Let's just say it's about the size of the average hardback ...

Good morning, my friends. It's a foggy and wet Tuesday here. We had pretty decent weather yesterday, but it started raining overnight. That's pretty typical spring weather in the Pacific Northwest. We're doing our grocery shopping this morning, and so I'm hoping the wet stuff will stay in the heavens while we're out and about. Grocery shopping is bad enough without having to do one's loading and unloading in the rain.

With yesterday's weather fairly decent, Smitty kept me company while I walked around to check on the flowers.

Good morning, my friends. It's a foggy and wet Tuesday here. We had pretty decent weather yesterday, but it started raining overnight. That's pretty typical spring weather in the Pacific Northwest. We're doing our grocery shopping this morning, and so I'm hoping the wet stuff will stay in the heavens while we're out and about. Grocery shopping is bad enough without having to do one's loading and unloading in the rain.

With yesterday's weather fairly decent, Smitty kept me company while I walked around to check on the flowers.

Well a little hand work went on here on Sunday and some piecing by machine.  Garden work in that I picked strawberries and got over 5 cups of them. I was over eager and should have let some of these get a little redder but they are still tasty. Two of the black borders are […]

It has rained most of the week, which has been wonderful for tamping down the wildfires. It has made the grass and weeds grow, and brought the azaleas in full bloom. I’ve been taking more photos of them. We have this deep pink, along with the pastel pink and white ones. A few days from now, there should be blooms all the way down the driveway.

My Merlin app says we have a blue-grey gnatcatcher in the local avian choir, but I have not seen it yet. They look a lot like a titmouse without the tufted head. There ...

Good morning, my friends. We've had a couple of days of warm and beautiful weather. This morning we're back to cloud cover. It's nice while it lasts, and we took advantage of it yesterday. There was time in the morning to finish off the Spring Flowers embroidery before I needed to get ready to leave. 

Good morning, my friends. We've had a couple of days of warm and beautiful weather. This morning we're back to cloud cover. It's nice while it lasts, and we took advantage of it yesterday. There was time in the morning to finish off the Spring Flowers embroidery before I needed to get ready to leave. 

I am now ready to attach the top and bottom borders to Sunny Dazes and get on to the side borders.  I’m moving slower on it then I intended to as with the warmer weather comes garden work.  I hope to get the borders attached today and glue baste the half plates in place for […]

On Saturday was my blog anniversary – I forgot to mention that – I started this blog on April 19, 2007 – 18 years!! wow how time flies – my first post is here.  It was short and to the point – I think the first year was kind of like that, not sure what […]

Good morning, my friends, and Happy Easter! When I woke up yesterday morning, I felt very much refreshed after taking it easy for a couple of days. Sewturday is the day I've given myself during the week in which I am guaranteed nothing but sewing. But it was a pretty day yesterday, and so I ended up doing a little of everything. 

Anne Lamott wrote a piece for the Washington Post recently about being born "for times like these." She and I are approximately the same age. She says in the piece that she's 71, and I am ...

Good morning, my friends, and Happy Easter! When I woke up yesterday morning, I felt very much refreshed after taking it easy for a couple of days. Sewturday is the day I've given myself during the week in which I am guaranteed nothing but sewing. But it was a pretty day yesterday, and so I ended up doing a little of everything. 

Anne Lamott wrote a piece for the Washington Post recently about being born "for times like these." She and I are approximately the same age. She says in the piece that she's 71, and I am ...

The azaleas came into bloom this week with about half of the shrubs well into their spring show, just lovely! We have a lot of bushes inside the driveway island and down the edge of the meadow along the driveway. My favorite ones are the white ones. Luckily, the cold nights do not seem to have damaged the blooms significantly.

There are a few brown edges here and there, but mostly they are pristine.

I love the soft pink of this one, and it was full of big bumblebees busily collecting pollen.

On another white azalea, there is always one ...

One more half plate was appliqued down for the Sunny Daze quilt two more to go on the top border.  I can get done with these in less than an hour if I’m not distracted.  It shouldn’t take long to get them all done but as you know I get easily distracted.  It is all […]

Good morning, my friends. It seems I needed a day off from sewing yesterday. It was such a pretty day, and I didn't want to spend the afternoon in my windowless basement sewing room. There was some time for slow-stitching in the morning. These Le Jardin blocks are small, but they take more time to stitch than expected.

Good morning, my friends. It seems I needed a day off from sewing yesterday. It was such a pretty day, and I didn't want to spend the afternoon in my windowless basement sewing room. There was some time for slow-stitching in the morning. These Le Jardin blocks are small, but they take more time to stitch than expected.

Yesterday was an inside outside day it was breezy and humid and up to 80.  The A/C came on for awhile – it is that humidity that does it. The bottom border of Sunny Daze was completed for the applique, linking to Patchwork & Quilts & SoScrappy as finally I have some progress on the […]

This morning, we went to the new WinCo store to check it out. We actually came home with 5 bags of groceries plus stuff and it was half the price of what we spend at Safeway. There were a few things that we could get cheaper at Safeway, but not much. Their produce was even better. So, chances are we will be shopping there more. We used to, when we lived in Pullman. 

We came home and unloaded. Then I sat and worked on my beading. I'm not happy with it, but Patrick likes it. I don't. First ...

I decided to glue baste the half plates down on the top and lower borders for Sunny Daze and then machine sew those two borders in place – then I need to get the correct measurement of the sides for the side borders before I get those six plates glue basted down.  I do have […]

Good morning, my friends. It's a bright sunny day, as it was yesterday. I'm very tempted to get outside for a walk this morning. Also this morning, I'm making some Turkey and Artichoke Stuffed Shells with Arrabiatta Sauce for our dinner with the neighbors tomorrow. It's not difficult to make, but there are several steps, and it is time-consuming. Tomorrow I'll make a salad and a dessert. Today, it's all about the pasta. 

Yesterday morning, I finished up April's block for A Year in the Garden.