Sunday, March 17, 2024

Finally!  The mower is out of the shop!  Almost $200 later, it runs, but is no longer self-propelled...the drive train is out, and not worth fixing per the shop (I'm glad they told me that rather than bill me a gazillion dollars....)  The back lawn was easily a foot tall in some areas.  AJ weed-eated while I mowed the front (much shorter) and then I started the back.  You know it's tall when the bottom layer is yellow from lack of sunlight....


AJ took over mowing from me when he finished weed-eating.  Since the mower is now a push mower, I was quite happy to let him take it!  Due to the height of the grass, the mower died every few seconds/inches.  What is usually a 45 minute job for one of us to weed-eat and mow turned into a 2 hour job with both of us working it.  Now to shop for a new mower.....this one will be great for heavy-duty jobs like this, but I don't want to mow all summer this way.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

With a break in the weather, AJ and I took the dogs out for a walk and I grabbed some shots of the local flowers - my neighbors have some beautiful flowers!  The first shot is from the field, the rest are from my neighborhood.





 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Rain, rain and more rain - that's what last weekend was, so no fun outing for me!  I did have plans to go to the play at the local theater with Meredith, Robin and Leona, but the matinee performance was cancelled due to the illness of a cast member.  We decided to go out to lunch together anyway, since it was cancelled at 11:00, and after lunch found out that the cast member was Malorie!  She's still in the hospital, but is recovering.  Poor thing!

Since I didn't get out much, I was able to get all the blocks made for the new quilt, but not put together.  I was arranging and rearranging on the floor, since it's too big for my design board on the wall.



 

Saturday, March 09, 2024

What is is about cats and boxes?  I use this to hold my scissors, cut thread, etc. when I'm quilting the quilt tops, and I turned around, and it's full.....somebody had thread stuck on their tail when they jumped out....




 

Friday, March 08, 2024

Finally!  The sun is out!  Yesterday was a beautiful day in the valley - lots of snow on the surrounding mountains, and a few geese hanging out in the field when we walked the dogs.  We have sun for two days, and then back to rain, but I'll take the sunshine when I can!


 

Thursday, March 07, 2024

Jeff sent me this picture of a double rainbow yesterday - beautiful!!!


 

Tuesday, March 05, 2024

And I have half the blocks done for the quilt.  This one is going together quickly.  If I managed to cut the fabric correctly, it would go even faster, but I cut the next set of fabric wrong and had to re-cut a bunch.....not a good way to spend the afternoon!


 

Sunday, March 03, 2024

Another new toy for the kittens - gotta love Amazon boxes....


 

Saturday, March 02, 2024

A few more spring flowers - with all the rain we've had, it's so nice to see a bit of spring poking through. I'm ready for some sunshine!!





 

Friday, March 01, 2024

Speaking of new quilts, here's another "block a month" quilt I have started - it won't be finished until October - two blocks a month....


 

Thursday, February 29, 2024

The newest quilt has been started!  (You know I couldn't go for very long without a new one, right?)  This one is very simple piecing, relying on the fabric and placement to make it sing.



 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

It's official!  All four hens are laying! Yesterday was the first day that I got four eggs in one day.  I've known that they were all laying, but they all haven't laid an egg on the same day before.