Garden

My first big garden harvest! I’ve picked a few beans and a couple of zucchini before, but this is the first time I’ve had enough beans for a meal at one time. 

My lilies are blooming!  I picked up the bulbs a couple of years ago on a whim, not thinking they would grow (late in the season, on sale for $1.00) but they've done great!

I have some hyacinth bulbs to plant in the same area - I got the bulbs in full bloom to decorate for Easter and Mother's Day, and the flowers are done, ready to be planted and (maybe) come back next year.  I don't have high hopes for them either - something about planting when it''s 100 degrees outside doesn't make me hopeful they will live, but...we'll see next Spring!

It's here.....the first heat wave summer has arrived!  We were almost 90 at 10:00....

 

It's been a bit - I got busy....I had a business trip to San Diego, and between prepping for that and a Memorial Day BBQ here, I got behind in everything else.  The trip went well, and Alli behaved nicely for everyone while I was gone, so it was overall a good week.  Karen had not watched Alli overnight before, and I forget how much effort it takes to get everything set up for someone new.  Whew!

Right before I left, as I was getting the koi pond ready for me to be gone, I has a visitor.....

 

Margene and I took Jordan to the Sundial Bridge.  It was a beautiful day (after the rainy day before).   

Cindy took Alli for a walk at the arboretum a couple of days before - the arboretum is all decked out for the Glowing Wild exhibit that runs at night.

We stopped by Whiskeytown Lake, and the goose family was out!

 

Margene and Jordan came out for a visit, and we packed a lot of sight-seeing in very few days. They got in late Friday at Sac (home by 1:00 a.m.) and Saturday was "the falls loop".  We went to Lower and Middle McCloud Falls, Burney Falls and Subway Cave (after lunch in Mt. Shasta at the origianl Yaks).  I wanted to add a walk around Manzanita Lake at Lassen Park, but we ran out of time.  (The Big Event garage sale was the same day, and Leona and Lorraine used my house for a jewelry sale and garage sale - we spent too much time chatting with them to make it to the lake, but it was time well spent.)

 

Monday was Allison's birthday - 28!!  As usual, I'm always surprised at how old my kids are....I don't know how time goes so fast.  I bakes 12 dozed mini-cupcakes to take to Alli's day program, and she seemed to be having a good time.  The Supervisor sent me some pictures of her giggling....

 

I posted this in my family group chat, and neither of my brothers either 1) laughed at me or 2) offered my $100.00...so sad!

 

I have baby zucchini!!

The quilt top is finished!  I ordered the backing fabric for it, so it will be a couple of weeks before I have it ready to sandwich and quilt.  I think it turned out great!!

I spent most of Saturday morning upgrading the chicken pen for the babies.  I set up a pop-up tent and created a separate pen for them (babies and adults don't mix well.  They need to be big enough to defend themselves from the older chickens before they are turned out together.) They've gotten so they look like chickens now - not quite so "scruffy teenagers".

They seemed to like sunbathing in the dirt.So cute cuddled up together....

I finished the blocks on the chicken quilt!  Now, I need to put it all together (and quilt it and bind it...still a long way to go before it's complete)  Here are the blocks:

And here's some of the borders added - a thin yellow border and a wider green border.