My "harvest" so far this year -  I had one snap pea pod last night to go in my salad.  I do have peppers set, the zucchinis are growing, and lots of tomatoes, so there will be more, but this is it so far.....

 

 

Allison's Day Program (that isn't open for in-person attendance) delivers craft packages twice a week.  Since Alli is anti-craft anything, most of the projects are either done by her helper, or are passed along to other small children I know.

One project this spring was decorating a pot and planting a bulb, with no indication of what type of plant it was.  The helper de jour did that, and....the plant grew!  Not only that, it flourished!  The pot that was sent to decorate was about 3 inches across and 5 inches high.  I moved the plant out of that quickly when I realized it was a begonia......and I should have picked a bigger pot then, too - I think it's going to outgrow this pot soon.

 

The garden is growing - I have a couple of yellow zucchini set - and they are very small still.  My tomatoes are doing good - I planted them very early this year and luckily for me we did not have a killer frost in April.

 

The lilies have started blooming in the koi pond!  The koi seems to be quite happy and are quite big - hard to believe they are only two years old!

Here's a photo from June, 2020 - look how little they were!!

 

I, once again, had help putting a quilt sandwich together.  I'm trying a new-to-me type of batting - fusible batting.  Sounded simple, and it actually worked out that way, if you ignore my helper.  I still have to spread it all out on the floor (Picot's cue to come help) and then I iron the whole thing together instead of pinning and basting it together.  The second picture is when I have the quilt on the ironing board - Picot lay down on the quilt underneath - making it hard to move the quilt along as I pressed.  The end result is a lot better, but it takes me a lot longer.  (My end results before might have been better if I had taken more time pinning and basting though....)

 

Sorry I've been MIA - my mornings got busy, so I need to adjust my time for posting.  I'm trying to adjust my work schedule so I'm not putting in as many (unpaid) hours.  After so many years of working so much, I was surprised at how hard it is to not "over-work" myself!  So.....to relax a bit, here's one of my roses....

 

And the finished project!!!

 

Alex had a new project last weekend.  He's been collecting plushies of the character "Evie" (and all the evolutions) from the Pokémon series and recently found skateboards with them too.  So....he figured out how to display them, and "we" figured out how to make it happen.  (It's the little things that you don't notice - Ralph did all the handyman stuff that I didn't even think about.  I knew I needed to learn the big stuff - lawn mowing, pool maintenance, etc., but didn't realize I never used the power drill before....)  Not too bad a display job!!

 

Photos from my lunch-time walk last week:

 

Why I can't have nice things.....

I was trying to put a quilt top together, and decided to try putting it on the floor to view the placement of the blocks (not quite fitting on my design board on the wall) and I had 'help'....

First Luna  came to visit...

Then Ripley came to see what Luna found...

And since they were there....a tussle ensued....

And then Picot came to see what the fuss was all about....

I did get it put together though - in spite of all the 'help' I had.  I ran out of fabric - it needs a final white boarder put on it, so I hope to pick up that fabric today, along with a backing fabric, binding fabric and the batting to finish it.

When I parked to go to my nail appointment, I was immediately "attacked" by a blue bird!  I parked close to their nest, and he had a fight with himself in my mirror - too funny!  I didn't catch that on my video - I was trying to move slowly so I didn't frighten him.  Turns out I didn't have to worry about scaring him away - he attacks every car that pulls in, having learned that they all have a "blue bird in a box" on the side of the car... 

 

Unsolicited cute pet pictures.....sharing is caring....

And I'm just a goofball.....

 

More random pictures taken during geocaching.....