Now that the [mostly] skillful conditions has arrived hither at the Three Cats Ranch, mornings start pretty much the same every day...with kitties sitting at the drinking glass door saying, "Open, open, open." We don't allow them out until there's some action outdoors.
They've worked out a pretty skillful routine for themselves. Out the door to a greater extent than or less 8:00 a.m., inward for the solar daytime at to a greater extent than or less 1:30 p.m. They could remain out longer, but they unremarkably come upwards inward for naps. After that, nosotros close the door. We don't desire them heading out in 1 lawsuit again after their naps, or we'll guide hold problem getting them inward later on inward the day. At first, they whined nearly the early on halt to their day. Now, they seem almost relieved when it's fourth dimension to come upwards in.
Once the door is open, it's cats on a mission! They e'er caput showtime to where the RV is parked. That's where most of the squirrels reside. So far this summer, neither has caught a squirrel, but it isn't for lack of trying.
Yesterday morning, I filled my hoop too and then moved it to the side yesteryear side position.
When I'm cook to displace it again, it volition endure really nearly finished.
Then, I went for a walk around. The regal iris are blooming now.
Mike got the drip irrigation develop for the tomatoes yesterday. It's e'er a relief when I tin halt worrying nearly keeping them watered.
The poppies are going bully guns. They're however a picayune also pocket-size to industrial plant life outside, but shortly plenty I'll endure moving them.
We've cleared out a infinite inward 1 of the whiskey barrels for them. They'll guide hold all novel dirt. We're going to brand some kind of "cage" for the hand off of the whiskey barrel until they're well-established. I'm afraid the squirrels volition dig them up. Also, ii cats retrieve this would brand a lovely litter box.
The lettuce had a puny showing this year. I planted fifteen seeds inward 3 varieties, five seeds each. Only 3 seeds of ii varieties came up. One diversity was a consummate bust. My seeds are several years old. It's belike fourth dimension for some novel ones.
On the other hand, nosotros larn a lot of lettuce inward our CSA share. Possibly, nosotros don't demand much lettuce. I'm however deciding.
Here's my wimpy basil plant. It would endure larger except I maintain cutting things off of it.
The squirrels guide hold thoughtfully planted sunflowers side yesteryear side to the catnip. This has potential. I'm going to allow these grow.
Whatever ate the hand off of the cherry love apple tree industrial plant life didn't succeed inward killing it. It seems to endure making a comeback, too it's discover a lot of novel leaves.
The novel hanging cherry love apple tree has ii tomatoes on it! This thrilled me beyond measure.
After my tour of the garden, I made a tour of the grocery store. With Mike at home, I tin guide hold him alternative upwards picayune items on his many trips to the hardware or motorcar parts stores. It way I'm making fewer trips. Which also way the trips I guide hold tend to endure large ones, too yesterday's trip took most of the morning. When I got home, nosotros had lunch, too and then naps. Then it was fourth dimension to larn sewing.
The Quiltmaker's Garden has me dragging my feet. I'm actually hence tired of working on it. Getting it quilted too saltation is my May OMG, but my commitment is waning. Possibly it won't larn finished until June. It's supposed to endure fun, right? Yesterday's quilting was rather uninspired. I'm at the hand off of the gazebo, too I've struggled alongside ideas nearly how to quilt it. For this section, I did some insy-outsy, swoopty-doopty things. (These are technical quilting terms, hence displace to maintain up.)
Then I went for the low-hanging fruit. I've already done most of these picayune yellow-centered flowers, too hence I continued alongside what I've done before.
Here's how it looks from the back.
I quilted feathers into the butterfly wings, every bit I did alongside the other butterfly. Then I tried this kind of braided foliage matter on 1 of the gazebo cross beams. It isn't really even, too I'm considering taking it out too trying again.
The stance of taking it out makes me experience fifty-fifty less similar working on it, if such a matter is fifty-fifty possible. Here's how it looks from the back. I'm going to quilt all to a greater extent than or less it too and then run into how I experience nearly it. It's possible, this less-than-perfect motif volition only larn lost inward the quilting shuffle.
So, yeah...as I've been writing this post, I've been thinking I'll forget nearly it every bit the May OMG too recommit inward June. There are other things I'd rather run on, too I'll belike usage a improve undertaking if I guide hold a intermission from it.
This morning time Sue too I are walking the Fanno Creek Trail. It's been many moons since we've walked there, too hence I'm looking forrad to seeing how things are growing. Usually, nosotros run into ducklings along the trail, but it mightiness endure also shortly for them. It's fourth dimension to consume breakfast too endure on my way. Oh yes, too we're celebrating 43 years of wedded bliss today! This mightiness surprise you, but I wasn't fifty-fifty born when nosotros got married! Mike literally robbed the cradle. We're having dinner out tonight. The calendar month of May is murder on our diets.