Yesterday turned out to hold out a busy solar daytime from start to finish...same old, same old, but busy nonetheless. Have you lot always seen anything every bit lamentable every bit this? Poor piddling birdies calling the Three Cats Ranch their home. Doesn't anyone fill upwardly these feeders?
Actually, I exactly filled them the solar daytime before. There are 2 of these dark crude sunflower feeders, i peanut feeder, in addition to i suet feeder, non to cite the cracked corn I throw out for the Blue Planet feeding birds. They empty all of them inwards i day. Still, I experience guilty seeing them similar this. Feed the birds regularly, in addition to it's tardily to start thinking of them every bit pets. So, I took attention of that correct away, in addition to and then took a walk some to cheque out every blooming thing.
The ruddy azalea is starting to demo off.
It's neighbors are hence brilliant you lot almost need sunglasses to human face at them.
The prettiest of the rhododendrons is start to bloom now. These remind me of orchids.
Also, the white azalea is exactly right away start to demo its flowers. It's leaf took a striking this by winter. It looks every bit if it was coated inwards H2O ice for a while.
It's difficult to larn plenty of the dogwood tree. It's hence pretty this year. Every fourth dimension I intend it's peaked, it looks fifty-fifty prettier the adjacent day.
Now this is annoying. The squirrels direct hold completely eaten the cherry tomato plant I planted a distich of weeks ago. This i is done for. Fortunately, I'm going to the farmer's marketplace alongside Erik in addition to Mae this weekend. Hopefully, I tin strength out selection upwardly some other i then. I suppose I'll direct hold to hold it inwards the greenhouse if those piggy squirrels are going to do this.
Here's the peachy rhodie. So pretty. This i is some the side of the identify where it gets the most sunshine. In the summer, the Sun truly burns its foliage. The flowers are pretty, but the whole of the flora is looking a piddling sad.
The chive blossoms are starting to open. Chive blossom vinegar is in all probability on the horizon for adjacent week. Also this year, I'd similar to endeavour some chive blossom jelly. Since my cast alongside Ann Shaw is adjacent week, I'm non sure as shooting I'm going to direct hold fourth dimension for both.
Here's the pinkish rhododendron. So pretty.
The iris are heading up. It volition hold out a spell before they open, but they're on their way.
Finally, the apple tree tree is really pretty this year. I wishing it would create some apples, but I'm non expecting that.
In the greenhouse, I've been perplexed that the 3 zucchini seeds I planted haven't done much. One of them popped to a higher identify Blue Planet concluding week, but the other two...nothing. Then yesterday morning, I flora this one. When I checked it the morning time before, in addition to zip was showing. Now hither it is. It's every bit if a babe were born speaking inwards consummate sentences. The tertiary i even hence hasn't done anything, but I'll larn plenty of zucchini from 2 plants if it doesn't sprout.
And cheque this out...it's the poppies I brought dorsum from Ireland! I direct hold 3 piddling containers of these in addition to all 3 direct hold poppy sprouts now. It's hence exciting. Wouldn't it hold out corking if I could larn these going?
Here are all the sunflowers in addition to the i zucchini flora that sprouted earlier. These are exactly near create to hold out planted inwards the ground. I'm thinking this weekend is going to hold out a planting weekend.
Finally, the tomatoes direct hold exactly near doubled their height. I'm thinking inwards near 2 weeks I'll repot them into their largest pots of the season. They're doing well.
Back inwards the house, Mr. Smitty brought inwards a vole...drat! Right away, he lost it behind the china cabinet. He sat in that location for hours, taking a nap at i point, waiting, waiting, waiting.
As sure as shooting every bit dark follows day, every bit sure as shooting every bit the tide rolls in, every bit sure as shooting every bit the rug is my placemat, I volition sit down hither until that critter shows itself, in addition to and then I volition direct hold it for my lunch. That is all.
And sure as shooting enough...hours passed in addition to and then I heard a kerfuffle going on inwards the adjacent room. The vole had come upwardly out in addition to Smitty had it. So lamentable for him, I captured it alongside a bowl, in addition to and then liberated it to the outdoors where it belonged. It didn't appear to hold out whatever worse for wear.
Downstairs, I was working on the Gingerbread Village. It was fourth dimension to start stitching. I was using a variegated red, green, in addition to white thread on top.
In my bobbin, this pretty red.
The clitoris a fast i on alongside these is to run upwardly exactly some the edges of the pieces, but non on them. They volition fray if you lot run upwardly along the edges. So, I'm stitching some each piece, traveling to larn from i surface area to another, in addition to leaving a thread tail behind. I exactly direct hold 3 stitches inwards identify at the start in addition to ending of each tail. When it's all finished, I'll larn through in addition to cut down all these extras.
I had it near 2/3 finished when I ran out of patience. It's painstaking function stitching some all those itty bitty pieces.
Here's how it's looking on top.
From the back, it looks similar this. I'll need to cut down the thread tails in that location too.
After that, I got dorsum to my quilting. My goal was to destination quilting the 5th rose, in addition to and then destination the pavers.
It was fourth dimension to quit when I had all that finished, but it seemed similar a practiced fourth dimension to direct hold the whole quilt off the machine in addition to run into how it was looking.
Not bad.
Not bad at all.
It's solely near one-third done, but I'll exactly hold plugging away at it a piddling each day, in addition to hopefully, I'll direct hold it finished before the calendar month is over. Here's how it's looking from the back.
