We've had some beautiful days of sunshine for the by 2 days. We're expecting overnice weather condition all week, although non equally warm equally yesterday as well as today. And what a lovely Mother's Day I had. The outset move of the morn was spent transplanting the iii zucchini plants I started from seeds.
Also, I had close a dozen sunflowers to transplant. I've tried diverse methods of marking these without resorting to some sort of expensive permanent sign. The methods I've tried ever neglect because it takes no fourth dimension at all for the Sun to fade the permanent marking I've used. This year, I tried peeling the painter's record label off the pots they were growing in. I wrapped it some a bamboo skewer similar a picayune flag. I'm expecting the markings to fade again, but it's worth a try.
They don't aspect similar much yet, but it won't accept long until they'll move blooming large fatty flowers. I love the sunflowers.
While I was doing that, Mike was difficult at piece of employment edifice a bench for me. I've wanted i for years, but it was the plaque that Sue gave me for Christmas that got us thinking seriously close it. Mike purchased the halt pieces from Amazon.com as well as and then he merely needed to render the lumber as well as the elbow grease. Within a duet of hours...voila! One common bench. We sat at that topographic point inwards the latter move of the afternoon, as well as it was rattling nice.
As for the plaque, if you lot missed the even out behind this, you lot tin read it correct here.
So my cheers instruct to my dearest friend of hence many, many years, as well as to Mike for this sweetness Mother's Day gift.
I took a picayune walk some the yard yesterday afterward I'd finished my planting. The white azalea is blooming inwards profusion now.
Also, this is the golden chain tree Mike gave me for my birthday concluding year.
This is our 3rd endeavour amongst this sort of tree. We planted it inwards a dissimilar place this time. Our vecino has one, as well as hence I know they'll grow inwards our picayune micro climate hither on the hill. We had it inwards a identify amongst piteous drainage before, as well as the roots rotted away. This i is inwards a ameliorate spot, as well as hence we're hoping this 3rd fourth dimension volition move the charm. The flowers aren't all the same open, but when they are, they're rattling fragrant, as well as a favorite of bees as well as hummingbirds.
We were invited to Erik as well as Mae's identify for dinner. When I went upstairs to accept a shower, I happened to honour the Quiltmaker's Garden quilt in i trial to a greater extent than draped over my sewing chair. Where's Sadie? Has anyone seen Sadie?
She actually likes her picayune quilt fort. It'll move a shame when I'm finished amongst the quilt. I mightiness own got to position a stand-in at that topographic point for when I'm non working on a large quilt similar this one.
Speaking of cats, I got some proficient pictures of Erik as well as Mae's kitties concluding night. This picayune i is Cricket. She's rattling friendly, afraid of no one, as well as rattling photogenic.
Her sister, Clementine, is to a greater extent than shy, as well as it's been rattling difficult to instruct a proficient motion-picture exhibit of her. We were at that topographic point long plenty concluding nighttime that she was willing to come upwardly some as well as to let me to approach for a proficient paradigm of her.
I'm wanting to brand their pawtraits i of these days. Either of these photos volition work. Also, I took a motion-picture exhibit of i of their poppies. These are the poppies I brought dorsum from Ireland. My seeds own got sprouted, but they're merely barely getting started. I'll laissez passer on them a picayune longer inwards the greenhouse earlier planting them outside.
This morn Sue as well as I got out for our regularly-schedule walk. The hills close my identify are ablaze inwards blood-red clover correct now, as well as hence nosotros walked out here.
There's my favorite barn.
Just to the correct as well as exterior the frame of the paradigm inwards a higher identify is some other one-time barn. I caught that i from a dissimilar angle this time, as well as you lot tin come across it inwards the paradigm below.
Of course, I photographed most every blooming affair nosotros saw.
Here's a to a greater extent than mature golden chain tree. I promise I alive long plenty to come across ours attain this size.
Here are its flowers upwardly close.
We saw lots of wild iris along the sides of the road.
When I got home...this...
It's never a proficient sign when I come across him hanging out adjacent to the refrigerator. Mike tells me Sadie was the culprit who brought inwards a mouse as well as promptly lost it behind the refrigerator. Smitty volition instruct it if he has to sit down at that topographic point for a year. As for Sadie..."Hey, thanks, Smitty. Let me know when you lot grab it, as well as nosotros tin swallow it together." Then she was on her way dorsum outside.
I've done no sewing for a duet of days beyond getting the 3rd block for Friendship's Garden create for stitching.
It says, "Your friendship has planted a picayune garden inwards my heart." This morn I hooped it upwardly as well as got a minor start on it.
I'm merely close to instruct brand some lunch, but this afternoon, I'm definitely getting dorsum to my quilting. It's going to move a busy week, as well as I desire to brand some to a greater extent than progress earlier I postulate to move out it for a few days.