Certain things inward life provide me to my earliest memories of my woman bring upwards reciting footling verses too rhymes to me. Always when nosotros provide home, I can't assist hearing these words inward my mother's voice.
To market, to marketplace to purchase a fatty pig;
Home again, abode again, jiggety-jig.
We didn't become to the market, but nosotros are abode again.
On the agency into town, I spied a new-to-me quilt block on the Quilt Barn Trail of Washington County. I've noticed this i before, but never been laid to receive got a pic of it.
The Quilt Barn Trail of Washington County is the culmination of years of endeavor yesteryear unopen to industrious women inward my erstwhile guild. When they originally approached folks most starting a quilt barn trail, they learned of unopen to variety of fee that had to live paid to erect signs inward the county (and I'm in all probability getting this all incorrect because the actual story escapes me now). They had to move alongside the county commissioners to brand an exception for these "art works." After several years of effort, they were able to acquire the dominion changed, too the quilt barn trail was born.
If y'all click on that link I've given y'all inward a higher identify the image, y'all tin come across all of the blocks on the trail. Their terminal post indicates at that spot are immediately l blocks. The i inward the paradigm inward a higher identify was #22 on the trail, hence it's been at that spot for several years. And practiced for the members of my erstwhile club for beingness persistent too getting this worthwhile projection off the ground.
When nosotros arrived home, nosotros grabbed a week's worth of post service out of the mailbox. We were solely gone for iii days, but nosotros hadn't checked the post service for longer. While nosotros were driving to the coast on Tuesday, I happened to come across an stance most a agency to shop canning rings using bungee cords. Mine were inward a too-small bin, too they were constantly falling on the floor. It was a mess. Well, the bungee cord stance got me all excited, too hence I sat inward the car too ordered ii 36-inch cords from Amazon. (Have I said lately how much I ♥ Amazon Prime?) When nosotros picked upwards the mail, the cords were already there. So what could I create but lay those cords to move correct away. Check this out.
Wide oral cavity rings on the left. Regular oral cavity on the right. Nifty, huh? And that emptied my footling bin hence that I could lay old too novel lids inside. I don't reuse my lids, but if I'm trying a novel recipe, I re-use i old lid on i of the jars because I know I'm going to popular i opened upwards correct away for a taste. No feel using a novel lid, right?
So my adjacent chore was to acquire exterior too H2O the annuals. I've shown y'all pictures of the squirrels perched on the whiskey barrel where the poppies are planted.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few of y'all stance he was playing a teeny-tiny harmonica, but no. Now I receive got the proof. He's been stealing sunflower seeds from the birdfeeders, corking them open, eating them, too and hence spitting his shells out correct here. Littering footling buggers, aren't they?
Before nosotros left, I noticed the plums were turning purple, too hence my adjacent task was to run over to the plum tree to come across if they were ripe. Not quite, but they are simply days away. I tried i simply earlier nosotros left, too it was yet unpalatably tart. When I tried i yesterday, it was yet likewise tart, but it was edible.
Then I checked the echinacea. The buds on the 3rd flora receive got opened now, too they are pink, equally I suspected. I was hoping the orange/yellow i had survived the winter, but manifestly not. I'll receive got to flora to a greater extent than adjacent twelvemonth too promise they brand it this time.
The larger flora is doing great, too it's ever a haven for bumblebees.
Today I receive got unpacking to do. It shouldn't receive got long because I've been going out to the trailer for i especial at a time. By now, I intend I receive got the chore one-half done. As I was heading dorsum within yesterday from i of my trailer trips, I noticed the afternoon Sun shining through the seed pods that receive got accumulated on i of the Japanese maple trees.
They were brilliant blood-red too hence pretty.
Today I receive got to unpack the trailer, yes, but it shouldn't receive got to a greater extent than than most one-half an hour. Before that, I'll create unopen to to a greater extent than move on the Pumpkin Pie stitchery. And too hence I'm going to role the tomatoes I've harvested from our ain plants to brand unopen to salsa. I receive got lx pounds of tomatoes coming from our farmers adjacent week, but the salsa cannot wait. We are Jonesing for salsa here. Yesterday I went through my canning books looking for a small-batch salsa, too institute a recipe I could brand without going to the grocery store. On it!! If there's yet fourth dimension inward the day, I desire to acquire dorsum inward the sewing room. I've been likewise long away from sewing, too it's fourth dimension to acquire dorsum to it.