Surprisingly, I survived my trip to the dentist yesterday. No problems, in addition to thence I'm proficient for but about other year. I had a duo of other errands to run earlier heading for home. When I got there, kitties were chomping at the chip to instruct outside.
Sadie has been helping me amongst the poppy watch. She's watching the squirrels. The poppy is even thence looking virtually the same equally ever, although the interior shows a footling to a greater extent than each day.
On the positive side, I noticed 2 to a greater extent than buds on it yesterday for a total of six. We but involve a warm sunny day, in addition to I intend it volition popular open.
While I was out, I checked the greenhouse in addition to I was happy to honour the butter lettuce has germinated.
Also, the sunflowers I replanted concluding calendar week are almost all sprouted now. There's but about other tray of these to the left of the frame below, in addition to those are by in addition to large sprouted. The tray to the correct are novel sunflowers in addition to novel plantings, in addition to I don't run across whatever action at that spot yet.
There wasn't much sewing yesterday because I napped during the afternoon. Any fourth dimension I leave of absence home, I come upward dorsum exhausted in addition to badly inwards involve of a nap. Sometimes I ability on through, but yesterday I succumbed. Still, I did all the quilting on the cherry business office of the bird, filling it inwards amongst feathers. (What else?)
I'm a novice when it comes to feathers, in addition to I haven't tried doing anything especially fancy yet. For these, I made loops on both sides of the spine, making my agency across the quilt in addition to filling inwards the space.
When I reached the end, I made a loop, in addition to and thence stitched dorsum along the spine, making random flourishes within a few of the loops. I liked this because it ameliorate defined the spine, but it also gave me a agency to brand whatever loops also large or misshapen human face a footling better. The flourish seemed to cover or disguise whatever problems I perceived.
After filling inwards the trunk of the bird, I made ane long plumage extending downwards to the tip of the tail.
Here's how it's looking from the back. It's a footling difficult to run across that low-cal blueish thread.
While I was making dinner concluding night, the kitties were lounging inwards the afternoon sunshine.
Doesn't this carpet fit my furs beautifully?
I mightiness convey idea Smitty was dead if his eyes hadn't been open.
For dinner concluding night, I used to a greater extent than of the CSA veggies. This ane did away amongst the remaining light-green onions in addition to the butter lettuce. The lettuce is sauteed along amongst the other veggies until it wilts. It's an interesting agency to run lettuce. The prosciutto gives it a squeamish salty sense of savour spell I used almost no tabular array salt at all inwards the balance of the dish.
This is Pasta amongst Peas, Asparagus, Butter Lettuce, in addition to Prosciutto in addition to you lot tin strength out find the recipe correct here. I made but one-half the recipe, in addition to I used frozen peas instead of fresh. If you're using frozen peas, there's no involve to laid them inwards boiling water. Just add together them to the cooked asparagus, in addition to you're proficient to go.
So that was yesterday. Today, I'll locomote on on quilting the cardinal. I'm hoping to instruct good along amongst it today, although I uncertainty I'll finish. It's a CSA pick-up day, in addition to there's e'er a footling housework to do, it seems. We're expecting drier in addition to warmer conditions this week. Fingers crossed the poppy opens soon.