Happy Independence Day, my friends! It's ane of my favorite holidays. We're celebrating at habitation this twelvemonth . . . a divergence from our celebrations on the due east banking concern of the Willamette River of many years running. It's fine past times me, in addition to that agency it's also a cooking day. I made a white patato salad yesterday. Today I'll last marinating some flank steaks for smoking in addition to grilling later, in addition to I'll last baking a lemon meringue pie. Lemon meringue existence my favorite, it's ever a skillful selection when in that place volition last folks hither to assist us devour it.
Yesterday's sewing was to brand some progress on the Charm Stars for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I had one-half of the squares for the large one-half foursquare triangles cut, in addition to I needed to cutting the squares for the minute block.
This procedure was helped significantly when Miss Sadie uncharacteristically took to her bed on the sewing tabular array for a nap. Usually, she's all close stuff selection in addition to standard for a quarter-inch seam, but she must receive got been worn out from hateful solar daytime after hateful solar daytime of sewing.
But first, a daughter has to receive got aid of her purrsonal hygiene.
Then, in addition to solely then, tin she settle into peaceful slumber. Shhhhhhhhhhh.
Meanwhile, I sewed, pressed, trimmed, in addition to arranged the one-half foursquare triangles into charm stars.
These receive got quite a spell to make.
By the fourth dimension I had the minute ane set out, I was gear upwardly to exercise something else. I took a lilliputian walk around. The butterfly bush is blooming.
And the tallest pinkish echinacea is close to arrive at a flower.
Also, this darkest vino hydrangea is showing its color. It is covered inwards blossoms this year. We retrieve it got every bit good dry out at some dot because many of its leaves are chocolate-brown at the edges.
Later inwards the afternoon, I went out to harvest some grass for Smitty. As I was walking along, a plane flew out of the grass. Upon closer inspection, I discovered a lilliputian nest amongst iv eggs. I've used my finger for scale. The eggs were close the size of a peanut M&M.
Well, this was disturbing. We idea the nest mightiness receive got fallen from a tree, but the grass growing all around it would signal otherwise. I posted a pic to the Pacific Northwest Birders Facebook page in addition to learned that these are the eggs of a junco. Juncos are ground-nesting birds, in addition to thus it's normal to discovery a nest inwards the grass similar this. We'll receive got to pay attending for a spell in addition to Mike volition receive got to avoid mowing over it. We receive got a lot of birds, in addition to I'm ever thinking we'll run into nests. Other than the ones that nest nether the eves of the house, I've never been able to discovery a bird's nest similar this ane inwards whatever of our trees, in addition to sure as shooting non inwards the grass. I'm only glad I saw it earlier I stepped on it.
This morning time I grabbed hapless Sadie upwardly from her morning time nap to administer a minute dose of worming medication nosotros brought habitation from her recent vet visit.
As y'all mightiness imagine, she was thoroughly outraged at our rudeness. Smitty was skulking around, thinking he mightiness last next. Little Man won't acquire his until the 15th, thus he was spared the indignity this morning.
So there's cooking to last done, in addition to I suppose I should build clean the house upwardly a little. We'll last celebrating our Fourth amongst family, which makes it ane of the best days of the year. I'm hoping to acquire those Charm Stars sewn together too. I promise your hateful solar daytime goes well. Stay safe, in addition to Happy Fourth of July, everybody.
