Today's championship is brought to you lot yesteryear "The Promise of Spring," a poesy form yesteryear Edith Nesbit. You tin read the whole matter right here. While I was out picking weeds yesterday, I marveled at how boundary blossoms become on, fifty-fifty equally our ain human basis seems unusual as well as unusual right now. This morn I was musing amongst my friend Wendy that ane calendar month ago, nosotros were visiting Kartchner Caverns State Park inward southeastern Arizona. Today that seems equally if it were lived during a dissimilar lifetime.
My weed picking thence far has consisted of eradicating the Hairy Bittercress, which seemed hours away from going to seed. It is the scourge of the garden because it broadcasts its seeds far as well as wide, fifty-fifty equally you lot clit it up. Yesterday I was able to conquer the terminal of it, as well as nary a seed was spread...or if it was, I didn't meet it. While I was out, I took a few pictures of every blooming thing. (You'd hold out disappointed if I didn't, wouldn't you?) This get-go ane was the star magnolia. It's ane of my favorites inward the garden. Sadly, it's a lilliputian battered yesteryear the rain, but I works life at to the lowest degree ane blossom that was relatively unscathed.
Out front, some tulips accept opened. We rarely teach tulips that are planted inward the basis because the deer honey them as well as they've eaten most of what I planted thence many years ago. As I've mentioned before, they don't similar the white ones, as well as thence most that rest are white.
There are a few or thence that are of color, but each year, I hold off them to hold out mowed downward earlier they tin bloom. Happily, the deer exit the daffodils alone.
The heather was blooming when nosotros arrived home, but my get-go motion painting was blurry, as well as thence I didn't post service it. I caught it over again yesterday.
The daphne is larger as well as to a greater extent than spectacular every year. It's flowers are small, but it packs a powerfully fragrant punch.
These tulips are headed up. They are planted inward ane of the whiskey barrels, as well as they portion their habitation amongst the poppies I brought dorsum from Ireland. The poppy plants are lush as well as green. I searched yesterday, but thence far, I've works life no buds. It was a prolific bloomer terminal year, as well as thence I'm hoping it volition bloom over again this year.
It was a lovely 24-hour interval to hold out outside, as well as weed-picking was a productive agency to soak upward some rays. Smitty came out for a walk as well as dragged Mike through the trees as well as brambles to honor this first-class patch of grass for nibbling.
H5N1 curt walk is all he wants, as well as and thence he comes within for a well-deserved nap. Ahhhhhhhhh...the life of a cat.
When I made my agency into the sewing room yesterday, I set out a grouping of the HST's into this lilliputian quilt. It's virtually 36 inches yesteryear 50 inches equally you lot meet it here. I accept inward heed to make it an inch-wide dark halt border, as well as and thence a to a greater extent than colorful border or thence the exterior to convey it to a overnice snuggle quilt size.
As I looked through my HST's, I realized I had sure enough similar-sized groupings of colors inward slap-up plenty numbers to brand whole quilts without getting into the random colors, genres, as well as sizes. I'll produce those get-go as well as and thence function at a random quilt amongst whatever is left over. It was quite a puzzle laying all those pieces out. Since my only pick for a pattern wall gets walked on yesteryear cats, I covered it over amongst ii cutting mats for safe-keeping. This was extremely furrustrating to a sure enough truthful cat who ever has opinions virtually how blocks should hold out set out.
Even amongst their protective shield, however, they were rearranged a little. I noticed this only equally nosotros were heading off to bed.
I knew I couldn't slumber since these blocks would hold out shouting as well as moaning virtually their electrical flow nation of disorganization, as well as thence I removed the lower cutting mat to pose them dorsum inward order. In the process, I educate the border of the cutting mat on the carpet, as well as and thence allowed it to free-fall to the floor, which created a lilliputian gust of air current that farther disorganized the blocks. Duh. So, then, I had quite a combat of putting-back-together to produce earlier I could slumber easily.
Today I'll start sewing them together. I'm sure enough I accept some of them oriented incorrectly. It was making me cross-eyed trying to teach it all right. As I run upward them together, I'm thinking I'll produce it inward a 16-patch grid, since that volition hold out the easiest agency to maintain the zigzag pattern. But first, it's the most horrible 24-hour interval of the week...I must caput out to the grocery store, as well as I accept a long list. Hopefully, I won't kill anyone patch I'm there, but these days, cipher is certain.