The Little Red Hen

While I was Away...

While I was at Quilt Market, P and M built a newspaper geodome in the yard.  It had gotten soggy and collapsed before I got home so I was glad they had taken a few pictures.

It looks like they had fun making it AND with the photoshoot.

Family

I hope you had a great weekend.

Last week I told P that all I wanted for Mother's Day was a picture of all three of my children. She drew a great picture of the whole family and gave it to me at breakfast yesterday.

Later in the day they snuck my camera and the remote and had a little photo shoot. They surprised me with a bunch of pictures on my camera. Some of the out takes are quite fun. They really are great kids.

Have a great day.
I am off to be busy and get ready for my trip to Spring Quilt Market in Kansas City!!

When it Rains it Pours

Just popping in to let you know I'm still here.

I finished this chartreuse triangle scrap quilt almost two weeks ago and it is still waiting for a real photo shoot. I need a tall person to hold it for me. Luckily, two tall people have moved home from school. Soon there will be pictures. I promise. It just needs to stop raining while a tall person is at home.

I've also been working on the Alegria quilt for Michelle.

I am ALMOST finished with it.

Has the spring cleaning bug hit your house? We had a fit of spring cleaning fever this weekend when M came home and was allergic to his room. Lots of wiping, washing, rearranging.... now I kinda want to clean and rearrange the whole house. Have you ever wanted to take everything out of your house and just put back the things you really want and use? I used to do that to my room and closet every year when I was growing up. It would probably be a good thing to do but I don't think it will happen. We have accumulated a lot of stuff in the twenty three years since we moved to this house. It's a little frightening to think about, really.

Norfolk Botanical Gardens

After our canoe trip in Maryland we traveled to Norfolk, Virginia and visited the Botanical Garden there. We reached azalea overload there but also saw many other interesting sights and beautiful flowers in bloom.

 

An Afternoon on the Pocomoke

Last week while on spring break, we went to Virginia and visited B's mom. After a couple of days there we went to eastern Maryland had an afternoon canoe trip on the Pocomoke River. I took many pictures but have boiled the trip down to a reasonable number to share with you.

It was a great afternoon but I wish I had worn sunscreen and a hat.

Recital Day

We've had a busy week. P made and sent invitations and made more blank note cards as a gift for her teacher.

She practiced and rehearsed.
Yesderday we did lots of baking.
Today was the big day. She wore a fancy dress and played all the songs in her Suzuki Cello Book One. It was hard work but she did it!

Thank goodness we had "after snacks"!

I didn't take any pictures there but I did manage to video the whole thing.

A Bit of Green

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It seems that we may have skipped spring altogether. The calendar say's it's still winter but we have been having summer temperatures. We've started work in the garden and today we planted four rows of peas! Yes, we are enjoying a bit of green today.

Someone really enjoys using the shovel - and it's NOT me!

Oh, and Happy Birthday, Shirley!

Slowed Progress

With the sudden arrival of spring weather this week work in the sewing room has slowed to a crawl. I have making a little progress on quilting this quilt. I'm stitching a serpentine line through the scrappy parts and haven't quite decided what to do in the background yet. I'll probably have it figured out by the time I finish the other part of the quilting.
We have been out enjoying the warm weather a bit though.
We even saw some bare feet this week!

Yay! I love the warm sunny weather - even when it slows the sewing progress to a snail's pace.
We plan to get some peas planted in the garden this weekend.

What about you? What are your weekend plans?

Signs of Spring

It's coming.

Flashback Friday

Spring 1967- Me and my oldest sister. We used to go to the Va. Tech greenhouses and flower beds for photo shoots when we were little. I think that is where this was taken.

Or maybe this was at my grandparents - my grandfather had a big iris bed.