Little Pot of Flowers

Wendy gave me this vase for my birthday several years ago and I'm still in love with it.

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Raised Bed Garden

Bill decided to grow some veggies this summer so he put together a raised bed using some leftover lumber.

5/10/2020

We put it in what we hope is an area of the yard that gets sufficient sunlight, which it does today because the trees haven't leafed out yet.

We added some loam that we had delivered from Gray Farm nursery in Wells and we bought new tomato cages from Ocean State Job Lots.  The cages were $3 each and I sold about ten of them a few years ago for $5.  

5/17/2020

And finally, Bill planted six Beefsteak and three cherry tomatoes and six bell pepper plants.

5/22/2020

I planted the remaining three cherry tomatoes in my flower gardens and planted two cucumber plants in pots on the deck. 

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Plant Pears for Your Heirs

We learned a few years ago, from our oil burner technician, that the rule is "you plant pears for your heirs".  Apparently it takes 15-20 years for pear trees to produce fruit.  Bill planted this tree when he moved here in 1996 and it only started producing fruit a few years ago.  We got a ton one year, which were delicious, but the last two years we only got a handful.  

The tree is loaded with blossoms this year, we're keeping our fingers crossed for lots of pears.

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A Beedandy Project

Cutting bubble wrap for my girl...

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A Mother's Day Surprise

A beautiful bouquet of flowers from Greg for Mother's Day.

Wendy and Dan brought ice cream from Shain's around 6:00. we sat in the garage, properly socially distanced, and visited for half an hour or so.  

A Mother's Day unlike any other, thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, but a nice day, nevertheless.

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Life With Lilli

Did more practicing today, using some of my rulers. ;o)

The top looks great, but the bottom...not so much ;o(

Uh Oh  It turns out that this little piece is very important to the thread tension.

At least I figured it out by myself without needing to call the sewing center.

I felt like the top tension was a little too loose so I tightened it just a tiny bit.  I did learn that although I'm using the same weight thread, produced by the same manufacturer, darker thread is heavier because it has more dye in it.  Go figure...

I was feeling good enough to load an actual quilt.

This is my very wonky Halloween quilt that isn't only totally out of square, but the Frixion pens I used to mark it, took some of the color out.  So, even if it turns out good, it will be bad.  

As I said to Paula "this scares the crap out of me".  

Using this little ruler, I started.

And I did this along two rows.

Look closely, it's there.  

This is the plan for these sections...

I don't really want it to show very much since it's only the beginning.  As the saying goes..."if you can't see it as you're riding by on a galloping horse, it looks great".  hahaha

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