Sunday, August 31, 2025

Outdoor work

There is a touch of fall in the air which isn't unusual.  Years ago (40+), I lived in the country at about 2500 feet, and we often had a bit of frost around Labor Day.  Those days are gone, but it is quite cool in the mornings anyway.  Today's fog will burn off to a sunny, lovely day, I'm sure.  When it warms up a bit, I will do a little gardening in the back yard. 

Chris is coming over later to help me dig out some hostas that encroaching on the blueberries.  We'll grill burgers for lunch.  Yesterday I pulled out a lot of lilies of the valley that were choking other things out front.   I left a few because I like them, but I need to stay on top of them every year.  I have ordered more daffodil bulbs for that spot, but they haven't arrived yet.   I decided not to try any more tulips out front since the deer just won't leave them alone.  They haven't discovered the early blooming ones out back, thank goodness.


I hope to get back to Dear Jane in the coming week.  I have made five blocks and find Row J a little easier than Row I which is a relief.  That's the next block I need to make - J-6 - which should be easy.  The photo is from the Hobby Stash website where I get my paper piecing patterns.

I was running low on black/white prints for backgrounds, so just ordered another yard of pin dots and also picked up two other half yards at the quilt shop.  This quilt takes a lot of fabric, especially when one makes most of the blocks by paper piecing.  



1 comment:

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

I love tulips but I have stopped planting them because I rarely get flowers the second year - occasionally but not even to waste my money or time planting them. Almost time to start getting some fall weather here which according to the weather they say might come a little early this year.