Mothers Day

 

Hope you all had a very nice Mother's Day.  I sure did!  We had the first sunny day all month, and everything outside is green.  My son came over to help me clean the garage and brought me a lovely bouquet.  We scraped the garage floor of road salt and sand, and then he investigated a possible leak in the garage roof.  I held the ladder while he hopped up there, and I worried the whole time.  That never stops when you're a mother, even if he is 43 years old.  He also took a broom and swept away the cobwebs on the ceiling.  The garage looks presentable, at least superficially.  It will never be squeaky clean, but that's OK.

Afterwards, we had a delicious ravioli dinner, Chris went home, and we all took naps.  Later, I talked to Mom on the phone and then even later watched Call the Midwife and Miss Austen, my two favorites on PBS.  A perfect day!

Happy Mothers Day!

Technically, it's Mothers Day Eve, but we are celebrating today with a concert at the library.  The Friends of the Library hold a concert every year in memory of Christine, our late president who loved to play the piano and sing.  "Piano Jim" will be our performer this afternoon and will help us draw a winner for our pie raffle.

Meanwhile, I'm making roasted potato salad for tomorrow.  This is my first time trying this.  I hate to skin the cooked potatoes while they're hot.  This way, they are already skinned and seasoned, and I can cool them before dressing.  I find potato salad tastes better made a day ahead.

Tomorrow I'll make a fruit salad and some oven-fried chicken because it appears our grill doesn't want to work.  We need my son Chris to figure out what's wrong.  I hope it's just that it's out of gas and not something that requires our dumping the old grill and getting a new one.  I love summer cooking when Paul grills and I make salads ahead of time.  Then I can sit on the porch and watch him cook while I have a glass of wine.

Chris will join us for lunch tomorrow and help me spread mulch around the garden at the back of the house.   We're expecting the house will be pressure washed this coming week, so I haven't done a lot of planting outside so far.  This week I'll get flowers for various planters and window boxes as well as a few to tuck in here and there among the perennials.  I'll also start quilting on my Arboretum quilt.

Flowers!

Spring is an exciting time in Vermont.  After that long, cold, and often gloomy winter, things seem to green up awfully fast.  Often we have frost one day and 80 degrees the next, making spring rather short.  But we'll take whatever we get as long as it's not snow.  Hope you had a nice Mother's Day.  Chris came for lunch, bearing a pretty calla lily plant which I will find a place for in the garden.  

And Mom sent me a lovely bouquet.

I did find a little time to sew some "Favorites" blocks for Aby's block of the month.  The one on the right is a little smaller because I don't have the tool she recommended for the "Peaky and Spike" pieces.  I will fit it in somehow, though.   This quilt has a variety of sizes with a center medallion 18" and blocks either 6" or 12".  Aby's directions so clear that they work up quickly using this "Pressed Flowers" background fabric.