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 Autumn Super Moon   poodlegirls     Daily Happenings ,  Gardening ,  General Sewing ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Quilting ,  Uncategorized ,  Wildflowers     October 7, 2025   1 Minute If we were still living in Taiwan we would be eating Moon Cakes and celebrating Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Our Texas weather is getting better-low 90’s now and the nights are getting cooler. Should help our electric bill. AC isn’t having to work as hard! I ended up making more food for the hummingbird feeders. Filled the feeders on Sunday again. The don’t come into the feeders often we still have a lot of Mexican Sunflowers and the Firebushes are full of blooms. First picture is one of our Firebushes. They come back every year. Second is the Mexican Sunflower. They reseed every year. Butterflies and Hummingbirds like both of them. I did manage some time to work on binding my quilts. This one is #2. Color block pattern by Connie Kresin –...
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  END OF SEPTEMBER Just discovered I somehow deleted last weeks post! It’s there now. Good thing I have been copying to my old blog site! Not sure if I will keep this one going once it’s time for renewal. That is months away so have time to think about it. We are still having some hot weather and the forecasted rain rarely comes. We did get 2 tenths on Wednesday. That was a far cry from what accu-weather said. According to our weather station that is all we have had in September. Not good. We got out one morning. Not much flying. A nice drive though. And we tried a new place for lunch on Wednesday. We have so many new places opening up in the past 6 months. We need to try more of them. Galen has been in the Rio Grande valley this past weekend. Gets home today. Over 200 pictures to go through and edit! I know what he will be doing over the next few days. I finished up the first batch of Halloween and Fall Dog bandanas for my friend’s 2 salons. Want to get the ones in the mail foe Ca...
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 OFFICIALLY FAL L I took a few months off from my blog. Been keeping busy with day to day activities. Sorting and getting rid of things. Enjoying our back yard watching the birds. The hummingbirds are migrating through, stopping at our 2 feeders. We did have a very big bird at them the other day. A Baltimore Oriole.! We have been going out more again to see what is flying. Dragonflies have been scarce in the usual places. Not sure the reasoning. Not as many birds either. We were able to find the Wood Storks near Thrall the other week. So they are back. The corn has been pretty well picked, although we did see some being picked this past weekend. Cotton is also being picked. On one of the back roads we passed by a field that we had no idea what was planted. Got my plant app and grabbed a picture or 2 for I.D. Galen also took some close ups. Plant App said Sim Sim. Had to google that when we got home. Sesame!!!! The 3rd picture is of the seed pods. Sometime in October they mature are...
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  Day Late-Design Wall Monday The best laid plans don’t always happen!! A day late but then considering I haven’t posted since late May……. Early in June my body said enough already, take a break, get some sleep. So that’s what I did. Sinuses and or allergies made sure I listened. At 78 I have found when the body says stop already it pays to listen! I did get the Alice in Wonderland quilt bound. It is one the way to CA. Backed it with a cute cuddle piece of fabric. I managed to start another quilt top. Was putting things away and decided instead of putting this one away I should start it. I had a Laurel Birch jelly roll plus my contrast fabric put aside for Donna Jordan’s Diamond Trip top. Diamond Trip is a free pattern on Jordan Fabrics website. With July 4th rapidly approaching it was time to work on more doggie bandanas for both La Mia Bella dog salons. While I was cutting I did more everyday ones as well. Finished up 80 on Sunday. Various sizes-medium which our Lady wears, ...
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  Design Wall Monday I hope everyone enjoying the Memorial Day holiday remembers why we celebrate this day.. Last week ended up being busier than planned. But I was able to work more on my blocks. This may end up being a table square or a table runner. Played a little bit the blocks. Not sewn together just playing with layout. I have more HSTs  made. And some others ready to be made into blocks. Didn’t get to meet up with Osie last week.  Hopefully we can get together later this week. And needo get busy on more doggie bandanas. Plan to spend lots of time bonding with my machine!!   poodlegirls     Daily Happenings ,  General Sewing ,  Life at home ,  Quilting ,  Uncategorized   Leave a comment     May 26, 2025   1 Minute
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  Tuesday Ramblings I spent a good part of last week and weekend working on Dog Bandanas for Lisa and her shop in Ventura, California. It’s La Mia Bella West. They were mailed off yesterday. The top 3 photos are size medium. The bottom 3 are small. I have fun using decorative stitches on my machine when sewing the fold over in place. Speaking of machines I got my other one back. The laser light unit has been replaced. I haven’t tried it yet. Hoping that has solved the problem. This past Saturday our landscapers mulched our big beds. We used to get the bags and do it ourselves but those days are past! Sometime I will have to post pictures of the yard when we bought our home 26 years ago and now. We have a lot less grass. Our trees were small then and lots of sun. Now we have nice size trees and more shade. Getting mulch in the beds helps retain moisture too. That’s vey important. The Giant Coneflower is starting to bloom. About 10 days later than last year! The Bee Balm has also sta...
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