Poodles and Quilts

  Hard to believe this coming weekend is Labor Day weekend and our 51st wedding anniversary! These 51 years have flown by. Not much going on this past work-no sewing. Giving my right shoulder a rest. Did pull out a very old needlepoint project. It will take me a while to get back into the rhythm. Had to buy another book on stitches as I think I gave all mine away. Good ol' Amazon! Our backyard is starting to get more butterflies- lot of Monarchs as well as some Queens. We have been enjoying watching them and Galen has caught as few with the camera. The first one is a Border Patch on our Grey plants Mist.                                          This one is a Monarch on our Mexican Sunflower We discovered some more tree damage on one of our Live Oaks from the winter storm. Probably a small crack on the top of a  branch where we could not see it. Finally h...

  Getting some yard work done! Today was the day for trimming shrubs and getting mulch down, and no, not by us! We have a great guy who does this for us and he has recovered from a broken shoulder. Normally we get the shrubs trimmed Spring and Fall but we missed having it done this past Spring. And we have been having rain this summer so things needed to be trimmed. Just a little of what was removed. I do know we have 5 big trash cans for the garbage people this coming week! While his one guy was trimming he went for a trailer load of mulch. A very full load. The 2 of them worked well after lunch time getting it spread. We have a lot of beds that get mulched. Interesting these beds were all grass, but the trees grew and too much shade for the grass. These beds are all in the back of the house. These help keep the rabbits from having a meal . Also a little protection from Lady when she starts running like a nut! We are slowly getting things back into shape after the February st...

  Month: July 2021 July 19th 2021 My sewing has been mostly been done by hand the past week. Had 4 quilts here, children size that needed to be bound. Got the first step done, binding made and sewn on the front by machine. I like to be able to hand sew the binding down in the evenings. I managed to get 2 finished and handed over to Osie for donation to Linus last week. Tam’s Patch blocks. 3rd picture is the backing on both Last night I finished 2 more of Joan’s that Osie quilted for me. These 2 are from Happy Blocks Not sure if these will go to Linus or if Quilts of Compassion can use them. But they will go somewhere!   poodlegirls     Donation Quilting ,  Life at home ,  Quilting ,  Uncategorized   1 Comment     July 19, 2021   1 Minute Edit "July 19th 2021" A Little Sewing! Finally managed to find my sewing machine yesterday! I had bought a template from Linda Winner’s site for wedge shape placemats for a round table. Linda W...