Poodles and Quilts

  End of March 2024!   poodlegirls     cooking ,  Daily Happenings ,  Donation Quilting ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Our Girls ,  Quilting ,  Scrap Quilts ,  Wildflowers     March 30, 2024   2 Minutes A fourth of 2024 is over tomorrow! Seems like we just celebrated New Years Day! Actually we are looking forward to a quieter rest of the year-no major surprises when it comes to our home. Yes, there are still a few things on the home to do list, but nothing like what we were having to deal with!!! Some trim painting-outside and repairing some landscaping in the front. We did get to Old Settlers Park one day to get pictures of Lady in the Bluebonnets. They are really thick this year. The red flowers are Indian Paintbrush. And yes we checked for snakes. I did get the Picture Frame quilt bound. That’s all set to go to Linus Connection. As always Osie does a great job of quilting for me. Since I bought wide backing...

  Bits and Pieces   poodlegirls     cooking ,  Daily Happenings ,  Donation Quilting ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Quilting ,  Wildflowers     March 22, 2024   2 Minutes wasn’t sure of a title for this one, so bits and pieces it is! Last week was an off week for me, under the weather the first 2 days and the rest of the week to get motivated! Galen ended up planting most of the plants we had bought for our raised beds. If they do well and produce we will have a bumper crop of various hot peppers and little yellow pear tomatoes as well as Roma tomatoes! We now have 3 plants of Yellow tomato plants as well-big slicing tomatoes. Hoping they do well. And I planted most of my herbs. My garlic is doing well. I can certainly tell which bed has the jumbo garlic. It’s at least twice the size of the other plants! My older amaryllis bulbs ha e doing well. One more will be blooming soon! You can also see the spray bottle of Squirrel Aw...

  Busy First Week in March   poodlegirls     Daily Happenings ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Quilting ,  Uncategorized ,  Wildflowers     March 11, 2024   1 Minute Things here are slowly getting back to normal. We were able to go to lunch last Thursday for my birthday. A few days late but that’s never a problem. We needed to get a few more things done around here after the workmen finished up. Plus we had calls in to some other people to do a few things. We had lunch at Salt Traders in Round Rock. Definitely worth the wait. Their food is always good. One call was to Leafguard for for some gutter work. The gutters needed to be flushed out since having the roof done plus we needed to replace 2. When the garage lights were installed again we couldn’t use the downspout and we needed a longer gutter since we did the extension on the deck last year. A rep was here on Friday. Took measurements. Later on Friday the truck was here to...

  February is almost over   poodlegirls     Daily Happenings ,  Donation Quilting ,  General Sewing ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Quilting ,  Scrap Quilts     February 22, 2024   1 Minute Haven’t been keeping up on my blog. Been spending time watching work on the outside of the house. Too bad the builder is out of business and we have no recourse. I can understand why he went bankrupt etc. Things are getting fixed now. And we are learning a lot about how to lay brick!!! I have also been sewing. I can now show the baby quilt. Mom and Dad like the quilt. I think Cedar does too! It should give him lots to look at as he starts to recognize things. I also handed over a top for my friend to quilt. It’s a pattern from Cozy Quilt-Picture Frame. It uses 2 1/2 inch wide strips. This one will go to our local Linus Connection group. Have another quilt in the works. Trying to use up some of my Texas Wildflower fabrics. I am using a...

  A Lot has Happened Since My Last Post   poodlegirls     cooking ,  Daily Happenings ,  Life at home ,  Our Girls ,  Quilting     January 30, 2024   2 Minutes Right after my last post we had some colder than normal days and then some very wet days. I did manage to get some sewing done. Finished a quilt top, finished the top of another table runner and made the napkins to match. 2 more kits out of my box of kits! Table runners or toppers are generally a fun and easy project and quick! Of course I still need to quilt it. That will happen soon. This is just a quick look see! During our cold snap I had seen a recipe in one of my Milk Street cookbooks for Taiwan Beef Noodle Soup. I do have the American Club in China recipe that I got before we moved back to the states but was curious to try it. It was good but not quite the same. And yes still using our Taiwan dishes. A nice cheery spot is one of our Amaryllis is blooming and lot m...