Poodles and Quilts

  Catching Up!   poodlegirls     cooking ,  Daily Happenings ,  Gardening ,  General Sewing ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Travels ,  Uncategorized     February 25, 2025   1 Minute What are difference from last week’s freezing temperatures.  We had the coldest nights of the year.  Not supposed to happen in mid-February! Several nights in the teens!  We got plants covered and they survived pretty well.  One didn’t and that was fine.  Was hoping it might not. Galen dug out the old frames with frost protector covers that we had used on our raised beds. Amaryllis under this one.  Paperwhites under the second one. Moved the Merkot Lime next the house and covered with several old sheets. This week. Mostly 70’s during the day with 50’s at night.  Now to get some rain. We did sit on the deck for awhile last evening.  Our bird feeders were busy all week as well as the birdbath with the fou...

  A Gloomy Monday Looks like we won’t have much sun the next few days. Do have showers in the forecast.   Hope we get some.  Also a couple of nights below freezing temperatures.  Welcome to a Texas February! We got some work done outside last week.  Guess I should say Galen did.  He cut down our SeaOats in the front bed.  They were starting show green again.  Dead stuff needed to come off.  He also pruned back more bushes that were hit by our cold nights.  We’ve decided we have too much shade now to use all our raised beds.  A friend will take 2 of them and we moved the 3rd one to a sunnier location. Mother Nature did a good job pruning our Texas Laurel several years ago.  One met it’s fate.  They other she pruned to one main stem! So now we have a sunnier location on thr path where we had 2 Texas Laurels. One on each side of the walkway! Other veggies will go into big pots. The chicken wire cage keeps squirrels and b...

  Beautiful First Monday in February 2025. Up in the 60’s as I write this. High 70’s today or maybe a low 80! The birds are enjoying the feeders. Will be a good day to get some work done outside. Much different than last week. We had our eye appointments last week. Still no glasses for Galen. He will use readers when he needs too. I could go with my old one, not a lot of difference but the coating on one lens is a problem so got an updated one. As I told him I can still thread a sewing needle! Speaking of sewing, I managed to get the last of the 3 quilts bound. It is Plot Twist. I didn’t like the instructions. They had cut off quite a bit of the uneven edges to make the border even! I have enough scrap fabric as it is. Found fabric here that I could use for setting triangles. Looking at this you can see how much I would have needed to cut off! It was Lunar New Year on the 29th of January. Normally I do fix a Chinese meal but didn’t this year. Actually we went to Salt Grass for...