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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

SMITTEN

OK, so I'm smitten. I have a love affair with frogs, salamanders & mushrooms. They're just cool.

I think that this could be called my career, or something... I'm great at starting quilts (I love to pick out the fabrics!) but once they hit about half-way they stall out and take months (or years) to get any further! But they're pretty, and they inspire me...so I keep doing it. :)

This is my red (obviously) quilt. It will be twin-sized when/if it's ever done. The back is going to be black w/ white dots (same as the red w/ white that you see in the top).

This is the Hubby quilt. It will replace the one his mother made for him years ago. She told me that when she made that one, he specifically requested fabrics w/ flowers...so I've tried to find non-girly flower prints to incorporate in this quilt. It will be X-large twin-sized.
I have no idea what the pattern is, I saw something like it, and then added the sorta log cabin twist of red in the center.

This is my Happy Quilt. It will probably be a full size when it's done...right now there's just alot of it! And I'm not even entirely sure what I'm going to do with it, as the pieces aren't long enough to make the quilt wide enough, so it will be pieced somehow.

But it'll be happy when I do get it figured out! :)

Monday, July 6, 2009

PIGEON GUILLAMOT

Betcha' can't pronounce that name... Don't ask me, I'll just make it up.

Hubby came home the other day telling me that he got "hit in the head by a puffin on the beach" that day. Turns out that this was not an entirely literal description of the event, but kinda' close.

We've known for years that some sort of sea birds nest in these holes

We were told that they were puffins

But it was strange that we've never seen puffins...

Until Saturday when I saw a Guillamot just off shore with a fish...and then it flew into one of the holes! "Ah-hah!" I said to myself "they're not puffin holes, they're Guillamot holes!" Well, I didn't say exactly that, but that resembles how it went.

And then...

I looked again and saw a Guillamot egg. My day was complete- no, my WEEK was complete! Isn't it the most beautiful water-colored egg you've ever seen? I think so. I bet the Guillamot Parents agree with me.

The egg is slightly larger, and slightly more eliptical, than a large chicken egg.

THE CANINE OBSESSION

It starts innocently enough...

...this obsession of boy & dog

Find a stick

Chuck a stick

Chase a stick

Catch a stick

And drag it home for dinner

Hail the conquering hero

Pretend to ignore it

Until the bigger, better mousetrap is invented

And then you begin again.

The obsession perpetrates itself.

AROUND THE YARD

Some random recent pictures...

Whimsy

Lakenvelder hen

Red

Rhode Island Red hen

*has no name yet*

Black chicken (black sexlink?) hen

Muffy

Ameracauna hen (she's smart, too)

Little Hen

Ameracauna hen (this year's baby)

Goldie

Buff Orpington hen

(dumb blond chicken award goes to this bird!)

Nan & my basket

Boo & Toby

Sweet Bluebell

Baby quail

The dish is only 1 1/2" across...

SUMMER GARDEN TOUR

Come on in and tour my garden with me. Please excuse the weeds, they get a little crazy up here in our fertile valley. After this past weekend, they're mostly gone anyway. (I'm winning)

Strawberry, on the OUTSIDE of the garden fence, gazing wishfully at the abundance just beyond her reach!

Baby tomatoes

Evening Stock- this is what heaven will smell like. If you've never grown it, your life is not complete. Grow it.

Walla Walla Sweet onions, beginning to bulb up.

The crop that I WISH I wasn't growing. Our yard must have been the town nail dump for the past 200 years...I collect, and pick, and remove, and toss out, and throw away & rake up nails until I'm blue in the face...and still they grow. This is most certainly & regretably not a bare-foot garden!