I Took My iPad For A Walk

Photos taken on our overcast afternoon walk today.

It rained earlier.

My neighbor's poison oak wants to invade.

The muzzle keeps Morgan from eating stuff that makes her sick.

The path is raked now all around the property.

I still have lots more raking to do.

My poison oak patch.

This mossy wood seems safe from the wood stove.

The hens are safe and busy turning over dirt.

Morgan is checking out the seedlings.

Love the roses!

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Smiles

1st Small Quilt Wall

This is the small quilt wall!

The large quilt wall is up but there is no border yet.

I'll take a photo when I get some more measuring tapes

or I think up something else to use.

Here is the large quilt wall in progress.

Using duct tape to hold everything together was a good choice.

I was going to use long staples to hold the foam board on the wall

but ended up using nails.

The staples just weren't enough to hold the weight.

The large quilt wall is up but there is no border yet.

I'll take a photo when I get some more measuring tapes

or I think up something else to use.

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Yay! Holly is on the way!!!

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Smiles

Mother's Day Vista

My choice to go here and spend some time taking photos today.

We were going to have something to eat here but decided to eat at home.

These photos are off my iPad and will enlarge.

I was trying to capture the snowy peaks far away but the snow

blended into the white haze.

The snow was pretty!

Hope all the Mom's had a lovely day!

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Smiles

Predator Attack

Update:
A buff brahma has shown up outside the coop.
I managed to catch her and lock her up in the coop with her sisters.
8 chickens so far.
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I let all the chickens out of their coop this morning.

As of this afternoon there are 3 chickens missing.

The only sign left of them is ...

The 7 chickens I could find are locked up safely in their coop.

I lured the chickens back in their coop with lots of carrot peelings.

They won't be allowed out to roam in the woods for a month or so.

The predators are feeding their Spring babies with our chickens.

On a lighter note...

Here are some views of the little green garden

that finally has some color added.

The flower bowls seem to like the Spring rain.

So do the herbs.

Morgan would rather be on a sunny porch.

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Smiles

May Rain

It's cold.

It's raining.

Morgan is damp and drying off after her morning walk.

The flowers and seeds are getting a good watering.

No garden photos 'till it is a bit dryer outside.

I'm staying in my pj's.

Chickens are laying this Spring.

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Smiles

More iPad Garden Photos

All the seeds are planted!

Some in containers... some in the gardens.

All the starter plants are planted!

And here are the photos I promised to post...

I'm publishing this from my iPad using Blogger.

Then I will open the post up on my Mac and add photo comments

and change the size of the photos.

I added a chair to the garden.

Seeds are planted in the little containers.

There are chickens out there.

The chickens would like to visit the garden.
This hen is in a hurry to join up with her sisters.

I'll post some photos of the little green garden tomorrow.
I think I will use my camera and post on my Mac.

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Smiles

Post From My iPad Using Blogger

Can I post an iPad photo on blogger?
Here goes...

Well, I picked out a photo from my camera roll and it is showing up at the bottom of the page... Not with the text.

I'm going to publish this and see if and where the photo shows up.

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Ok, I just opened up this post on my computer and everything above

the dashed lines was published on Blogger on the iPad.

I am going to have to spend some time trying to figure out

how the photo thing works, but I do like using blogger on the iPad.

My photos are on my iPad.

I think I will publish this on the computer and then open this post

up on the iPad and see if I can add some more photos.

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Lots of work in the greenhouse and garden but no seed planting.

I keep getting sidetracked into other projects

but I do plan to do the seed planting tomorrow!

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Smiles

I added the next photos from my iPad using Blogger.

And now I'm adding text on the computer.

I think Blogger on the iPad works great

it's just I haven't figured out how it works yet.

The scarecrow has a new place to stand near the garden

next to the woodshed.

Pretty bowls of flowers brighten up the little green garden.

Next are two photos of the greenhouse.

With clean windows!!!

That took awhile.

Outside

Inside

There are 2 tomato plants, 1 basil and a little rose bush.

So far...

Smoky Mountain View

There is snow on the tops of the mountains.

The snowy tops of far away mountains that can barely

be seen through a smoky haze.

To barely see the snow click on photo to enlarge

After working all day on the gardens and greenhouse

going out for something to eat sounded like a good idea.

Lucky me got to have this view and a meal.

Tom said the smoke had come down from a fire up North.

I guess?

Someone else said there was a fire on the other side of a ridge out there.

Maybe?

I couldn't find any fire news about a local fire.

But there is smoke out there.

And it was doing a great job of hiding the snow.

Too bad.

I was hoping for a good photo.

I'll remember to take garden photos tomorrow and post them.

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Smiles

May Flower Birdbath

Pink flower birdbath.

My Mother's Day present to myself.

I'm going with pink...

and there are the pots waiting for soil and seeds. 

All the starts are planted except for those two tomato

plants that will grow in the greenhouse,

If they survive the night outside.

Sunflowers.

Seeds will be planted here and in pots.

Seeds will be planted here too.

There are lots of pepper and tomato plants,

Even some corn starts.

A pumpkin, a watermelon and a cucumber plant even.

I would have planted seeds today but

we had to drive down to the nursery and give them some

more money because I made out a check incorrectly.

Worked out though...

I got to go back to the garden center!

Got some more flowers!

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Smiles

End Of April Garden Planting

The first thing that happened

was the scarecrow was banished from the garden.

He is now guarding the woodshed.

There is no room!

Only room for plants and not much of that.

I'm planting a mix of flowers and veggies... seeds and starter plants.

Some of the tomatoes will be in the greenhouse and some outside.

Nothing planted here yet.

Tomorrow!

This year's herbs in the little green garden.

Hope there are no more freezes!

Tom jokes about snow in May.

Oh dear!

Could and has happened up here.

Hope it doesn't this year.

The oaks are getting their Spring leaves.

This tree is near the the garden and drops huge branches now and then.

It is windy tonight... hope the branches fall out now and not when I'm in the garden.

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Smiles

Broken Dishes Quilt Finished

If you click on the photos they will enlarge.

The quilt is all hand sewn and quilted.

Morgan is outside on the porch/deck laying in the sun.

The back is made up of lots of pieces of leftover fabrics I love.

I love the silly chickens!

The blocks were the most fun to sew.

I miss working on the quilt.

This quilt has a self binding that was easy to sew.

It is a soft happy quilt!

Not a show quilt... just a fun quilt for me to use.

 I have been spending time working in the garden

and have still more planting to do tomorrow.

I'll take garden photos to post tomorrow.

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Smiles

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Nails, Feet And Borders

Today there was a couple of firsts for me...

I got my nails done for the first time with acrylic...

and polish... and flowers and butterflies.

And

I had a pedicure for the first time.

Wow... how nice that was!

The manicurist put gel on my nails for a few weeks

to help keep them in one piece while they grew out a bit.

Never had nails to speak off.

This is a new thing for me.

What fun!

I'm 72 and I figured that it was about time

I took the time to be nice to myself.

I also had my hair done.

Well, back to the quilt top in progress...

I have been trying to cut borders for the quilt top

and keep running into problems.

The quilt strip I cut out first was a loss because

when I turned the fabric over the fabric had a hole in it

that I think happened when the fabric was made.

Not a nice surprise.

I finally got the first side borders cut out.

I'll sew them on and cut the rest of the borders tomorrow.

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Smiles

Broken Dishes Progress Report

Today I laid out the blocks and came up with this arrangement.

I ran out of the dark fabric on one of the red blocks

but the block still looks ok.

Morgan was very careful and didn't walk on the blocks.

This stack below of half square triangles waiting to be pressed

is my little trick.

I really don't like picking up each square, pressing the seam and

then opening and pressing each HST.

Too much stopping and starting.

Little stack of HST's.

So, I open all the HST's and lay them in a pile.

Then I pick up and hold each square by the darker color

and press the seam

then still holding the darker color open the square

lay it down and press it flat.

The process goes much faster for me that way.

Top right corner is the block I made when I ran out of the black fabric.

 The pattern I found online at the

Missouri Quilt Co on YouTube was for 20 blocks.

But that made a quilt that was a bit too large for me so

I decided to opt for 12 blocks.

Now I need to stitch these blocks together and

start thinking about choices for the sashing and borders.

I think I have been sewing for too long because

when I took Morgan out earlier today

I forgot to put on her muzzle

and didn't notice 

until

she ate something that she found under the leaves.

Yikes!

I hope she is not going to get sick again!

Smiles!

5 x 4 = 20 Squares Ready To Cut

All of these 20 squares are sewn together

and ready to cut into half square triangles.

Then I can cut them apart and start sewing the HST

into 

Broken Dishes Blocks.

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Smiles