Did you watch the game tonight between The Fever and The Sun? It turned into an out of control brawl due to the referees not ejecting Mabrey in the first brawl. You had to be there.
It was a day of sewing room cleaning but after the game I made one block for Dove In the Window.
I have the actual quilt laid out hoping I could make this in brights. Another on my list. Yes, pattern is available for $5.00 and SASE.
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If you recall there are two other geese sitting on nests – now I’m afraid. Did you know geese can live 20+ years??? This is not what I had in mind.
Love all of the pictures Your quilt block is beautiful. I didn’t see the Fever game but heard about it. Refereeing in many sports lately has been extremely questionable, if not terrible. I have never been around geese, but I have heard stories about them. I prefer chickens. LOL
Your fabric choices for dove in the window are great. I can’t wait to see the finished quilt. We had geese on our farm & my Grandmother used the down to make feather beds & down filled comforters. I am lucky to have inherited these & they are the warmest covers. Our farmhouse did not have heat in the upstairs bedrooms & these warm feather beds were needed during the cold winters. I did not see the basketball game but I feel Caitlin is being targeted & this issue must be addressed.
Des – I wonder when the WNBA will start protecting their golden goose.
I just watched the game this morning. I couldn’t believe it!
When we had geese, we found them to be excellent mothers, very protective of their babies. Canada geese will readily adopt orphaned goslings. The only time we had goslings die is when the local canning factory sprayed fields around us by plane and oversprayed onto our property. The goslings would eat the sprayed grass and die of poisoning. We called the canning company to tell them what was happening and they compensated us for the loss (not that it was any help to the goslings) and had their pilot avoid our property. It was so sad to see those babies dying from that stuff. I hope you have better luck, but then, you’re right, they can live a long time. It’s a conundrum.
Holly – they are protective but those tiny goslings cannot follow through the grass all over and they want to take them into the pond and they can’t get out! I don’t want them but I don’t want them to die either!
Ah, that’s a problem. We didn’t have a pond. We ended up with just a goose, so no babies. She got so lonesome for a flock, she attached to me. I would be weeding my flowers and she would rub up to me with her long goosey neck and try to mate with me. There was always goose poop up by the back steps. I felt so bad for her, we advertised at the feed store for a new home for her where she wouldn’t be butchered. Some people who raised geese for down came and got her while I was at work and my husband was home. I felt terrible when she was gone. She would peck at the back door for grapes and take them carefully out of my fingers. She was such a good goose and I knew she’d never see another grape. But then we eventually moved to town and what would I have done then? Twenty years is a long time. Sigh.
Holly – your story brought tears to my eyes! All animals have feelings – certainly your goose who loved grapes loved you and my heart breaks wondering what happened to her. Not many people understand what I feel for animals – it’s so deep I cannot explain it – but I think you probably do. I have located homes for my animals should they outlive me and downsizing is my motto at age 77. I did not plan on these goslings and more are coming it seems. I’ll tell my friend there might be more geese than I had told her about.
I am so sorry about your lovely goose because I can tell it haunts you to this day. I have several haunts and regrets myself.
I laughed out loud to the geese problem! However, I have the same prob with my zebra finches. Kinda. the two I have now are brother and sister, She lays eggs and I get them out as soon as possible. I have brother and sister because my daughter wanted to breed some. And she did and this is what I ended up with. I am giving them away to anyone who wants them after more than 10 yrs of having them. No one so far is taking them. A little rain here but no enough and cooler which is predicted not to last.
I am dealing with rebuilding a deck. Menards sent out a pallet of cement sand which was a big boo boo. Now have to figure out how to get that back to the store! Inadvertently it ended up on the order. Partly my fault and the builder. Hope I don’t have to pay another $200 for them to come out and pick this stuff up. Managiing a little sewing in but nearly enough.
Jeanne, I want to be you! I want to be quilting at age 93 and you look great! I just turned 80! My goal is another 10 yrs in my town house with sewing room in the basement!
I watched the game while I was on a zoom meeting. Kept the meeting on mute most of the time so game wouldn’t be heard. This is beginning to look like the beginning of the season last year when everyone went after CC. The WNBA needs to change their rules and get some better refs. The commentators said Mabrey wasn’t ejected because it was a dead ball foul. Come on! I love your fabrics in the dove in a window pattern and your helper🐈⬛😄. Mississippi mud cake was a great choice for a birthday cake. I’m thinking of making a peach cake for our anniversary tomorrow. It’s loaf cake size so I don’t feel so guilty if the two of us eat the whole thing. Face it, you clearly create an environment where the animals thrive and the geese are enjoying it. Hope the goslings survive. The wild geese seem to be good parents; maybe yours will be too.
I’m really enjoying seeing all the flower pictures. I have a clematis like the dark red one but it’s not putting out many blooms this year. Nor is anything else withall the rain and fewer sunny days. Lots of leafy growth on everything and no blooms. It’s supposed to get really hot here in Maryland next week which will probably just shock the plants from a different direction.
Karen Cyr, MD
Karen – our weather is going to turn very hot and humid this weekend – we’ve had about three days total that we could have the windows open! The grass is full of weeds as well as the flower beds. I have take the attitude of I DO NOT CARE!
We watched the game. It reminded me of Roller Derby. As long as it took the refs to decide what to do after each incident, you would have thought they could have gotten it right.
I heard geese are very territorial and always come back to where they had eggs before.
I only read about the WNBA on Facebook as I don’t watch it. I do read the comments. The officials are not doing their job and it needs to change before the bad calls result in permanent injury. This is a black eye on the sport.
Lots of rain & humidity in SW Ohio. Good for the crops but the yard needs mowed and weeds pulled.
I watched the Fever game also. I guess more referees are going to have to be fired before they realize that their officiating is unacceptable. I think it’s interesting that the worst offenders are women referees.
I think there is a whole segment of our population that is so jealous of Caitlin and her accomplishments that they’re obsessed with putting her down and/or hurting her.
Terrible refs at the game. The Connecticut team was the pushiest team I have seen this season. And to not eject the player who pushed Clark earlier in the game was egregious. Three players ejected with 40 some seconds left in the game was just evidence of how far out of control the refs let the game go. The announcers had it right.
Mary, what will you do with the IKEA fabric? It is bold.
Vicki – the IKEA fabric will just cover my ironing board over top the wool blanket as shown.
I also watched the Fever game and couldn’t understand why Cunningham was sent out of the game. She was trying to defend herself from the two opposing players who attacked her. It was quite obvious to everyone but the refs. Loved the Dove in the Window quilt block and I notice you had help making it. Or was Kitty just supervising? So cute.
I am intrigued by the Missippi Mud birthday cake. Will you share the recipe?
I just celebrated my birthday today, my 93rd. But we had a Dairy Queen Oreo cookie cake. It was yummy too. We had a rainy day here today too, even with thunder and lightning. The town a short distance from us had baseball size hail during the night. Broke windows and windshields out of cars. Thank goodness we didn’t get the hail here, just the very welcomed rain.
It’s been fun seeing all of Country Threads’ older patterns showing up on the blog. One of my favorite patterns that was in one of your books was Farmers Daughter. Since I gifted the quilt I made many years ago to a friend in Rhode Island who had lost her home to a fire, I really should make another one. Just a basic block, but very fun to make.
Happy birthday, Mary, a bit late. Jeanne in Co.
Happy birthday, Jeanne in CO. You are blest to reach the age of 93 and still be able to do things you enjoy doing, like quilting. That is just amazing. God has been good to you. Have a wonderful rest of the week.
Happy Birthday Jeanne!
Jeanne – I inquired about the Mud Cake and was told it was the popular recipe found online. So I guess I’ll suggest going there. It is delicious. Cunningham grabbed Sheldon around the neck – payback is hell! Yes, I have help in the sewing room always – ha!
We had geese while I was a teenager. One goose ended up in the stew pot because that gander would always chase my little sister. Beautiful flower photos. I’ve noticed that there is quite a difference in the corn fields, even within relatively the same region. I’m wondering if some areas had to be planted late because it was too wet. Speaking of wet, we’ve had rain almost everyday for about a week. It’s been anywhere from a sprinkle to upto the 3/4 inch we received today. The wheat is heading out so the moisture is good. I’ve been planting perennials and mulching the flower beds. I’ve never mulched them before so I hope it helps when it gets hotter this summer.
I did see the game and I was totally disgusted that the two players that attacked Caitlin weren’t thrown out of the game. It was obvious to the announcers and everyone else who saw it that it was done on purpose. Why is it that the referees always seem to favor the team that’s playing against the Fever. And I don’t think the sun player that stepped into the last scuffle was trying to defuse the situation.
Great photos. My husband’s grandparents had geese when he was in grade school. He said he was terrified of them as they chased him on several occasions.
I was driving home the other evening, there was a car stopped in my lane. Then it pulled out and around something that turned out to be a couple Canadians with about 20 little ones. Well, they were about 18″ tall, all neck and feet! They were sashaying down the road like they owned it. Love the flowers and your new quilt block. Looks lovely. I am making some little dresses for the friend going to teach in Africa. Just finished a moose quilt for a friend, his dog ate his, so Finn will give him this one. And it’s raining. But they have backed down the crest by about 6″.