As I’m driving around the yard taking pictures of quilts, a newly scrubbed and groomed Hazel rode on top of the quilts – reminding me of the Princess and the Pea.
My Prednisone has me pretty energized – I mowed along the hydrangeas, I transplanted a hunk of Fountain Grass, I cleaned up the tractor mower, I cleaned in the house, laundry, baked cookies and rhubarb muffins, boiled eggs for potato salad and cleaned the kitchen and pantry – of course, I always do the chores. Oh, and transplanted several plants in pots. Will I be able to sleep tonight???? Haha!
Reader quilts
And my laugh for the day – isn’t there a better way for men to wear ties? Look at all three pointing down to their “nether regions”. I see this with newscasters, too. And Trump’s tie goes all the way down to his zipper. What’s with that? Fashion police – do something!! Hahaha! But what do I know about mens’ ties? Maybe it’s just me that finds this almost silly.
Two of my bigger plants were already moved outside so they’re both covered tonight – forecast is 26-29 by morning. Yikes!
How about where you’re at?
Wonderful quilts today! And the dogs looked like they were having fun.
You certainly did accomplish a lot yesterday! Your cookies look so tasty. I will check my rhubarb tomorrow. I don’t eat rhubarb myself but I have several people who I share my crop with. I have given away many rhubarb plants over the years as it grows so well.
I can relate to Teresa about irises. I just thinned some iris plants a few days ago. I put them in about 10-12 containers and put them at the top of my driveway. My husband listed them on our neighborhood page and they were gone within a half hour. Later we took Biscuit on a walk around the neighborhood and I saw where someone had planted the irises in their yard already! Happy to share them.
Thanks for the blog, I really enjoy it! 🌻
LOL on men’s ties!!!! Prednisone is amazing for giving you energy but take it in the morning and not at night!!!! It will keep you up ALL night. Hazel on the quilt is just adorable. Good luck sleeping tonight.
Hazel looks adorable on that quilt. The dogs are all so cute playing together.
I think the guys look silly when they sit with the jackets buttoned. They always look uncomfortable. It sounds like I should get on steroids to get some energy! Don’t overdo it. We don’t want you to get sick again.
WOW! You had a day! Lovee all the pictures today. The dogs are a hoot! Do you have a good recipe for rhubarb coffee cake or your muffin recipe you are willing to share. Just getting ready to do a first pick on my rhubarb.
Judy – yes, I’ll post the recipe in tonight’s post
Reader pictures are great. I noticed the punch needle “Little Quilts 1998 – 2015”. Happy to know others take
some time to complete a project. I do much the same thing. Currently in 2026, setting 1996 blocks into a quilt top. Who knows when it will be quilted and bound! Have completed several others this way. I think I
am too anxious to move on to the next challenge when I am working on a large project. However. I do
complete smaller wall hangings, etc. Immediately.
Barb – I procrastinate when I’m finished piecing!!
Hazel looks great. Love how they look and smell so good after being at groomers. Question for Jeanine from Iowa. What charity do you send your quilts to. Thank you.
Kay – We give quilts to our local hospital for those going through cancer treatments, and also for our local Hospice House which is right next to the hospital. We also give to a children’s hospital in Des Moines, and to a judge in Des Moines that places children from foster homes into families that adopt them. We also make pillowcases for the children’s hospital in DM. We also make quilts for an Annual Women’s Night held by the local hospital, focusing on breast cancer survivors. There are 5 or 6 of us that work on this, but we only meet once a month and do our sewing at home.
Thanks for asking. We love what we are doing and the quilts are appreciated.
I love the quilt show to begin my day and the punch needle is just as nice. I recognize one of mh favorites…Little Quilts. I’ve admired punch needle but never took it up either. I looked up the plaid quilt name and saw there is a pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew so might have to purchase that for another one on my wish to make list. My crumb blocks are tucked away but they should be into a lap quilt like Jeanine showed us. Thank you everyone!
It’s raining here again and the annual Lilac Festival begins this coming weekend. My purple and white lilac bushes have not fully opened yet. Watkins Glen Nascar race got moved this year to this coming weekend rather than August so my family heads down to that for 4 days of camping and cooking their own food. So I’ve been busy buying food and making sure hubby takes warm clothes and not his shorts and tee shirts like he’s use to! Strange to think he’ll need his carhart jacket. He tries hard to keep up with the young ones and not ready to give up going yet but I worry still. Spring has ups and downs so I appreciate these cooler temps knowing hot humid days are ahead and then I’ll wish for it to be more comfortable.
Kathy – well, doesn’t that sound like a fun 4 days? Do the dogs go, too. DOGS – plural, right? Or have I forgotten?????
Kathy – I have too many reader pets to keep up with – and when they’re gone, I forget which ones have died. Sigh.
Mary, I understand not keeping up with your readers pets. I stay home with my 2 dogs as I’m not into the racing and drivers like my kids and grandkids are. I’d rather buy the food ( burgers, sausage, chicken, cold cuts, danish and donuts) to feed them all! DIL makes a big macaroni salad to send as she is home too. I went to Barnes and Nobles and bought the book Theo of Golden to read for the next few days being alone.
Kathy – I am just finishing Theo – let’s discuss it when you finish. I did remember you have 2 dogs – you mean you have 4 days of solitude? Lucky girl!
Yup I have the whole house to myself for four days to eat what I want and sew and read! I purposely decided not to meet anyone for lunch as I just want a whole day to be home doing what I chose. Sunday is church so I’ll have my social time then. It looks like they’ll have rain for the race now. A friend of ours in the ARCA race Friday so they are there already and said it’s so muddy.
Kathy – I would love to tidy up my house and know that it would stay like that way – light a candle – have fresh flowers on the counter – and sit in the quiet.
Hazel is definitely a princess! I wonder how many pictures you have of her with her nether region up! Haaha. I too about chocked on my coffee about the ties! Never thought about it.
Wow! You are definitely in steroids! Yeeks! Are used to go to a show and tell thing at the quilt store in Sioux Falls. And the amount of projects finished by some of those ladies made us think they never slept!
Maybe, they’re all on prednisone. Haaha. Spose?
Have a good day everyone,
Love your blog.
Joy – I’m having a quieter day today – haha! Just bedding, barn chores and Molly is here for the afternoon. She’s so lazy she doesn’t want to go outside with me!! Kinda defeats the reason for her coming out here, doesn’t it?
Pretty cold here – I don’t see many planters out. Do you have John Deer equipment? Saw a picture of a 72 row planter!!!!!!
Dear Mary…no 72 row planter here! 😝😝😝 we would have to have bugger fields! Oh my! We still have a 12 row John Deere planter. It has a lot of monitors etc, but it isn’t self steer etc. Our equipment is all green except the combine and disc! We have just about 600 acres so it’s not a big deal….according to the statistics! Enough for us! Hubby finished the last of the planting. Pizza for supper!
Suddenly colder last night – 32, but new plants looking good, even tho. Sunny now in morning seems perfect. Cute quilts, yummy rhubarb muffins, darling dogs! Maybe tighter around the necks! haha?
I got up, not for the day but you know, st 6:30 am and it was 27 degrees. I wonder if the trees froze. I sure hope not!
Yesterday i sewed with the girls. They are always so kind to carry my beastly surgery inside for me. I managed to stay for two hours! Then I had to sit on an ice pack and I got so cold! Too stubborn to turn on the furnace. I warmed up some water and that helped.
I thought my hubby was retired, but we had supper at 8:15 pm! Ugh!
I’m making a trip to Sioux Falls today for our medicine. Wondering if I want to go to Fareway too. After the rude ladies on the blog I will tell you about my RUDE lady. I was in the checkout, and the gal that was helping me asked if I had found everything? Oh, I said, I need a case of Dasani water, do you think someone could bring one up for me? The clerk beside me, gray haired crabby looking, rolled here eyes and said we have Pickup for that kind of thing. I think I stood there with my mouth open! So utterly rude. In our local store, they know I cannot lift heavy stuff or carry it. They always get it for me. Well, my checkout gal sweetly said ‘sure someone will bring it up for you.’ And he was a handsome young man and bagged my groceries and brought them to the car, plus he visited with me on the way to the car. I’ll remember that gray haired lady in the checkout forever! I won’t go in her line! They walk among us!
Joy – oh, I hate those “holier than thou” checkers! They should be glad they’ve got a job. One at my Garner HyVee is known to be growly so I’ve killed her with kindness and I think it might have worked!
There no way we’d turn our furnace off yet – Rick is cold ALL THE TIME! Me, not so much, but I never have to worry about getting cold in the house.
Mary , I was so cold this afternoon. I put it on. Much better! Well. I did not go to that Fareway store! I got what I needed at Costco and then picked up our medicine and a Mother’s Day flower for myself! 😝
Joy – good for you!! You should complain to the manager about that checker. Our furnace is not going off till it’s warm and I’m sure glad it’s on this morning. It was 37 when I got up but I’m sitting on the east side of the house and the therm says it’s 75 in here.
Karla T – That’s a great name for a wonderful quilt. Nice job.
I should say you sure are energized!!! You accomplished a lot! Great quilts and projects today. Jeanine sure gets a lot done. Her charity quilts will make recipients very happy. I have never tried a punch needle project. i love them and have been very tempted but then I think do i need another hobby? They sure are pretty. I need to make a patriotic table runner or two. The ones posted today are great!
Ginger – and that’s why I haven’t taken up cross stitch – I don’t need something else to vie for my time – ha! Yes, i agree – how does Jeanine get so many quilts pieced, quilted and bound!
Besides cute, punchneedle and cross stitch use up extra floss, and don’t take up as much space as the quilting and rug hooking supplies. I’m overwhelmed trying to down-size (mostly unsuccessfully). But these crafts are all so much fun to do!
The ties pointing to their nether regions made me choke on my coffee. Your list of accomplishments was inspiring and I am now craving rhubarb muffins. After making twenty pairs of quilted pot holders for friends who hate silicone, I am switching to quilted tote bags. We are trying to get our condo ready for our daughter and her two cats who are temporarily moving in with us. She is selling her home in Oregon and will be wintering with us and summering in the Alps. After working for twenty years and in over sixty countries in international aid, that job market was cruelly destroyed, and she has been driving an Uber. Lots of hammering in our area with 160,000 hail damaged roofs. Hazel has the cutest butt!
Donna – your daughter makes ME tired! And you, too – 40 potholders – holy smokes! But so generous for your friends. And now bags. I’ll bet there is lots of roof repair – terrible.
What a great post today! Hazel looks so regal in the first picture and then later she’s down and dirty. Ha!
I also love the quilts and punch needle! I should get my punch needle out as I haven’t done anything with it in awhile. Cookies and muffins look good too. You had a busy and productive day.
I love the crumb quilt and Plaidy Cake. I’ve made two Plaidish quilts (Kitchen Table Quilting) but Plaidy Cake looks like a great scrap buster. I have a drawer full of crumb blocks…I can’t stop making them. I thought I had a lot of energy vacuuming and washing floors in the same day. Now I feel like a slug after what you got done.
Wow but there are some lovely quilts posted today. And I get such a kick out of Hazel. She always makes me smile which is hard to beat.
Hazel and Hank are such cuties! They are certainly living their best lives!
That Hazel is a cutie patootie!!! Love that little bum sticking up in the air! Too funny. Glad Hangout to have a playdate. How is Michele doing? I had a friend who recently had back surgery – she’s doing great but recovery was slow – but slow and steady wins the race! Give her a hug from all of us.
Love those muffins!!! I wish rhubarb would grow in Florida but I’ve been told it won’t. One of my favorites. Love a good strawberry rhubarb pie. If you remember, could you take a pic of your recipe card on those muffins? I’d love to give them a go when I find some rhubarb.
I kept myself busy yesterday also — maybe it’s spring fever. Planted a bottle brush tree. Have 1 more to plant once I decide on where.
Well, Mary, thanks again for starting my day with a big smile….. have a wonderful day and a great rest of your week everyone!!!
Lynette – yes, I’ll post the recipe tonight. I don’t know what a live bottle brush tree looks like – I only know the fake ones I use at Christmas.
Michele is doing great but bored, I think, and it’s hard for me to get there to visit. Keeper cannot run around at their house because they live on a blacktop and he knows nothing about traffic since he’s always lived in a fenced area.
Can you buy frozen rhubarb at your grocery store? Wish I could send you some.
I look forward to the recipe- thank you! Sometimes I can find it at the grocery.
I’ll have to pull out my gardening book and take a photo of the bottle brush trees and email to you.
My friend was bored also. I’d text her jokes. She got so frustrated because she’s not a sitter and she was chomping at the bit to do things. We need to let our bodies heal – easier said than done – I know it is for me!
Wow Mary! I think I need some prednisone. The cookies and muffins look delicious. My son planted rhubarb for me a couple of weeks ago. It’s looking good. I have a rhubarb crunch recipe that we love. Love all the quilts and the punch needle. Blue and yellow quilts are a favorite but I have never made one.
Had little drizzles today and it’s supposed to be in the low 70 Wednesday.
Charlotte – I haven’t forgotten your dad!!
Hi Mary, you have been busy! Definitely coming for a cup of tea and rhubarb muffins, hope Rick doesn’t eat them all!l made pumpkin scones today,washed sheets, quilted while watching Just Alex and his bee hives on YouTube, in bed at 7.30 pm ,sore knees and can’t get comfortable in the lazy boy! Dentist tomorrow, hope that goes well! Hazel looked great, they have a great time on the farm! Take care everyone, best wishes from Sandy
Sandy – pumpkin scones make me think of fall and winter. If you washed sheets, that’s a huge job I hate – hard on sore knees!
It was a high of 75 today. This evening was so nice and cool, I visited with my next door neighbor on his front patio. Everyone was out walking. We are headed to 104 – 106 by next week. This morning, fabrics, projects, and scraps got sorted out, books ready for another bookcase, all to make room for a stationary bike in the corner. Beautiful quilts and punch needle. Mary, your cookies and muffins look delicious! Rhubarb is my favorite!!
Look at that Hazel! She looks gorgeous! But in a photo or two, there is that beautifully groomed bottom sticking up in the air…….something needed digging possibly!
Oh my word-and you thought I’ve been busy. I think I need some prednisone! Hazel looks so regal on her throne of quilts. Great quilts and needle punch tonight. I really like the solid one with the pinwheels. And those ties made me laugh.
Hazel and buddies doing their thing again. Love seeing all the quilts today. Cheyenne received 9 inches of snow over the last 24 hours and it will continue into the early afternoon on Wednesday. We did need the moisture as we continue to be in the drought area. My husband has been plowing but it has been difficult with the ground so hard. I tried to plant some glad bulbs last week but my shovel could only penetrate about a half of an inch into the dirt. I’m surprised that any flower shoots can even break the soil surface. We will have 60+ degrees on Thursday so maybe I’ll be able to plant late this week.
Mary, you did a ton of work today. It seems today was a hard day of work for me as well. We have been removing and giving away a ton of irises that were on the side of the driveway between the driveway and a small grass field. Last night a family came and dug out all the rest—about 35 feet by 3ish feet wide. So today my son and I cleaned up that garden, removed any roots that were missed and any weeds and then spread dirt down and planted grass seed. We decided to make that last strip have grass because we were burnt out (and sun burnt as well). Later we could plant some bushes and still have the grass. It was back breaking work and we had to use a pick axe. Our property is also very rocky so the pick axe helps dig the rocks out too. It took us about 4 hours. My hands are so sore tonight but wow it looks great. There is a wide triangular shaped section that joins where the grass will be and we had started removing the irises last fall and finished that area today too, and have made that into a garden, with hostas, a few different types of ferns, pansies, hydrangeas, 3 plants called cimicifuga hillside black beauty, and a honeysuckle. It will be so pretty in a few months. A hard days work but boy it looks great.
Teresa – I thought you were leaving today! That’s more back breaking work than I did, for sure- but it does feel good to work hard. And won’t all look so nice? All that new grass – I’ll bet you have no trouble starting grass. And who planted that many irises! Wow.
Rick cannot and likely will not help me / I remember when we were young, he could do anything, I thought. But now we’re old. Take care of your poor hands!!!! You had a back breaking day
Thanks Mary. Yes the grass will be up a little by the time we return. The irises spread like crazy here. The previous owners weren’t gardeners much so I think they planted them and then they didn’t do anything more, they kept spreading and spreading. We left at 6:30 this morning (Wednesday). My days are harder to remember since my hubby retired. I was a day ahead of the actual days this week.
The quilt show is really nice too. So many I like, too many for me to make to add more to my list. Have a wonderful day.
Oh my! You really got a lot done! Miss Hazel looks beautiful 😻! I love the crumb quilt and the plaidy quilt, I need that pattern 🤣.
Our low will be in the 70s tonight and storms
/rain tomorrow. I planted several things yesterday and got a workout. Then I feel too tired to sew or anything. 😻