Hank’s mom came over and helped me set up Zoom – I hope by tomorrow I’ll still remember what she told me.
Rain was predicted for tonight so I mowed – looked great and thank goodness I did mow because we got 1.8” of hard rain around supper time.
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Oriole nest on the ground right after I mowed!
Watching Fever game and it’s pretty disappointing.
So glad you got the Zoom worked out. These days with all the ‘checking in’ online or by text is enough to make a guy not want to go to the dr. But, at least people are held accountable! We have orioles in our yard every year, but have never seen a nest. We’ve seen them in the winter after the trees are bare. There are so many trees being taken down around us I feel so sorry for the birds and even the squirrels. Last year when our trees were taken down, we told them they had to wait as there was a cooper hawk nest in one tree. We don’t know if they ever hatched any eggs, but the nest was there and sorry to say they ‘hunted’ in our back yard. Usually the birds at the feeder would get away before the swoop! Nature is lovely, until it’s not! Glad you didn’t get all the rain Mason City and Clear Lake got. Some videos were unbelievable!
Linda – funny you mentioned the trees – I have 5 dead ash trees around my screened porch where I watch the birds and I don’t want to take them down because where will the birds sit and eat and fly down to the feeder from? I’m hoping the tree guys will just top them enough that they won’t crash into my roof!
The oriole nest is beautiful. Nests are an amazing engineering feat. We are waiting for our Junco eggs to hatch. Should be any day now.
My son and DIL went on an Alaskan cruise for their honeymoon 6 years ago. I started the “Sea Alaska” quilt last year and finally finished it. I changed up the pattern a bit, a replaced the black fabric with white and the white fabric with black. It just seemed too dark for me having so much black. My granddaughter asked me what I was doing one day when we were face timing, I was hand sewing the binding on the quilt. She wanted to see the quilt so I showed her and she said grandma I like that, can I have it? So I gave it to them. My DIL asked who the lucky person was that was going to receive the quilt and when I told her it was them she was really happy.
Mary, I’m so glad you did the DD again this year. This is my first time participating and I can’t believe I have completed 7 unfinished things. I hope you continue this next year too. It’s the little kick in the pants as they say to get things done.
Teresa – I am so glad you’re keeping up with the DD game – congratulations on getting 7 projects done! I’ll bet you’re the leader! Haha!! Lovely quilt, by the way
Thanks Mary. I like the quilt too. I always was a high achiever and this is definitely driving me to get stuff that has been sitting around in the procrastination pile and sew. So I thank you. It’s not a race with anyone else, just with myself. And I’m really enjoying the fact my pile of projects are going down. But as I said I hope you do it again next year. I have many more than the 12 I numbered this year.
All the little quilts are impressive, and the animals are precious, and you ladies are helpful with know-how and good ideas,. BUT Mary is a WHIZ at mowing! Seriously, I don’t know the chores that are required of living on a farm, or where the weather dictates so much of what you need to keep up with! I love learning about your day to day and necessary activities “about nothing”! Thanks!
Judy – most often I think I’m boring you with my farm chores / I could be more explicit, I suppose – about feed and feeders, etc. haha! It’s a learned talent!
I just love those little flag quilts. Maybe I can find Mary Ellen’s book on line??? Hope so. The Alaska Sea quilt is lovely and the clematis….Beautiful. Such a deep rich color and unusual pruning. We have sun this morning. Yeah!
Sue – if you can’t find it I’m sure I have it and ill get Mary Ellen’s permission to share it but the whole book is great – you’ll want it for your library
Hope the Zoom session goes well. I’m glad Michelle came and helped you.
I often think of the time when I went back to work after being at home with kids for about 15 years. I was a computer programmer in a smallish office, at a large university. One of the first days, I was alone in the office at lunch time, when the secretary’s phone rang, and I answered it. The man calling had the wrong extension, so I told him that he needed to call this other office and gave him the correct extension. He said, “Can you transfer me?” Transferring calls with those old-style phones meant quickly tapping the “hangup” buttons and then entering the new number. If you weren’t fast, you’d just hang up on the other person. I said, “I don’t know, I’m not the secretary and I’ve never transferred a call before.” And he said, “You’re an intelligent woman, you can do it!” And I did it! I’ve told myself that same thing many times over the years, when I have to try something new.
Dot – what great advice!!! I’ll also remember that
Ant Quilt update. After several suggestions, the consensus is that the weird square box above the ant on the left is a take off on the old plaid lunchboxes that were around when we were kids. Also suggested is that it’s a picnic basket. I’ll work on that angle and see how it goes. Thanks for the input.
I made the celebration flag years ago, the one with the star in the corner. It’s the only patriotic thing I’ve made, but I’d really like to make some small bowl fillers. Please send some of your rain to west MI, It’s going to get really hot next week, with no rain.
That is one beautiful clematis!
Hope you do well with your Zoom appointment.
I have all confidence in you Mary that you can do Zoom! The best is that it saved you a drive!! Lovely quilts – I’m enjoying how we are still embracing the 250 celebration! I think we should celebrate for the whole year! But then I also think we should celebrate our birthday month not just the day.
The purple clematis are beautiful! My purple one is still in shock after my husband chopped it off one fall unbeknownst to me. I’m sure it’s one that grows back on the old vine. I have a pink one that is just a year old and was beginning to bloom when I left Cheyenne for No. Dakota. I’m up here helping with the grands. My daughter and the 13 yr old boy and the 11 yr old girl are going with their Boy Scout troop to a summer camp in Northern Minnesota. So I and the 5 yr old get to play games, dolls, house, and whatever else she wants to do for the week. Oh, we are chicken sitting also.
Martha – you must be having such a fun time with the grands – especially that little one! I’m envious of you
We have a few orioles, but never been lucky enough to see their nests. Sounds like you see them all the time, Mary. Mortie is getting so big, but still so cute!
Sara – yes, I have saved many oriole nests through the years – it would be a shame to throw them away. They are an engineering miracle!
Loved the celebration flags from our book Little Quikts Slk Through The House. Country Threads and us I would say are tied with how much we both did patriotic themed quilts! Always fun to see their and our patterns popping up…… they are timeless!
I have that book— love it!
MAry Ellen – I was hoping you’d see these “little quilts”!