It's Spring Break this week. I had big warm plans to get into the longarm room at the other house and clean, clean, clean. Brrr. I went up there one day and got chilled. Oh well. Time to do some prep. work.
I had fun fluffing through the neutral scrap bin and pulling out some pieces to run through the Accuquilt die to make blocks for my Dicey quilt. Here's 14 blocks. That should keep me busy for a while. I'll also have to dig through the bright scraps to pull out pieces to cut and shape with my Applipop circles.
I did get outside a couple days this week when the sun was shining.
The little green plants in this part of the ditch in our drive way are all transplanted Foxglove plants. They were coming up like crazy near the pole barn in almost zero nutritious dirt for them. It was sandy with rocks. Ironically, the deer left tons of hoof prints in my dirt. I threw a plant in random hoof prints and sprinkled a little dirt on them. My Google search for "Do deer eat Foxglove" said:
"No, deer are generally considered to avoid eating foxglove, as the plant is toxic and unpalatable to them. " I guess we'll see if this above statement is true, because something is pulling the entire Foxglove plants out where they are growing near my ocean container shed and dropping them about three or feet from whre they were planted. It's like something is spitting it out. Maybe it is just the chickens scratching and weeding them for me... Ha ha.
Hopefully this will be a good fit for this ditch/deer trail highway area. I'm not sure what colors the Foxglove are. I'm thinking pinks, pale yellows, and whites. We'll see what also happens when Mr. Roundup Sprayer goes down the driveway attacking weeds that I can't mow in the ditch.
Regardless, I was outside two hours and seem to become chilled. It was indoors to cut and sew and clean my desk area.
The little yellowish plants with the tips popping out of the ground on the top of the photo are red hot poker plants. They seem to be not yummy to deer too. We shall see. The colors might nor might not blend together nicely. Only a few of my red hot poker plants bloomed last year because I only got a few of the adult plants when my friend had me dig them away from her tomato plant. They are red/yellow/orange on one plant.
I also had the chance to clean out the chicken coop. The ducks make a mess in the coop when I have to water them inside. Now that it is warmer they will get outside every day and I can water them in the chicken yard. Woohoo for non slippery wet chicken coop floors.
Our stick-picker-upper was happy to be busy.
My other big excitment during spring break was that on Monday I got a CPAP. Yuck. I'm not used to it. According to the app they had me install, I'm getting better sleep. I do think my husband is getting better sleep because he said I don't snore all night. I still need to get used to rolling around with the hose and such. I also don't get up to go to the bathroom as many times during the night, so that's progress. Glad I had the week to get adjusted before going back to school. Lovely, huh?
I don't know what part of spring break was most fun... the photo above or filing our taxes. LOL.
