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APRIL FOOL'S DAY CAME LATE THIS YEAR

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The Easter bunny will be coming to our house this year but I sure hope it doesn't rain. It seems that in the past it has been no fun  for either kids or adults because it's either raining, has been raining or is cold and miserable. My idea of having a good egg hunting day for these 2 or 3 if you count the grand-dog, is to have lots of eggs, chocolate bunnies, balloons to chase and break  and a picnic later after all the excitement has calmed down. Josh, age 6. Logan, age 10. Sweetheart, age ?. In the meantime Roger has been extremely busy around here  trying to clear away the fallen trees and making the property safe for 2 active boys. I'm getting out the swords, bats and balls, and other paraphernalia that will hopefully keep them happy because I think they might be doing a sleep over for a few days while they are off from school. I made the mistake a while back of saying that it's a shame that one of our riding lawn mowers is no lon

MY FAVORITE COLOR TODAY IS YELLOW and white and orange and green...

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DEPENDABLE It was unusually harsh for us this winter. The deer, foxes, raccoons, and other critters that we see in our neighborhood had it tough. I am wondering if that would account for the less than abundant regrowth of our daffies and tulips on our property this year. At the top of our driveway. Sporadic beauties here and there. Some have multiplied since last year. Replantings! The squirrels have been busy. This is still my favorite. My grandson picked this for me last year. It's good to know that my Daffodils are DEPENDABLE!

SIGHTINGS!

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BLOOMING ON OUR PATCH         With warmer temps at our house, we have lots of blooming going on. While Roger is busy outside I am busy inside. NOT doing Spring cleaning though. I have been digging into my older pile  of wips (works in progress) in my sewing room. I have several line-hangers to show you. "Hooterville" I did some years ago for my grandchildren. It just didn't get to the blooming stage. Now I am happy to say that it is sandwiched and quilted and in their possession.  The next couple of quilt tops are just about to the stage of flimsies (completed tops). This one just needs a top and bottom border and it will join the flimsy pile. It was just something I sewed together eons ago to use up "bricks" I had stockpiled. This next quilt needs to have some of the border chopped off of it to make it look balanced but I just love those butterflies. To me they are flitting all over the place trying to find some butterfly bushes to l

A RANT

It's been a rough couple of days here trying to retrieve the disappearing photos from my blog posts. Whew-wee! I found out through internet research that I'm not the only one it's happened to and those hapless individuals were as mystified as myself. 'A glitch in the system' is the best anyone can come up with, but of course they don't use that phrase but a lot of technical mumbo jumbo to say the same thing. The worst part is finding in my albums the original pictures I used. REMEMBERING what I used! I have redone all of April's but know that I didn't always match up the text with the same photos I originally used. In the process of me searching my albums I came across some neat shore scenes and wrote a new post on the spot, so to speak, lol, about roughing it and gale force winds.  Yes, I feel like I have been doing a bit of roughing it here and need a 'good gale' to clear away the frustration of it all.  I have all of the March posts to do yet

A TA-DA! MOMENT

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The blanket is finished!  I hope Lynsey likes it. She picked out the colors and pattern the last time I saw her way back in January. We meet up tomorrow night to celebrate her birthday at a restaurant.  She's a tall girl and likes to snuggle while watching tv so this should do the job. It's 72 rows with 8 different colors in it. The first two rows are done with just a popcorn stitch straight across. The rest of the blanket was easy peasy. The granny ripple stitch. 

ROUGHING IT

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Since the decision to make the 12 hour trip north next month so that I might spend Mother's Day with my parents,  I  have been wondering how cold it's going to be on the Island when I get there. Ordinarily we thaw out from old man winter at least a month head of them down here in the eastern part of PA. However, they had a particularly harsh winter. My "NEST" as I like to call it was almost completely covered in snow! Hard for me to envision because all that goes through my mind is the damage to the roof and other sorts of troubles that much snow and ice could cause to the structure. After all, it's not meant to be an igloo, it's supposed to be traveling the highways and byways by people looking to enjoy their vacations in WARM climates. My mother has kept me updated on the NEST's snow levels in our weekly conversations. It didn't help that the person who plows "them out" ran out of places to put the snow and had to push it up against my NES

CONTRASTS

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My husband, Roger, walks our dog, Mysti, everyday. It has to be pretty awful outside for them to miss their outing around the neighborhood. Mysti is pretty well insulated when she has her winter coat on. She knows that when he finishes feeding the deer they will be on their way. She paces relentlessly around the house and is tall enough to be able to look out most of the Windows. Our Easter bunny is being rained on! Today it's raining and cold. 40 degrees F. She will love it!  Roger also will embrace the opportunity to try and capture what's happening above his head if it should stop raining at all while they are gone.  Roger shares my love of photography with one exception. He loves to take pictures of the sky, exclusively. Clouds fascinate him and he has 100's of pictures of them on his phone. Occasionally I will look up and understand his amazement. Especially when a storm is brewing. Roger does capture some really great pictures of