School Auction

For this years annual auction, I asked my mother-in-law to make a Hawaiian Wall Quilt. She graciously accepted, and a few months later sent us this beautiful Ulu (breadfruit) design, framed in a matching bamboo frame. It was tough to let this go. I sat for a very long time staring at all of those teeny tiny stitches. I'm not sure if you can see the detail, but it is all hand-stitched.

Dang Crows!

For the past month or so, I've spent the majority of my free time outside prepping the garden. The crows usually swoon in and gulp up grubs and earthworms as soon as I head indoors. So... the other day I planted a handful of my onion starts, and wouldn't you know it, the crows had a field day pulling them out of the ground. See below. They've done this twice now...GRRR They don't eat them, just yank them out.

It was cold today, really cold. You can't tell from this photo, but we had a little snow this afternoon. It melted immediately. A little spring snow. Bella seems unaffected by the weather, swishing her stick around in the ice cold water. Warm weather, please come our way soon, very very soon.

Rainy Day Blues

What else to do on a dark, rainy day besides sit on the porch and catch the rain?

Ahhh. waiting for warm, dry weather!!