Yesterday I did plant snapdragons and impatiens. There are still more things to plant and some of them are looking a little sad. I did do a little of the housework. I did begin to finish the three little ornaments but ran into a problem. The process just did not work well for me this time. This morning I did make some progress on one of the three so hopefully the remainder of the work will go much easier today. I also stitched the linen for the next set of ornaments to my scroll bars. There still is not enough progress for me to feel like showing it.

More Progess

Yesterday I made more progress on the three ornaments and a new ornaments project. It is just that what I did is so mundane and hardly looks like I did anything. Therefore, there are no pictures to show.

For the set of three, I cut out the forms to go inside the ornaments to give them shape and glued flannel onto the forms. Because I am not rushing up against the last minute, I decided to let the glue dry all day and over night. Actually, if it was not for the last minute, a lot of my projects would not get done.

Next in line was the start of my new ornaments project. This time I am stitching four of the same. It is the first of a set of three that appeared in an older edition of Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly. It was so long ago that the issue almost seems like an antique itself. I basted in all of the guidelines for the four fronts and backs.

Today I need to do a little housework and a little work in the garden.

Yes, I do stitch!

I have said so little and shown so little about my stitching that you might even wonder if I stitch. Today I finished the fronts and backs of three little ornaments. I have a pending deadline for one of them and thought it a good time to finish all three. The design is an older freebie from The Sampler Girl. I printed this one out in 2007.

Our weather is absolutely perfect. The sun is shining and the temperature and humidity are down. We turned off the air conditioner this morning and opened the windows. It cannot get any better than this. I think we are having roasted chicken for dinner today. For the Fourth of July we are tentatively planning fried chicken, potato salad, and slaw. We are not yet certain about dessert. There is at least one vote for rhubarb pie and one vote against. I guess that the cook or baker of the day will be able to cast a thousand votes. :-D

Rain Rain Rain

Please believe me I am not complaining. We so desperately need the rain that it would not be nice to complain. Yesterday Ben's fences around his oak seedlings proved their worth. We now are fairly certain rabbits have been eating his little trees. We watched a rabbit hop right up to the fence and sniff around it. The rabbit tried to take things out of the fenced area. It tried to get under the fence. It seemed to know just what it wanted and what it was doing. I would have taken a picture of the trees in their fences this morning but it is raining too much for me to feel like doing that.

The cherries are ripening. Birds were taking so many that we put a vinyl net over the tree. That has not completely deterred the birds but it is definitely putting a dent in their harvest. I ate three cherries yesterday. They are wonderfully delicious, a little tart but very good without sugar. I wonder if we will have enough to make a cobbler. Again no pictures because of the rain.

It is a sunny morning. It is still warm and humid but somehow, looking at my breakfast peach I do not notice it. Yes, it is my first fresh peach this year. The little label said U.S.A. but I wonder if it really grew in the US. As cynical as I am, that could just mean that the distributer is in the US. While I am not ready to become a dedicated locovor, I am becoming increasingly more conscious about the expenditure of energy to produce my foods.

I need to find some way to make the mundane tasks of the day seem more exciting. I need to add some incentives to encourage me to get through it.

This morning I walked to the healthclub. The sky looked dark behind me and became progressively more so as I walked. Thunder started rolling in the background and gradually become more insistent. I just hoped I could get to the healthclub before the rain started. Rain?? Today?? I thought that the weather forecast yesterday said no rain, just blue sky.

As I rounded the corner at the healthclub, my friend was just arriving. It took me a little while to realize who was honking at me. It was so very good to see her. It has been a couple weeks since we last saw each other. I took my gym bag out of the car. Roger drives to the healthclub and brings my bag so I only have to pick it up. Jan and I walked into the healthclub just as it started to rain. My timing could hardly have been better.

Life seems to be very unexciting and uninspired. After washing floors, we took the remains of the snowberry bush to the municipal composter. It looked like someone had trimmed out some of the spirea too. It is raining a little and that is very welcome. The daylilies are starting to send up buds. I do not have as many daylilies as iris and that is very fortunate.