Did we really have a month of February?  I know it’s a short month, but, really?  It simply flew by.  I managed to get a Christmas gift completed, David did most of our Christmas shopping because the store where he works had a great sales plus he got his discount.  I know we sound kind of crazy, but the more we get done before next December, the more we can enjoy the  holidays.

February had some brutally cold days.  It seems we spent the time letting dogs in and out of my shop because we had below zero temps.  We are going to put heat in what once was the chicken coop and insulate it well so next Winter they will have a warm place to sleep where David doesn’t have to get up early to let them out.  It’s been hard on him, I know, even though he doesn’t complain.

I have made a couple of quilts for the quilt group I joined on Facebook.

This is the one for February.

This is March’s quilt already pieced.  I am also working on April’s quilt.  I want to get ahead because when it gets warm out,I want  to be outdoors.  I am quilting them all on my sewing machine which only takes an hour or two to do these small quilts.

We took a short trip to Martinsville to visit their candy shop there.

I was like, well, a kid in a candy shop!

On the left are all kinds of wonderful candies you can buy.  On the right is their ice cream bar and seating.  We both got two dips of ice cream on waffle cones.  I chose Oreo and caramel pecan.  David chose orange pineapple and black cherry.  They were good.  Only candy we bought was a small bag of lemon drops.  I have  had way too many sweets lately and my birthday is this week and although I am not going to have a cake, David will get me donuts for my birthday.  Then it is back to fruits and vegetables for me.

Another place we drove to was to the Ice Tree.  The only Ice Tree in Indiana, I believe.  It is truly a work of love for this one family who has been building this tree for decades and they allow people to drive onto their property to see it for free.  We took a couple of our friends to see it a few years ago, but we wanted to see it again.

It is a lot bigger than it looks in this picture.  Pretty colors all through it.

Here I am  in front of it.

This looks like a person got frozen by it!

it was fun to see it.  Some tv channel got permission for someone to climb up it, but it is off limits to everyone, otherwise.  We have had warm temperatures the last week so I imagine the tree has melted a lot.

David is off work this week and we plan a little job for us.  Guess what it is.

it involves this…..

and this…..

Doing this……

And this.  Our front hallway.  We were going to hire painters, but decided we could do this small area ourselves.  I have  picked a blue color I am not sure about, but we will paint a coat to see how it looks and if I don’t  like it, David saved some paint chips from the wall now so we can match it again if we have to   The walls have several cracks because this old house has settled some through the years so they needed repairs.  I have future plans of painting our hallway upstairs and our bedroom plus maybe the kitchen cabinets and walls next Autumn.  We will have the professionals do that.

I have been planting a few things in my green house.  Some herbs and leaf lettuce.  This week I will plant some tomatoes.  It really won’t be long until we will be planting flowers outdoors again.

That  has been our life this short Winter we are having. Seems we are rushed through the seasons by the retailers, but I plan to take it slow.

Hope you are keeping warm where it is cold and cool where it is hot.  If it is perfect weather where you are, congratulations!  Bye.