My three favorite months of the year are coming up.  I just love Spring and seeing all the flowers and trees blooming and watching the birds at all our birdhouses building their nests and raising their families.  Winter never seems very long anymore, but we did have snow this year and we are expecting more tonight.  But it won’t last long because we are expecting temperatures in the sixties and seventies by the end of the week.  This is Indiana.

Despite our rather upsetting start to the  year, we are both about done with doctors for a while. David is doing well since his stroke, but still has some vision loss.  Not bad enough he can’t drive, but I still remain alert.  He is taking this week off for my birthday and guess what?  It is supposed to rain every, single day.  There are flowers pushing up all over the yard and I have been planning what we will plant this year.  Several more bushes and of course geraniums and zinnias and we have a little garden marked off for Rudbeckia or Black Eyed Susans and Lavender.

Here are the petunias I told you were taking over a corner of the greenhouse.

This geraniums has thrived all Winter.

Geraniums rate up there as one of my favorite flowers.  See the little gas stove in the corner that has kept the greenhouse toasty warm all Winter even though it isn’t insulated at all?  Best buy  we ever made.  We just came upon it at Rural King as an end of season sale and we bought it on a whim.  So glad we did.

This   geranium I have over wintered a couple of years.  It loves the greenhouse, too.
So nice to have flowers blooming like this in the middle of the Winter.  Really boosts my spirits to see them.

The Poinsettia is still going strong.  More like a little tree now and will need to be repotted when warm weather gets here.

David likes to do puzzles in the Winter and he has done three one thousand piece puzzles so far.  All by himself as I don’t enjoy doing them, but I love to see them when they are all finished.  This puzzle is from the book, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Woman.  Winter edition.  He has put together the Spring, Summer and Autumn puzzles also.

After David started doing these puzzles I looked up the book and found one online.  This woman was a wonderful artist and roamed the woods, hedges and fields around her home writing about all the animals, birds and vegetation she came upon on her walks.  She really makes me think of Beatrix Potter who painted animals and birds she saw around her family’s vacation home and later on her own country home. They were of the same generation, I believe.
While David does puzzles, I order fabric and sew on my new project.

I bought this book a while ago and have made several little quilts from it, but now I have a new plan.

Using this pattern I plan to make several small quilts from it and to later sew them together into a larger quilt.  Here are some of the quilts I have made so far.

I am having so much fun sewing these.  I am collecting William Morris designed fabric,  I think I told you about it earlier.  I get six fat quarters of it sent to me each month.  I never know what colors I will get, but that’s  the fun of it.  I am also collecting Jane Austen inspired fabrics which work very well with the William Morris fabric and with reproduction fabrics I already have, I am finding many combinations to put together.  It will make a colorful, patchwork style of quilt or quilts when I am done.

Here are some e of the William Morris fabric I have received.

And here are some Jane Austen fabrics I have ordered.
Doing this and I already have Christmas gifts I am working on and I am expecting a patriotic quilt kit to arrive any day so I keep busy, but it is all fun to me.  I also am knitting every time I sit down to watch tv.  I cannot stand to sit and do nothing.  I am also pedaling an hour or two on my little peddling machine.  Keeps my legs limber if nothing else. I watched Jurassic World  and a move called “ FALL” on Netflix last night while I peddled and put the equivalent of twenty  thousand steps on the machine.  That movie, “FALL” was so good, I stayed up until one-thirty to see the ending. David went to bed at 8:30 last night.  He said he hit a wall, but I think he is still worn out after his stroke. I am glad he is taking a week off.
Well, that’s all from me for today. Hope you are having a wonderful ending to Winter and that Spring weather will be here for all of us soon. Unless you are reading this in a different hemisphere then you are going into your autumn which seems so weird to me, but very interesting, too.  You people who live in Australia, I have  dreamed of visiting your country ever since I was  a girl and did a report on Duckbilled Platypuses.  I probably won’t make it there this side of Heaven, but I do love your country. Bye, everyone.