{"id":8276,"date":"2018-05-23T21:47:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2018-05-23T21:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T21:47:23","slug":"summer-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=8276","title":{"rendered":"Summer Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I know it’s not quite Summer yet, but it sure feels like it with the heat and humidity.\u00a0 Today was a picture perfect day with hardly a cloud in the blue, blue sky.\u00a0 The seasons are running together now for me. I no sooner get ready for one season then it is another one and so on and so on. This is my favorite time of year when the birds are building their nests and raising their families. David and I watched a daddy bird feed one of his babies in our bird feeder today.\u00a0 There are so many birds. Cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, Titmice, sparrows, cowbirds, blue jays,( who are nasty critters, I must say) starlings,who lay blue eggs I learned this Spring, purple finches and some I don’t know what they are called.\u00a0 But the feeder is constantly busy. I saw a humming bird also. They have been very secretive about coming to the feeder and I can never catch them.<\/p>\n

The garden just burst into bloom. When they say something bursts into bloom it’s true.\u00a0 One day nothing and the next day flowers everywhere. If you don’t believe in miracles, go out into a garden and you will see so many all around you. I always wonder how a tree knows when it is time to unfurl it’s leaves. When a daffodil knows to pop its head out of the ground.\u00a0 Who tells the birds when to fly north. I know, but do you?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s all perfectly miraculous.\u00a0 It’s going on all around us every single day and most of us are blind to it.\u00a0\u00a0 That is why it says in the Bible, be still and know that I am God.\u00a0 Just sit quietly in a garden for a while and if you don’t believe there is a greater Being making all this happen, I don’t know what to tell you.\u00a0 I believe and I see it every day.<\/p>\n

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Bursts. See.<\/p>\n

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The peony is one of my top five favorite flowers. I have a lot of them in my garden and I just ordered seven more to be planted this Autumn.<\/p>\n

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I want to just stop and look and look at these, but there is work to do.<\/p>\n

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But then, there are these beauties. The Iris. On my top five list.\u00a0 They multiply and you don’t have to do a single thing to make it happen.<\/p>\n

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I never have enough flowers, but I am running out of room.<\/p>\n

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My daughter and son-in-law gave me this for Mother’s Day.\u00a0 I love it. But I am not very good with hanging baskets so I hope I can keep this as beautiful as it is now.\u00a0 By the way.\u00a0 I had a very nice Mother’s day.\u00a0 My grandsons learned to play Chinese checkers the last time they were here so they wanted us all to play.\u00a0 Six people playing Chinese checkers takes a long time. Especially when some people refuse to move!\u00a0 But it was fun. We played on the Chinese checkerboard I received for Christmas one year when I was a little girl.<\/p>\n

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This is not David’s grandmother’s clematis.\u00a0 This is one we transplanted here years ago and it has really taken off.\u00a0 It’s what I see from my backdoor.<\/p>\n

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Just gorgeous.<\/p>\n

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And Molly Marshmallow has to get into the picture. I love this dog. So much.<\/p>\n

I always say the back yard is the dogs’ garden because I don’t get all upset if they dig something up or lay smack dab in the middle of a flower bed.<\/p>\n

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Here is Belle demonstrating her gardening capabilities.\u00a0 Which pretty much amounts to snooping, sniffing, pooping and digging. But that’s okay.<\/p>\n

I have managed to complete one small quilt in the midst of all the gardening and painting my shop.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s another one from Kathleen Tracy’s book.<\/p>\n

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It’s nice to do a small project once in a while where you can see the results so much faster.<\/p>\n

And I am nearly finished with this quilt.<\/p>\n

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I hand quilted it instead of on the machine and I thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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I still have the border to quilt and the binding to put on.\u00a0 I already have another quilt I am planning to hand quilt\u00a0on my mind.\u00a0 It is slightly bigger. It fits the top of the table David is making me.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the table on its side so that he can screw the bottom shelf on.<\/p>\n

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And here it is on its feet.\u00a0 The top still needs staining and polyurethaned but it’s almost there. You can see I still do not have the floor completely painted. Trying to think what I am going to do with the grandchildren’s handprints and pictures they painted on the floor years ago. I am keeping them for sure.\u00a0\u00a0 I love this table. We got the idea for it at the Indiana Home Show a couple of years back where I saw a kitchen island that looked like this and I loved it.\u00a0 The price for the kitchen island?\u00a0 Ten thousand dollars!\u00a0 The price of this table with lumber, stain, screws and casters?\u00a0 Under $500 which is still not cheap, but a whole lot cheaper than the one we saw at the home show.\u00a0\u00a0 It will last my lifetime and one of the kids will inherit it if they want it, but they will have to have a big place to put it as it’s huge.\u00a0\u00a0 I can see myself this Winter cutting out quilts and laying quilts\u00a0on this table to pin before I quilt them. And there is so much storage underneath. I am going to buy some baskets to hold projects I am working on.\u00a0 Thank you, David.\u00a0 I love you.<\/p>\n

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I have my mother’s Singer sewing machine.\u00a0The\u00a0machine I learned to sew upon. When my mother\u00a0got this machine, it was the newest one out and she was so proud of it. David, who has worked on many sewing machines in his life says this is the best sewing machine Singer ever put out with metal gears.\u00a0 So many of the sewing machines today have plastic gears. And\u00a0talking about sewing machines.\u00a0 I came in my shop with wet Crocs and feet the other day and sat\u00a0down to piece a quilt square and got shocked.\u00a0\u00a0 I blamed the machine and immediately began to look for a new sewing machine online. David says it’s because I had wet bare feet that I was shocked, but I have talked myself into a new machine.\u00a0 A heavy duty quilting machine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have worn out a few machines and mine are\u00a0all over twenty years old with a lot of miles on them so I am getting a new machine.\u00a0 But no more sewing with wet bare feet!<\/p>\n

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This little girl is graduating from high school this weekend. I can hardly believe it. I remember when this picture was taken.\u00a0 My son and daughter-in-law lived in Chicago and both her grandmas got to go with her mother and her to get her pictures taken. It was so much fun and we grandmas watched all gaga over this precious little baby that had come into our lives. Now she is all grown up and ready to meet the world.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m still gaga over her and so very proud.<\/p>\n

Here’s to wonderful granddaughters, new sewing tables and learning NOT to sew in wet, bare feet. Bye.<\/p>\n

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