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Another Rainy Day and Week

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, to you all! Yes, the rain has started up again. And, it’s forecast through the weekend, maybe even longer. It’s all good; I am ready! Boy, this has been such a wet and cool spring! Yesterday was dreary, but no rain, so I was able to get some outdoor photos of our yard. I am so glad I took the time outside with my camera yesterday; it was probably my only chance!

This weekend the many crabapple trees on our property came into bloom. We have white and pink trees. The pink are a challenge to photograph on a darker day, but you can get an idea anyway. While taking these photos of our crabapple trees I was immersed in their scent which reminded me of my childhood as we always seemed to have crabapples trees growing in our yard.

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I took the photo below of our apple tree. It has very few blossoms on it, so I guess that means not too many apples this fall.

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Miss Feral Kitty is waiting patiently for me to finish with my photography, so I can go around front and feed her her breakfast. Notice the flick of her tail, so cute.

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This is last year’s nest that a mommy and daddy robin used to raise three babies.

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Okay, another mystery . . . anyone know what this shrub is called? These flowers are incredibly tiny, maybe 1/4″ or so. I cannot smell any scent from the flowers.

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Another shot to give you an idea at how forget-me-nots spread every year. Origninally, I had planted one packet. This is only one tiny area of them. Luckily, they are easy to pull.

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The latest news from my sewing room is that I did get Patience’s dress remade yesterday, and it is now perfect. Yay! I’ve been dyeing pieces of Lycra knit that will be used for tights, socks, and panties while writing this blog post, so now I’ll have four pieces of different pinky shades to choose from. It seems I use shades of pink or white more than any other color.

Bye for now! Wishing you all a great day!

Busy!

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Oh, my goodness, what a packed full weekend! When there is too much to write about, I don’t, sorry. I should have been posting all weekend . . . so very sorry to neglect you all.

I hope all of you moms that celebrate Mother’s Day had a wonderful day filled with happy times and maybe a little pampering. I started a load of laundry yesterday morning and the clothes magically got put away. My husband and daughter gifted me with a new Kindle and a bunch of red orange tulips. I’ve been wanting a Kindle for reading library books; I think I’ll really like it and use it all the time (that is when I’m not sewing, knitting, embroidering, or crocheting, etc.) LOL!

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I always get asked what I want to do on Mother’s Day. Every year my answer is something leisurely. Do you know what I said this year? Yard work! Yep, that’s how we spent a good portion of the day. Our messy garden beds were starting to weigh me down and now most of them are nice and clean. And, it was really nice spending time working hard with my daughter at my side. While my daughter and I worked around the front of the house, my husband was busy at the back and spent the entire day outside. I don’t know how he does that!

Afterwards, my daughter made me a late lunch complete with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream! That ice cream was well deserved, don’t you think?

This morning my hamstrings are quite sore and I have a bright red sunburned stripe where my back waistband didn’t quite meet the bottom of my t-shirt. Oops! Thank goodness for aloe gel.

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Here’s one of my three rose bushes. We had to scrape away millions of tiny seedlings growing around the rosebushes. (I don’t think I got them all either.) One of the rosebushes had so many tiny forget-me-nots growing around it; it looks like it has died. I saw a few green branches, so hopefully it will catch up to the other two.

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I have more outdoor photos to show you tomorrow.

Today I need to remake Patience’s dress. 😦 The bodice is too long for the sweater and just looks odd. I hate redoing things, but it has to be done. Better get to work . . .

I hope everyone’s week is starting off nicely. Bye for now!

It’s May!

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It’s May, but it doesn’t feel like it around here. We are on day 6 of dreary, dark, usually rainy weather. Ugh, ugh, ugh! Really, I am so very tired of it. When it is so dreary day upon day, it takes a real mental workout just to get out of bed in the morning.

One thing that I’ve started doing in the last few days is to count my blessings (and I have many) before I get up, so I can get up on the right side versus the wrong side of the bed. It makes all the difference to get out of bed with a grateful heart rather than a “woe is me” feeling inside.

Once I get up, this is how I start my mornings on these dark days–30 minutes of blue light (and a cup of coffee or tea 🙂 ). The blue light really make all the difference in how I sleep at night (as long as I remember to stay off of the computer a couple of hours before bedtime).

Just to show you how dreary it’s been… I think this was taken on Thursday or Friday.

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In addition to the clouds, we’ve been getting lots of rain too. A mallard couple thought that our pool cover was a pond and flew right in yesterday. The feral cat was on the deck, the dog was barking at them, and they didn’t care; they stayed awhile and swam around.

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One of the blessings that I took note of on Saturday morning was the sunshine we got at 5:00 pm on Friday. I know, not much, but I’ll take what I can get. I made sure my BJD resin dolls were out of the sunlight and opened the curtains in my sewing room. It was so nice and warm!

Unfortunately, my last doll outfits (the one I just finished for Sugar) and the one I’ve been working on all week are in blue. Couldn’t I pick something in yellow? It is really hard to work with blue when it is dreary. I think I will look at the weather forecast the next time I want to make something in blue. lol

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Here are some photos from the last time I took a sunshine-y walk (last Monday). The violets were blooming; I love violets!

Even dandelions are pretty (I think so anyway).

These teeny tiny purple flowers bloom in large patches in the grass this time of year. They look like a carpet of purple. Does anyone know what they are? They are super duper tiny; you can see that they make the dandelion appear huge.

We are supposed to have a very nice week, so that is what I am counting on, but I am aware that you cannot count on the weather, so I had better prepare myself… just in case.