We already bought two fruit trees to fill in for the one we took out. We plan to take out the other berry tree for one more fruit tree in the backyard. I was gone when they planted the trees, so I didn't get any pics of that, but here are our two newest little babies:
Nectarine
Santa Rosa Plum:
There is a little fruit on both of them!
Next, prepare the soil for our veggie garden!
We have four of these trees, I couldn't find the name of them. I thought they were Chinese Cherry trees, but that is not what I see when I search it online. They have these little purple berries that make a mess on my sidewalks, and sometimes, in my house! So we decided to replace two of them with fruit trees. Here is a picture of the other one we will cut down:
Here are their berries:
I do not want to cut them all down because I love to watch the Cedar Waxwings flying in and eating them. They are the cutest birds:
The same kind of bird that flew into our front window earlier this year:
I don't like the mess they make after they eat, though!
Bye bye, tree:
We will put a peach tree here, or some other fruit tree. I can now see how much shade that little tree was giving us on our back porch!
This counts as my learn something new #5! (Since I am not posting these right away, and sometimes there will be more than one a week, I am just going to number them. But I will still try for every week)
This was my first time sewing on the border by machine. My good friend L showed me how. That is her lovely hand in the picture :) I had to cut 2.25" strips, sew them diagonaly, which was harder than it sounds, then fold in half and iron. Then I sewed the whole thing to the front edge of the quilt, but to all 3 layers.
Here, she is showing me how to sew the ends together once it was all sewn to the quilt. This was tricky! But we did it!
I didn't get any pics of me hand sewing the border to the back. Here is the finished border, folded over to see both sides of the quilt:
I finished the border in just a few days. I was able to finish in time to put it on my sleeping Zebra on the eve of his 11th bday. My daughter calls me the Quilt Fairy :)
April 1
National Atheist's Day
April Fool's Day
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God".
Psalm 53:1
My middle son turned 11 yesterday! My Zebra guy. The middle child of 5. The middle of 3 boys. How many people can say that they have one older brother and one younger brother, and one older sister and one younger sister? :)
Here are some pics through the years:
4 months
1 year
3 years
7 years
9 years
11 years
One recent Friday afternoon, we drove out to a local park to look for wildflowers. We found some!! I was able to identify some, but not all of them. My field guides rarely help me when I need them!!! The internet helped me more than my field guide. This is something new for us, actually getting out of the car and taking pictures of wildflowers! So, do something new, #4!
Red Owl Clover:
Bird's Eye Gilia:
Fiddleneck:
Lupine:
Do something new, week 3!! I can't believe how much new stuff I am really learning with my new challenge!
The last couple of weeks I have been reading Dave Ramsey's books, Financial Peace Revisited and Total Money Makeover. I have created a budget that makes sense, finally! A budget to show us what we actually have to spend on certain things. What a concept, only spend what you have right now!!! It is so simple, yet so hard. It is definately a work in progress, but I have started it and plan to keep at it for a long time.
I do have other things to post, but I have been so busy, um.....reading! :)
