Same rain -different day!

Yep, it's raining again. Or perhaps I should say still.  

I managed to mow my very tall grass yesterday, 

finishing about 30 minutes before it began raining again.  

I only had to walk in 1/4" water in one spot of my yard.

I think I need to buy a boat!

While no flooding threatens me, that could change 

if this rain does not stop soon.

Here in my office the sound of the rain is quite loud.

I can only imagine what it would be in Ceili.

I've been busy working on the house.

I ordered the carpet.

Bought the necessary stuff to finish the main bathroom.

Only the tile left to do.

When I get that down I'll post a photo.

I was hoping for today BUT. . .

I'm sandwiching the huge blue and white quilt,

at long last.

Guess what?

All the blue threads are showing under the white!

So am now clipping the BACK of the top.

It's a very large quilt, sigh.

I have to finish the sandwich today so I can have the table to eat on!

Photos to follow.

Wish me luck on the quilt,

and continued sanity at being cooped up!

The scratched record that is our weather

Rain.

Rain.

Rain.

Finally, the sun is shining today!

There is no chance for rain today!

Perhaps we shall dry out a bit.

Quinn is getting a bath-whether she likes it or not!

Rain

I think it rained all night last night.

I know it began with thunder and lightening before I went to bed,

Was still at it when I turned off the light.

And was storming again when I woke up.

The puddles are back in the yard.

I squish when I walk through the grass.

The grass grew inches overnight and can't be mowed due to said squishing.

I had to put the Quinn foiling pots out in the hosts garden.

Speaking of Quinn,

She's a muddy mess.

I'd give her a bath but more rain is on the way tonight and tomorrow.

Thankfully,

I am far enough away form rivers and streams to avoid any flooding.

My sump pump keeps the basement dry.

It's a good and in August we will all be wishing for rain.

Oh Boy, I seem to have neglected this blog.

There's an understatement if I ever saw one!

I was away for several days in Nashville.

Helped Tanya choose and plant flowers in her front garden.

Sewed patches on a quilt for them.

Went to President James Polk's home, 

then had 100 layer donuts.

Somewhere between here and there the cover over the truck bed 

(that's UTE to you down under) split apart where it connects to the truck.

It was fine when I loaded up here but was when Rob unloaded there it was broken. 

we could barely get it over the bed and closed.

At the moment it is closed, but will need replacing before I head out for a long trip.

Since I've been home I haven't been making the trek up to the office,

In fact for one entire week I went neither up the stairs to the computer nor down the stairs to sew.

Just didn't want to.

It has rained and rained here.

We had the wettest winter in history and the rain has kept the ground saturated.

Many streams are running bank full and fast.

Interstate 29 north of St Joseph is still closed due to flooding.

Both the Missouri and the Mississippi are out of their channels.

It has dried out a bit now but storms are predicted for tonight and intermittently for the rest of the week.

Back to puddles in the yard!

I finally turned the heat off yesterday, 

 really hope the air conditioning can stay off awhile.

Yesterday, I moved all the plants out of the house.

Repotted some.

All the "Christmas" Cactus here.
Including a new one in Orange.
The other "houseplants" are out as well.

Potted up my container garden.

3 Cherry type tomatos,
2 peppers,
and a bush cucumber here.

Thyme and rosemary (if it survives, love the stuff but can't keep them alive.)
Sage, Basil, Oregano, Bunching onions,
Plus the sago palm from the house.

Still need to purchase some annuals for the front of the house
as well as the hosts garden.
Have to get a small fence for the hosta garden to keep Miss Quinn from laying behind the plants which damages them.

Today, I pulled some weeds and repotted the succulent garden.

As it had outgrown its container.

It is quite heavy, which could be a problem later on.

Then I potted up these Mimicry plants.

They like to be very dry.

Quinn and I have been taking walks again.

Finally found a way to track how far we go-I want to do 3 miles.

Today, we stopped off a small pond for a rest and watched the geese.

There are two pair of Canada geese on the pond and both have 4 goslings!

There are some rather large snapping turtles in the pond which would love to feed on the goslings-oh no!

Today, I saw two robins chase off a squirrel!

I'd never seen anything like robins dive bombing that squirrel.

No sewing to report but that might change after bit.

Tomorrow.

Is another day.

Housework and stuff.

Vacuum cleaners and other things that don't work

I have one of these.

Well, this one to be exact!

I've had it for a while and always been happy with how it worked.

One day a couple of weeks ago it stopped in the middle of the hall.

This has happened before and it was always the filter.

I switched out the filter

still wouldn't start. 

Hum.

Also the beater bar-

Most excellent of inventions-

began making a horrid squeaking noise.

I decided that it had to go off to the shop.

Got it back in two days

(whoever heard of that fast of a turn around?)

I had caused the seal inside the canister to slide up by knocking the canister against 

the trash barrel to get rid of the dirt!

Who knew?

I won't be doing that again.

I have to say it is back to being amazing!

Unfortunately, that means I must vacuum.

In the category of not very amazing.

COMMENTS

Since Google did away with open ID 

leaving a comment has meant signing in to a different account.

That doesn't always work though.

For some reason I can't leave a comment on Chookyblue's blog at all.

Sorry Chooky.

If I have issues, 

I'll try and send you an email instead.

So, sorry about that!

Also, about proving I am not a robot.

I hate all the little squares of photos.

So small I can't always see the fire hydrant or whatever I should see

And now there are two pages!

I hate it.

Personally, I wouldn't care if you were a robot!

Gardening?

Well, not quite yet.  The trees are turning green!  When I drive back and forth to the library I've noticed that first the bushes below the trees are just a bit green and now the trees are a haze of green!  Except for the weeping willow trees-always the first to leaf out they are green!  I often wonder how many people pay any attention to the seasons changing as they drive along.  I love to see the changes, the creatures along the way-keeps the drive from being boring.

Anyway, this happened today.  The plastic pots are cleaned-as well as they are ever cleaned at any rate. Still have the clay ones to do.  I am taking the clay ones to Nashville so that Rob and Tanya can take their pick.  I find the clay to be too heavy so I've been replacing with plastic as I find them.

My gardens are beginning to show signs of life!  The lilies in front are up, the hydrangea and the lavender both have new growth.  The Yarrow and the Tansy are getting taller and today I saw the first of the hostas are just through the ground.  I'm going to have to fix a couple of fences-one in front of the hosts garden and one in the back yard to keep Quinn off her now very muddy paths. No fun that.

It has finally gotten warm-back to back 70F days and warmer for next week.  We've had rain off and on for the past week but it's to be dry now for a few days which will be nice, no more squishing when walking across the lawn!

While inside, the cactus are still blooming!  They must really like the spot they are in!
This one begins very white with just a little pink and gets darker the longer it's open.
I like seeing blooms inside the house.  Some of the Succulents are getting too large for their containers-must shop for something better.  It's hard to find bigger without getting deeper and succulents don't need room for deep roots.

Why I hang finished quilt tops on the design wall.

I hang all my finished tops back on the design wall.

First, because it keeps them unwrinkled.  

They are big, 

I don't want to iron them again!

When it hangs there and I look at it for a few days,

this often happens

See that yellow sticky?

I made an oops!

I'd really rather fix it now than after I've begun pinning it,

or even worse quilting it!

The backing fabric is being washed today.

Tomorrow, I'll make it up.

Then when it is pressed and starched it will hang on the wall as well.

I'll fix the oops today!

Then on Sunday I'll sandwich it - oh my aching back!!

I will be so glad to have this one finished,

it seems to have taken FOREVER 

and to have had an excessive amount of unstitching!

Next week I'll begin Quilting,

once I've decided how to quilt it that is.

It's huge so it will take a while to quilt.

In other stitching,

I've been making up four-patches 

to use up my many leftover squares.

Yellow is finished,

Red will take a while longer.

I've pretty much given up on catching up with

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

(due to large blue and white quilt above)

but will work at just using stuff up anyway.

It's all good.