Hmm, not much to report.  Just a sore fingertip.  Paper piece quilting is not for whimps. tehe.  My sewing machine is feeling very left out.  I think I heard the seamer ripper and sewing machine talking about me behind my back....I mean really, would they do that?  I do have to report the 4 pounds of licorice is slowly disappearing.  And yes its red...soooo good. UMM.   

Have I told anyone here, that I am going to start another quilt???  140 six inch squares...by hand!!

Dad has the garden growing and is slowly (laughing here) getting the huge pile of branches done.  I think Jaron must have had fun whacking away.  When he gets back, maybe I can talk him into taking out some trees....haha.  

Just wanted to show off a few projects that I have been occupying myself with these days.  Yes that includes the babies!  However, they aren't my project - just spoiling when I get the chance.

Remember when Michael used to participate in fencing after school? Well a friend of his got skewered last Friday at fencing club. He had his left and right brachial arteries and aortic artery cut; not severed but enough that he had a pint of blood left in him by the time the ambulance got to the HS. He had 15 pints put in him and put in coma over the weekend. Awful, eh? Poor kid that did the sword job!!

Happy May Day

This morning I was reading another friends blog on my quilting thingy and she triggered a memory that I wanted to share today.
Last night I was watching the evening news and the anchor told the weather man to bring her flowers today for May Day, I thought Why??
This is why -- When I was in grade school there was this playground toy called the witches hat. It was a very tall metal pole and on it was upside down basket. We always hung on the rim of the basket and run around until it was going so fast that sometimes I feared I would be flung off horizontally to come scraping down on all fours. I never did though. Sometimes my hands would get so sweaty hanging on. I am sure it no longer exists because it would now be a safety issue!
Every year some miracle worker would remove the basket and replace it with long, long ribbons. Back in those days (tehe) the girls wore dresses to school. We always wore our best dresses on May Day because we knew that we would get to dance around the "May Pole". We loved to take a ribbon and dance around the pole watching the ribbons slowly wrap around and then carefully we would turn the other direction and unwind the ribbons (always with music playing).
So Happy May Day. May Day tradition is to secretly deliver a basket of flowers on your neighbors doorknob and run so you don't get kissed!!