Friday In The Garden

When I took a walk around the garden this morning, I saw that the Serviceberries were in bloom.  Their alternate name is June berry. No, it's not June yet.

I also saw plenty of last years arugula flowering, and getting ready to set seed.

 The violets sprinkled throughout the yard are starting to blossom, something that usually happens in May. These pop up in different places around the yard, because we don't believe in lawns that are a monoculture of grass. Much to the dismay of our neighbors.

Although, somebunny is pretty happy with that, because it provides him with lots of these.

With the early warm weather, a lot of things in the garden have had a head start on the growing season this year. Unfortunately, the fact that it has been bone dry has made a lot of these plants stall out. We didn't get much of the rain that came through New England yesterday, and today it is like it never happened. I don't remember ever having to water so early in the season.

The asparagus seems to be one of the plants that is affected by this. Last weekend I cut the first spear, the earliest ever. I thought I would be picking more through the week, but the other spears haven't grown one smidgen since the weekend.

 Someone else was checking out the asparagus bed when I was out there. She (or he, I don't know how to tell with robins), walked along the asparagus row, paralleling me.

Then it hopped up on the fence. At the bottom of the picture are the pea plants that have sprouted, and then, like the asparagus, done nothing.

Still following....

Finally, up onto the nearby trellis to scold me, before taking off.  See her /him on the little box on the post?

OK, I'm going to fly off now, too. There is a big pile of mulch calling to me. Have a great weekend, everybun!

I'd Rather Sit On It Than Sew It

After her last post, I was afraid that Mom was really going to make me do some sewing. I tried hiding. I'm pretty sure she can't see me in here. But to be honest, I really don't like it in this thing.

 Somehow, even though I tried to avoid it,  I ended up in with the sewing stuff.

 

Turns out quilts  make very comfy seats. But I'm still not doing the sewing!

Scrap Attack

Last week I started attacking the scrap box again. By this morning I had a bunch of small pieces layered, pinned, and ready to quilt. These will become covers for little notebooks. Quite a few little notebooks, in fact.

Which leaves me with two questions. First, why is the scrap box just as full as when I started?

 

And second, why is my assistant just lying around when there is so much work to be done?

"Mom! Stop fibbing! Tell them the real story."

Okay, okay. The real story is that he kept sitting on my foot that was on the foot pedal. It's not easy to control your speed for free motion quilting that way. I heated up his warmer (a corn-filled pillow), tucked it in a towel,  and he took a nice, long nap while I got a little quilting done. Maybe tomorrow I'll curl up on the towel, and he can sew....

Have You Seen This?

Found this while surfing today.





There should be more bunny shows on TV....
BCIS, anyone?

Helping Mom

I was trying to help Mom when she was basting a quilt today.

There were a lot of wrinkles in the batting that needed to be smoothed out.

So many wrinkles! Where do they all come from?

Finally, I got the batting straightened out, and then I had to start all over again with the quilt top!

It was really a lot of work.

 At last, the job was done. I asked Mom if she thought I did a good job.

She said she could probably get more done if she sent me off to college with my sisters! Can you believe it? I'm not going. I hear they stay awake all night. That's no place for a bunny. Next time, Mom, I'm biting the quilt.