Yesterday I was just too tired to blog! We spent the whole weekend outside cleaning up the yard. It was in the high 60′s and you know weather like this does not last too long in February here in Arkansas so we took advantage of it while we could. We have so many trees and they all loose their leaves at different times in the fall, some in October, some in November and occasionally we have one that waits until 
December. It is hard because of that to get all the leaves raked and mulch in the fall. If you wait too long the weather turns nasty and you don’t want to do it – that is what happened this year so we decided that while it was 68 degrees outside it was time to clean the yard. This is the yard right now – it will be green in another month or so. I have to get a little more cleaned up but it is doing good now. Even with a riding lawn mower with mulch bins attached it takes awhile to clean up this place. All the flower beds you have to rake the leaves out and also get down on hands and knees to get all the leaves out so the plants aren’t damaged. I still need to do a little work up in the tree line area but most of that we let stay wild. Of course after two warm sunny days it is time for rain and it is raining as I write and we will get on and off again rain for 3 days at least according to the forecast and then get temperatures back to normal in the 50′s daytime and 30′s nighttime.
I got very little sewing done this weekend. I did work on one dear Jane square and got it part way done, I will finish it this week and post a photo later. I also have gotten started on the Baltimore album Christmas quilt but nothing to show as of yet – I’m in the stage of cutting out pieces and well soon start to glue baste pieces in place to applique down.
I got quite a few people e mailing me “where is the answer to the last question” the answer was the Olfa 1979. Olfa is still going strong with rotary equipment although other companies have joined the competition in rotary cutters. I actually thought the answer was Olfa 1975 – but the test said 1979 so I guess we go with that.
Another question: All of these pins are used by quilters – which is the shortest?
A- silk pins
B- ballpoint pins
C- applique pins
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