No sewing today

I have all 5 of my Christmas Baltimore Album blocks squared up to the 16 1/2 inches they are supposed to be and I have started to cut out the red sashing but I have not made anymore progress than that.

I spent a good part of the day outside once again.  I went over part of the deck that I had been cleaning the day before yesterday and got more of the dirt off of it on the second try.  Mike went over the same area tonight and got more off of it.  Mike finished building the deck this evening now to get it all cleaned up and the tools put away.  Once the porch is all cleaned up we will take photo’s of the finished look.   I will have to post some before and after photos.  We still need to power wash the porch boards before a picture gets taken.  I will need to start looking for a couple more pieces of deck furniture when we get completely done.  I know there are bound to be some sales coming up – after all we all know that by July the winter stuff starts coming out to the stores – surely the lawn furniture will be on good sales then.

Also today I dug up all of my old strawberry plants and tossed them.  They have not been producing for the last 3 years and I’m tired of trying to get something out of them.  Right now I am using that area to plant all of the bulbs that I had taken out of the flower bed that we dismantled in order to put the new deck in.  I had a lot of bulbs.  I have no idea right now where I want them so I put all that I had dug out plus some that my sister-in-laws mom had given me.  They will keep well there until the fall, maybe by then I will have decided where to put them permanently.

I have taken a couple photo’s of my yard and plants that I will share with you until I get the photo’s of the deck and porch posted.

Purple Coneflowers, I have a lot of these all over the place, some in beds and some on the edges of the woods.

my swing where I spend the evenings reading sometimes looking at hummingbirds coming to feed (they are not here very much this summer)