My Day

Before I write anything else I need to tell you that Judy over at the Green Fairy is having a give away.  I signed up for her give away and said I would mention it on my blog and didn’t want to forget.  You might want to check her out, she is giving quite a few fantastic prizes.  She is also traveling to Romania soon on a  mission trip.  She will be bringing quilts to give away to people in need and is also trying to raise money to feed people while she is there.  Check her site out.  Besides having lovely prizes she sells fabric and things too.

I have had a productive day – although at the same time it was a lazy day if you know what I mean.  First photo – I made an Italian Cream Cake today.  It calls for 3 layers with a yummy, fattening frosting of course.  I went ahead and made all 3 layers, but then I cut them all in half and froze 3 of the pieces – this will be cake for another day.  We have half of a 3 layer cake — which for 2 people who love cake that is more than enough.  I probably should have only made a quarter of a cake but that gets more difficult.  I got this recipe off of the Pioneer Woman Cooks page.  She sure does post good recipes.  If you follow the link it will take you to the recipe.  I have not made a cake in such a long time that when I saw her recipe I gave in to temptation!

I made progress on the border of the Christmas Baltimore Album and have two of the flowers done! Progress! Click on the photo’s to enlarge as usual.

I’m wondering if others have the same problem I am having with my hummingbird feeders lately — Bees!  they won’t go away, I have never had bumblebees at the feeders that I can recall and there are getting to be more of them everyday.  Is there a way to make them go away – I assume I shouldn’t spray the area with insect spray as the hummingbirds might be harmed – they are so little.  Also the bees of course are good for the flowers.  Anyone else have this problem?  In these photos you can even see them flying in below the feeder.  So far they have not come close to us.

Two nuthatches have taken up residence on the tree next to the porch.  They travel up and down the tree – at times upside down, and peck at bugs all day – I do not see the bugs, but I guess they are there!

Now that my husband has found out for sure that he is a contract worker again and started a six month job as of yesterday. Now  I can start putting some more plants out on the deck and porch for decoration.  I had held off on doing so because if we were traveling I didn’t want all the plants to have to be on automatic water system.  Here are two baskets of flowers that I got the other day.  I have a 3 tier plant stand off to the corner there and haven’t gotten anything for it, I might do that tomorrow after I meet two of my friends in the morning at the local bookstore/coffee shop to look at quilt magazines.  We haven’t done that for awhile and thought we would do that instead of meeting to sew.

This area full of Black Eyed Susan, Purple Coneflowers and Tiger Lilies are next to this area of the porch.  I spend a bit of my day outside.  I have a work basket that I place my applique work in, the telephone, a book, the camera — and I bring out an icy drink and I am set for awhile until the heat drives me in!  I have a radio out there and also listen to the birds, squirrels and the bees.

I did make sure that I went and got some exercise first thing this morning!!  I have been bad and have gotten out of the exercise habit lately.  I always get out of my routine when we take a long trip like we did in May.  Then when we got home we had clean up from that storm and then started work on enlarging the deck – through the change in routine I started to skip the fitness center a couple times a week which lead to all week – to all month!!  I am making a promise to myself to get back to the healthy life style  (and of course I made the cake to prove to myself that I can have my cake and exercise too   )