More on “Insanity” – Give Away continues

I have had a lot of response for my give away and would like to thank all of you who have entered and have also posted on your blogs about it.  I will announce the winner on Wednesday after I tally it all up on Wednesday morning.

Yesterday was a nice day to work outside and boy did I work outside!  First I cleaned the outside of all the downstairs windows – we have had such a wet spring and summer that a lot of my windows (vinyl frames? I think that is what they are) had developed mildew on them – some worse than others.  So while Mike was working on other things I got the ladder set up and a bucket of bleach/water solution.  I can easily reach the lower windows with the ladder and got them all clean.  The back of the house which is always in shade had a bigger problem but it all came off without having to scrub hard.   The upper windows aren’t as bad, some do not have any mildew on them at all others have a little.  Fortunately the windows are new and if you take the screens off you can open the windows to the inside and reach outside and clean off the outside of the frames.  I will do this next week when the weather improves – it looks like we are in for rain all week.  It was easier to do the lower windows with the ladder than taking out all of the screens.

After I took a break from the windows I got out my shovel and dug up all of the spider lily bulbs that I could find.  This photo is not mine – by time I thought about a photo the blooms had died, this is a photo from the link above on the plant.

Spider lily

I got my original spider lily bulbs from a friend years ago – maybe as long as 15 years ago.  The first time they grew I only had a few and I left them alone for years and they multiplied as bulbs do.   About 3 years ago we decided to build a workshop in the area where a lot of bulbs were planted.  As we cleared the area for the shop I kept digging up more and more bulbs without knowing what they were – spider lily bulbs look a lot like other lily bulbs and it got so I didn’t know one from the other.  Anyhow long story short, I ended up planting bulbs in about 5 different places without knowing what I was planting.  This year when we got home from our trip was right at the right time to see the spider lilies blooming and I had them in about 5 different places – some with only one flower some with about 10.  But they weren’t displayed as I would like.  I want them to all be in one place for a massive display of red.  Yesterday I got the shovel out while I could see where they are.  Spider lily’s do not have leaves on them when the flower is blooming but with the buds dying some were now developing leaves and I was finding them all over the place.

I ended up with over 200 bulbs but very few had flowers on them.  I figured out why as I was digging them up.  Here in the northern part of the south the bulbs are supposed to be planted just so that the top of the bulb is under the soil.  Some of them had been planted six inches or more in depth!  I had new bulbs forming on the stems under the ground.  I broke all apart separating the bulbs.  I have no idea if some of these will grow but I plan on planting all of them to see what happens.  I guess we will find out in late September what it looks like.  I will figure out where to plant them next week, in the meantime they are sitting on the porch.

I didn’t work a lot on my quilting yesterday but between yesterday and the evening before I finished quilting 3 more blocks on Row L #11.

Row L blocks 1, 2 & 3

In between working outside and reading and normal chores around the house I have gotten almost finished with another of the Baltimore Bliss blocks I will post that one when I finish it and get another block prepped to start then.  I think I have 7 more of the patterns printed out and ready to use while waiting for the final 3 blocks to come out.

I do need to get back to work also on my Second Dear Jane called “Insanity Revisited” I have been taking a bit of a break from that one.  I have been having a hard time getting back to it.  I plan on working on it again, just taking a break from it.