Thank goodness it's Friday - really thank goodness

Last night after I took a long shower to wash of the dirt and sweat from work (you would never know I have an office type position!) I worked on the baby quilt flannel 4-patch blocks. I pressed the strips and sliced them so they are ready for sewing.

Yesterday I found a couple more rocks on site, but I could only get one of them. The one rock was heavy and I could only carry it a little ways before I had to drop it so it didn't make it to the car. Here is the one I did get

Pauline thanks for your comment. You are a no-reply so I couldn't answer you back directly. Believe me I would welcome some snow over this heat we have been having. I am wiped out from another week of it being in the high 80's and 90's in the space where my desk is location in the construction area. The temperatures are forecasted to finally drop tonight and with the highs next week in the 70's. I sure hope they are right. I don't know how much more of this heat I can stand. I like the cold weather, but not the shorter hours of daylight.

Everyone have a great weekend!

Next flannel quilt

I managed to pair up the flannel and get the pairs sewn together for the next flannel quilt. I had cut the strips at 4". Tonight I will press the pairs of strips and slice them. I am making 4-patch blocks with these. I have no idea how many blocks I will get out of these strips. I just wanted to take the leftover bits and turn them into something useful.

The next two days at work are going to be hard because of the heat. 88 today and 89 tomorrow which means it will be well over 90 - probably over 95 where I am working. I am tired today because it has been so hot this week in here. The forecast says the temperature is finally going to drop on Saturday. I will believe it when it happens.

This group of flannel blocks done

I finished up sewing together the last 10 9-patch blocks for this first of several flannel quilts I had cut out several weeks ago.

Here is the pile of 120 blocks. I still need to press 32 of them.

I will next start sewing together these strips for a baby sized flannel quilt. I cut these strips a bit wider, but I don't remember the width.

Since the quilt top I am working on is on the design wall, I will continue to sew together the flannel into blocks. Once I get that quilt off the design wall, I can then arrange the flannel blocks on the wall and get them sewn together. The flannel quilts are just to use up the flannel and have a couple spare quilts in the stash.

Flannel progress and plants

I finally got that light gray flannel I bought for backing washed. I ripped off a piece to cut strips for matching up with that last piece of plaid I had. I managed to get the strips sewn together and cut so they are ready to be sewn into blocks.

We continue to trade plants at work. Yesterday, Chad brought me some purple cora bells and a chunk of Zebra grass. It was sprinkling out, but I planted the cora bells anyway. They had lost most of their purple color, so I will have to wait until spring to see what they really look like.

I don't know where I might plant the Zebra grass. It likes full sun and this will get very tall.

I dug up a day lily to give to Chad. he thinks it is funny that I don't know what color it is, but the deer eat all the flowers off every year before they open up. Several years ago I covered the plant with netting to keep the deer for eating the flowers, but it has been so long I just don't remember what color they are. He doesn't have a deer problem so the plant is now his.

Sewing and gardening

I never left the house all weekend except to go outside and do some yardwork. I did get some sewing done and the piece I can't show you and a few more flannel 9-patch blocks sewn together.

It was a very warm and humid weekend. I was very tired on Saturday, but between Saturday and Sunday I did manage to get the cora bell flower bed almost done. I want to mulch the bed. I hauled 10 to 12 half wheelbarrows of dirt to fill up the bed and help with the grade. The ground was lower next to the garage and I needed to bring it up to shed the water away from the garage. I dug up all the cora bells that I had planted along the garage a year ago. Poor little things! They were pretty much stuck in clay so that might be why they didn't seem to grow much. They have to be happy now that they are in nice soil which I tossed in some fertilizer. Here is the before

and the after.

I left some space at the one end because that fellow at work said he would bring me some purple leaf cora bells. It took me four hours to get the cora bell bed in shape on Sunday. It was hard to do the planting with the sweat dripping on my glasses! LOL!!!

I also finished up cleaning the big flower bed in the front yard. I dead headed the Shasta daisies and pulled the rest of weeds. It looks a lot better! The bed is now ready for me to work on the rock border. Of course, that will happen depending on the weather, that is, the heat and humidity.

Sewing and plant exchange

I managed to get another 7 flannel blocks sewn together this morning before I left for work.

I was so tired when I got home from work last night it was all I could do to dig up two plants to give to a guy at work. Yesterday, somehow in a conversation gardening came up and next thing I know we planned on swapping some plants! I dug up a clump of Shasta Daisy and a found a very nice two year old Lenten Rose to give him.

The Lenten Rose grew from seed and I didn't even know it was there amongst the bigger plants until I went to dig out one of the bigger ones. The 2 year old plant was much easier to dig up and pot.

The only plant I know for sure he is going to bring me is a purple cora bell. I have green ones, but no purple ones. I can't remember what else he had, but this will be fun to exchange plants.

I am so looking forward to the weekend! I am by myself on the job today, so I am going to try and get thru it. I got a little over 4 miles in yesterday and that was hard because my little toe on my left foot hurt. It is much better today. I stopped at Giant Eagle after work yesterday and got resupplied with Mike's so I don't have to leave the house all weekend. Have a great and productive weekend!

Sewing, mowing, and more rocks!

I got 15 minutes of sewing in this morning before heading off to work. It is better than a stick in the eye! LOL!!

I had another day with lots of steps and over 5 miles. My little toes on both feet now have a blister on them.

When I got home I pulled out the mower and mowed the front and one of the side yards. The grass had dried out, it was long, and since we are expected to get more rain in the next couple of days this was an opportunity to get some mowing done.

After that it was time to unload rocks. The subcontractor loaded the last two rocks left in this group which are the last two big rocks I know of. Oh, there are some bigger ones on site but we're taking about ones that weight 800+ pounds! Those are not coming home with me! LOL!!!

When I was walking around the job site yesterday I noticed some rocks among the piles of debris that the landscapers had raked up.

Well you know I had to gather those up! I ended up with a nice pile of small and a couple of medium sized rocks. The smaller ones I hauled to the back for the new shade garden. I had dumped the smaller rocks from last week and with the new ones the edging is almost done. Here is the before and after

Unless thru digging the subcontractors unearth more rocks, I am done with hauling home rocks. Now I need to make time to clean my car of all the dirt from the rocks. After unloading the rocks I spread weed and feed. It was now 5:30, I was hot, sweaty, dirty, and it was time to call it a day. I still had to make food for Thursday's lunch, get a shower, and open a nice cold Mike's! I didn't get the 15 minutes of garage cleaning in yesterday, but that is not the end of the world. Maybe tonight I will do 30 minutes to makeup for that.