A Donated Quilt, Another Pair of Socks and a Guess What!

 This is the most recent quilt that our group finished. (We all made 3 blocks. Can you find my mine?) If you look closely, you can see that we used some Seattle fabric that I purchased long ago to use for pillow cases.  It will be donated to the local Ronald MacDonald house.

I just finished this pair of socks, and they almost match! However, I also just ripped one sock back to the cuff because I discovered a dropped stitch when I thought I was almost finished!

Can you see who was visiting our yard twice this week? (You might have to enlarge the photo though.) Fortunately I scared him away before he did any damage to our plants!

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We are hosting a family gathering on Sunday, so we are busy today preparing for that. Hope it doesn't rain!  You have a good weekend, too .

Another Finish

Recently our daughter requested bootie and a hat for her friend who was going to become a grandma when her daughter has a baby girl. So I got busy and did them! I hope they will fit!

Here's the first hat, a 12 month size, which I decided would be too big, so I made the newborn size and will donate this one.  And I still have some yarn left!

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Enjoy the rest of the week!

 

Excitement in Our Neighborhood!

Last week our neighbors across from us had a tree removed. It was about 160 feet tall and very close to the house. This brave guy did all the cutting and sawing, and the whole noisy process took 2 days. The second day our street was closed to all traffic.

They took all the stumps away in a big truck, and the branches were run through a chopping machine before carting them away, too. It was an interesting and somewhat scary process but sad to see such a beautiful tree destroyed. (The house is a rental, and the owner ordered the process much to the renter's surprise.)

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Hope you've had a good couple of weeks without any chopping in your neighborhood!

Finally a Finish!

 This pattern has the same name as our second daughter! It's not very easy, but it's interesting.

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Hope you all are having a nice summer!

Birds and Flowers!

We recently went to Cannon Beach in Oregon and saw lots of flocks of pelicans heading north, more pelicans that we've ever seen before.

Here's the prettiest Columbine.

This tiny little rose that makes me think of a candy cane!

Korean dogwood, and it's still blooming.

The Mock orange always makes me think of my Grandma Taylor.

We have several Hydrangeas.

Daisies from a plant give to us by a dear friend.

And last but not least this pretty lily that started blooming today!

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Now I need to get back to some knitting. I am working on a sock that's been fighting me as well as a summer sweater where I discovered an extra stitch when it was time to split it into 2 parts, so ripping on that one, too. Sigh. And then there's always yardwork waiting.... Hope you all had a nice weekend.

 

Our Afternoon at Coulon Beach

This past Tuesday the weather was beautiful, so we went to a nearby park called Coulon Beach. It's on Lake Washington, and there are lots of trails, a boat launch, and things to see. Luckily for us, this eagle was visiting!

We also saw this heron. Doesn't it look proud?

Then we saw this family of snow geese.

It's fun to see these statues and what they are wearing at the time. As you can probably see, they are celebrating Juneteenth.

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Enjoy the rest of the week!

Two Finishes and More Flowers

The babies' hats are done, and everyone is waiting for the new baby to arrive and discover whether it's a girl or boy! Hopefully by the time hat weather arrives they will fit, since now they look too big.  As you can see, it will be easy to tell them apart, and to make sure, I added a football button to the big brother's hat.

Our poppies bloomed right on time for Memorial Day and are still going strong. The two buds in the photo have bloomed along with the other buds you can't see.

All of our rhododendrons are blooming, but this one has the most blossoms.

And not to be forgotten are the roses that bloomed despite being pruned on their lower branches by some deer. Thankfully all of the rose blossoms are way up high this year!

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Have a nice weekend! It's supposed to be in the eighties here, and we are having a visit from our nephew who lives Massachusetts!