Just a little pretty flower to share from the archives.
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It has been a beautiful day, but all I have done is sew.  And not even too much of that.  I need to make the binding for Lorelei's quilt and get the quilt finished.

I keep playing with crumb blocks, but when I get Lo's quilt done, I have other projects waiting.  I have got to take myself in hand and get really busy.  I also need to get back to decluttering.  I did get rid of a few items this weak, but not enough to brag about.  Tomorrow is a new day....who knows what it will bring.

Ready for green, ready for spring....

This is from up in Parke county...looking back towards the Narrows Covered Bridge.  You can barely see it on past the regular bridge.  

It was not bad today...and even supposed to be up in the 50's before the weekend is over...but I still cannot wait for shirtsleeve weather.

Don't get me wrong, I would not be mad if we had a good snow, but if it isn't going to snow, then I vote for spring.  How about you?

A little randomness....

It is that time of the week...time for the Willy Nilly Friday 5....so  here goes.  And please bare with me...some are long.

1.  A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet by Sophie Hudson.  This was free for the kindle a week or two ago...at the time I am writing this it is $9.57.  With a 5 star rating/287 reviewers.  When I was checking it out and went to read the excerpt...I read the first line of the literary disclaimer where it said 'These stories are true.  For the most part' I was hooked...I looked no farther.  Other than I had noticed she was southern.  I tell you I have laughed till I cried...and other times been brought to tears...oh, I cannot even explain the reason.  I don't know if you have to be southern to appreciate it, but I do know I have really enjoyed it.  I have not finished it...but I will.  My SIL read it before I did, and she was laughing about them going to 'the J.C. Penney store'--and 'the Belks'..I remember putting the 'the' in front of the name of the store...just had not thought about it in years.

2.  I have spent literally hours this afternoon and night looking for a spool of thread.  I kid you not.  I will be making a quilt for one of my daughters in the future...she bought a lot of the fabric for it when she was here at Christmas, and she bought a spool of thread to quilt it with....I knew I would need at least two, but didn't say anything.  So, this afternoon, I had to order a second spool of thread for Lorelei's quilt.  I thought while I was at it I would order the second one for my daughter's quilt but I need to know the identification number...I ran downstairs to get it...it was not where I thought it would be.  Needless to say I have went through everything at least three times and still no thread.  King Tut thread has a number, plus they give it a name, and I cannot remember neither one!

3.  I just cooked our Christmas ham last Sunday....we still have ham left.  I have frozen some to have for ham and beans later.  I had wanted to wait and cook it when we could be with Sarah and Jeremy, but with first one being sick and then another being sick, it has not happened.  So I cooked it for us.  It has been good.

4. I have not been getting to do much blog commenting till night time part of the time.  Some days are just like that.

5.  I finally have one of my sewing machines sitting directly in front of a window.  I am happy!  Mom always had her sewing machine sitting in front of a window, so I guess that is partly why it is important to me--it is what I was used to when from childhood.

If you want to join with your 5 random thoughts, please go to Tanya's Willy Nilly Friday 5 at Around Roanoke, VA blog.  It usually opens at 12:00 a.m. on Friday....or midnight tonight in other words.


Edited at 11:49 pm to add:   I found the thread I was looking for....it was where I thought it was.  I had just overlooked it.  And though I had 'felt' for it, I was not feeling in the right place.