Poor Man Cookies, Quilt Flimsy

Yes, it is April and I wish you all a wonderful month whether it be spring or autumn where you are. I love both seasons! 

Here underfoot is changing. Every walk outside and the ground is different ranging from soft snow to bare earth emerging underneath trees. This morning it was -17 C wind chill so the snow banks were quite frozen and firm enough to walk on which made the walking very smooth. It was brisk but with bright sunshine very beautiful. And an added bonus was being accompanied by many bird songs. The cardinals were singing so sweetly, I kept stopping to listen. At one point, a line of geese flew overhead, honking loudly. It all was quite the early morning spring symphony! 

The female Cardinal at a feeder this morning.

Hubby put in a request for a full English breakfast for lunch on Sunday. It's a 3 frying pan meal and includes eggs, sausages, pancakes and toast with marmalade (I omitted the tinned beans this time). It was all washed down with large cups of tea; a great easy and very filling weekend meal. 

Since the kitchen was dirtied up anyway, I decided to make a batch of these cookies. Have you ever heard of them? There are many variations of Poor Man's cookies. Here is the recipe I tried...Poor Man's Cookies from the Glue Sticks blog. Mine are not especially pretty and I added chocolate chips for Tony. I cut back on the sugar and they are a little lacking in flavour. I think I may have forgotten the vanilla. I have no doubt they will get eaten though.

They are called poor man's because they don't call for eggs, butter or milk. Lots of oats though. They are also popular to make ice cream sandwiches with I read.

I am keen to start spring cleaning and two things about that. I have to clear out one of those very large bottom cupboards that I have to practically crawl into to retrieve things. There are items in it I never use and they don't need to be there anymore, I've decided.  And my laundry cupboard needs a reorganization as I put away the flannel sheets and winter duvet and change over to summer bedding. Neither of these chores will take long and I really should set more goals to get done this week. 

Ultra scrappy Wheel Within A Wheel is at this stage now, a rather large near flimsy...yes I found the lost blocks. 

On our queen sized bed

And in a little sunshine outside to reveal its real colours. Hubby trying to hold it against the breeze and telling me this is his favourite quilt so far. Ned, however, totally unimpressed.

There are still more "wheels" to add, small ones for each corner which I will do this week and of course, border decisions to be made. I would love for this to be a fully finished flimsy this month. Will make it a monthly goal at the Elm Street Quilts  April Monthly Goal party which might spur me on.

In that photo you can see the ice is receding on the deck and also the damage done to the drain pipe by ice. There are mangled bits all around the house. 

Something that I would like to do but don’t …is make a point to look at the night sky and photograph special phases of the moon or the planets, etc. Part of the reason I don’t is I would have to put on a coat and boots and walk away from the house as the trees block sky views for the most part. And at night I’m kind of tired or lazy or maybe even a little afraid of what might be out in those woods, LOL. 

The fall we had trail cams out they captured these three critters over and over during the night, nothing too scary. We were surprised by how busy all three were during hours of darkness. Deer, fox and rabbits.

It also caught the local firestarter out stick collecting...told you I used an Ikea bag. 

Rambled on long enough. Hope your week will be a good one!

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