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 March, someone said, is the triumph of hope over experience...not unlike second marriages as somebody else said. So here we are cruising along through the month and I'm going to ignore the major snow and ice storm warning we have on the horizon. Perhaps it will not materialize; they've gotten these predictions wrong before. However, just to be on the safe side, I've filled both tubs in case we lose the power. 

The way down through the big woods path has opened up and I've been taking Ned there adding a further loop to our daily walks. He's been loving all the new to him smells down there.

 It's wide open to the skies there just now but soon millions of leaves will begin to emerge and close it all in.

 I watched a falcon fly overhead one day which made me smile and yesterday I heard a Phoebe' s unmistakable call...spring!

Indoors I'm feeling good about how I'm moving along several stitchy projects. Like my cross stitch piece, Quakers In England. I'm enjoying laying these tiny stitches. It's so satisfying to complete a little design. Sorry, I just can't seem to get a good photo of this that shows the true colours. That red is a cherry red and there is lavender there too. 

And I've been meaning to share this for a while...today it is then. If you'd like to try a Quaker cross stitched piece yourself, The Fat Quarter Shop offers this sweet Little Quaker ABC by Susan Ache project for free. 

And more of the Basket Love bottoms have been appliqued too. I'm enjoying choosing the fabrics for this. Two more thrifted men's shirts in this lot. Can you guess which two?

Tony is eager for his appointment on Monday and I'm really hoping we will get some answers. He is weakening steadily...he has to take rests while getting dressed and I now have to take his boots off for him. But I admire his fortitude...he continues to follow through on most of his routines no matter how much longer they take him or tire him. I could only hope to have such resolve if I felt like him. 

I don't particularly follow politics and I never talk about it here on the blog.  But after much consideration, I'll share this bit of news and for a couple of reasons...knowledge is power and it's something else worrying me and as you all know, I do share my feelings here in this space. A friend visited one day with sad news of Canadians getting harassed at the Canada/US border to the point of them turning around. There are many living in border towns who have been crossing for decades to work or do a shop and have dinners in Ogdensburg, NY, for instance. We have done that ourselves. We all found the news depressing and worrisome too. We wondered where is this all going. There just seems to be so much more unpleasantness generally in the world these days. But then a country always has the right to defend its own border whichever way or whatever form that might take. So be it I guess. 

It's making me think I should move back home to Newfoundland...being an island there are no borders. :) And that reminds me, we are following a couple who are starting to homestead on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, yes, an island off an island in the Atlantic. We have watched all Matty's past videos of him crossing the Arctic Circle in a boat he built himself and of his time living in the Labrador wilderness too. He is an unbelievably resourceful and hard working fellow. He met Kelly on an alpaca farm in Virginia, US- of all places, and fell in love. They are genuine and sweet together...and providing just the kind of entertainment that's needed in the world these days. And Ned is envious of the life Ronnie, their dog, is living too. 

On that bright note, I'll leave you today. Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and your stitchy fingers are flying!

So happy to link up with Kathy's Quilts and Quilting is More Fun Than Housework.