Flowers, Birds and Books, Slow Stitching Too

 This is beautiful ground cover if you need such in your garden. I find the name an unfortunate one for something so pretty...Lungwort. All the colours at once...purples, pinks and violets but tiny so easily missed. I also note they do okay in the shade here.

After missing out on the Phoebes fledging, I'd been keeping a close eye on the robin's nest on the front veranda. Sure enough I was able to watch the last of the three fledge, a great thrill for me. He was outside the nest early morning, the others already gone, and I watched as he would go to the edge, fluff his wings but then move back to the nest again. 

This went on for some time with him always moving back to be near the nest which must have represented great comfort to him.

Hopefully, his speckled brown plumage will help camouflage him. 

 I had things to do so I finally thought I'll give it another minute. Sure enough that's the moment he just took off and flew perfectly all the way across the side meadow and disappeared into a tree. He finally did it. Good luck, little one!

My library books are automatically renewed these days so the pressure is off to read them in a certain time frame. This made me think of Mom as it was a sticking point about book borrowing from the library for her...she didn't like the pressure of having to read with a time constraint. Do any of you feel like that? But I just got my list in an email and there are two books there I've completely forgotten and questioned whether I'd checked them out. But one is the Illustrated Guide to English Paper Piecing and the other is Flower Farm Sampler. They both certainly sound like me, don't they, so I'll have to issue a house wide search warrant I guess.

People were talking about the main character in this book being unique. I did enjoy some of Eleanor's thoughts and how she expressed them.  Do you think loneliness is the new cancer, as Eleanor does?

Update...after tearing the house apart, both mislaid books were found accidentally under scraps but appropriately in the sewing room which is not a place I read at all so I didn't even think to look there. I do seem to spend/waste more time looking for things these days. Which makes me wonder if this is the start of something big but not in a good way, if you know what I mean.

Isn't Shelley's Flower Farm Sampler quilt beautiful! I found it to be more starry than flowery but gorgeous nonetheless. The best price I could find for it to purchase was here at the Fat Quarter Shop -what don't they have!

I've been stitching more string blocks and also added another letter to my cross stitched alphabet. Enjoyable slow stitching on this project which is being stitched on 32 count linen. The lighting in the sewing room is downright awful. I've asked Tony to help me do something about that.

Tony emerged from the dermatologist's office scraped and wounded looking. His face has taken a beating over the years- only in the doctor's office. Two basal cell carcinoma spots were dug out and several others, one on his scalp which the doctor gave the very medical label of old man's skin spot. Tony survived his other medical procedures last week and now we wait for the reports to be sent to our family doctor. One he discovered, he'd done almost exactly one year ago with nothing wrong found. So he's been on this path a while now and still no answers. 

It seems I'm doing more online grocery shopping than ever. With same day or next day delivery, it's giving an almost recluse like myself another reason not to leave the property. For all the stuff like detergent, bird seed, tp, etc., the less handling I have to do the better.  And I've been buying a few items by the case like almond milk, cream of mushroom soup, tinned tomatoes, tuna and salmon. The convenience of this just can't be beat. BTW, I've bought my flour to give the bread machine a whirl...should be interesting.

I was inspired by Christine in that video I shared last time to make a very hearty meal for our supper Saturday night. It was a bean and ground beef concoction, one where you can add all kinds of things, really whatever you have on hand. I used kidney beans and a can of Heinz beans which is Tony's favourite. I added corn, peppers, etc. and chose not to use macaroni but instead made mashed potatoes for us. I have leftovers and maybe will serve it with rice this time. I won't share a photo as it really doesn't photograph well, certainly not appetizing...I tried.

I've rambled on enough for this chat. Hope all is well with you and thanks so much for stopping by.

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