Hi everyone
Well I have asked the daddy of the little girl i watch for pemission to show the pic I am stitching of her as it progresses and the final piece and he has said yes :o) . So here goes .I started about the end of June and after 2 weeks I had managed to get 8 rows done as you change colors almost every stitch in it ,but after looking at it Iwas not happy and changed the material and after a week I am at 6 rows now and happy with how it is looking so far .So this is the first of many pics of this piece to come.Out of all the pieces I have done over the years this has to be my biggest piece

Well off to the strawberry patch
Cathy

Well here is my last entry for tonight . The two cakes you see here are the ones I had our
youngest son make for me for our DD's wedding shower. He didn't think he did a very good job on them but I thought he did and so did the guests as well . He has never made a straight cake like these they have always been the novelty ones .I was very proud of the work he did on them
(and they were delicious as well lol )

Well good night
Cathy

Well here is the newest view of one of my other gardens.Again a bit more color but not much . As much as I try I have not been able to get them to look like they did the second year we were here .

Till later Cathy

It has been a few days since I last wrote but it has been a busy few days .I thought I would show you a bit more color in the yard now .It has been slow getting the flowers up this year as it was
really wet for a while and then it turned dry and hot so the gardens have not had the right temps but things are starting

Till later
cathy

Well here is one more for the night and this is what I like to call my favorite spot in the yard:o).
the lawn swing is where I like to go to stitch ,and down in the corner is where I have a little bench and another child's picnic table , the grandkids and the little girl I watch like to call it the bubble blowing area lol . The tree that sits right in front of the lawn swing has a momma robin in it so Miss Emmy and I have been able to watch the little birds each day as they get their meals from momma .As Miss Emmy says worms yumm yumm NOT !! lol

Well that's it for the night , I am off to do some stitching .

Till later
cathy

Here is a better picture of the gardens in the front of the house .hopefully as the summer goes
along they will get even more colorful with flowers and not just the trees :o)
Till later
Cathy

Here is another pic of what I have been doing that has kept me off the computer :o) . well this
and the nice weather we had for a while .
This pic is of two of the flower beds that are at the front of the house

Till later
cathy

Well it has been awhile since I last wrote here but here are a few pics of what i have been up to :o) . I love to putter around in my flower beds , and here are some updates on what the yard
looks like now .Hopefully as the summer goes on and the moles/voles what ever they are don't do too much damage to the flowers this year

till later
cathy

Here is another pic of our newest future 4 wheeler :o) .this is our youngest granddaughter Merika and her poppy going for a ride around the yard .Later that afternoon she was ready for another ride :o)
Well till later
Cathy

well it looks like we have another future four wheeler in the family :o) .

Till later
Cathy

In this pic each of the trees will have flowers around them as well ,as well on the left side of the pic the whole side is a flower bed .
till later
cathy

Here is a pic of the gardens at that front of our house .There is also a garden at the side that has hostas in it as well

Till later
cathy

This is another view of the side yard , the little one I watch calls it the play park lol .The tree is with the baby swing on it is a lovely Beech tree with great shade once the leaves are out and underneath i have lots of flowers there as well .

Well till later
cathy

Well here is the last pic for the night .this is the spot for the new garden.That pile of dirt is where or at least where I hope the new garden will be once the flowers are all grown .With alot of crossing fingers and toes that the grow there as well as they have in my other flower beds

Well good night
cathy

This is another view of the same yard. I have to take several pics to get it all . what you are seeing now (I know the pic is small ) is my lawn swing where I love to stitch in the summer time .the trees that surround it have flowers around them so I get a nice view of the humming birds .
Well more later
cathy

Well I am going a bit off of my stitching for a min and show some before pics of our yard . I am hoping that as the spring and summer go along they will be come much more colourful :o).This is my other passion is my gardens . this pic shows a spot in our yard that the little girl I watch and our grandkids ,well just about every child that comes in this yard seems to love , especially in the summer as it is very cool on a hot day. You can't really see it but there is a bench as well as a child's picnic table there and the beginning of my garden that goes along the fence line .Very soon there will also be a large bird house/condo (it is an extremely large house that we really didn't think the birds would use but do lol .

Well I show more soon

Till later have a lovely evening
cathy

I went to my mail box today and look what I found in my mail box .This came from the notions club I am in .There was a new member who joined and sent this to me .
As I have the envelope right in front of me I am able to remember the name so before I forget lol as I have a bad habit of doing these days .I want to say thank you to J Ahern (I hope I spelled her name right .
I am going to try tonight to have the rest of the pics of all I received up on my blog hopefully lol
Well till later
cathy

Well here is one more pic for now , I had better give my computer some down time :o)

Till later
cathy

Well while my computer is being nice to me i am going to press my luck and show some more stuff so here goes . Here is another gift I received from the notions club I was in :o) . In this package was also one of those thread cutters that you could also wear as a necklace which will be perfect outside this summer as I am always leaving my sissors on the swing when I come in :o)

Well off to do some stitching
Have a lovely evening
cathy

Happy Easter Monday , hope your day is as sunny as it is here and not to bad in temps either :o) . Well here is another pic of some stash I received from the notions club I am in :o) . All these goodies are going to keep me busy for sure

Well off to stitch for a bit before going out to the gardens again
Have a lovely day
cathy
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