I am alive. We've had two nights of tornado warnings, last Wednesday night and again Sunday evening. We slept in the basement Wednesday night. Thankfully I hadn't taken care of the Murphy bed yet, so my son and I crashed there and my husband sacked out in his recliner.
My immediate area was spared from storms and damage. There was an EF-2 tornado that went through the Morgan-Monroe Forest. It passed over the highway. We drove by it Friday on the way to my daughter's. In my photos it doesn't look like much, but in real life the damage to the trees was astonishing. Amazingly, there was only one injury reported from this storm, which had a debris ball 2.5 miles wide on the radar.
After Sunday evening's warnings were done, something in my window caught my eye as I walked into my room. I stood on the bed and found a large walnut tree growing right against the house. 😡 This isn't unheard of; the squirrels stash their nuts everywhere you don't want them. I'm wondering how long this tree has been growing in order to get this tall.
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| Oh look, here is that same sneaky tree, hiding behind the hydrangea. The hydrangea is about six feet tall. |
Meanwhile, we've been treating Poppy the chicken's eye injury (we think this was from Peanut pecking at her) with Terramycin and the leftover antibiotic from when Beaker was ill. The swelling has gone down tremendously. My husband tells me he thinks her actual eye is gone. :( She's eating and drinking well, so we'll just have to wait and see. Peanut's back to feeling broody again and it's worked out well because with Peanut staying inside, the roosters are fine with the other three hens. Who knew there would be so much drama with chickens?
Moving over to sewing, which I suppose is what most people want to hear about, I was able to custom-quilt my Beach Bumz quilt. You can scroll back one post to read more details about it.
I'm half way done with the binding on Magnificent Mystery. I haven't been able to work on it much because all the custom quilting, machine binding, and ripping I've been doing have left me with a lot of pain in my shoulder and wrist.
Besides my own quilting, I've quilted Echoed Curves on Ann L.'s quilt. I also attached the binding to the front.
I repaired my oops on her other quilt and finished the quilting (Jungle Party). Again, I added the binding to the front.
I quilted Cassava on the final of her quilts.
I didn't take pictures of all five bindings, but I did complete them all. They are all ready to go and I will be able to send out an invoice after two weeks of not bringing in any money. 🎉
I quilted Diagonal Plaid Bias on Ann K.'s quilt. I have five of her quilts here right now. I have one fully bound and still need to do the remaining four.
I quilted Lovely Loops on Sara's quilt. It's really hard to see in my picture, but it looks really good. Lovely Loops is one of my favorites.
I quilted Lei on Mike's first quilt. This one is interesting because he brought me a rubberized upholstery fabric for the backing and binding. I had done a small sample a while ago to make sure I could quilt it. There's no room for error since the holes won't heal. I hadn't considered that I can't use any pins on it. That was kind of interesting.
Out in the yard, I've found a few more day lilies blossoming in their new locations.
The wildflowers along the property edge look good.
My husband has been picking all the wild raspberries/blackberries around our yard and he found this plant just off the edge of our property. It's a native Jewelweed, part of the impatiens family. The internet says that if you touch the flower it will spray seeds everywhere. This is the first time we've ever noticed/seen it and it's quite a large patch.
