A Spring Saturday

Spring is well underway here, although the weather has not been as warm as predicted. The weather forecasts have overestimated the high temps by 10-15 degrees. I would say the weather has been typical for this time of year. We are supposed to get rain again today.

Our Mountain Brook Ladies Club and Friends make a raffle quilt every year to help raise money for the Mountain Brook Homestead Foundation. The quilt is currently in my possession because I have been waiting for the right conditions—overcast, but not rainy or windy—to get a photo for the website and for marketing. The husband helped me yesterday morning with hanging the quilt on the side of the woodshed. It makes a nice backdrop:

This year’s quilt is entitled “Cascading Gems.” I think it’s gorgeous. I’ll take it and the display rack up to the community center tomorrow so it can hang there.

Bunny is beginning to turn brown, but not as quickly as I would like. I worry about the owls getting him.

I took down the porch lights and replaced them with the wind chimes. The hummingbird feeders have been cleaned and I will fill and hang them this afternoon.

Some of my tomato seedlings are up:

And the babies have been moved to the coop:

This process was accompanied by much squawking, but everyone seems to have settled in. The big chickens stand there and watch the babies and the babies stand there and look at the big chickens. Roo did not seem terribly interested in the new additions. He spends a lot of his time harassing the smaller rooster. I may have to re-home the little guy.

After we moved the chicks, I swept out the garage and the husband re-graded the driveway. When he plows, a lot of the gravel gets pushed into the snow piles. He uses the track loader to spread the gravel back onto the driveway.

I did no sewing yesterday. I’d like to cut out some patterns this afternoon so I have them to work on this week, but I’ll have to see how things play out.