We had some sun!!!

We had some beautiful weather this week, so I spent a great deal of time outdoors.  Most of the garden beds are weeded, the trellis is up for beans, the rotted out stairs along the side of the house are gone, and the yard bins are full of ivy.  Random fact of the day: English Ivy is a non-native invasive species and can be found on the noxious weeds lists of both Washington and Oregon.  And I have ivy growing everywhere!!!  But I did manage to get a bunch of roots dug out, so that should help. I do wish we lived out of town though, so I could burn them.  The city doesn't want it in the yard debris, and I don't want it in my compost.  We have a brilliant plan in our locale where they charge you to pick up yard waste and then you can buy the "compost material" that they make from the yard waste.  GRRR!  I'll continue with my own compost pile, thank you.   Anyways.....the only sewing I got done this week where some more stars.  These follow a red/white/blue theme. Oh, and two "normal" stars.  15 total.  I am going to have to come up with something to do with these sooner instead of later.

I am quite happy to say that expect for a few other sets of stars that are cut, I have NO MORE r/w/b fabric in my house!!!  Now, I think this means that I should get new fabric, but that does seem to defeat the purpose of the whole exercise.  

***Update: Over the last few months, we have seen a huge amount of image searches for Tuck Everlasting dioramas.  After the amount of work D2 put in on hers, and knowing that she did not do searches to get ideas, I have decided to remove the photo. I am glad people liked it, but I would hate to see it used as a shortcut for someone else's assignment (cheating?). Thank you for understanding.***

Also, D2's Tuck Everlasting diorama came home from school. She got a "B" on it.  

It is the scene where they are breaking Mae out of jail.  She is pretty happy with it, and would love to do more projects like this at school!  

Well, I have no idea what the weather will be like this week, but I have a quilt to finish and beans and peas to plant, so SOMETHING should get done.