Weekend Update

I'm just about done with the crud, ugh, and not a second too soon. I hate being sick. In spite of it, there's a little bit to show this week. Let's see, Monday and Wednesday I was the mom at preschool; that's always a fun way to write off an otherwise productive week. ;o) Good thing those kids are cute, that's all I'm sayin'. Wednesday afternoon we used one of these freezer balls to make ice cream. While it might seem like a good plan, Mandarin Orange ice cream tastes pretty gross. Needs a whole lot more sugar than you'd think.


I did manage to get 10 minutes of sewing in every day, and this is the result. My Done By Christmas quilt is done by Easter. It was a nesting robin - with each round (or row, for those who went that route) representing a children's story. Let's see if I can actually remember what they were: center - The Kissing Hand, #2 Harold and the Purple Crayon, #3 The Giving Tree, #4 Make Way for Ducklings, and #5 The Polar Express. I'll admit that I like my first nesting robin, the song titles one better, but I don't hate this one. It certainly looks like spring.

The biggest thing we did, though, was complete a land transaction that's been dragging on for months. Two years ago this Memorial Day, our neighbour put his house up for sale. He's not our next-door neighbour at the front, but the back 2.8 acres of his land abuts ours. He's had a few nibbles on the house, but with such high acreage within city limits (which limits what can be done with it) he's had to list the house with a higher price than people want to pay. Last fall we formally offered to take the abutting property and incorporate it into our own, giving his house a decent sized lot (just over an acre) and making us land barons. ;o) More like "top o' the tax rolls." What we are preventing with this is the sale of that house to someone who would think nothing of plopping a single-wide into what we've always felt was our backyard. It hasn't always been our land, but it has always been our view. Now it's both. And those VELCO lines that went in a few months ago? They're our new neighbours. At least they're quiet.We're still completely within city limits so, sigh, no cow. But I can put in a kick-ass garden. I'm already looking for cold hardy fruit trees.