Wednesday, May 11, 2022

I worked in the yard for most of the morning but when it started to spit rain I decided to come inside. I got the lavender trimmed back and that was mainly what I wanted to get off the list. I pulled a bit of bindweed, trimmed some dead branches off the roses and cut my daisies back a bit more. We have a lot of bell flowers in that one bed; last year I lost a battle to keep them out of the daisies and roses so this year I’m pulling them out. They are a nice flower but spread like crazy and they are growing in another part of the yard where I’m letting them have their way with the gout weed so I don’t need these ones.

Facebook told me this morning that it is Gail’s birthday today. I’ll be seeing her tomorrow for sewing and thought I’d better get a card made for her. I thought I’d take one of the tops I had in my stash and get it quilted and finished this afternoon and evening. I was quite pleased when I found a card already done in my stash.

Costco have changed their card holder from Capital One to CIBC; we had a bill that was coming due so we had to get the new card sorted out. Since the account is in Pat’s name I had to get him involved in setting us up in CIBC and then in our bank so I could pay the bill.

While he was upstairs he took a look at the cross stitch blocks I had on the floor in the room across the hall. Not surprising he had a whole list of things he thought I should change. I hate to admit that his input helped; in some cases I don’t think it changed much and in some cases I refused to make the change he thought I could. He’s already saying it should go in the quilt show so I guess I’d better keep at it in order to have it done.

For the rest of the afternoon I’ve been quilting another card top – this one will need to go out in the mail in a few days. My evening knitting has been stalled by some cross stitch. I tried to do some work on my Botanical Garden while I watched TV but that didn’t work out so well. Since then I’ve been working on the cross stitch square that I need to redo and it is going better.