I'm here checking in, saying hello to my friends. I haven't been doing much. Just trying to keep my head above water.
I've been working a lot on Mamie's quilts. So far I have six quilt tops done. They need to be quilted and bound yet, but so far I'm satisfied with how it's going. I sent her pics the other day and she was very complimentary. She is always encouraging and optimistic.
Wonders never cease. When the little cherry tree was uprooted during the Big Blow, mrM took a few small branches and set them in water to see if they'd root. Their leaves turned brown, shriveled and fell off and I assumed that they were dead. I had even gone so far as to throw one of them away. (I got a stern look for that from mrM, but I glared right back and said I have minimum standards of home decor and dead twigs were definitely below minimum.)
Well. Lo and behold, Saturday I noticed that the twigs in a jar of water in the sewing room are getting ready to bloom! In November? There are clusters of buds all along the twig. I noticed the same thing on the jar of twigs on the livingroom window sill. You just never know, huh? Maybe we will have an indoor cherry crop in March. Maybe a whole handful of them. Um, I doubt it, but then, I thought the branches were dead too.
Sorry I don't have anything more exciting to report. Hope you all are doing well.
