First week in April

It has been a lovely week and the warmer temperatures have brought more and more blossoms.  Here are some pictures around our house....

Steve and I have worked in the yard most every day.  One of the current objectives is to plant grass seed where gardens used to be.  Steve worked on the hybrid iris bed near the driveway and I worked on the apple tree area in the back.  As you can see, there is still more to do.  On the left is a weed called hensbit with little purple flowers.  Pretty but not a lawn.  I transplanted a little dwarf apple tree from our front yard to be by the other two apple trees (it is the smaller twig in the front of the other two) so now you could say that we have a little orchard.  I am also happy to see that, even though I pruned the fruit trees very radically, they are still alive and sending out little green leaves.

Elise came over three evenings so she and I could work on her t-shirt quilt project.  She has SO many t-shirts that we are going about it a little differently than other t-shirt quilts I have made.  With hers, we are focusing on cutting out just the actual design. Ultimately, all these small, medium, and large designs will be appliqued onto a large sheet in a free-format rather than rectangles on a grid.  We watched movies while we worked - Monday was "Lady In The Water", Tuesday was "Unbreakable" and Friday was the 1950's "Sabrina" (which Elise owns) because on Thursday evening, while I baked sugar cookies, Steve and I watched the 1995 "Sabrina".  

I decorated the sugar cookies yesterday morning and then we watched General Conference the rest of the day.  Steve is a ministering brother to Teresa Torres who has no access to any kind of internet so she joined us.  When I was not watching or eating or napping, I worked on face masks.  I hear mixed messages as to the effectiveness of homemade masks and I am actually leaning more towards the "they do not help" camp but Beckie asked if I could make some for herself and Kyle and Micah so I made several of two different styles.