The best of intentions

Good intentions count...right? i had the best of intentions to get up early and get out to the garden this morning but i didn't wake up till 7:30....shoot. oh, well, sucked it up and went out there anyway and whacked some grass and weeds from around the tomatoes and peppers. checked on the peach tree and some thief has stolen half my peaches. about a month ago i counted over 50...today i counted 26. dang it!!  i suspect racoons since the peaches on the lower half are gone. just in case it was deer, i put a fence around the tree, close enough so the deer couldn't jump in. if it's racoons, i probably just helped them by giving them a fence to climb on....can they climb trees? what does it take to get a few peaches around here? last year we only got 4....but they were good.  as long as i was out there, i cut the grass and cleared the weeds and grass around a few blackberry bushes. then i got hot and gave it up.

Went to the house and cooled off and made some breakfast. got to the studio about 11:30. i had every intention (once again) to crawl up that scaffolding and put the caulk on the second window but it was sunny by the time i got here so i gave up that intention for later. perhaps i shall do it before i leave here to go home.

I kind of had a lazy day in the studio today. i finished embroidering the month on the august santa and started the september santa. got july done the other day. now just gotta quilt em.

 and i finished the binding on a quilt that i started yesterday.

Got this strip quilt finished and binding on it...i'd been working on it in the evenings. used the quilt as you go method and asian strips on 12" blocks. goes pretty fast....at least it does if you work on it. LOL

then decided to cut some fabric for a quilt that i saw on the selvage blog. she calls it an asterick quilt. it looked interesting so thought i would give it a try. i made 2 blocks to see if i really liked piecing it. then cut out a bunch more blocks to work on. i am using my blue hand dyes with yellow for the strips. i guess i need to get back to my veggie quilt blocks that are sitting on the kitchen table at home. more good intentions. siiiiigghhhh!!

I better take my good intentions home and see about dinner. i took fish, okra and corn on the cob out of the freezer this morning. okra and corn from the garden last year. in cleaning out the deep freeze and moving it the other day i found lots of veggies in there i forgot about....corn, carrots, green beans, okra. we better get to eating. more good intentions?

I make myself tired.