Rain, Quilting and Insanity

We have been getting bits of rain for 3 days now – by that I mean the days are cloudy almost all day and we have light rain showers off and on but the rain gauge doesn’t even read 1 inch still!  The grass is growing and needs to be mowed but more rain expected tomorrow, some areas are getting a lot more and tomorrow we might be one to get the “lot” more.  But in the meantime things are growing – and I have not been outside all that much to enjoy it – so cloudy and to humid to sit on the porch when it is like this.

My log planters though are doing pretty good, filling in nicely.

The garden is growing but the flowers that I planted on the edge aren’t – I think I need to pull those out and put something else in there.  the yellow flowers came back from last year – I’m not sure what they are – I will need to look and see if I can find any seeing as they are doing really well.

this clematis is doing well, but none of the others have flowers on them.

I finished this area of Insanity Revisited Wednesday night and rolled it down yesterday morning so I could work on the next area.

This is where I will have started last night.  I think I know what I am doing on the plain triangles — now to see if it works out.  I am linking to Confessions of a Fabric Addict today.

I should have taken a photo of this drawer before it looked like this!  This is the drawer that everything gets thrown into – I bet we all have one – this is what it looks like cleaned out!  I do wish I had remember to take the “before” photo – it was overflowing.  I found things in this drawer that I didn’t remember I had and wondered why I had them to being with!  The plastic mint container with the blue lid is what I use to disposed of pins and needles that are bent, broken and dull – machine and hand and stick pins as well.  When it gets full I buy another like this or what I can find and well tape this one shut and toss it – the tin candy holder with the tape on it holds rotary blades that are no longer useful.  I wonder how long it will stay this neat LOL – the very pretty dish at the front is my chocolate container.  Melanie bought this dish for me years ago and I love it.  Sometimes it is on the shelf and sometimes stuck in the drawer – I can reach the drawer handier than the shelf when I am at the quilting frame – a reason for it being there!