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A few pictures today. These are Morden Sunrise roses - they start peach, and fade to pink and yellow, plus they are the most fragrant of the roses in my garden. They are doing really well this year.

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I finished piecing the "Winding Ways" quilt.

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We watched a thunderstorm roll in this evening (high winds, rain and hail - luckily no damage for us).

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We went to my parents today, on Lake Winnipeg (one of the largest lakes within Canada).

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All the bales are together now.

I thought I would add a photo
 of the grain the straw is from

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I finished the tumbler lap quilt.

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The flowers at the front door.

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Fresh bales of straw - one of the sites on our evening bike ride.

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Quilting a tumbler quilt.

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Finished the "Hop To It" quilt top.

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Pieced together "Hop To It" blocks, just borders to add to finish the quilt top.

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Some people have nice pictures of their children on their blogs - this is my 15 year old racing from the camera.

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Another hot day. This robin sat in the bird bath for quite a while.

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I have never seen so many flowers on the potato plants as this year.

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Washed all the windows inside and out today - these are the screens that aren't retractable, they all got a clean too.

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The grass seed and sod that we planted last week are growing. We had some rain recently and it has made all the difference.

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Pieced a baby quilt today (it is all ready for quilting). I cut the pieces out yesterday with the GO! Cutter and the Rob Peter to Pay Paul die. Thank goodness for rainy days. This will be a gift for a family friend.

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Our first "big" harvest from the garden. We have a little bit of all kinds of veggies in the garden - a stir fry/salad garden (we had a stir fry for supper). In the colander there are beans, carrots, zucchini, an onion, spinach and a few different kinds of peas.
I recently read somewhere on the internet that a couple were buying those yellow Tupperware colanders, like the one in the picture. They find them at garage sales, flea markets etc. They have a cupboard full now. Just so when their children clean out their home one day, they will wonder what their parents where doing with all those matching colanders. Every time I pull out my yellow Tupperware colander it makes me smile.

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Since one side of the deck is finished I was able to do the last of the planting. I moved perennials and shrubs, and replanted the herb garden.

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 We had a rain day, and finished the last of the Hop To It blocks (from the book by Edyta Sitar).

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More deck building happening today.

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The Gloriosa Daisies are blooming.

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Started the last Hop To It block.

Day 292 of 365

Another lovely/busy weekend. We put up a gazebo, added the boards for the deck and put in some stairs (I was thrilled - my legs are all bruised from climbing over the edge of the boards to get to the back door for the past month), plus added sod around the patio to finish it off. Just a bit more work to do.

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We had a thunder storm this evening, with lots of rain, something we really needed.

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The first bloom on this daylily opened today.

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Spent the day working outside. This is the lettuce patch in the garden.

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We finally had some rain, and so I was able to stay inside sewing (between the 5 power outages). I finished off this quilt top (a lap quilt for a family friend).

Oh no, another picture of my patio - it was nice to see the true colour of the stones in the rain, instead of the gray colour it normally is.

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The peas are starting in the garden.

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Finally had some sewing time today.

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The patio is finished - tomorrow we will rest (it is a holiday in Canada).