Friday Musings, The Beautiful Month of May

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I can hardly believe that this month, this beautiful month of May, is almost over. For months, dark and dreary, we long for the emerging signs of Spring, the budding trees, the signs of  perennial flowers poking their little heads up through the soil. My MIL had such a lovely garden of Dianthus. Every year we looked forward to the carpet of little buds. The long Winter is over. Hurrah!

'Firewitch' Dianthus | One Quart 

 As we begin our Summer months, plans for our family events, plans for our sewing projects, perhaps a quilt retreat or two, give us much to look forward to. 

  • In our area, The Quilt Shop Hop begins June 13th until June 18th. Specific information, HERE.  
  • Consider having a special project within a group of quilting friends, perhaps a row-by-row project, a 9 patch project, or even a themed project. At the completion of the project the piece could be auctioned as a fund raiser for your local library or a children's hospital or hospice. 
  • Not all projects need to be large quilts, burp pads for babies in a women's shelter, begin preparing give-away bags for the homeless to include knitted hats, by hand or by loom. 
  • Plan ahead for the holidays, start those Fall, Thanksgiving, and Halloween table runners, time seems to fly during the Summer months, planning ahead is your friend. 
  • If you need to add to your stash, don't forget the great sales in fabric shops as they prepare for shipments of Christmas themed fabrics. Great bargains to be had.

 The Astrology of Memorial Day – Cassandra Joan Butler –

Our recognition of this holiday will be a quiet one. I am not up to the big cook-out this year. After a visit to the cemetery where there is a ceremony to honor the fallen, we will likely splurge and "go for a ride!" With gasoline at $4.79 here, it is indeed a splurge. I am making coffee ice cream, we have a watermelon the size of Rhode Island that appeared today. BBQ ribs are on the menu with a nice little pasta salad. I need to unearth the red, white, and blue dishes (melamine) that I used in the motor home for our picnic and somewhere along the way I need to pick up some herb plants. 

I hope your weekend is also one of commemoration and the enjoyment gifted to you by those who gave their lives so that we may live here, in peace.     

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