Spring is here. The birds are so noisy you can't hear yourself think, but they haven't made any approaches to the nesting boxes yet this year. It won't be the same if we don't have baby blue tits this year.
I have recently joined Facebook and amazingly found my old friend Janet from WMU in Kalamazoo, but also a group of women from the Kalamazoo Central High School class of 65. It is really not possible that most of us haven't seen each other in nearly 44 years!!
In any case Marilyn had the brilliant idea of trying to organize a girls only Class of 65 at 65 get together in 2012. A big slumber party sounds like fun.

Mother's Day here in England and a beautiful day with daffodils blooming. We worked on the garden over the weekend and my knees are suffering for it. The newts are visible in the pond, most of the new vegetable seedlings are up in the propagators and there are bumblebees about. Ladybugs are extremely prolific. I hope that is a good sign.
This week I linked up with a group of women from Kalamazoo Central class of 65 and we are now trying to plan a girl's get together for summer 2012. What an amazing thing this internet is. It is really wonderful to find all these long lost friends and aquaintances.
I have begun a quilt for the new great grandson--red, white and blue fabrics in a friendship star pattern. The backing will be a dark blue fabric with teddy bears with little American flags.

Getting behind again. Winter is still with us here in Suffolk, England. We also had a sort of blizzard at the beginning of February. While it may have been quite severe in the north, it didn't seem like much to me here in the south. The worst part was when the snow melted and the ice formed overnight. Here is a picture of a school closing day with the view of the school from our front garden.

Last weekend we had some beautiful weather and got to work in the garden. I also started all my tomato and pepper seeds, etc. But now we are moving back toward cold, rainy gloomy days, at least for awhile. This has been a long winter and we haven't had the best health luck either. Hopefully that will improve with the weather.

My quilting has come to a slow down too. I don't know why, exactly. I have made a nice Raggedy Ann doll for a friend. Anyway, still working on my Baltimore type applique American birds and trying to hand quilt the Dear Jane quilt. I haven't even cut the fabric I brought back with me for the double wedding ring. Maybe I will get to that when the weather breaks. It will be nice if we can get some work done on the shelves for my sewing room soon as everything is crammed in boxes and bags and I can't find what I want.

I will have to live to about 200 to finish all the projects I want to do.