Death is the Mother of Beauty

Grammar police

Seen on a web site:

"Job Description
Shift: First
Wage: $28,000 / year or commiserate with experience. "

Read in a book:

"trying to ween herself off cigarettes...."

Read in a book, referring to a quote earlier in the text:

" as eluded to in the above passage by Smith and Jones...."

Those are some vocabulary errors!

One quilt leads to another

Well since I had made my friend's third child a quilt recently, and I had made her first child a quilt when she was born five years ago, I felt that I had to make the second child a quilt, even though he is three years old already....


The fabric is "Dick and Jane" by Michael Miller.

I needed that

After 100.7 inches of snow this winter, I really needed to go out in the yard last weekend and see my crocuses. I can't imagine how they got planted so close together....



I needed to see the white crocuses, which I did not even plant, but which are relics from previous gardeners, who also planted the irises, peonies, and jack-in-the-pulpits. Thank you!

And I needed to see the snowdrops, which were actually blooming March 19, while there was still snow on the ground. Thank you snowdrops! These may be my favorite bulbs, because they are unassuming, and because they are first!