Happy Arbor Day

Happy Arbor day to all of the trees in my garden. I have the privilege of living on a property with at least 50 trees, which makes it a little forest.

 It is amazing that people in Johannesburg have created the largest urban man made forest in the world. The interesting thing is that the natural eco-systems is semi-arid which would only support scrub. Scrub can be seen as dry patches of grass and small thorn trees. 
The best part is that we have birds that are attracted to our man made forest. Some of them even stay for the winter as we have a very mild one. 

Have a good one

All the blocks are done

Here are the dates for the various block types:

The blocks 

started     20120601  and finished  on the 20130120

The Triangles 

started 20130121 and Finished  on the 20130412

Kites

started 20130413 Finished on the   20130425

I will now get busy with the sashing and the removing of the thousand of pieces of paper. Oh what a fun quilt! 

No wonder so many have been made.

Have a good one.

Happy Birthday Shakespeare

Happy birthday Willy Shakespeare and sadly too, happy death day. So Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564 and 52 years later died on the same date. That is what happens when you party like there is tomorrow, sometimes there isn't.

We all have so many idioms to thank Shakespeare for as well as all of the plays and poems that we had to endure throughout our school years. I was always sure that he was in my various English classes he would have scoffed as to the purported meaning of his imagery. As for his plays well he would have been a writer of television if he was born in this era. As it was we all have to that his stage prompter for actually writing down the lines for us to be terrorised with all these years later.

Though if you think of it he would have got into hot water in today's mores, what with him having two lovers killing themselves and they being only 13. Schools these days seem to be doing everything within their power in keeping our teenagers happy and well adjusted. As for Taming of the shrew, well that taught all us maidens that a chauvinistic pig was the way to go to find true happiness. It is surprising that a few of these books have not been deemed inappropriate. Poor Darwin is out, but Shakespeare will endure. I wonder if it is due to the fact that people often confuse words within Hamlet to be actual scripture teachings.

So with this bit of wisdom I will wish you a good one.

Happy Earthday

So wishing the Earth a huge happy Earth day.

May she have an amazing time and stop with all the Earthquakes and Volcanoes.

As all the little red rings show, she is obviously throwing a party for her day. Good luck to all the humans in the areas where the parties are happening.







Have a good one!

One corner to go

One last block to do and it is a doozy. The last corner took me forever to do as did all of the stars within stars. Well here goes, the last one. I don't know whether to be happy or just a little bit sad having come to the end of the blocks. Each one was a fun experience with the doldrums of finishing off a quilt not happening as quickly as most other quilts. Let's see if I can make the last block faster than the previous one took me.

The weather here is freezing so it is good to have something fun to do and stay warm.

Have a good one!