A Big Finish

Good afternoon, my friends. I'm late with today's post because I went to the Beaverton Farmer's Market with Erik and Mae this morning. I was on the hunt for rhubarb, and SCORE!! Happy about that. We stood admiring the beautiful daffodil bunches that were for sale while we waited for our breakfast.

We didn't purchase any of the daffodils, but Mae purchased some tulips and some starts for their vegetable garden.

Look at the pretty centers on these daffodils.

So, it was a successful trip to the market. Everyone got what they wanted. It was raining as I drove to meet up with Erik and Mae at their house. It also rained on the way home. In between...when it really mattered...it was dry and relatively warm. So, it was a good trip all around. Spending the morning with Erik and Mae always gets the day off to a good start.

When I finished my Bowflex workout yesterday, I needed to get out and fill the bird feeders. I noticed that our cherry trees are in bloom. Sadly, we'll miss the cherries this year. We'll encourage the neighbors to come up and pick them.

Back inside, I baked a Chocolate Self-Saucing Cake for Two. I'm giving you the link to the recipe. Scroll to the bottom of the post to find it. My mother called this a pudding cake. It's cake on top, chocolate pudding on the bottom. ("Chocolate cacapooey," is how my brother-in-law, Phil, would have described it if he were still with us.) We enjoyed that with a scoop of vanilla ice cream last night.

While that baked, I went to work finishing the binding for Jericho Walls. After turning the fourth corner...

I still needed to stitch about 2/3 of the final side, but that puppy is finished!! Yahoo!! This was my Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt in 2022, and so I'll be linking up there today.

Pretty sure I took a nap at that point. When I woke up, I went back to work on the top border for The Story of My Day. There were some pieced sections.

And then I sewed those to what I had from the day before.

Then I pieced this next section. This one will require another windmill, and so I'll start there today. This seemed like a good place to stop, and that's where I left it when I turned off the lights to the sewing room.

The kitties were still bent on catching the mouse they'd lost behind the china cabinet. They sat there the whole live-long day and into the evening. 

Just as we were dropping off to sleep last night, I heard some scuffling outside the bedroom door. As I suspected, the mouse had come out of hiding, and there was a game of mouse hockey underway.  Without too much difficulty, I was able to literally snatch the mouse from the jaws of death and liberate it to the outdoors. I suspect it was bitten and will probably die out there, but at least the kitties can get some rest. And so could I.

So it already feels late in the day. I'm tired and want a nap. If there's time left this afternoon, I'll get busy finishing off the rest of the border for The Story of My Day. No promises, though. I might do nothing at all. Some days are like that. Today might be one of them.