Ice Out

Carol here ~ 

Good Morning and Happy April!

The ice is just about gone.  What is left was blown down to our end yesterday as the wind blew all day.

I'm always surprised the first couple of mornings when I open the shades after ice out to see water.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday again, I guess. In my head it has been Saturday all day since I went to bed last night thinking it was Friday. 

We had our taste of “boy it’s nice to be able to go outside and not freeze” and back to “Damn if the wind isn’t howling and it isn’t back in the 30’s again.” Short spring. Is knew it was too good to last, but there is always hope. The weather people are talking about more snow and wet weather over the weekend and the first of next week. Good studio weather, as if I need an excuse to sew.

This week moving around with my eyes open, I spied a piece of tail. It looks to be from a red squirrel. My guess is it was no longer needed. 

Ugh, Still Cleaning

Carol here ~

I'm still cleaning so no quilts to show this time.  Whose idea was it to spring clean anyway?  It's exhausting.  I've got the bathroom done, the drawers and bottom cupboards in the kitchen done and most of the top cupboards before I ran out of steam yesterday.  Then I had a nap.

Sunday we went to Readfield to The Gallery to check out Kailey's artwork she had displayed there.  She is so talented.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Today was a wet dreary day, in the 40’s but I’m ready for a little warmer than that. 

The other day while I was playing with the water on the driveway on the hill I noticed an interesting phenomenon floating on the surface of the water.

It is the minor debris that was picked up and was floating on the surface of the water as it ran down the driveway. As I gave the water a faster flow the effect was lost. Was cool to see and capture.

Almost..

Carol here ~ 

Happy Almost Spring! The warmer weather we have had lately has definitely felt like spring.  The snow is melting and I can see beach when I look out the front windows.

Mud Pond has some open water around the edges.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Another week gone by. Has been rainy and extremely foggy today. Visibility today was measured in the hundreds of feet. When I went to Mechanic Falls for a switch for a project I’ll tell you about in a minute, I found it hard to believe the number of ignorant people driving without their lights on, at least three out of every ten cars I met. I’m glad I didn’t have far to go.

On Tuesday after supper Carol asked me to come downstairs and read her blog post. While downstairs I asked what was the water all over the floor. Further investigation found the culprit to be the dishwasher. We dried up the mess and waited until Wednesday to look deeper. After digging in and finding a couple leaky areas and since there were already several aspects of the old one that did not function correctly anymore, we decided on a new one. 

Mug Rugs

Carol here ~ 

We have several Mug Rugs scattered about around the house.  Some are used for mugs like this one on the arm of my recliner,

some are used on windowsills to set plant pots on

and I have a couple on the countertop.