Thursday evening. Tonights evening photo.
After the ground turning white again, I hope that the bare ground evolving again, is becoming the new normal for at least the next several months. Today was a beautiful day while looking out the window, unfortunately the outside temperature was colder than it appeared from the window.
The beach received the second raking along the edge. That is the part where we receive all the detritus that Mother Nature and her minions throw into the pond. Small criticism, if your dog really doesn’t want to go get the ball, don’t throw it in the water for him. Then I don’t have to pull it out and throw it in the trash.
The beavers are helping in providing me with something to retrieve off the beach. Every day I find several small branches diagonally cut and some with their bark stripped where the beaver had a snack after trimming the shrubs. I have not gone looking for where they are entering the pond, hopefully they will stay over the ridge in Winter Brook.
Speaking of entering the pond and just by chance also fits into my “what I saw this week with my eyes open” topic, when I was raking the beach on Saturday I noticed this deviation in the debris at the water’s edge.
Upon deeper examination I noticed these prints arriving at the drag point at the edge of the pond.
I do believe this is where a big snapping turtle entered the pond. It probably came from Mud Pond to get to Green Pond to spend the summer but may well have wintered in Winter Brook. It would be interesting to attach a tracker to one and see where it goes. We usually have several different sized ones helping to keep the pond clean by ridding it of dead “stuff”. They are allowed to stay as long as they do not choose to hang around the swim float.
Carol has been on a spring cleaning crusade of late. Today was the living room. This meant that the show quilt “Spotlight on the Stars” which hangs on the vaulted wall in our tiny living room needed to come down.
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This enabled it to be “fluffed” in the dryer and the walls and ceilings dusted and washed behind and around it. It is a long ways up there. It’s no wonder the spiders like it up there, no-one ever bothers them. That is until today. We should be all set for a little while I hope, it is rather awkward getting the quilt up and down. Or in this case getting it down and up. I say we should be all set for a while, but now that I think about it, although we vacuumed up cobwebs, I don’t remember disposing of any spiders. You got it time will tell.
In the studio, after the last grad quilt I spent a good deal of time “cleaning up”. As some may remember by this I mean cutting up pieces and chunks of fabric laying around and making units out of them. I made lots of 1”, 1-1/2”, 2”, 2-1/2” 3” and 4” finished four patch units and a bunch of 3”, 4” and 2” 1/2” finished half square triangles. I then headed down a rabbit hole thinking 12” finished blocks. This leaves lots of possibilities with the units I had been creating. So #13 for 2025 is destined to be made from a variety of twenty, 12” finished blocks. Those blocks are being made from different variations using those four patches and half square triangles. Here are a few..
Several blocks are complete but there are still lots of creation needed before the top will be done.
As we live in Maine and it is spring our weather this weekend will be a variety of wind, sun and rain. Hopefully no snow. Time will tell, be safe, enjoy your weekend.
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