April/May 2025 Island Trip – Day 6

Today:

• I spent a bunch of time working on quilt blocks. Organizing the block ‘kits’ remaining to do so I know what materials I need, and am focusing on one year’s shophop blocks to finish up and actually turn them into a quilt.
• I weed whacked around the house and its perennial beds pretty thoroughly, then clipping grass around the address sign for the property and took a lot of dead wood out of the small fir at the east entrance to to the property. No ladders involved, just what I could reach from the ground. It’s amazing how much nicer the fir looks when micro pruned like that!
• As I was messing around at the east driveway, a van slowed down and a gal asked if I was who I am 😂. She’s an old classmate who live very close by. We’ve watched her and her husband’s big house go up over the last number of years, and their building a house up the road for someone else. We caught up for 10-minutes. She remembered my mom fondly.
• Our main road is being repaired. The heavy equipment brings out my inner 8-year old boy! I strolled up the road to take a look. The ditches are being seriously reworked, which ought t help a whole lot.
• I started planning my next shophop trip. It’s looking like a 5-day, 23 quilt shop, 4-friend, BBQ & propane tank pickup, one cheese factory swing through 2-states, if everything lines up. 😁