Mid May - cicadas are out

 I have the little donation quilt top put together. I think it came out pretty cute.

I even went on to the next step of laying it out to cut backing and batting for it. But then I goofed and cut a slice into my backing fabric when I was trimming it all to size. Sheesh!

I gave up for the day after that.

I've been missing my crochet/knit group meetings.  I was glad to finally make it back to a meeting and chat with the other members.

They were all working on new projects but I'm still crocheting this afghan. I didn't work on it at all since the last time I was there.  No hurry to get it finished though.

Are you seeing any of the 17 year cicadas?

There were a few hanging on the screen porch starting on May 9th.

Some cicadas and some empty shells/husks.

Big and unattractive but the good thing is that they are harmless. No biting and no eating landscape plants. I really don't think they eat anything at all - because there doesn't seem to be any droppings either.

More and more are hatching each day and there is a loud whirring sound all around from their chirps.

My Peony was blooming so pretty this year...for a couple of days. Then we had heavy rain which weighed down the stalks and waterlogged the flowers.

Iris blooming too. They held up better in the rain.

This big opossum has visited the yard a few times.

Also this yellow cat comes by occasionally.  I don't think it's a stray. It looks healthy. It's  big and fluffy and has a sweet pretty face.

My cat doesn't like it though and I think it might be this cat that she has had a fight with a couple of times. I didn't see the fighting but Puss has come in with bite marks and scratches on two different evenings.

Yes, I did make soup!  A creamy broccoli soup.

No meat in this one but I did melt some white cheddar in when it finished cooking.

I bought some baby Bella mushrooms without really thinking what I would use them for.

I know they are healthy and nutritious so I just sautéed them and ate them with eggs or as a side dish. It was a LOT of mushrooms to go through.

It made me remember that my first husband's family would make sandwiches of fried mushrooms on white bread. Just the regular small white mushrooms tossed in some breading and stirred around in the skillet. Not for a meal but more of an evening snack.

I thought it was the strangest thing and would never taste one. The only way I had ever eaten mushrooms was Campbell's cream of mushroom soup.