June has been a quiet month here. Turkeys have been around a few times.
There were 3 males hanging out together (they all had beards), then later a female with 5 newly hatched babies.
This day there was just one male by himself.
This little chipmunk ran out of his hiding place when I was working in the flower bed.
He ran right up the screen of the screen porch...because Puss was immediately chasing after him. (That's a cicada clinging to the screen too.)
Puss can't climb screens but she tried to figure out how to capture little Chippy.
She waited and waited. The chipmunk finally dropped down but then ran up that little tree nearby. It got away this time!
Here is a deer close to the house early one morning.
I don't mind them coming up to graze on the lawn but those dirty rascals chomped a bunch of the stems of our tomato plants.
Sheesh! Usually nothing eats tomato plants!
And a coyote came around two evenings in a row. Me and Puss were inside because of the heat dome weather.
This picture is sort of lousy because I used the digital zoom. He is there to the left of the tree. A fairly big coyote.
I bought 3 small elderberry plants at Walmart.
Three different kinds...Adams, John's, and York. So far, the deer haven't tried to eat them.
I am not making very quick progress getting my big project flower bed the way I want it.
The Stella D Oro Day Lillies bloomed very nicely. My favorite color of yellow.
Puss likes this quilt too and she thought she would just settle down and relax on it as I quilted. Not a great plan, Puss.
I did finish the quilting. I was a bit nervous because this has turned out to be such a cute quilt. Four of us, who are in the Crazy Quilters and also the book club have worked on it.
We all made blocks. Jan chose and bought and coordinated the fabrics, and also wrote titles on a few of the books.
Izzy appliqued the cats and Susan embroidered on the eyes and whiskers, and made a name label.
It's perfect for our book club leader because she loves and collects books and she has four cats! She has been leading the group for many years so the quilt is to show appreciation and thanks.
I sewed the binding on and came up a few inches short. Lucky, the next day was quilt group day and Jan brought in more of the fabric. Izzy took it home to finish binding so I didn't get a photo of the finished quilt.
I'll try to get one when we give it to Diane.
