MOST TREES LOSE LEAVES IN THE FALL

Most trees lose their leaves in the fall. You can see that my tree has very few leaves for this time of year.
However, after a bit of fertilizer and water trial and error a few more leaves grew.














Some more sunshine and a little rain hard work and lots of do-overs and more leaves grew. Believe it or not I've thrown away almost as many leaves as I've pinned on the tree. Mostly due to careless mistakes which I think have come from being in too big a hurry and too tired.











And another day of watching grass grow poltics on tv and even more leaves have sprouted.



Believe it or not, this is about 21 out of thirty something leaves that will have names on them. Then I'll add enough blank leaves to make it look "complete" for lack of a better term. Then two borders around the edges -- probably pulled from the leaf colors and the quilt top will be finished.




A lot has gone on besides working on the tree. Actually, I've done these leaves since Saturday.

First, I visited Billy for his birthday -- it was a surprise visit and in true Billy fashion he was very very surprised -- jumping up and down standing there with a quizzical look and hollering Wow! -- What a surprise Mom : saying "Hey Mom" That's my laid back boy :) He was definitely surprised -- Thanks Stacey for keeping the secret. The kids were excited too. We went out to eat at a Japanese restaurant where they cook at the table -- I've forgotten the name. It was delicious. I had scallops and shrimp. We had a fun weekend together and I definitely enjoyed the trip.

Then this past weekend my sister came to see me. I got lots of sister love that included a really neat Vera Bradley purse for my birthday, some good cooking and lots of visiting. We took my sewing machine to the Dr. for the third time and finally they fixed the embroidery problem I was having. They kept saying it was a thread or fuzz but they had blown it out twice and I just didn't think that was it. This time though she figured out a wire had somehow jumped over to the other side of a metal bar and so she moved it back and it has purred like a kitten and embroidered like a dream at full speed all weekend and this week. (The wire problem was on the inside somewhere - discovered after they took the outside cover off. )

For those who don't know it and are interested, I'm going to be a grams -- again. # 7 will be arriving right around the time I get out of school. Guess I'm retiring just in the nick of time :) Well, I'm beat and promised myself I'd go to bed tonight so bye for now.