Blue Skies and Warmer Days

It's been awhile, so, time to do some writing. We have had some very rainy, wet weather this spring, resulting in lots of flooding all over Vermont. Especially along the coastline of Lake Champlain down in Burlington, and up here in St. Albans Bay. We have even sprouted our own small stream on our land that begin showing up last week, and has been running strong since last Saturday. It seems to be bubbling out of the ground, pools around a bunch of trees, then spills out onto and down our driveway and into the woods. It's very crazy, but rather interesting too. We are estimating several gallons an hour continue to flow out. Here is a picture I took on Sunday:

Notice the pool of water, and where it is running down the driveway. It continues on down the hill.

We have finally had a break from all of the rain, and it has been sunny and warmer since Sunday. What a great break, even if I have been working. Speaking of working and water running-last week while I was working in my maternity store, a young woman was in exchanging some items, and returned to use the restroom in our store. Not a noteworthy story, except she thought her water had broken, which it had, and I spent a short while trying to calm her down, and sent her on her way with a new pair of pants and a roll of paper towel. She came back on Tuesday to thank me for my help, and introduce me to her new little girl, Genevieve.

And, speaking of little girls, I have been busy sewing during all of our chilly, rainy weather, and here is a picture of the quilt I made for my 6 month old granddaughter:

I thought it really turned out cute. I also made a pillow to match it, as you can see in the photo. I appliqued owls on it because that's what my daughter said she wanted on it, and I couldn't find any kind of fabric with owls on it. It was fun doing. Now I am finishing up a pillow for my other granddaughter so she will have something in the box also. Then I will send them on their way and hope they both like them. We are trying to figure out a time for the three of them to come up here, maybe next week, or more likely, in June. But I know I won't be able to wait for them to get it, so I'll mail it out soon.

May is already a third over, as always passing way too fast. Hopefully more things will happen so I will have more to write about in the next few weeks.