It's Sunday

This is going to be known as "the year when church was cancelled". I will be in trouble all week not knowing which day of the week it is. But still ... James and I had a good experience. First of course we had breakfast which today was toasted "Holiday Bread", a homemade baked gift from our friends Kim and Mike for Christmas and frozen. Yummy!

Then we sat down at the dining room table and set the computer up to worship with the streamed (FaceBook) service of our church. St. Martin's priest Father Lee and others are doing wonderful work. Here is a link to the 4th Sunday in Lent. We love your church!!! You might want to click on that link for some quiet time any time of the week. We found it very uplifting.

In the afternoon I was busy figuring out how to make a face mask. Sarah is a clinical pharmacist. As all hospitals right now her's is short on protective masks. I had told her that I was reading that quilters were busy sewing homemade ones and asked whether that was even accepted in places like hers. A day later she said that her boss was sewing some for everybody on the weekend and volunteered me to help. There are so many different pattern out there. Which one? Her department had some certain specifications e.g. it had to be polyester on the outside etc. Most pattern asked for cotton. And did you know that the pleats have to go a certain way? Outside and insides they go different ways. Here is my prototype:

We observed "social distancing" as we drove to deliver it to Sarah. Of course we waited until the boys were taking their nap and didn't get close to Sarah or Wade either. Now I am waiting to hear whether she wants me to make more.

Afterwards we did manage to get to our 10,000 step goal but it was cold and windy. Where is the beautiful weather from Thursday and Friday? So many signs of spring, even in the cracks in the roads on our walks.

It was time for some garden work. Trimmed the roses (partly, more is needed), cleaned up some azaleas and took care of the more than unruly butterfly bush. For the last our neighbors were happy.

Ha-ha, unfortunately the grass seeded in fall at the edge of our patio is doing more than good. But, while we were taking a break, the next door neighbor came over with his weed trimmer and took care of it. I should have taken an after-picture. Thank you, Bill.

When I wanted to take care of some plastic over some stacked/empty planters ... look what I found. He was so cute and was very complacent looking at me. Is this Freddie which every year shows up either in the front underneath the lamp to feast on the bugs? The same we also found underneath the grill cover?

But look. There is another one. Well, sorry for disturbing you. I put same back under their cover.

Not used to garden work especially after the winter. But we were very pleased with our efforts ... and being able to have lunch outside.

Another few days of winter coming again and hopefully more and more days like this. 

God is good.