Although it has been a couple of months since I picked this up, it was easy to continue on from where I had left off.  The motifs in this sampler are giving me quilt ideas and most of them do have a patchwork block look to them, which is probably what makes it easy to pick up no matter where I’ve left off.   It’s a rather large sampler and I’m only about a tenth of the way through, if that.

It still feels like spring to me.  I’m convinced the leaf buds on the tree limbs are starting to swell a tiny bit.  Overly optimistic?  Possibly.  But maybe, just maybe, after last year which was the year of no summer and this year which has been the year of almost no winter, we’re going to have a true spring, which would be a novelty.  Normally we go from having the heat on to having to turn on the air conditioning.  It would be wonderful to have a month or two of not having to turn on either.

Both cats have been exhibiting a bit of spring fever.  Lester has been extremely busy playing with toys which he has fished out of the basket.

Smudge has been playing more than normal as well.  Here he’s guarding two toys.  We didn’t pose this picture at all.  Somehow or other he managed to get the toys sitting on his paws like this.