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What a variety of weather we've had! Two warm days (first lawn-mowing of the season) followed by near-record chill with a touch of frost Saturday morning. The parking lot and trails at the Camp Logan unit of Illinois Beach State Park were still flooded from the April 29 rain (3.37") but Saturday afternoon we tried Hosah Park (the one patch of lakefront that belongs to Zion Park District). But where's the beach? Somewhere near Indiana by now. Last summer there was sand at the end of the boardwalk and the walkway to the overlook was clear. The severe erosion is due to the highest lake levels in 17 years and to the breakwaters constructed to the north (to mitigate erosion from their beaches).
The beach ridges are very obvious when the swales are full of water.
Now -- Sunday afternoon -- it's drizzly and gray. No gardening today! We'll get hanging baskets and annuals at the garden center next week.
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In the studio:
This week's masks: I gave 30 to a local nursing home in response to a FB post and 40 to the local agency that helps the elderly and confined-to-home get food and supplies. I have more to give away. I've made 349 and there's enough elastic for 14 or 15. I'll have to decide if "end of elastic" is a stopping place or if I'll need a round number (say, 375 or 400) to say ENOUGH.Shelter in Place: Fourteen more blocks. So far I've made 70. At one-a-day, I'm up to May 23.
Rainbow Rails is a flimsy! In Thursday's post I asked for opinions about which fabric to choose for sashing. The votes were pretty evenly distributed. It turned out that I didn't have enough of any one of them -- three to five inches too little -- but I found a 2-yard piece of another light gray on white that would work.
I've made 200 of the 346 five-patches I need for the next scrappy quilt.
Singing in the choir at this morning's virtual church service.
Our last Mother's Day with our mother, 2001.
(Was I practicing for this year with that hairdo?!)
Weekly link ups:
Scrap Happy Saturday
Oh Scrap!
Monday Making
Design Wall Monday