At my spinning zoom, I was asked about this barn quilt and its history. It turns out it is based on 300 year old European beliefs about decorating barns to ward off evil but was revived in 2001 by a woman in Ohio to honor her quilting mother. More information is here.

We later had a discussion about yarn stash reduction. Penguono sweaters were recommended. Here’s a gorgeous one above.

On the farm, besides spinning my sheep’s wool, I have been looking after animals and plants. The turkey poults are growing quickly.

I brought the lemon tree outside for some sun and hopefully pollination. I also attempted to make a sun tea from a Mother Earth News recipe with raspberry, blackberry, lemon balm and mint leaves with rose petals and chopped apple. It sounded intriguing but wasn’t flavorful.

I took a moment to admire the flowers. Here is one of our rhododendrons with bees pollinating it.

Here are a couple of our rose blooms.

Poppies by the garage.

Columbine by the porch.

And even the thyme flowers are looking pretty.

Last evening I made my favorite ham and bean soup.

And then we settled down to watch Stephen Colbert’s final shows. It was bittersweet of course and reminded us about how important the Late Show has been to both of us over our lives. We managed to mostly awake to the end.

This morning I did some chores. Jameson ran over for his bottle. He is still incredibly cute.