Donna Young

Currently not online as often, but please leave a comment if you have one. [gardening] Updated May 29

Today, Holly and I went to buy potatoes so that I can make potato salad for tomorrow’s July 4th feast. A sight that we do not see very often in this part of the USA met us - A man on a horse in a parking lot in front of a B&S [beer & [...]

Yesterday was my 30th wedding anniversary and I had to find a gift for my husband. He is a man who has almost everything. Many of the things that he doesn’t have and he wants are the things that I can’t afford. There was one thing that he did not have that he wouldn’t get [...]

[GU = Garden Update] This is a sweet potato update. Because I posted how I plant sweet potatoes, it seems appropriate that I should post an update on their progress. If you want to see the first post, it is here: Planting Sweet Potatoes. The sweet potatoes have been in the ground for 27 days. [...]

There are several ways to miter quilt borders. Getting the miter right is important. A miter that is off will result in either a tight corner that cups or a corner that is wavy. For this big wall quilt, I will need to be picky about the corners. I’m using an angle to help me [...]

This border layout is close to the first one that I tried last year. I could write about why I chose this border layout over the second one, but I really don’t want to. I will just show a photograph of it and say that the border strips are pinned and this is about how [...]