Dear Log Cabin friends:

Happy May Day!

I love driving up my country lane to the scenes of spring - truly a simple country pleasure. The wheat field behind our home is a beautiful spring green that’s always moving gently in the wind. The six crab apples show color, and the two redbuds are now blooming, along with the three large forsythia’s exuberant yellow. I planted another 60 tulip bulbs last fall with clumps of them in the berm, around the house and in my view from the screened-in porch. This year, for the first time, the deer discovered all the gourmet food around my home and proceeded to munch every bud off as well as the daylilies level with the ground. These were mighty hungry deer and they left their hoof prints all over to tell me exactly who did it! We have many rabbits too & have fenced them out pretty well. During the winter we can look at the snow covered field behind our home & count over a dozen deer at any one time so we know they don’t live too far from us. Anyway it was a disappointment to find my tulips gone. My mom had visited the day before & I showed her the tulips ready to burst into bloom, & now all that’s left is a clump near my shop door, so I am enjoying THOSE pink tulips more than ever. The peach tree in front of Log Cabin Inn was grown from a seed & is in full bloom. It is now 10 ft. tall & covered in pink blossoms – quite a sight. The wild plums are blooming in the country ditches near my home with their fragrance wafting our way with the wind. We’ll have all 4 grandsons staying with us this weekend so they will go with Grandpa to get a bouquet of those white airy blossoms for Grandma & create yet another memory.

I want to plant some wild plums along the back of our acreage, as the county cleans ditches out regularly, (much to my dismay!) taking away what makes Nebraska roadsides so pretty. (I think they could find something better to do with their time & don’t understand the logic behind it - just leave the wildflowers and the bushes for the wildlife).

It’s time to get in the garden and yard but the spring rains come just in time for the weekends. I did get the potatoes and onions in and hopefully will get more cool weather crops in the soil in a few days. The Log Cabin won’t be open as many days in May as it is time for everyone to be outside more. Classes are almost over & we saw many of you in our classroom having fun creating. May reminds us to take time to smell the flowers, watch the birds do their nest building, & the bees gather nectar from the dandelions as well as a good month to open the windows wide.

Enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Blessings & a beautiful month of May to you all, Twila

MOTHER’S DAY – May 11

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie

Happy Mother’s Day to all mom’s!

“Hope, patience and work – these are the three graces of spring.” – Ruth Ernst

MAY CALENDAR
May 8 –- Open Thursday, 1-6 p.m.
May 10 – Open Saturday, 9-4
May 14 - Dye wool workshop, Weds. 9-12 a.m.
May 16 – Open Friday 9-2
May 17 – Open Sat. 9-3
May l9 - “Newbies” Woolkeepers, Monday, 6:30 p.m .
May 21 - Open Weds. 9-6
May 26 – “Oldies” Woolkeepers, Monday, 6:30 p.m.
May 27 - Herb Study Group, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday To be announced
May 30 - Antique Sale, Open 1 – 8 p.m.
May 31– Antique Sale, Open 8-4 p.m.

DYE WORKSHOP
All have pre-registered & we have a full class. Try to find some old wool & new wool to bring that we can study. May 14, Wednesday, 9-12

NEWBIES WOOLKEEPERS
Newbies will meet on May l9, 6:30 p.m. Monday eve.- refreshments by Pam R. & Pat R. No other notice will be sent out this month

OLDIES WOOLKEEPERS
The Oldies will meet on May 26, which is Memorial Day, for those that are IN town, 6:30 p.m.
Refreshments are Carolyn H., and Marty T. No other notice sent out this month.

HERB STUDY GROUP
May 27, Tuesday evening, to be announced in separate mailing
"If you would be happy all your life – plant a garden.”- Unknown (& some herbs)

ANTIQUE SALE BEFORE SUMMER
We’ll have some things red-tagged and the tables in kitchen area will be full of antique smalls, some ½ off. (We’re cleaning up and making way for more items coming in June). Don’t miss it! We have layaway no matter how small or large.

“MAGGIE” CLUB
Maggie club will get together in May & I will send an email out when the kits arrive. I’m thinking the 21 or 22 of May. More information coming at a later date.

CAROL’S SPRING SALSA (everyone loved this at Woolkeepers – thanks Carol!

MEMORIAL DAY IS May 26th --- The following picture was taken on our February trip to Tennessee. The cemetery was behind an old church in the historical Cades Cove National Park in the eastern part of the state. The stone marks the grave of a Revolutionary soldier in this beautiful & peaceful hillside cemetery with daffodils blooming. (1744-1840 on marker)

END OF MAY, 2008 NEWSLETTER
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