Dear Log Cabin friends:

March has arrived and it came in like a lamb. After a long tiresome winter of snow and more snow, it’s good to see temperatures above the freezing point. The snow drifts have now melted enough for me to check for the crocus and tulips popping their little heads up. Mother Nature is quietly shedding her snowy coat. The last few days I was in Kansas and the temperature was 62 degrees. My daughter & I planned the future orchard & I checked the big asparagus bed. Spring is close at hand. I want to hurry & finish all the inside jobs on my list so when the warm temperatures lure and beckon me outside my door, I’ll feel like staying awhile, cleaning up the dried grasses & looking for new growth, seeing what survived the very bitter Nebraska winter that is pretty much behind us now --- we hope. There is a lingering chill in the air in March but the sunshine and spring fever has me firmly in its grip. I know I cannot trust the fickle March weather – one day nice and the next day bitter cold again. I clipped some pussy willow branches from my growing bush – some for my daughter and some for me. It is a spring simple country pleasure enjoying them on my kitchen table. I will cut some forsythia twigs yet & add to the vase – they’ll soon force themselves into bloom in the warmth of my home. When the willows root I’ll plant them at the Kansas place to insure that simple country pleasure of cutting a few branches to make spring come sooner – at least in my mind.

We can’t put away the winter coats just yet, but the thought is there- and soon we will. In Kansas we walked through the woods where the grass is greening up, and the wild onions are appearing. The Canadian geese were honking their way to the lake announcing “here we are.” Hopefully the same pair will return to build their nest of cattail reeds and hatch their babies there as they did last year.

This is the month of the Mud Moon, also called the Sap Moon. I already know why it is called the Mud Moon – oh my, we DO have mud! ( Hopefully spring breezes will dry it up). The Native Americans and early European settlers collected sap for syrup during the month of March – & they called it the Sap Moon. So hurry and get those inside jobs done – the promise of spring is here! Enjoy each and every day – it is a gift. Simple Country Blessings, Twila

“The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by yourself. They are at home in the hearth of your soul” – John O’Donahue

MARCH CALENDAR
March 15 – Newbies, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Refreshments: Becky L., Julie B.
March 17 – Group 3 Applique – 6:30 p.m. Refreshments: Sue B.
March 19 – UFO (unfinished projects) 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
March 18 – Group 1 Applique – 6:30 p.m. Refreshments: Dianna L.
March 22 – Oldies – CANCELLED (I am out of town)
March 23 – Herbs Study Group , 6:30-9 p.m. Refreshments: Verjean & Sharon M.
March 25 – Group 2 Applique – 6:30 p.m. Refreshments: Carolyn H.

NOTES ON MARCH CALENDAR

No “open to public” days in March, sorry

Oldies for March, cancelled – I can’t get back in time & hubby doesn’t open shopJ

Group meetings: Our lane is muddy. The huge drifts of snow are melting & the ground is starting to thaw – we had two big trucks full of rock brought it but it’s hardly noticeable. More rock is coming. Just head up the lane & Keep the car moving J This goes with living in the country but I have to tell you, the snows and now the spring melting & thawing is the most we’ve ever seen – there was just so much snow that has had to thaw – the ground is already soaked. And spring rains are coming- after all that’s how we have spring flowers! J Car pool if you can & we hope group nights the ground will be dry.

Applique groups: as of today, the 8th, we are planning on appliqué groups meeting unless you hear differently from me (check emails often) – I don’t have the wool yet for groups.

Herb Study Group

Herb group – topics are Ginger, Oxalis (shamrock) and Red Clover – & a lot more.

Watch for member letter coming out soon. If YOU have a sincere interest in growing & using herbs you are most welcome to attend. This is a LEARNING group. If you’ve not attended before, please email or call me ahead of time, so I can have a nametag & chair for you.

If anyone has questions on anything, please email or call (see below information) It’s always good to hear from you. In last letter I wrote my computer crashed in Dec. & I lost all email addresses so if you know of someone not getting the newsletter, let me know.

I found the following quote, it gives one something to think about:

“Without continuous personal development you are now all that you will ever become,

And hell starts when the person you are, meets the person you could have been.” – Eli Cohen

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End of March Newsletter

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