Multitasking............

I started out the morning in the basement doing laundry and starting to load the backing for this quilt.  Then I made 2 batches of Chex Mix and then baked muffins.

Then I went back down and finished loading the backing and batting and laid the quilt top on it and chose my thread.

This is the backing fabric.  It is 40" wide and I bought it in the late 1970s.  It is the first batik I had seen and the store had it marked down to a couple dollars a yard so I bought all of it.  I have saved it all these years and now I decided it looks great with the African prints in the half hexie quilt.

I had to stake the Amaryllis.  The first stalk had finished blooming so I cut it off and then the rest of the plant just flopped over.  I propped it against an outside corner of the wall but knew the other 2 flowers were going to open soon so I needed a permanent fix,

Questions about my cactus:  Do I do anything special to them?  No.  I don't have a place to put them outside for the summer where I can keep the squirrels away so I gave up on that.  Basically, once the days are shorter they are getting less light and I rarely have lights on in my living room and that is where most of them are.  I keep the house cool at night and they like cool and dark to set buds.  I fertilize them a couple times, right after they are all done blooming (late April) and usually once more in the middle of the summer.  The reason I have so many blooms is that I have 18 plants.  I lost 3 over the summer, probably due to over watering.  Two are Easter cacti and they didn't bloom in the spring this year.