This time of year I begin to think about the garden. Recognizing my inability to kneel on concrete anymore, I did not start seeds in the basement this month. I’ll just buy some plants after our final frost date if I want to do tomatoes in the brick planter again. My luck with squash has been dismal, so I think I’ll just go to my favorite local farmer’s market produce stand for those. Last fall, I ordered some bleeding hearts and a few other plants online with plan to convert the front flower bed into all perennials ...
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For some reason not a lot got accomplished yesterday – maybe because it got up to 74 degrees? I sat out on the porch for awhile in the afternoon and read a book and drank a coke. I trimmed off a couple plants and pulled some long dried up stalks from last summers flowers. And […]
read moreYesterday believe it or not it got up to 78 degrees – as I was writing this last night it was still 68 degrees at almost 8 PM!! I had an acupuncture treatment at 11 and when I got home around noon it was nice enough that if it wasn’t so breezy I would have […]
read moreReading this past month or two has been a mixed bag. Two books were meh, one not my cup of tea but others may enjoy it, and only one to recommend. Links are provided for some to Amazon so you can read the full synopsis.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley – This book was recommended by an employee at our local used book store, and she was so effusive in her praise I decided to get it without checking out the reviews. In my quest to find stories to read that are unusual, the book jacket synopsis seemed to ...
read moreLooks like winter is coming to the south – how about you all? Are you ready? Mike and I got our little live Christmas trees that we had lighted up by the front door planted yesterday. I still need to put a little more mulch around them but got tired out and said today or […]
read moreI was sitting at the sewing machine off and on yesterday afternoon. And more blocks were done – I don’t know if most of you can guess what the pattern is now but you will by the next row (half way for sure) I’m really liking how the bright colors seem to shine in places. […]
read moreIt was time to put the red quilt on the bed for the holiday season, I usually put a flannel quilt on the bed about this time of year and since I finished this one 2 years ago it is the one that goes on the bed. It is called Yuletide Gatherings. Of course after […]
read moreBack to work at the sewing machine yesterday and the two day headache was finally gone. So glad that doesn’t happen often. I got one more row sewed onto Flying Pansies – 6 rows done and 3 hanging the side – I got tired of having to move the bottom row when I needed to […]
read moreGood morning, my friends. We had a relatively nice day of weather yesterday. It's getting colder though. I donned my winter woolies and got out early to cut back the dahlias. And that brings my 2024 gardening efforts to a close. It's up to Mike now to load the pots into the bucket of the tractor and move them to the garage. (I've never actually tried picking them up, but apparently, the pots are heavy.)
While I was out, I took a few pictures of our fall color. Just two trees have enough leaves left to make ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. We had a relatively nice day of weather yesterday. It's getting colder though. I donned my winter woolies and got out early to cut back the dahlias. And that brings my 2024 gardening efforts to a close. It's up to Mike now to load the pots into the bucket of the tractor and move them to the garage. (I've never actually tried picking them up, but apparently, the pots are heavy.)
While I was out, I took a few pictures of our fall color. Just two trees have enough leaves left to make ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. When we chatted yesterday, I thought we might get a decent day of weather. Before I could even finish my slow-stitching, it was raining again, and it rained most of the day. Today is looking more promising. I'm wanting to get outside and cut back the dahlias. It's time for them to move to the garage. (My dahlias are planted in pots.) It's looking as if today's weather might be more cooperative.
And, well, rainy days are good sewing days. Of course, nothing could happen until I finished off January's block ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. When we chatted yesterday, I thought we might get a decent day of weather. Before I could even finish my slow-stitching, it was raining again, and it rained most of the day. Today is looking more promising. I'm wanting to get outside and cut back the dahlias. It's time for them to move to the garage. (My dahlias are planted in pots.) It's looking as if today's weather might be more cooperative.
And, well, rainy days are good sewing days. Of course, nothing could happen until I finished off January's block ...
read moreyesterday was a garden day working on the strawberries. I didn’t get done with near what I had hoped for. These last two beds have not been touch for 2 years and it was much thicker than I expected – the other beds came up easy. For this this one and the next I had […]
read moreHexies – progressed a little bit – all the black pieces are done – neutral half way I think. One more row on the Flying Pansies is done – 4 rows left. Linking to Patchwork & Quilting Quilting on English Ivy from Thursday night Instead of the very large New York Beauty next up on […]
read moreRoot Canal’s are nothing like they were in the old days – I had my dental work done in the morning, it was done in an hour and back home by noon or so. The numbness wore off fairly quickly – a follow up appointment will be made for the rest of the dental work […]
read moreGood morning, my friends. Yes, I'm working on "phinishing" Phenology, but it isn't phinished yet. I just couldn't resist using those words. I'll tell you about my progress in a minute, but first, I wanted you to see the view from my window as I'm writing. We're still enjoying lots of fall color in our part of the world.
Good morning, my friends. Yes, I'm working on "phinishing" Phenology, but it isn't phinished yet. I just couldn't resist using those words. I'll tell you about my progress in a minute, but first, I wanted you to see the view from my window as I'm writing. We're still enjoying lots of fall color in our part of the world.
Very little got done in the house. I was outside most of the afternoon working on one strawberry bed. It was so packed and over crowded it too forever to clean it out and separate plants. I really do not know how many strawberry plants I dug out – here is the pile, hundreds? a […]
read moreYesterday a lot got done in the garden – of course now my right hand is aching a bit from arthritis but such is life – you live with it. Hopefully I can keep up working almost every day in the garden to get it ready for winter. I have one and a half strawberry […]
read moreGood morning, my friends. I think we're heading into a mostly dry day. It was mostly dry yesterday as well. I mention this because it seems as if I have a small window of opportunity to cut back the peonies for the season. Mike is going to drive the tractor around to where they're growing so that I can put the clippings into the bucket. Yesterday, he was able to burn three big burn piles that had accumulated over more than one year. The fire was hot, and everything is burned to a pile of ash now. I ...
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