Happy Wednesday!

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy day!

Good Afternoon!

 

My lantana is going strong

I wish I had my camera with me the other day - humming birds were having a nice meal, but by the time I could get in the house and hunt down the camera of course they were gone. I planted three small plants last year and they seem to like it there so I'm leaving them for now. My flower bed has been so ignored this year. We did plant a Texas Sage where the chair was sitting before and I put out some potato vine that is doing pretty well as long as it stays watered. You can see some of it beside the lantana - I'll get a shot of the whole bed soon.

Thanks to those who are still stopping by.

Lots to get done today so I better get busy.

So soon?

If I had of just dragged myself upstairs sooner I might have actually had two posts in the same month. . .maybe this month?

 

 

 

I must confess though that this is an old photo. It went to Sandra for her birthday which was in January. I knew it would be perfect the minute I saw it! The name of it is 'road trip' and we have made more than a few trips (along with Sarah) I'm not sure if any of us has a fancy hat like those - I know I don't!

 

So - I'll see if I have something more recent for the next post - not saying it will be a stitching project but I'm not saying it won't either.

 

Have a great day!

In the water

Okay - let me try this again. I had a whole post ready and lost it - gone, bye-bye.

So anyway, I thought I would dip my toes in the water and see if there is anyone still out there. I had no idea it had been so long since I made my last post. I also didn't know how old and chubby my feet would look in the picture - I would have deleted it except I thought my new pedicure was cute.

 

 

I know I have said before that I was thinking about coming back to blogging and I think about it a lot, I just never seem to get up here to do it. So I'll post this one and then take it a post at a time for awhile. I really do miss it. So many blogs have turned 'commercial' for lack of a better word that I don't read nearly as many as I used to. I don't mind the ones that just have ads on the sides or across the top but I hate the ones that have a box that comes up over the blog content and you have to click out of it or it will just follow you all the way down  the page. I'm not trying to get any one person in a snit about it. Everyone has the right to use their blog how they want, I'm just saying I don't always have time to read through all the ads to see what nifty thing the blog is about. Again, not picking on any one person,

 

 

While I've been working on projects inside (with the a/c on!) Hubby started power washing the house. He didn't get finished last weekend so if the weather holds out he will be back out this coming weekend trying to finish up. We will probably need to paint next year. I want white trim - what we have now is a cream color and you can hardly tell the difference in the color of the house he wants a darker yellow (really I think he would like a different color all together) No matter what we choose it has to have approval from the HOA and I'm just not up to fighting them yet. I've got something else  in mind to duke it out with them about first.

 

I've been working on a few projects and I hate that I can't show them right now, but they are all gifts. I will show them when I can. I do have one little finish but I don't know if I took a picture of it or not.  I will have to look and see if not, I'll take one. I also made some progress on my French Alphabet Sampler but I have a mistake somewhere and I've got to find it. I don't know what else it will mess up if I leave it in - hopefully I will be able to leave it, I really don't want to take a lot of it out. When I bought the thread I bought a little extra but it if I keep having to correct mistakes I may end up short and I would never be able to match it.

 

Well, that's all folks.. If there is anyone still reading, let me know and I will try to not be so long between posts - and next time I'll show some stitching!

 

  

Two out of three

A couple of weeks ago, Timothy was in New York on a church trip. He and baby boy got to spend a little time together. If they had known that Timothy was literally just around from Jason's apartment they might had have had more time to spend together - but then again, it was a working trip for Timothy, They might not have - who knows. Timothy sent me this picture from his phone and I'm just now getting it posted but I've been looking at it daily (and finally had it made into a print)
Warms this momma's heart, especially when I know how much Timothy does NOT like to have his picture taken (he gets that from his momma)
Anyway - baby boy (Jason) in the red shirt and Timothy looking all snazzy in that hat.
Love those boys (and their older brother) with all my heart.

Maybe a crafty post next time, but no promises I have project ADD so one never knows from one day to then next what I'll be working on. Right now there is a project with paint drying out on the picnic table.

Have a happy and safe 4th of July!

Looking out my front door

This is what I see when I look out my front door. When we bought this house both trees were not in great shape but we thought for sure we would have to replace the crepe myrtle. It was all spindly and had dark spots all over it. It kind of became hubby's tree - he was determined to save it. I would say he has done a pretty fair job! The reason they look like they are leaning is that every time I tried to get a picture the wind would kick back up. It doesn't really lean that far! My mushroom family are all still hanging out behind the hedges until I decide something else to do with them.
Have a great week!

The little plant that keeps on giving

6/6/13

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6/11/13

6/18/13

 

One of our neighbors gave us a bulb (or whatever it was) last summer - or was it the summer before? Anyway, I wasn't sure exactly where I wanted to plant it so I stuck it in a (ugly) plastic pot while I thought about it. It came to us in a little styrofoam cup and I really didn't have much hope for it. We just stuck it out in the back corner of the yard and as you can see it just keeps coming back! I swear we don't do anything to it, It dies off in the winter and we just leave it there/ We didn't cover it the few days we had really cold weather but it came back anyway. Every once in a blue moon hubby will squirt it with some miracle grow. I want to put it in a pretty pot for next summer. Now that I know it will come back, but I guess I'll have to wait until it dies back again. Gives me time to shop - I would love one of those pretty mosaic pots but unless I find one on sale I will have to look for something a bit cheaper. (for reference of the size of the leaves, that is a dinner plate in the pot) I need to slip out back and take a picture of the one next door - she had a whole panel of lattice work put up for hers to grow on and it is huge!

 

Well, that's all I've got today. The little bit of sewing I've done is on a Christmas gift so I can't show that and I am still trying to decide if I want to take out a whole set of letters on the FAS before I show it, I'm really hoping I can work around it - it is silk thread on 36 ct fabric and I doubt I would be able to match the floss since I bought it 8 years ago.

 

Hope you are having a great week!