Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Dogs on Thursday!


Fuji helping Mommy harvest some veggies...


We put some squash, zucchini, eggplant, cherry tomatoes and yellow light bulb tomatoes in the basket! Momma says she has squash coming out her ears!
We have lots more squash growing too...honeydew the size of a tennis ball and cucumber, just gotta wait for them to get bigger!

Happy DOT!!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Fishin' & Gardening

Ducks in their new habitat!

Put some feeder fish in their pool...think Jimmy wants to join them in it!:)


Daisy is the white/fawn, Cambria is the grey, and What is the black one. Daisy practically got all the fish, a real fisherduck!

Our garden...



I have blueberries!


Blackberries!



Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dogs on Thursdays...DOT!

Howwwwwwww does your garden grow?



Right now we have planted: onions, garlic, snap peas, romaine, beets, parsley, winter squash, collards, marjoram, rosemary, basil, tomatoes, egg plant, iceberg, buttercrunch, vivien lettuce, blend of lettuce, little yellow tomatoes, spinach, cucumber, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, grapes (tons), raspberries, pecans, honeydew, chocolate mint


In the orchard: (40 some trees) variety of different, peaches, nectarines, apricots, pears of different varieties, apples of different varieties


Still need to plant: radish, pumpkins, watermelon, zucchini, summer squash, corn, carrots, okra, cauliflower

LOL, I think that covers it...I'm sure I'm missing something...

Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Happy DOT!


Monday, August 2, 2010

R,S, T...

R is for roving that is now spun into a single! Fabulous FreckleFaceFibers in the colorway Cherry Season.....this will eventually be turned into an Ishbel shawl! Need to get it off the bobbin, soaked, whacked and dried! Fun stuff...what to spin next?

S is for skirt that I just finished sewing! I love this pattern and they are so comfortable, love, love, love them! Many more to come! I'm also loving my machine and wish I had more time to do it. My buddy, Luanne's coming over Wednesday and going to teach me how to make pj pants! We always have such a great time together!

T is for tomatoes that came from my Dad's garden. Just had a turkey sandwich and added some tomato to it....yummmmmmeeeee! If you've never tried a fresh garden tomato, find one, the taste is totally different than what you'll ever find in the store. I really don't like tomatoes but these are fabulous. It was so good I grabbed the rest of it and ate it like an apple! Thinking on cutting some up for a salad cuz I'm just craving it now!:)
Had a great swim at the Y today and now need to knit on another Alana knit!:)




Friday, June 25, 2010

I've Been Tagged...


CoggieTM (Kari) from the High Fiber Diet Podcast tagged me on her blog!
Here are my answers...
1- What’s your staple meal (ie. what meal do you cook most often when you can’t be bothered to be adventurous) ? Anything with chicken: beer butt chicken/chicken & rice/teriyaki chicken burger (having those tonight)....James is the chef in the family! He's an awesome cook!
2- What do you want to be when you grow up? "When I grow up I wanna be an old woman..."; gotta love the Kaiser commercial....seriously though I am what I want to be, a mom/wife; the best, most rewarding thing ever! Maybe will resume my therapy practice one day because I love doing that too!
3- What book are you reading at the moment (if any)....I'm reading all the Hardy Boys books Jimmy has read and just started reading Eclipse again in preparation for the movie next week. Also reading a lot of knitting technique books for the tkga program.
4- How do you relax? Relax, what's that? I spin/knit/crochet/read/bubble baths...super stressed I unload onto James!:) Poor guy I'm always bending his ears!
5- What color are the interior walls of your home? Workout room is poppy orange/dining room is forest green/kitchen is sunflower yellow/ pecan throughout/bedroom is sage green/ school room is ocean blue/laundry room is country blue, light blue
6- What is your guiltiest pleasure? I don't think I have one...maybe knit meetings? Pot of tea and knitting in the morning for 1/2 an hour...
7- What time is bedtime and getting up time? Bedtime is 10:00pm or sometimes sooner....getting up time is between 5-6am, usually before the sunrises...hence the name, Dawn!:) Love mornings!
8- How long do you spend reading blogs (per day or per week)? approximately 1/2 an hour every morning....gotta keep up with all my bloggy buddies!:)
My selections for the next round of "tagging"are:

Monday, May 17, 2010

Weekend Fun...

Stitchin' Saturday at lys!
Fun times with Dolores, Jackie, Dawn Rene, Nancy, Angie, Marlene...nice to see Sue and Liz who dropped by. Enjoyed Chris the glass guy's goodies he brings!
James working on the front yard, planting grass! ...hard to photograph the area because of the width!
So much to do...poor guy!:)
I made some butterscotch cookies and ran some errands...

Fresh from the Cauldron minis...from a swapless swap I bought over three months ago.
Very beautiful colors! Fun looking through them!



Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Scratch n' Sniff


Fresh strawberries picked at Wolfe Farms!
So sweet and yummy!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Tutti Fruiti Tuesday

Lots of pears on the pear trees...

We have a pomegranate on our pomegranate tree!


Lots and lots of peaches on the peach trees!

Nectarines....

I know James will know this by looking at it...can't remember if this is the cherry on the cherry tree or if its the granny smith apple tree....I thought I'd forgotten to take pictures of the apple trees...ooooh have lots of strawberries too but forgot to take pics of that too....no fruit yet on the blackberry bushes and nothing on the grapevines yet....
Just excited that we're going to have fruit this year! As long as the squirrels, chipmunks and birds leave it alone!:)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

What is it??

What am I?

Do you know what kind of flower this is?
Last year in this tree there were just the straight, spiky leaves...
This year they have these buds on them and opened up into these flowers...
I looked at all different kinds of flowers, thought it was an iris but I actually planted iris bulbs and this is what they look like...

This is the iris I planted...the leaves are also really thin and cylindrical ( oooh big word too much geometry with Jimmy ) and not straight or spiky like the other. The other one has a thick, bumpy yellow thingy too? Pretty...but strange!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Spring Forward!


Did ya'll spring forward yesterday?
Why oh why do we have to lose an hour?:( Hubby loves it because he gets sunlight when he gets home from work...
Made some butterscotch oatmeal cookies and knitted yesterday...working on the leg of my other Padfoot sock! Also ordered some yarn to make the Hemlock Ring blanket...plus some needles hopped into the cart too that I needed!:) Hope everyone has a great day!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Works in Progress....

On the hook I'm working on a cowgirl hat out of the Happy Hooker book. Also have the mystery shawl crochet along on a hook but haven't worked on it at all.
On the needles I have a monkey sock out of the beach ball colorway from a Woolgirl club shipment. I keep this in my purse so it doesn't get much done on it.

My first Iris of the year!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Spring is Coming!


My first bulbs I've ever planted! Whoohoo! Aren't these daffodils beautiful?
Since daffodils are Jen's favorite flower...these are for you!:)


Did a little spinning yesterday...trying for a worsted weight consistency with some alpaca. Doing pretty good (I think) it looks like yarn anyways!:) This is so fun! Next week when we go up North to celebrate James' birthday I want to stop at this spinning store and try out some wheels. Hmmm, wouldn't James just love a spinning wheel for his birthday! ha ha j/k honey!:) Hope everyone is having a great hump day Wednesday! Take care and keep on knittin', spinnin', and cro'ing!:)