Well, I hit a milestone yesterday. The year is only half over and I’ve read 100 books. Never done that before. Granted, many were juvenile and young adult as I tried to empty my shelves to donate to daltongirl’s classroom library, but still. That’s a lot of books. I don’t think I’m going to stay on this track for the rest of the year because I have some adult books I want to get through. But here’s to reading…excessively! Squeee!
Three days of the Beehive Shop Hop has resulted in the following:
My camera and the lighting is showing these as a somewhat black background for the frogs and lizards, but it’s actually a warm chocolate brown with greens, teals, and oranges for the other colors. I’m going to be using this pattern:
It’s going to be an awesome boy quilt! Someday……..
One year ago, Scott & I participated in a miracle by attending Aaron’s one year party and releasing balloons in memory of all the Trisomy 18 babies not fortunate enough to have made it to that milestone. Well, last night we released 4 balloons, one for each of us in our family, at Aaron’s second birthday party. What a miracle! You can see lots of photos at the mom’s blog and you can play “Where’s Waldo?” to find the photo of my back.
It’s June and the daffodils are done but the late spring flowers are on. Here’s a sampling of what’s going on out in my flower gardens right now. They’re starting to look pretty good now that all the seedlings are finally in the ground and it’s warming up. I have 5 varieties of penstemon blooming, 3 varieties of poppies, and several different gaillardias. With vigorous spraying, I’ve managed to keep the deer from eating the rosebuds, so they are just starting to open on some of the bushes.
I’ve been wanting vertical structures for the vegetable garden for a long time and it’s just never happened, so today we were out weeding and planting some more veggies and I mentioned that Scott should lash together a structure for the cucumbers before we plant them and he just did it! Such an awesome husband! He went to the woodpile and a few minutes later all those mad Scout skills had made a cucumber teepee. Will it work? Stay tuned. But we have verticality in the vegetables! Wah-hoo!
