After the spiders' prompt (finding the inexplicably crawling on me in the car - tiny ones) that I should be spinning - it IS that time of year, after all...I've been spinning.  More hemp and bamboo for facial scrubbies.  The ones I made before are holding up, so I will attempt to make these more attractive and perhaps give them as gifts.

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Today was an absolutely beautifully cloudless, gorgeous day worthy of Spring...which, according to MY calendar, has not yet arrived.  Mother Nature apparently has other ideas.  She can be a fractious ol' Bitch...well, that's what I call her when she bitchslaps us back into the middle of Winter just after we have taken our tender seedlings out to ( Read more... )

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We have decided that the circle needs an arbor for the wisteria to grow upon.  This in turn will cover the lattice panels we will place between the posts.  Around the arbor will be perpetual blooms.  Beginning with crocus, daffodils, hyacinth, grape hyacinth, iris, wisteria, clematis (up each post) and running roses, pink, red and yellow and ( Read more... )

An unexpected weekend home yielded us much time for personal work as well as joint ventures in the yard. We planted the rose bushes we've had for so long. They were lanquishing in their plastic wrap patiently waiting for us to choose their new home. We measured out the flowerbeds to determine what kind of money we're talking with regard to the ( Read more... )