What I’ve been doing with my time lately
Well, it’s been almost 6 weeks since I last posted anything. EQ7 has started shipping out. I haven’t received mine yet, but others have and say it’s a great program.
We’ve had some beautiful weather, and I’ve been outside ALOT. Last weekend we finished the deck on the front of the house. I forgot to take pictures until we had started, but these show what the porch was before. The edge of the porch was at the edge of the door, so we were always afraid of falling off. There used to be a door and a porch right where the old cream separator and flag are, the cement sidewalk is still there.
I now have a flower bed, which eliminates having to mow into those corners. I have creeping phlox, chives, spearmint, hostas, silver beacon, borage, cilantro, dill hens and chicks, and some seeds started to transplant elsewhere when big enough [I soaked morning glory seeds and planted them last Friday morning and Monday afternoon they were popping out of the ground already!! Unfortunately, nothing else is doing much.]
Here it is all completed. We extended the porch out a foot, so now there’s room to step around the door. I’ve added a birdbath, some little lanterns [which don’t show up much in the picture] to my flower bed. We’re going to put in a weed barrier and white rock on the left edge of the deck and the cream separator will go back where it was before. The grill will also be there.
Here are some of the flowers that have or are still blooming.
Pink and white bleeding hearts
Irises
I’ve had one peony open up, but no picture. I picked it and the irises last night for a bouquet for the kitchen table. It’s so nice to have flowers in the house! Especially, MY flowers.
I’ve been busy with the garden too. I set out the tomato plants and pepper plants on Monday, and planted carrots, radish, kohlrabi, spinach, beets, and I forget what else. In the other garden I had planted some things in April. We’ve had lettuce, spinach and radishes from there. The onions and potatoes look good, garlic too. I have marigolds that are ready to transplant also. I like to put them around the garden, I think they help with keeping the wildlife out. Earlier today I looked out my sewing room window and saw a deer in the brush. Last night turkeys walked through the one garden and across the lawn. I thoroughly enjoy watching the wildlife. Out in the woods I see a patch of wild blackberries blossoming. I hope I can pick more of them this summer than I did last year, just ran out of time. But the ones I did pick tasted SO good!
But now I better get to work. I have to make some cards. Tomorrow is Kaylee’s baptism. Next week is Mike’s parents, and Cari and Dave’s wedding anniversary, so I’m digging out the old laptop to use my Hallmark program.
Hopefully, in a few days I’ll have some quilting pictures to post. Have a great weekend!