Sara of Sweet Magnolias gave me this award..said she liked my blog...that makes me fill good. Thank you Sara...:)so I will tell you 7 things I love... .but will not pass this on as I love all of your blogs..so take it if you like...okay 7things..
1. My husband and all that he does to ensure we are warm, safe, well fed and happy..
2. My kittys and our dog...they do bring us much joy..:)
3. my faith for without it..don't know where I would be..God is great and has helped us through so many things and helped us to heal when we lost our babys..and he continues to take care of us!...:)
4. I love to be able to create with my hands...just love what I do..:)
5..I love spring for the rebirth of life and seeing things popping up that lay dormat all winter and then remembering that they are there..
6. my bestest friend Kimmy...my partner in crime..:)
7. our good health, our home, the food on the table..Mikes job...that provides this..
8..okay 8..all of my good blogging friends that I have made this last year...I have throughly enjoyed your friendships and hope to continue in the future...it has opened up a whole other world out there...
Well I hope you all had a great weekend..Saturday was spent crafting and being in my studio..Mike was out in the garage doing his thing..Sunday turned out to be a most glorious day..it was beautiful..so when it gets like that we jump on getting things done..but first I wanted to show you touches of spring..I put up 4 flower baskets of of pansys...I love em...purple and yellow..
We finally got the hedges taken out and still have the stumps on some of them that will be turned into firewood...I will never have those again..too messy (photenia) and lots of upkeep..they did give us the privacy we wanted..but too much hassle..so we are going to extend the garden up to the fence...the little cat sculptures you see are where our babys are buried and I am going to get some lavendar, button plants and gerbera daisys for that area..it gets so much sun there now and my babies loved the sun...so this is their special garden...
we are now going to work on getting all of that flower stuff out of the garden beds and get planting our garden...have no idea where all that seed came from..I never planted it..it is a beautiful flower but not in my garden...gotta get bark for the yard and get burning the weeds that are growing and get a jump on it before it takes over...love a freshly barked yard..makes all the plants stand out and it protects the yard from weeds which makes my job easier...we are also taking out the lawn in front of the garden and fence there and either barking it in or putting a gravel base there..too much moisture there and it isn't growing well..so I would rather have maybe potted plants here and there..I think we are going to rotitill our whole yard and put down grass again...to many lumps and bumps and oh my gosh the moss that is growing...great if you want moss for a yard..:)
gotta get my pots planted with flowers..hopefully in the next couple of weeks that will happen...it has been a cold month..so not sure what April will be bringing...can't believe it is already april...where does the time go? seems the older I get the more it flys right by me...the neighbors are tearing down that old fence thank goodness as it is rotting and we are helping them put in a new one...one that will add privacy and keep out the weeds..we will put in a gate that leads to both of ours though...easy access to both the yards..we are also going to fence in our garden so the dog and deer stay out of it..
here is the view of the debris we need to put through the chipper for our back yard...that pile was huge before I left for church yesterday...and when I came home..it had shrunk..Mike had seperated the leaves from the branches so now we have a bit of free firewood and will have chips for the back yard portion..which is another job in itself..gotta take out some berry bushes and some ferns to open it up a bit more..I would like to be able to walk through there more freely..and it will be easier to get out the morning glory that keeps coming back..hoping to kill it once and for all..beautiful but intrusive as heck...it just smothers and takes over...and no we didn't plant it..it has just crept into our yard over the years..and we have a piece of raw property next to us that we have to deal with and it is all through it..
here is our flowering cherry tree getting it leaves..it has the most gorgeous magenta blooms ever..and those are my ornamental coffee/birdhouse out in front...2 are ceramic from joanns...I bought the coffee/birdhouses from my favorite haunt that I shop at..her yard is full of whimsy and always makes me smile when I shop at her place..gives me so much fun inspiration...:)
here is our camillia bush with a ton of blooms..maybe another week or two and this will be in full bloom..I love this tree..reminds me of the antique roses that I love..
our Forsythia trees have been blooming for a couple of weeks now..wish they never lost their blooms..heck I wish all my stuff never lost its bloom..I love these and they never last long enough...but I do enjoy them..
one last photo to end with..Miss Pody Ann had to try out my new/old laundry basket...she is the baby..and that little one always makes me smile..they all do of course..this one is for Terry at Big city Prims..she always posts her big fluffy boy for me..so this is for her...haven't heard from her in a while..I miss her posts...hint hint...if you are reading this...I love reading everyones so keep writing and I will keep reading...I have the house to myself today..Mike and Tucker are at work..so gotta mop and clean this house and finish up my projects for the laundry swap I am doing..when she gets her stuff I will post what I sent her..I am so excited for her to see it..but I of course can't wait to see what she sent me...I am having a ball sewing and embroidering...hope your week is starting of right...oh I must tell you about a dream/nightmare my DH had last night..we both woke up around 2 am and he told me..I nearly bust a gut...he dreamt he had a pet fish that didn't need water..it was a big gold fish with hair on its head like Tuckers..a big fuzz ball..and I cooked it up for dinner and he was starting to eat it and it wasn't cooked all the way...and he couldn't believe I was making him eat his pet fish...lol...This just made me laugh...as I guess this fish followed him everywhere...I am wondering if he was dreaming of Tucker and he was in a fish suit..or he was on something I didn't know about...any way...you had to have been there...aren't dreams fun?
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