Jun1

Never hit your elbow into a brick wall

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Like I did last night! I’m a leftie and why I sat at the table in Perkins next to the wall is beyond me. Well my ‘funny bone’ went right into the brick and the pain was terrible. I put my head on the table a few times. I then felt a bit queasy (empty tummy) and then I had to get up because I broke into a cold sweat! I have ‘experienced’ hurting myself  like this at home a few times, but never in a crowded restaurant! Thank goodness the ladies’ restroom had the air blasting and it revived me. Needless to say, I ruined dinner. The above happened over the course of say 5-8 minutes. So watch your precious, bony elbows!

Kinda blue as a bunch of pals and I were planning a get-together and decided on a southern state next year where one lady lives as she doesn’t travel well. We were all getting excited until we looked at the flight schedules. For me to fly from Philly down to our proposed meeting area would be a 9 hour day with a couple of layovers and finally flying into a dinky airport. That completely soured me on it. Then another friend said if we went to a major city and tourist attraction, it would be a direct flight (3 hours for me!) We threw this pass the one lady and she got completely insulted as she thought we were more interested in sightseeing than being with her for 4 days. Now we had planned to rent a car and overnight in her town and spend at least 1.5 days with her. We were doing all the running around. She dropped out of our group over the above. Dropped like a hot potato! Her profile said she was ‘calm’ today. I haven’t been calm because I feel like I lost a friend. Hope she goes from mad to glad again soon.

Anyway, I am hoping to get out west to see 3 other friends in 2010 in celebration of the big ‘5-0’. Never been there. I have roots in Oregon. Bri suggested this. I hope we could stay for a while, heading from San Fran up to Oregon. We’ll see.

Not much going on today. It’s nice out though!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my pal Barbara over at Mainly Stitching and my friend Carol’s friend Steve! (so what if I’m 5 months older than Steve-lo)

May31

Photo Hunt-Self portrait

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Love to play with Paint Shop! Lots of sites have ‘avatars’, so to just put a plain photo up doesn’t do sometimes. Here’s a few I’ve made over the years. The second one-forget the site, made you into a resemblance of a famous artist’s painting. I named it Mucha-so perhaps him?

A lily has broken off and I made it into a hair ornament.

May30

6 months ago

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I got our ‘reunion guy’ as a pal on Facebook (which reminds me, if anyone who reads this wants to be a pal on Facebook, let me know!) and he shared the link to our 30 reunion photos. It was a little over 6 months ago and you know I had that biopsy looming. We had the little disposal cameras on each table. I was really happy to see this one:

and this too:

I really like the first one! I am holding up the reunion book in this shot, no one else did. : ) I guess Brian took that one.

Seems there were at least 3 or more other get-togethers, one being a Bon Fire feast where the host Bill had venison stew and lots of vittles. Still a lot ‘earthy’ folks in my class.

Late Thursday afternoon was spent pulling out honeysuckle vines growing up near my mom’s one side of her house. I think ‘phase one’ is finished. I now have to dig deeper to find those blasted roots! I had the entire area cleaned out a few years ago. I came close to poison ivy-a bit afraid I’ll wake up with it tomorrow. My back is complaining right now. At least mom’s gardens are starting to look better!

May29

A first

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A first rose in my rose bed. Last year deer had eaten every bud!

And the last of the irises to bloom: Night Owl

Aren’t they gorgeous? I collected all the tags in the garden as I had a feeling I didn’t see one called ‘Sailor Blue’ or something like that bloom. Will have to write to where I bought them. I do plan on separating these in the fall as they are getting crowded. I will save some for anybody who would like some. I’d like to trade too! Easy peasy to grow!

Although my allergies are the pits-started in the movies last night, (I used Flonase for the first time since I had my eye pressure retested-it works well!) I guess I’ll go to my mom’s. It’s to beautiful a day not to. And I can’t stand weeding in the heat with all the mosquitoes. Who can?

Got the twine, clips and bamboo poles in the mail today (fast), so guess what I’ll be doing tomorrow? Yep, see the photo in a few posts below. I hope I can figure out how Martha and her pals did that with her tomatoes!

The LOST season finale is on tonight!

May28

Da da da da….da da da…

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Yep, it’s the theme song music (if you can’t tell) to the Indiana Jones movies! Sean and I went to see the latest one tonight and enjoyed it! I think there were only 20 other people in the theater. Sean was nice enough to take me to dinner. He sort of owed me (ha) as he was a little mean with me early in the day because I mentioned ‘a job’. Well, I know he is trying to find an internship and is taking a night class. His best bet may be his old stomping ground-‘Big Lots’. He would save gas money (a big thing) and he knows the job. It’s not like it’s for a year or so. We went to Friday’s and it’s just okay with us, except for their desserts (we split a piece of Oreo cake-he had shrimp and fries, plus a Caesar salad and I had Salmon which had a 1.5″ bone in it).

Anyway, Harrison still has it after all these years. I think being almost 66, he’ll past the whip on to a younger guy. I won’t spoil who I think it will be, but he’s good! Also in the movie was Indy’s love Marion from the first movie, Shia LeBeouf and Cate Blanchett. Lots of chasing and treasure hunting!

Today I pretty much finished mulching. I think I planted everything! So I may be on time for my June 1st gardening deadline. I do have to plant some green bean and zucchinis. Rats-almost forgot. I’d like to mulch around them too.

I may go to my mom’s to weed out the lilies I planted a few years ago. She has a major honeysuckle invasion going on and they tend to get under the shingles of the house and loosen them. Sean would drop me off before school.

Have a great Thursday.

May27

Captures

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I’m pleased with the way my pots with the coleus, petunias and lobelia are taking off. No signs of critter munching yet. We have noticed a lot of caterpillars around the yard (they fall on us too!) I got that little wrought iron birdbath at a discount store last Friday. It was missing some bolts and Bri had to find some that would work with it.

This is the garden where I have mostly Sweet William-Dianthus. It is suppose to be a biannual, so I add a pack of them each year. I have little Asian lanterns in there too. That tall, stalky thing looks like Freesia, but it only got like this last year, so I hope the orange flowers make an appearance this year!

I like geraniums in pots and plastic ones at that. I think the tighter they are, the more they bloom. The back of my houses needs some TLC and I’d like to start off painting that railing. I think I painted it red about 21 yrs ago!

I decided to put all ‘3’ hibiscus plants in one big pot. They were really pot bound. It should make an interesting display! They are full of buds!

These are delicate Japanese Irises near my little pond-in the background. The Canna lily I bought does not like it there (see tilted), so I think I will pot it up.

Another shot of that gorgeous Nemesia. And that is a telephone pole in the background.

May27

Promised ATCs

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It’s nearly 80 degrees out and a bit humid. I went out briefly to plant a couple of perennials in the pond garden (which needs major weeding) and I got warm and came in. It’s not even sunny either. I planted Lupine and English Daisies. Seems my color theme there this year is pinks and purples.

Here is the Food challenge card I made for Emily over at ‘The Floss Box’.


I have all these sheets of letters in different papers that you punch out and am glad at the chance to use them.
Then I was clipping magazines and ran across this angel statue and decided to start a ‘Butterfly Wings’ series. The butterfly wings are from wallpaper border. The pretty white wings are from some papers I just got from Creative Papers online (love them!)

Then I did a Butterfly Fairy. Her ‘crown’ is part of a raspberry from the wallpaper border.

Her banner says, I wish you love.
And for my stitching pals-Art and Soul:

I think Emily fits in this category too!
I have these chalks that don’t photograph well (her neck), but I also colored her in with pencils.

Feeling a bit in a funk from not sleeping well last night. I was restless, it was stuffy in the house, I turned the air on, ate something around 6 am. I guess we all have those nights. I hope to do a bit more outside, but here comes Mister Sunshine!

May26

Memorial Day

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We had our first barbecue of the season today. First Bri and I had to run down to the store to get the charcoal and meat! Before we went, I had cooked Red Bliss potatoes and some eggs for salad and deviled eggs. Getting everything cooked wasn’t that bad. I even made some ‘ham dogs’ burger meat in the shape of hot dogs as I had bought 12 hot dog rolls. I even cut up fruit for a salad and added a bit of honey to it to give it a little sweetness. Oh, we had corn on the cob too.

Bri planted tomatoes and peppers yesterday and mulched them today. I have to plant the other side with the zucchini and green beans. I am trying a Martha Stewart support approach for the tomatoes-you make a support out of bamboo or sticks in the shape of a tepee and have twine for the tomatoes. Hope it works! We have the tomatoes planted in circles. (Update-just purchased trellis clips, twine and 24-5′ bamboo stakes from 2 different internet stores! Sure beats running around from store to store with the price of gas).

I did make some ATCs, one for Emily’s food challenge (over at Floss Box) and will have to take pictures tomorrow and post them. I did do a little looking for solar lights that change color and found some in the shape of mushrooms, so I ordered them (from Amazon and a lady who bought them liked them a bunch!)

What fun!

Have a pleasant Tuesday!

May24

Happy Birthday Patrick!

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Patrick, there on the right with his older brother Dave and my brother Dave (and Mickey) turned 19 today! Hard to believe the curly-haired tyke is now a sophomore at PSU now. We don’t see the family that often and are always glad when we do! Pat drives about a ’65 Galaxy that his dad and his uncle fixed up for him.
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Did some gardening with Bri today. I planted some tomatoes and he planted green peppers and a rose bush (named Dolly Parton, so I’m expecting some spectacular blooms!)
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These are tiny brass slippers, about 4″ long. I believe they were meant to be used as ash trays because of the indentation in the back. I guess i found these on a white elephant table-boy, they are green inside!
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This is part of the fairy/gnome garden that I just mulched a few days ago. I call it ‘gnomeland’. I dug up a hydrangea and moved it, so I had more room for plants and gnomes! When the plants fill in, it really looks cute seeing those little people ‘hiding’ amongst them. Some of the paint on these to be touched up a bit. Another thing for me to do. : )

My pretty pinkish-orange (not quite salmon) nemesia. I think it’s going to need repotting soon.

May23

Mom

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My mom went to the doctor this morning and ‘found out’ (but we knew it) she had hearing loss in both ears, the worst being the right ear. She’ll be going to a hearing specialist soon. Her doctor also said her right hip is probably what is hurting her more than sciatica. He gave her a shot there. He also gave her the ok to get her cataract surgery. Hopefully she’ll be all fixed up and feel better! Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

The sun is shining nicely and it’s warmer with a breeze. I finished most of my plants in pots. I need more soil! I usually put my coleus in larger pots so they get really bushy. All the coolest and rain hurt some of my seeds, so I added a few rows to where I have the zinnias, etc. Also stuck more nasturtiums and a few moon flowers here and there. We need to get the tomatoes, green peppers, bean and zucchini planted this weekend. Almost finished!

Almost forgot! Went on my first stroll around the yard and stopped at the pond. There was a garter snake stretched around the rocks sunning itself right next to the pond! I stared at it and it me! I came in to get the camera, but he was gone when I went back outside. Gee, have a lot to do in that area and don’t want to see him again. I think I’ll tap on the rocks before I start digging or anything!