Obama Crowd, originally uploaded by Squash713.
I think Sean was way in the back there!
Mar31
Where is my Sean?
Mar31
Last day of March already!
We had such a busy month, it just seemed to go quickly. Having Sean home in the middle helped with the winter drudgery feeling. I just got a phone call and the lady said my eye appt was moved to the 9th as the machine is down. Maybe Bri can go with me since it’s late in the afternoon.
Today I have to return a movie, maybe rent another and buy some cards, one of which is an anniversary card for us! It will be 24 yrs for us this year! *Bowing* With Sean not home a lot now, it’s rather like the old days of keeping each other company. I find cooking for two a drag. Sean use to eat most of my leftovers, his dad doesn’t.
Here’s progress on The African Violet sampler plus a ‘happy’ real one close up. I think I’ll finish this one violet and then pick up a different project.
A few ATCs I made recently:
Made from mostly recycled things-part of a postage stamp package, a stamped image that wasn’t perfect….the glare is a hummingbird sticker
This one is called ‘Dress rehearsal’. I love finding these old images:
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Tip of the day-eat rice cakes! They fill you up and help like fiber does! Enough said. : )
Mar30
Welcoming flowers
Crocus under the chestnut tree
Daffodils bow their heads to the chill of the day
Delicate narcissus tucked under the evergreen tree out front
My new ‘Escargot’ begonia that I purchased at Longwood Gardens
One of my new orchids
The other new orchid
Mar30
Today it’s Obama
Sean called about 11:15 this morning and said he was in a long line to see Barack Obama-said that he was about #8k! Hope he gets better photos this time around. It’s an exciting time to be a college student!
Update-Sean got there too late as it was a huge crowd of 20K or more and couldn’t seen Obama at all. I found some great shots on flickr and forwarded the link to Sean.
Not much new. Bri and I went to Value City and QVC last night. I needed to pick up a few birthday gifts for my niece’s upcoming 9th birthday. I can’t believe she is getting so big! She’s wearing glasses now. Yeah, people say she looks a bit like her auntie, especially with the specs! I don’t want to say what I bought in case a family member is reading.
Speaking of family, my second brother will be trekking his way back to PA tomorrow to live. The one I have had issues with. He’s staying at my uncle’s house until he finds a place that takes a dog and cat. I heard he had to sell a lot of his possessions to make the move.
Watch for photos of my new orchids and begonias. My mom decided not to come out today and I guess I won’t be going to Longwood Gardens again tomorrow. I’d like someone to go with me to the eye doctor on Thursday which is 16 miles one way and an office I’ve never been to before. I have to have my corneas measured. I hope they do the pressure test first. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers that the pressure has gone down.
Off to finally make our corned beef dinner! Better late than never.
Mar29
Photo Hunt- High
This is the main conservatory at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA. This is a wall of orchids and was over a large door way. You can see the roof of the conservatory there, so it’s high up! I think it’s amazing to see this every year when they do their orchid display. As of 4 pm, I have no comments! Wow! I also made a video of my day yesterday in my right side bar.
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My son was also high up in the stands when he saw Bill Clinton a few nights ago.
Mar28
One of Sean’s only good Clinton photos
They are all blurry like this or worse, but at least he has some to remember seeing the Prez by.
Mar28
My old high school
One of the NBC 10 news guys, Jamison Uhler graduated from my high school in 1993. Today on the 5 pm news, he went back to Penncrest. The school is much bigger than when I went there. I was having a good laugh at his old French teacher pulling out his grades and showing that his final grade was a ‘D’. There is a slideshow of famous people who went to our school, but he forgot a few, though I didn’t know about a few he mentioned. He forgot former congressman Curt Weldon and broadway actress Anne Crumb. The movie director and award winning screenwriter, Todd Robinson was in my class (’77) and attended our reunion last
November.
I just thought it was neat and wanted to share.
Mar28
Orchid paradise
I just got back and had love to jump on the computer to check out my shots (this camera doesn’t take any bad ones). That’s after getting the mail and walking Mr. Cosmo around the yard first. It’s so dreary here, but not cold. I got quite warm a few times in just my sweater! There is also a orchid sale at the gardens today through the weekend and I bought two (from a Hawaiian seller) and a neat begonia-all for under $30. I need to take photos of them to show you.
Here are some neat shots. I uploaded my photos and am editing them at flickr. Here is the slideshow.
Inside the conservatory. What are those white spiky flowers?Zoey IDed them as Foxtail lilies! Thanks! They are awesome against the green!
Love any lime/chartreuse colored orchids and flowers in general and these are so pretty next to the bluish purple flowers-Canterbury Bells maybe?
These were some of my favorites with the polka dots!
Some awesome ones near the entrance
I went to the rose and hibiscus room and look what I found:
Talk about neon!
And this is in the children’s garden. We didn’t see everything at Christmastime
I wore my pedometer and I walked 3 k steps there today! Yeah!!
Mar28
Missing in blogland
Only a few pals are blogging regularly this week. I know one had company and others are waiting for their long winter to end so they can go out in their yards and blog about flowers, etc.
I was going to try and get to Longwood Gardens today if the rain holds out. I’m mainly interested in the orchids in the conservatories, but it’s a little walk to that area. Now my mom wants to come out too, but I bet I won’t see her for at least 3 or more hours. She’s anxious to print out her flower show pictures as I just bought her two ink cartridges for her new printer for Easter. She also wants to use her camera more. Sean used his new camera at the Clinton rally, though he wasn’t that close (8k were there!). He also took a little video. I guess he will upload them sometime today. I also have to proof a couple of his papers over the weekend.
I really feel like I need to get out of the house today, so I’m hoping I can at least chase a few raindrops to see something different.
Mar27
My AVs
I am so ashamed that I have neglected my African Violets so long! Many had very twisty stems under their crowns as if they were trying to find room to grow in their too tight pots. When I lost two of them last week, I decided it was time to take action to save them! They had provided me with months of cheery little flowers, mostly from the plant food I offered them on a sporadic week. They would get so dry! I forgot the winter sun was closer to the earth (I’ve known this forever though!) Then I pulled this out of my cross stitch pile of WIPs (yeah it’s aida, but I love the color):
“To grow ’em is to love ’em”
Well I wasn’t showing much love for these beauties, many bought each year by my mom at the Philly Flower show. I remembered I had a bag of AV dirt, so I retrieved that, lined the dining room table with newspapers, and got to work! Over 2 hours later and working with 16 or so plants, I was finished. I had run out of dirt, but I now only have a few left to repot or add dirt to. I also cleaned off the windowsill and had a lot to clean up from the kitchen to the family room. But now it looks like this:
I have three of these ‘Frozen in Time’ AVs! Mom must have really liked it or I told her not to get me purple.
And here’s the whole window (the yellow is a faux orchid):
It was a job well done and made me forget about my allergy attack for a little bit, though I got really warm when I was running back and forth with the plants. I hope they all make it!
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Crossing fingers that Sean gets to see Bill Clinton tonight at PSU and Barack Obama tomorrow (I think). We’ve never seen a President in person. The ‘closest’ I got to a prez was seeing Ted Kennedy crossing the street in Washington, DC as a kid on a school trip. Sean wasn’t sure if he’d go, but I told him the above and he has a new digital camera too!
Collages & Creative Goodness 