Parts of my garden are looking great! Other parts, well let's just say, "Not so much." These are the great looking parts:
Sometimes all of this blue sky and sunshine becomes monotonous, so when rain was forecast for last Friday, I decided to tuck in and get some knitting done. (Along with a marathon watching of Desperate Housewives episodes!)
Drum roll, please!
Cat Gak (aka The Mandala) is Done!!!! It kicked me to the seventh circle of hell and back, but I tamed the beast and completed it! The border alone was over 20,000 stitches! Yikes!
Here it is on my king-size bed:
Blocking this baby was quite the adventure. All that round and round and up and down made my legs hurt for next two days!
But wait! There's more!
While that dried, (another drumroll, please!) I steeked the second sleeve on the Palette Fair Isle sweater!
Go me!
Have you ever lived somewhere for years and driven past a road hundreds of times, always wondering what's down that road? Yep. Me too.
Each time I have driven out to our beach, which has been quite often in the course of thirty years, I have seen these roads disappearing to the north and the south. Until last month, I have never driven down any of them. These gravel roads lead to paradise. I probably shouldn't even be blogging about this fabulous find, but what I found is a mecca for exploration for any seven year old boy.
These roads lead to the hidden coves, inlets and estuaries of what is our beautiful Indian River Lagoon.
With water that is often only inches deep, there are large snails, horseshoe crabs and fish galore. The herons and egrets wade about in search of a meal and migratory birds sing in the bushes.
Of course it's also paradise for the adults as well because while the kids play, run, jump and explore, there is fishing from the canoe and knitting on shore.
I'm almost glad summer's almost here because I see a lot of hours being spent finding new spots down my new favorite hidden road.
Oh, and by the way, that's a sock even though it looks like a willy-warmer!
One of the very cool things about Cub Scouts is the places we get to go.
Last week, we had the opportunity to tour the county landfill. "Why?", you might ask. Why not! It's the closest thing to mountaineering we get in this part of our mainly-below-sea-level part of the world. At a mind-numbing, nose-bleed inducing altitude of over 100 feet, (yes, 100 FEET!), we could see Orlando to the west and the Space Center to the east. We could see the cruise ships at the port and the ocean beyond.
Now, how cool is that?
If you work at the landfill (we don't say, "Dump"), you get:
An open air office...
An appreciation of birds...
And you get to drive this 100,000+ pound, German-engineered baby...
Aside from the seagulls, wood storks and bald eagles, we spotted this beautiful roseate spoon-bill.
My only regret is that we were not allowed to go trash-picking. After all, one man's trash is another one's treasure and who wouldn't want a lovely, previously-owned, gently-loved, low-mileage green golf cart?
So, next time someone says, "Hey! What 'cha doin' today? Wanna go and check out the landfill?" Go! There are wonders to behold, knowledge to be gleaned and, believe me, you'll think twice before buying and bringing home that over-packaged whatever in a plastic bag the next time you go to the store.
Every once in a while, dumb luck supersedes good planning.
My favorite part about winter, in fact, the only thing I like about winter is when the painted buntings come back for season. Every year I try to get a good picture, but they are so skittish that the moment I crack open my patio door to get a shot of them, they fly off into the trees. This time I got it! And not only did I get just one; I got the pair of them enjoying a moment at the spa.
I love it when the airshow comes to town!
Thing-a-day.com is down! That means I can't post my thing right now and it's past my bedtime.
It wasn't much of a thing due to school being out for President's Day, but dammit, it was my thing!
Pretty little horseshoe crabs all in a row!
Michael and I spend the day at the lagoon, wandering through the mudflats and picking up horseshoe crab shells. What a magical place our Indian River Lagoon is for a seven-year-old boy! The wind was gusting and it was cold, but we had a wonderful day!
Sweeter than a card; this is what my Valentine gave me this morning!
Now that my tummy's full of love, I think I'll go show a little love to my garden today.
Happy Valentine's Day to all!
I am so behind in posting and have so much to post about, but I am deeply in over my head right now!
In a fit of "I am SuperWoman, Hear me Roar!" I signed on for Thing-a-Day. Who led me down this path of wrack and ruin is the topic of another long over-due post, but the point of Thing-a-Day is to make one thing every day in February. Not only did I sign up for this project, but I ALSO signed on to do a swap of some of those things at the end of the month.
These are the items I have created thus far:
1. Lacy Dishcloth, 2. Lap Quilt, 3. coaster, 4. Kidney before felting, 5. Kidney after felting, 6. Glass Pebble Magnets, 7. Valentine Whirligigs, 8. Stationary, 9. Envelopes, 10. Letter J Dishcloth
I have many more plans, but just to be sure I raided the library for craft books!
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