Today I’m feel­ing quite chatty! Any­way, how to aggra­vate a teenager… Ask him to make origami news­pa­per seed pots! Boy-oh-boy — that turned out to be his tough­est assign­ment yet! You should’ve seen him… fold here, fold there, unfold, no wait, fold again… fold up, down and then to the left… Man oh man!! (can […]

OK, so I finally fig­ured out what my mys­tery plant from last year was — it’s a peach hibis­cus!! I man­aged to dig up a photo of it when it was in bloom last year: I went on a brief inter­net jour­ney to find infor­ma­tion about bird-attracting flow­ers, and stum­bled onto these beau­ti­ful pho­tos, and […]

So… like hiber­nat­ing bears wak­ing up from a long winter’s nap, the posse and I made our way out­side yes­ter­day. We cleaned up the flower beds that had been buried in fallen leaves, and the car­cass of last year’s plants.  Some of them are sup­posed to come back, but I’m not sure which, so I’m […]

For a while now, when I watch my DD, I won­der if she may be dyslexic. I don’t know a whole lot, but I have been read­ing a few links I found on my friend and sis­ter, Martha’s web­site, and it looks like she may be. The thing that really stuck out to me today was, […]

I’ve been on a bit of a streak, as of late… I’ve made quite a few pairs of socks. I whipped up lit­tle cro­chet bags for my girls to carry their projects in. I’ve been cov­et­ing many pat­terns in my Rav­elry Queue, too. Since the weather here is so fickle, I’m not sure whether to […]