All about Roses!




Roses it's all about the Roses I say! Someone swiped my roses out of my front yard, no kidding, they cut them down flush with the ground! So I'm consoling myself with some rose colored inspired silk carrier rods to make my own garden! I have extra's of these beauties, scent free of course, and am offering them up in my etsy shop!
I'll post what I've made with mine later tomorrow, I've been toying with spinning some bulky art yarns with these rods and then stitching them to a lovely garden inspired surface with an overlay of embroidery.

Pepper


One very sick kitty, I've been giving him about a quarter cup of pedialite every half hour to stave off dehydration, he's started fighting me a very good sign! HE's been relegated to the basement because of the diarreha, he'd rather be on our bed, we'd rather he wasn't. It's also safer for him there because the dogs can't get to him. So there he sleeps in a laundry basket with his water and a litter box two feet away.

Sunday Activities

My poor poor stove! God bless the person who invented oven cleaner because that's what it'll take to get the pans clean on my stove top!!!

As you can see I have a rather vintage kitchen, ala 1950's remodel style kitchen. John at the rather vintage sink cleaning the stove grates. Tomorrow's lunch is cooking away in my vintage crock pot, they just don't make green appliances like that anymore ;-) I've been color testing in the kitchen, the cabinets will be ladybug red, a good choice if I don't mind saying so myself.
14 quarts on the counter and 7 quarts on the table, with another 7 quarts to join those and right quickly.

John did the canning today, he made 28 quarts of applesauce using the last of our Lodi apples. I sorted the apples and helped with dishes and did laundry but my main task today was to keep the cat from dying, no kidding. I'm hoping my vet will be available tomorrow, seems the little bugger is severely impacted, did you know you need a vet to get laxatives for a cat??? I didn't, anyway... Here are a few pics of Johns hard work, and one very sick kitty.

Backyard Rehab!


Our backyard went from this to this! We think it looks so much better now, most of the wood etc,. went to a friends burn pile and the rest of the "stuff" went to the junk yard Now we have a neat construction pile against the shed and my old garden space is now planted with three types of bush beans, two green bean varieties, and one yellow wax bean. NOTE that pile of boxes by the trailer is NOT there as of an hour ago! It's gone I tell you it's ALL GONE!!!