I"m Not Dead

Soooooo, I'm a rotten blogger. What can i say, life gets in the way. My daughter, Casey, said I should make a blog and I had to confess that I had one, just hadn't been there in years. Now that I think of it, I used to enjoy sharing my craft and gardening adventures. Well, here we go again.
Nowdays, I just do my thing. I don't have a job anymore. That just breaks my heart (yeah, right). I don't garden as much as I used to. Working at Bloomington Valley Nursery kinda ruined it for me. i should have quit 2 years earlier. Be that as it may, life goes on. I did make a memorial garden at our fire station for fire family that we have lost over the years. I made it with fire-themed plants. Burning bush, firehouse nandina, goldflame honeysuckle, etc. You get the point. Summer was so dry for so long, I couldn't keep it watered enough and I think I lost most of the plants. I'll find out come spring and replant what I have to.
I still crochet. Made some hats, scarves, preemie blankets, and assorted doodads. Now I've got a square lap loom, a 5 foot triangle weaving loom and the makings for a 3 foot one. I can make shawls, ponchos, and scarves. It's something to keep me busy during the winter so I don't go stir-crazy and do something drastic, like housework. My first shawl came out real funky and droopy (woven too loose) and now that I have it figured out, I've put it back on the loom and am adding more yarn to firm it up. I took a picture after I made it, so when I get it fixed, I'll post before and after pictures. And if I get to it, I'll take pics of some of the other projects I've done. For now, I gotta get back to the loom. A good family friend says I'm a loomatic. Ha, good one, Larry.

It Serves Me Right

That's what I get for being gone so long. i've not been to my blog in awhile (ok, a loooong while) and when i get back, they've improved it. now my buttons are gone and i can't figure out how to put them back and add my MySpace URL (which is,http://www.myspace.com/dazycrazy41 ,BTW).
Now i'm gonna have to break down and read and learn how to do this stuff all over again. I tried the add page elements thing, and it never showed up on my blog. probably it will later, when I least expect it. GADZOOKS! thinking makes my brain tired.

BORED, BORED, BORED!!

i've tried to be good, i really have. my back is messed up and i know i need to give it a break (so to speak), but this is silly. i made my mind up to take it easy this week and get healed up. i sat in a chair and read 2 books and i'm half-way thru another and it was only tuesday. UGH! wednesday i pulled up some more carpet in the livingroom. the carpet is a disaster and i'm removing it a little at a time and cleaning the hardwood underneath. then i'll sand it down someday and refinish it. maybe that'll keep me busy this winter. we put the carpet down with this double sided tape from hell. it is really stuck to the wood. i've tried all sorts of glue removers and so far, all i can find that works is scraping it up with a screwdriver. bit at a time. guess this falls under "how bad do you want it?"
last night, one of my regular market customers called at 10 oclock to tell me her sister was in town from ohio and wants some concrete leaf castings and could i have some at the market this weekend. so, today i made 2 tulip poplar, 2 hosta, 2 hollyhock, and 1 each of elephant ear, dock and angel-winged begonia leaves. that may be all i make for this year. it all depends on how long these last. things have kinda slowed down at the market. it's getting close to the end of the season and market is over after october. and i need to get busy on holiday market stuff.
i've not done anything in the yard lately. mostly because it has rained for , it seems like, forever. tuesday, it was raining when i got up at 8 and rained hard and steady till after 1 and then off and on thru wednesday. supposed to be nice the rest of the week. i'm going to try to get the water emptied out of everything outside. the misquitos outside today were terrible.
time to change the laundry around.
take care!

Things to do, Things to do.

Well, i told you it was summer and i'd be hard to find. Gadzooks, i didn't know i'd been gone so long. I've been working in the yard and i DO mean working. i decided that, after working and not spending enough time on my beds, that it would be easier to dig up the good plants, put weed killer on the weeds and put the flowers back. That turned into redesigning the beds and moving plants from one bed to another and putting down mulch. The first 3 beds went well. they are looking quite nice. But, i got impatient with the 4th and biggest bed so far. i decided one day to pull all the weeds by hand and i got it done. but not without pulling something in my back. The next day, i thought,"what do you do with a sore back? work out the kinks". WRONG! i replanted the bed and added some more. then i couldn't bend over the next morning. now i'm grounded. I've got 3 beds to go and almost 4 yards of mulch to spread. i've not got time to be hurt. But i have gotten a bit of stuff done in the house. (like i want to be doing THAT!)
I'm crocheting a bit. some hats and scarves for the farmer's market holiday market in November. and working on a throw for my son's recliner. it's gonna be winter someday, and he'll need something to nap under. My mom is wanting a Mrs. Who's shrug. so, i'd like to get one made for her for christmas.
I'm wanting to try to make some glass block lites for the holiday market. i saw a project on a site and thought they would be fun to try. here is the link for the site . http://www.treasuresfromdj.net/craft-glass-lights.php
I'd like to do something different this year. hate to become predictable. God forbid!
Time to go give the weinerdog a bath. oh, joy. be still my heart. i hope to have something more interesting to share next time. take care.

Catching up

Geez, I've been a bad blogger. i've been busy the last month or so. I got a job at Bloomington Valley Nursery and was supposed to work part-time, but ended up working 11 days out of the first 15. With Mother's Day and Memorial Day, we were running around like crazy. Now things are slowing down and I'm down to 3 days a week. that gives me time to take care of my own greenhouse and sell plants at the local farmer's market on Saturdays.
I've not been getting to crochet much, but i'm trying to get in at least a little bit in the evenings. I'm still plugging away at my second lapghan for the May charity blitz. I know, I'm running behind. But those darned hexes are getting the best of me. I manage to get a couple made every night or so. And I'm getting pretty far along on my quiltghan for the CAL. Here's a picture of my progress.

Tomorrow is market day and I've got herbs, hostas, and water plants to sell. And a few crocheted cellphone cases. I've got a bag of books for the book tent. They trade used books, two for one. New reading material for me!!
Daniel is coming over tomorrow to use the garage to change his friend's oil. That's another piece of news. Dan has left the nest. Or maybe, flown the coop. Anyway, he's sharing an apartment with another fireman on our department and he's moving his stuff out a little bit at a time. I tell everybody that the way he's moving, my nest isn't empty, but it's certainly leaking. It's kinda weird having him drop by to visit. He was not home much to begin with, so i don't know why it seems so different to have him not living here. It's good, he's happy, we're entering a new time in our life, but it's just strange. Ok, enough mother-henning.
I'll try to be better about posting. But it IS summer, and you know how hard it is to stay inside when there are so many things to plant.

25 things for charity in 2006

I don't know how to put this in my sidebar, so i'll just put it here and update it as i go. i was curious how much i could do in a year so i am keeping track. but it was taking up too much space in my c'ville signature. so, i'm cleaning house in my signature. hey, it's better than cleaning house in my house. GEEZ!!!

25 things for charity finished and mailed:
11 scarves
30 granny's daughters
23 granny squares
8 octagons
1 babyghan
1 lapghan
assorted crocheted goodies
tote bag
2 ferret hammocks
5 preemie hats and blankies

Chocolate Bunny

i saw a cute easter bunny on c'ville and thought he would look funny done in chocolate brown with a bite out of his ear. didn't you always eat the ears first? i did. after, of course, i picked off and ate his white candy eyes. GEEZ, i was a brutal kid. LOL!! anyhow, here's a pic of Chocolate Bunny. and i promise not to pick off his eyes.