Dank, dreary, rainy, day after day after day. It makes you feel tired and you crave chocolate and sweets. So we ran into town this afternoon, picked up bird seed, (the birds were cranky and craving too), a less than half-gallon of Breyers ice-cream, and a jar of hot fudge sauce for sundaes. Half-gallons of ice-cream no longer exist. Companies change the packaging designs to throw you off as they have created smaller containers. Half-gallon ice-cream is now only a quart-and-a-half. Sixteen ounces of pasta has been 14.5 ounces for some time. But I'm off the subject...........probably due to the dreary, dank, grey, depressing weather conditions. We were heading straight for the house so the ice-cream wouldn't melt when Cliff's pager went off for him to respond to a woman with a history of heart problems who was having heaviness in her chest. He flipped his red emergency light on and we headed to the add...
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Still trying to figure out this new computer. Early pictures of Christopher. His hair is reddish. Found this one on Facebook today. Never sure if I can retrieve something, but I was playing around and surprised myself when these went where I wanted them to go. Cliff got out the tiller Thursday and turned over more than half of the garden. The clay is wet with all the rainy sunless days we've had this winter. We bought a truckload of mushroom compost from Wayne's Feed and Grain and I started mixing it into the soil. I'll plant two kinds of peas, set onions, plant radish and carrot seeds in the next couple of weeks. This year the peas will be surrounded by chicken wire to keep the cute little bunnies from nibbling before I can. Also, will try more raised garden areas because living on the side of the mountain is a gardening challenge. One window box is full of small ...
Last Monday Cliff and I drove to KY to see our new great-grandson. It's only about a 4 1/2 hour drive and the weather looked clear on both ends. Christopher is such a dumpling. I have a few more photos but am having a difficult time posting. When I turned on my computer the next day after arriving home, the computer was dead, deep six, kicked the bucket................gone. It was only about 3 years old. We went out and bought another one and Cliff has been doing all those computer tasks like connecting to the printer, retrieving information, documents, pictures from the deceased computer, all the while trying to figure out how to understand this new one. So as I become more familiar with this, I'll be able to locate my pictures and post some more.
Just in the last couple of days we've gone from dodging the tornado path that skipped through the Ranger community, not far from our house, to 4 inches of snow that caused total chaos on the Blairsville Hwy, not far from our house. Yesterday on the way home from town, the snow build-up in some areas made roads treacherous, drivers lost control, and slid off the road. We detoured the Blairsville Hwy onto a secondary snow-covered road and responded to an accident. Some parts of the roads remained clear but where it built up, drivers were caught by surprise. This morning the snow-blanket gently covers the ground exposing tracks where my night visitors drank from the birdbath and foraged for food. Mourning doves all dressed in the same grey suits gather around the water cooler cooing. from the back porch Titmouse feeding at my home-made pie-tin window feeder. Downtown along the 4-lane on the way to Wally World, the Bradford pear trees are already sta...
With every trip to Wally World, I browse the fabric section. Our Murphy store still has quite a large variety of fabrics, patterns, and notions. The other day I fell in love with two pieces of cotton fabric with whimsical designs and bought both to make myself an apron. To make the cutting time more efficient, the fabric was folded in half and placed one on top of the other (coffee cups on top of the chickens) carefully matching the folds. The coffee cups direction didn't matter but the chickens were all going in one direction. I placed the apron pattern on the material but decided to change the direction of the pattern piece for a more efficient use of the materials. I needed to get the ties and the neck strap from this yardage also. After fitting all the pattern pieces on the material, I was pleased with the way they fit and cut everything out. Then I went to put the two pieces together for my reversible apron and this is what I fo...