Spring!

 We are having a hard time keeping up these days due to Bob's pinched nerve.  I am getting things done little by little.  I planted a row of mixed lettuces in the cold frame this week!

The chives are up!  That is a sure sign of spring!

I think these bushes have grown too large and they aren't the kind we can trim back now.  I think they should be replaced!  What do you think???  I thought maybe replace with three of those big hostas.  What would your suggestions be??????

I finally finished this lap quilt!  I flipped up one corner so that you could see the back.

Weather, Runner & Dogs

One fine day the weather was this!  Actually we had a couple days like this!

And......I was out weeding!  It felt so good to be outdoors!

And......then this!  I was out shoveling!  Didn't feel so good being outdoors!

I was finally able to finish the binding on one of the table runners and I have been doing some knitting.

Bob has a pinched nerve so can't do anything except mostly reading and computer work.  Sure miss his help!   Sophia came to stay a couple nights.  Do you think she is thinking that he should put that book down and pay attention to her!!!!!

You are probably wondering what these are!!  LOL  I have faith that eventually I will be able to plant carrots and these are my carrot tapes I made.  I glued carrot seeds a certain distance apart so that I don't have to thin carrots when they come up.  I will lay them down in the carrot box, sprinkle a little dirt, and water a little.   Hopefully they will come up!

Coco will be all rested up so that when the vegetables grow she can help pick!  What are you keeping busy at this winter?

  

Misc. and etc.

Saw my first robins February 11th!  There were four of them sitting in the Chandelier Pear tree by the deck!  Spring will soon be here!

The thermometer was registering 30 degrees that day.  The sun was shining on it.  We have had a few really cold days but it is suppose to warm up the end of next week.  Better days ahead!

Coco went to visit the groomer.  It is not her favorite thing to do, and I don't think she is very enthused about how clean and nice she looks.

Mom put this silly sweater on me.  It is more bother than what it is worth and her enthusiasm for putting it on me didn't last long!  If it is cold out I do my business and don't dawdle!   I do look kind of cute in it though....... don't you think!

I made zucchini bread again!   Will be making more of this as have more grated zucchini in the freezer from the garden.   "Wonderful Gardener"  doesn't seem to get tired of it.  Not yet anyway!

I like muffins for breakfast with some peanut spread on them so made these up today.  

My "helper" has a pinched nerve so isn't doing much these days.  Boy, I sure do miss his help too!  

Happy Valentines Day tomorrow to everyone!

We were engaged 56 years ago today.  Time sure flies by!

I made chicken pot pie.  Yum.  One of my favorite meals!

Cranberry bread, one of Bob's favorites!  I had enough cranberries in the freezer to make this batch.  That's all now until next Christmas!!

Baked bread one day.  It has some wholewheat flour and some white flour in it.

I am using up yarn and replenishing my dish cloth supply.

Don't you just love this banner a blogger friend sent me to use for Valentine's Day!  I don't get things made like this and just love it.  She is very creative and talented!  Do you decorate for Valentine's Day??

These Christmas runners were cut out before Christmas so I am trying to get them finished up.  I have to do the batting, backing, binding, and machine quilt them yet.  Never too early to start getting ready for next Christmas!

What I am doing!!

I have been trying to machine quilt a lap quilt!

I wanted a change so put the sheer curtains up instead of the country valance.  Hung my little hearts on them.

This is the arrangement in the living room that Bob made of ships that I enjoy looking at.  They are post cards.

I finished knitting this neck scarf.  It is too bulky for me but nice and warm for walking in the cold!

I have been enjoying listening to music from Pandora.

I have new artwork to cheer up my refrigerator made by my little artists Gracie and Cali!

Enjoying a beautiful peach colored rose that brightens up my kitchen from Bob!  So what have you been up too???

Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Nativity Set!  We use to collect nativity sets but ran out of room to put them.  Couldn't resist buying another one!  "Wonderful Gardener" liked this one and it was on sale!  What can I say!!!!  It is from Frankenmuth, Michigan, a German tourist town.

Here is another set we bought years ago in Mexico.

Found the old sled so it sits by the front door to cheer things up a bit!

Sophia has come to visit again while her mommy goes to visit the grandchildren.  Sophia's mama's birthday is Christmas Day.  Happy birthday to Dianne!!!

Here is Jesus birthday cake!  Two candles for Gracie and Cali to blow out.   Remembering the Reason for the Season!  Have a very Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cookies, Bread, Christmas & Seed Catalogs

Christmas roll out cookies baked!  Are you wondering why they are all bells???  It is because I am lazy and it is easier to make them all one kind.  They all get frosted with red frosting too!  They taste the same as if I would have gone to more work!

Four loaves of Cranberry Bread baked.  Here are two of them.  "Wonderful Gardener" loves Cranberry Bread so almost every Christmas I try to make him some.  Coco even ate one of the cranberries.

We use to collect Nativity Scenes until we ran out of room to put them.  Isn't that the way with all collections!  This one is from Aruba. 

This Christmas tree I made years ago!!

I won't concentrate on gardening until after Christmas but two seed catalogs have already arrived.  It was so nice today that I went out and weeded a bit.  Wish I would have had energy to do more!  Thankful I could do a bit!