Category: Homebody

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NewlabelI have just completely (yes, seems and all)finished my first baby sweater…replete with sweet little label. I ordered some cute little embroidered labels for my stuff. It has been raining every day this month, about 5 inches total in my yard…woohoo. I need to take some shots of my surprise plants…Crinum Lily. A friend told me they are also known as 4th of July plants, I guess not only because they look like fireworks, but seem to bloom around the 4th. Not sure I love them, but they are a nice surprise. I have learned that tropical plants fare well in my new hometown.

I am loving Mason Dixon Knitting!!! I’ve already begun the crazy lady work of looping a bunch of potholder loops and knittign a rug. I’ve been inspired and have started a rag bag to get crackin’ on some more rugs.

you know you’re in the country when….

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I was filling up at the gas station this morning and I heard an odd engine noise. I turned around and there was this little old man pulling up to the pump on his little red riding mower with a trailer full of rakes and saws. I’m glad I was running late enough to see that.

Green Grass and Fried Pies

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Big weekend plans. DH and I thought we’d have a little get-together at our home before we make holes in walls, remove the casino royale carpet, and raise the foundation. We spent the weekend doing chores to get the house, well, a little more presentable. We were outside most of yesterday and it was hot as shit, so I got a little cranky. Our fences are smothered with honeysuckle, jasmine and virgina creeper and the front flower beds are awesome. April’s a good time to have a party in Texas before the grass is toasted and blooms spent. I’ve ordered a mess of fried pies and plan on plenty of rootbeer and big red floats (this is a new one to me). Just finishing the baby bolero form “One Skein”. I knit it with Blue Sky dyed organically grown cotton in Lotus….a very hot pink. Keeping an eye peeled for a special skein of yarn for my Secret Pal.