One of the reason I decided to blog again was to fill up some time but it seems for some strange reason every since I have started this blog " I have been busy all the time. who knew? have been busy with my bucket gardening. we bought a new above ground container. it looks like a trough for cattle to drink water from and I have always wanted one as I thought they would make an awsome planter. evidently someone else had the same thought. you would not beleive all the screws and washers that are needed to put one of those together. we finally got it all put together and it is out in the yard sitting on top of one of my old garden beds. we made a couple above garden spaces out of wood when we first moved here. they were doing fantastic untill the tree roots started growing up inside of them and stealing all the nutrients. so I am placing heavey plastic on top of the old bed and going to cut holes for drainage and then will set the planter on top of that and fill it with dirt. speaking of dirt we also ordered a composter. suggested by my sweet daughter which makes great sence. I use a freecycle anyway for all of our garbage so this will really cut back on all the kitchen garbage. I am really excited to try all of these things.
the plants that I bought are huge now and we got our first cukecumber last week. i loved the convenience of bucket gardening but it was not the best thing for a wooden deck. with all the water from plants and the rain storms we get the wood really takes a beating. so I think this option will be much better in the long run. I may still grow herbs in the buckets on the deck . found a sweet basil plant a month or so ago and have watched for that spice in the grocery store forever and could never find it. we have a recipe for a dish called rigitoni that my hubby first made for us and it just is not the same without the sweet basil. well this plant is doing absolutely awsome! if I can get an her garden going and doing as well as this is" I should do well.
house plants are out of control. I have cactus plants started all over the place. when a limb falls off " I just can't bare throwing it away so I start another one.
another thing we bought which was not quite as hard to put together was a flat grill. have not used it yet as it has been in the hundreds most of the time. Have also been sewing. love these scrappy stars by lori holt they are so cute and so much fun. would like to do a whole quilt out of them. will see how it goes. I have my daughter looking for a hand held quilting frame for me. I really miss quilting by hand and this house does not have the room to set up a normal quilting frame. I also need to become more proficient at machine quilting but that will be for another day. right now I have a stack of quilts that really need to be quilted. o.k. need to get some things done and hopefully it won;t take me so long to get back here again. take care Linda