This Week

 

Isn't this art work pretty?

I purchased this thank you card at Trader Joe's just because I loved the artwork on the front.

I did a bit of research online.

The artist is Sara Steele and here's her web site. 

 http://www.sarasteele.net/

This painting is called

'The Riots of Spring'.

  

 I just wanted to Keep in Touch

this week and not bother with

the time it takes to deal with photos for this blog post... OK?

I spent this morning planting seeds in my little garden.

Liberty ate the two tomato plants in peat pots that I purchased to add to the garden.

I almost replaced them, but decided to wait until I could get to an actual garden nursery

to pick the type I want.

  Tomatoes just don't do well here in our garden, so I just want 

to try some small cherry types this year.  A Sun Gold, and hopefully I'll be able to replace

the Brown Cherry tomatoes that I was going to plant.

So far my tomatoes for this year   have cost me 8 dollars and I don't even have the plants to show for it.

This morning I planted zinnias, yellow and orange cosmos, Italian Pesto Basil, one hill of yellow summer squash, borage, Bush Slenderette green beans, my favorite Baby Persian cucumbers,thai basil, cilantro, some poppy seeds that I collected from a friends garden,  red sunflowers and portulaca~

seeds that I saved from last year.

I'm about three weeks late getting

the seeds in the ground, but since we have such a long summer there's plenty of time to grow from seed.

The exceptions being tomatoes and bell peppers. They seem to need more time to mature here.

I've repaired and replaced parts to our irrigation system on just one side of the house.  I still have the back side to take care of. This is all Thanks to Liberty.

Dang dog.

But we love her. Shhh...

She's snoozing downstairs.

Last time I left her downstairs she ate my prescription shoe insert.

She didn't even care about the leather garden shoes,  she just loves to chew up anything that's plastic...like shoe inserts and garden irrigation parts.

Just thinking about it makes me say that we love her through gritted teeth.

(Smile)

Anyway I came upstairs for the afternoon to take care of the budget and get some 

computer time in.

The bills are done,

with the exception the paperwork 

piles that I need to file away.

It's been awhile since I've spent much time up here in my office.

  I still have Valentines day decorations draped along the shelf.

These days just do get away from us eh?

We had to replace our microwave

this week.  The new one is just an updated version of the same model we had, since we really liked the old one.

  

The buttons are the same, so there's no frustration of pushing the wrong buttons.

Thank goodness for the small pleasures in life.

I found myself heating water on the stove top for tea and realized that if we were going to be microwave~less for any length of time we'd need a tea kettle.

I use the microwave for cooking vegetables, melting sugar in water to fill the humming bird feeders,

reheating the coffee that's gone cold in the mug, making a single serving of oatmeal, reheating leftovers, and for heating the heating pad.  Now that last one

is important to me...

And speaking of arthritis...

Not too long ago I rubbed some 

Icy Hot creme into my sore thumb joints  and failed to wash it off before using the bathroom. 

 Holy Cow,

hot hot hot...

I've run across a new to me blog  with photo's that are so beautiful, I kept clicking 'older post' after 'older post' and ended up reading her entire blog. 

 I was enchanted.

Real life, raw at times 

 and a dream at that.

www.aquietlifeblog.blogspot.com

We've already had temps in the mid nineties, and earlier this week it was cold enough to want to start a fire in the wood stove.

Laziness won out, and I bundled up 

with blankets instead.

This weekend we heading back up into the nineties.  

Aw, summer is coming... too soon.

Just one more story ~

I know this is getting long.

We have scorpions here.

I saw one just this morning in the garden. They also get into the house.  So... the other night I felt something stinging my leg while we were in bed.

It felt like a scorpion sting and I do know what that feels like.

Anyway, I moved my leg and the stinging got worse.  I was afraid to reach down and brush it away with my hands... So I got the battery operated reading light from the nightstand to discover that I was laying on the battery cover to my radio... Dang radio!

Take care, 

and have a wonderful weekend.

Happy Mother's Day