Just plain stuff

In reviewing my past blog I realized how much foliage the tree in the front yard has grown in only a couple of weeks. I guess I hadn't realized it was a late blooming tree. Maybe it blooms twice a year?! Here are some more pictures that I thought I would put onto the blog as well. Some of my plants still need some loving, but at least they are in the ground. The ones around the bears are columbine which I love because it grows around my mom and dads house. My mom seems to be able to keep it growing so maybe I have it in my blood. -- Although with the way both of our growing skills are I'm guessing it has nothing to do with us and everything to do with the good Lord! One thing it is growing rampaged is the "creeping jenny" in my little wheel barrow. I liked it because it was green and had a great name in it... but it certainly is creeping. I'm going to have to learn how to seperate it! Otherwise the rest of the pictures are of some of the improvements.

Other things: My little lantern cost me .50 at h2o (second hand store in Dallas OR)- totally excited. And the sign held up by the bear is to remedy our mass quantity of solicitors. It reads: Please No Solicitors or... ring the doorbell and run, the dogs need the exercise. I read that at the farmers market and thought it was clever so I came home and made myself a little sign with some scrap wood I had just thrown out. Nothing like good trash to treasures!