Father's Day 2011

It will be 10 years this September that Dad passed away.


Copy and paste this if your Dad is in heaven. If roses grow in heaven Lord, then pick a bunch for me. Place them in my Dad's arms and tell him they're from me. Tell him that I love and miss him, and when he turns to smile, place a kiss upon his cheek and hold him for awhile. I miss you everyday...

 Dad and Lucky

The NAVY Garden I planted for Dad

Miss you, Dad

Your loving daughter;

Joanne

Thoughts on a June night.

With all the rain, my garden looks horrid. Spent the better part of 4 hours this past Sunday and only got half of it done. The veggies are in. That's it. Thank goodness I grow perennials otherwise there would be no flowers. There is still a ton a weeding to be done, but when I get home at night, the bugs are already out. In one 10 minute foray outside I got 12 bug bites! ugh! Not a fan of OFF or skin so soft, cannot stand the slimy feeling.

I plan on working outside again come Saturday before I go to my great niece's first birthday party. Should be fun.

Sunday, I am going to my first race of the season. Wonder if I can still shoot cars. Been doing so much flower photography, I hope I can still do my magic with cars. I'll start getting all the camera gear ready Friday, all the cleaning and dusting. (Wonder where I put that can of air....hmmm).

There has been no sewing or stitching but ALOT of reading on the kindle that is on the Droid X.

So that is it for my corner of the world.
Joanne

Flowers photos from yesterday

After going to the big box stores and not seeing anything nice, I went to my favorite local greenhouse. There I found everything and then some. Lucky for me all my birthday presents were for this greenhouse. I had such a good time!

 Bleeding Hearts

 Fuschia

 Single Peony

 Viola

 Johnny Jump Up

After I cam home and drank the Starbuck's Tazo Black Tea Ice Tea, I took a few photos at home.

 Scented Geranium

 Beauty of Moscow Lilac

 Bue Skies Lilac

 Lily of the Valley

Needless to say, my house smells so wonderful due to all these flowers I cut.

Have a great day;

Joanne

Scissor Porn

Have a great evening;

Joanne

Easter

Good Morning and Happy Easter. All the Lamb cakes are baked and decorated. Cupcakes are made. For myself I made a lemon pound cake.

These are the ornaments on my Easter Tree (forgot to get a photo, I'll update later)

The Lily plant on my table.

 The Daffodils in my yard.

Wishing you and yours and very Blessed Easter;

Joanne

Easter lamb cakes and ....

missing Mom. We always made these together and this is the first year I have to do it alone. Makes me miss her so much. It these little things that makes me both happy and sad. Happy that she took the time to instill traditions in me and sad knowing that she is not here.

So to my Mom in heaven, these are for you.

Love you, miss you.

Almost a month....

since I last took the time to write.

In that time, the entire inside of the house has been painted. 1 room will have to be redone as the color is toooooooo creamy, needs to be more white. This same room has some of the paint "orange peeling". I have to wait at least until after Memorial Day before I can paint it again. Kinda makes me in a bad mood, that this orange peeling happened. The color on the wall was from the previous owner, so I have no idea what kind of paint they used, but that is the reason my expensive Behr with primer did not work.

Stitching wise, well, there has been none. Right now everything in on the screen porch waiting to be put back into the new room. I am keeping the room as a guest room, but the man's dresser is going to hold all my stitchy stuff. The women's triple dresser is going to hold all my sewing stuff. Gone are the bags, boxes and plastic crates. That is my goal for this week, to put all the crafty stuff away and to make a couple of valances. One for the kitchen and the Laura Ashley bathroom (pattern: Palace garden). The half bath is in shades of lavender and will have a French Country feel.

Yesterday was my birthday, the first without Mom. Difficult day. Spent some time at her favorite local garden center. Felt her presence there. Had a serious debate about getting a gardenia standard, but decided against it for now. Weather is too weird to bring such an expensive plant home. My family was too sweet when they all got me gift cards to my favorite garden center. Makes me more anxious for the season to begin. Only a few weeks away. Went to Borders yesterday and bought myself a new garden journal. Cannot wait to fill the pages with info and photos.

That's about it for now. Happy Monday. Have a great week.

Joanne