One Saturday

Tomorrow is my first Saturday off work in a couple months. I was sick one Saturday but that didn't count cuz I was sick. Tomorrow is the first day of the Farmer's Market. Yea! Hope to find some good deals on plants. Friday was the beginning of the Edina Art Fair. May stop in there tomorrow, too. I really want to make it to Bungee at Betsy Back Porch for a while also, So much to do and so little time with my one Saturday.

I have bought several annuals already but you can never have too many plants in the summer. I have beautiful perennial gardens made by the former owner. I bought a lovely fern for $8.99 at Home Depot and a lovely Calla Lily in a beautiful pink. I have a couple tomato plants, basil, chives and some wave petunias, and geraniums. All of the perennial plants have come back this year, just gorgeous. I promise I will get a photo up here soon.

Josh and Ellie were over on Wednesday and helped me water everything. Josh had the hose and Ellie had the watering can. We were having such a good time and then Mom came back too soon! We hadn't played enough and it was already time to go.

I found a very cute pattern for Old World Booties on www.knittingdaily.com - it will only be available for a very short time. They are felted and soooooo cute!

I love this nice cool spring, just need more rain, but I love the fresh air. I'm having a new water softener and water purifier put in next week from Commers. I really need it. The water out here is very smelly, lots of chlorine, so I need to get a good system in here. Should make a big difference in my dry skin, coffee and washing machine.
I found out that when they hooked up the new hot water heater, they goofed and made the soft water go to the outside, which means I've been watering my plants with soft water.

Had some great rain this evening - the last day of the month. We really needed this rain. Mosquitos are already bad though. What's up with that?

I have such a todo list: Clean windows, scrape and repaint some windows. Repaint hallway, clean garage, organize garage, plant the rest of my flowers, finish my elf house, sand the picnic table, re-seed the front yard where I sprayed weed killer on the dandelions and also killed the lawn (smart???)., repaint Dan's bedroom that will now become a guest room for when he comes home to visit, restain wood in the kitchen, hang swings for the grandchildren, and the list goes on.

Well, I have all summer, right?

The gnome house

Blue Cindy Lou - this is a corriedale/romney blend and I dyed it this gorgeous blue. I'm in the mood to dye some fleece again.

I'm working like a crazy person and I have gotten this terrible spring virus that will not leave me alone. I have had two days off this week and have been working in the garden. Because I didn't feel well this week I was able to finish reading, "The Range" by Russell Banks. Good book -very strange characters but good discussion for a book club.

I'm trying to get my Fairy house together - I think I'm going to rename it "The gnome house". It just fits better.

It's kind of rustic looking and I think I'll glue some stones on it and then plaster over them and make some little gnomes. It's in my head, but difficult to describe.

Dan is home from college for a couple weeks and I'm enjoying having him around. I had to restock the pantry, however. I've made three trips to the grocery so far this weekend.

We just love living out here. I adore my yard and just love to walk around in it. I had a fire in the fire pit yesterday to burn up all the twigs. It smelled wonderful. I think I finally got one up on the boxelder bugs and beetles too!
I had breakfast with friends on Sunday at Maude's in Minneapolis. It was good to visit and have a lovely breakfast. The NU outlet opened before I left so I went in to see what they had. Barbara was working so I got caught up with her life a little.
They still have some great novelty yarns that I can use in my weaving projects, which I hope to get to soon. Carver has a Saturday art in the park type day each weekend and you can rent a booth for the day. I thought it would be fun to get a booth and sell some handmade items.

Going to the Zoo in the morning with the grandchildren. I love going to the zoo. I hope we get some good photos.
I've finished the back of Ellie's cotton/bamboo dress and I'm working on my sister's afghan to see if I can get it done this month as it is her birthday month.

I'm so excited, I heard from Louet this week and they said I can continue to be a dealer for them. They have great products for knitters and spinners. I can do special orders! Yea!

Keep knitting, the fun is not over yet!

The Big Fish

Joshua's fish was finished for his Birthday. This is a pattern from Blue Sky Alpaca that they had done out of their Cotton, I had some of this yarn left over so I mixed some Brown Sheep and some of this stripey yarn together and knit it on size 10 1/2 needles and felted it. This is what we got. Josh loves it!

I have the pattern if anyone would like one, shoot me an email.

I have been working so much that I haven't blogged for two weeks. When I am home, I'm working in the yard getting everything uncovered. I bought some plants yesterday for my FAIRY GARDEN! Apparently, this is the new "Thing" for gardeners. Chaska Flowers on #212 downtown has an example of a very cute Fairy garden complete with houses and fairies. I found an old birdhouse that I'm going to remake into a fairy house and I think I'll felt up some fairies. I'll get some photos up here as it progresses. I'm very excited about this cute idea.

I worked all last weekend so I just got to celebrate last night with the babies for Mother's Day. We had handmade pizza and had lots of fun. My Daughter got me a great book called, "Convesations with my Mother, A keepsake Journal for Celebrating a Lifetime of Stories". It has questions to get you going, so maybe this will help me get started writing. She really wants me to do this journal thing, as this is the second journal she has bought me. My son, Daniel, took me out to dinner Saturday night and Jenna brought me a beautiful boquet of flowers on Sunday at work. I am so blessed with these children!

Last weekend was also, Shepherd's Harvest. I really missed not getting to that event because they have great fiber at this thing. Hopefully, Michelle and Lori bought some great stuff to show me.

Carver is starting this "Carver Village Open Air Market" this weekend. It's in the little park downtown and has some very interesting artists showing their handmade art.

Have a great week!