Cloudy day

I was sitting on the porch yesterday looking at my flowers ...... they are so cute and what a miracle to see them coming up when only a couple of days ago it was freezing cold and no sign of them..... I wish I could sit out there again today but it looks like rain and I must finish my laundry. I went to get a haircut this morning and a few groceries. I also got some DVD's to watch.... now I have 4 to watch so you know where I will be this week end if the weather is nasty. I have "Harry Potter" newest one, King Kong (was a sale prise at Wal Mart) Chicken Little" (maybe I can watch with Carley) and "Dreamer"another one to watch with Carley...Jt Shows a little girl with her horse and Carley loves horses and she has been taking horse back riding lessons with her mother.   I won't be able to watch them all this week end because I won't be seeing Carley until next week end. I have to watch my race Sunday and qualifying is this afternoon etc etc etc... then there is baseball  and I will watch if a good game is on.
I'm watching QVC now and they have Cottage Farms on and all kinds of beautiful plants to order.... so far I have placed 4 orders.....   :>)
Hope you are enjoying Spring too even if it is rainy (at least its not more snow)
Sandra

Another Beautiful day

I spent the morning sewing and then went outside and saw so many pretty flowers in bloom I had to go and get my camera.... It never in all my years ceases to amaze me what happens in Spring after such a cold, snowy Winter... It is so warm outside I was comfortable in only a tee. I'm happy my sewing if finished now and I will spend much time outside from now on... I made the yellow bibs and burp cloths this morning along with heming a new pair of pants... I will probably have to learn my machine all over again later because I don't plan on using it for awhile.... It works pretty good but a sewing machine is a sewing machine is a sewing machine. lol  You still have to know and enjoy sewing. I know gardening and enjoy it better than sewing... In gardening you don't make mistakes ~ well not usually anyway. You just buy plants and if they don't grow the way you thought you can just blame the climate and try something different next time. Sewing didn't go bad today though. I didn't have to rip anything out at least. I hope she likes what I made her. If not I bought a lot of things she is sure to like. They make such cute baby clothes and its fun to buy them too. I hope to see her in them or at least pictures. I will have to remind my son to take lots of pictures.... but I'm sure he will until I say enough already... ( I wouldn't do that)
So now I have to eat lunch and maybe sit on the porch for a bit with some iced tea. Hope your day is as nice as ours, Sandra

Beautiful day

After I figured out the tension on my machine and cut out the bibs and burp cloths I got busy and made these.... tomorrow it will be the yellow ones.... Seems like burp cloths are more important now that the cloth diapers aren't used any more... I found a pattern that my mother had and copied it.... it was just on a sheet of paper so I hope I did it right. I tried out 2 different kinds of bibs but I like the one with the velcro the best so I will make a few more of those too.
Now I'm going to clean up my mess and go outside for a little while. I didn't get the laundry done today and maybe not tomorrow if I'm going to be sewing but now that I got started on the sewing I will keep going until I get enough of them finished.... only 3 weeks to go before baby Jasmine is born. If she is on time. I have a lot of other things too that I bought along the way. It is fun buying for a baby isn't it? I have to stop myself because she will be getting a lot of presents :)
Leo is blowing the leaves out of the front flowers now..... so I have to go and make sure he is doing it right, haha  as he blows they vacuum up so that is nice isn't it? My flowers won't get damaged that way .... at least I hope not. The warm weather is finally coming.... I planted a couple of bulbs yesterday but I think it was too early.... I only planted a few to see if it would work and I put a towel over the pot last night so they wouldn't freeze... I can hardly believe things will be turning green and the flowers will bloom again.... What a miracle it is.
Hope you are having a wonderful day, Sandra

Beautiful Sunny Sunday

Here are the pictures I promised yesterday... :)
 It is a nice sunny day here today.... first of many many more I hope. After church we went to some stores and came home and ate and now am watching the race..... I will have time to work in my yard this week I think if the sun stays .... I will do only a little at a time. I have most of the flowers cut back from last year so the only thing I really have to do is rake some leaves out of the flowers and I have to be careful there so they don't freeze again.... I will only do it close to the house for now...... We need a good rain to clean the ground up...... it all looks so dusty etc from winter.
So maybe sewing bibs will be what I really do tomorrow. :)

Sandra

mostly cloudy again

I had little more fun today!  How do you like my Pigmy Date Palm I got at the store today? they had some for really good prices too. I decided to go and see what they have so I can put them on my patio this summer.... It will remind me of my Sons place in Florida a little. We have nice shady spots all along the house and they should brighten them up a little. I think I will get another one next week... I hope it gets big. I can put 2 on my dresser in my computer room for the winter and maybe one on my sewing machine in my bedroom....
Gary went shopping today and got a muffler repair and windshild wipers too and Leo went and came home without anything..... too bad but he will go again tomorrow and find what he is looking for I'm sure.
I have a vine in my room some may remember because it was taking up space when Charlie was sitting on his new window seat..... well it's a vine I got from my Mother and it is blooming today.... I was talking on the phone with my son and he was talking and bragging about all their house plants and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my vine in bloom.... My Mother told me not to cut it back and it would bloom and sure enough. I have had it now for over 10years, so that is what started me feeling good today. Even if its cloudy my heart is sunny today. I will put a picture in tomorrow if I think about it....
Hope you are having a happy day today too, Sandra

Friday.........

Today is another mostly cloudy cold day.... at least that is what it is too me and the mood on top says chillin and that is in more ways than one, :)
I have to go to the store and get a few groceries .... something in a new food magazine apealed to me but now I think after I have eaten cream of wheat for breakfast its more of a summer time thing.... it had yogurt and honey with strawberries and some cut up mini wheats on top.... I will still try it but think it would be a wonderful breakfast on the patio when the temp gets just a bit warmer and the sun is shinning.... what do you think?
I think I will boil some eggs and make some egg salad sandwiches for lunch. My diet is starting to work and with good eating habits I believe I will feel better and maybe not so depressed because of the weather. and then maybe get a good movie to watch or a good book to read. I could start sewing too.... maybe...... and then maybe not today.
I just finished reading an amazing book today called Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza.... what an amazing story she had to tell about being in the Rwandan Holocaust..... I couldn't stop reading it until I finished it...
My son just called from Florida telling me the weather is chilly today.... wish it were so chilly here. lol Anyway now I do have to get going as it's already 11:30.  Leo came home from an early morning fishing trip- well not a trip but fishing anyway. They were not biting and he was there since 5:30 this morning til around 10:30. A lot of the fishing buddies were there and noone was catching any but they caught up on their story telling :) and now he is resting. lol
So bye for now and I hope you are having a really nice day, Sandra

Tuesday already???

I am anxious for some warm weather so I looked over my last years pictures and thought I would put a few in to bring my spirits up a bit.
Yesterday we went shopping and I got a new Viking sewing machine. My sister, Angel steered me in the direction of a nice Sewing machine store where they sell them and repair etc etc... such nice people so Leo bought me a nice machine... I hope it lasts forever... but you and I know they don't make them like they used to so time will tell. I will enjoy it as long as I can. I think I will go and find some material to make some bibs etc for my Step grandaughter who is going to have a baby any time in the next 4 weeks. I am not going to push myself into making something fancy right away because Spring should be here soon and I want to get out in the yard as soon as I can.
It's still been cold and windy and it can only get better, I hope.
So the next pictures I put in will be flowers that are coming up in the yard now.... :)  Hope your flowers are coming up ~ Sandra