Busy, Busy, Busy!!

Well, it has been very busy around my house.  There is now grass starting to grow in the front yard!  I am excited about that.  Was not so excited about the gopher that got busy in my front flower bed.  It is as always a very "Caddy Shack" type fight to get rid of them.  I think I used a quarter of the bottle of poison I have and a whole bag of Molemax in my attempt to get rid of it.  I was getting pretty desperate to save my flowers, so when my sister told me the lady at the bank said chewing gum down the hole get's rid of them.  By golly, I was out there looking for a good hole with chewing gum in hand.  Sad to say I couldn't find one.  If that didn't work a whole bottle of minced garlic from Costco was going to go down it!  They don't like garlic for some reason.  I will be planting a perimeter of garlic around my yard come fall. : )

Last weekend, my sister, Patty, her friend, Melissa, mom, dad and I all went out to a u-pick farm and spent the day picking.  I came home with 2 1/2 lbs. of raspberries and blueberries, 5 lbs. of cherries, and 13 lbs. of plums.  So this week has been busy with the canning and preserving of them all.  I have a lot of pretty little jars full of goodies to try.  Also made several batches of Banana Blueberry bread and dehydrated about half the cherries.  Tina, my other sister, was over today and I let her try the cherries.  She thought they were great.  She was also here raiding my stash of yarn and almost 30 balls went home with her.  I am raiding her's tomorrow. : 0)

So here are the projects of late.  This first one I actually started on the 1st of this month.  Just never took a picture.  It is "Wild Garden" by Blackbird Designs.

Then I started a crochet project at mom's on the 12th because it was calling to me.  It is a tablecloth that was in an old "Anna" magazine from 2004.

Then last Sunday, the starting bug bit me again and I started "The Great American Aran Afghan".  I have had the yarn staring at me for awhile.  See it when I wake up and when I go to bed.  Yes, it was calling my name.  Finished the first block today.  Sorry the picture isn't the greatest on this one since I don't open the curtains in the afternoon because of heat.

It is actually redder in color than that.

Last but not least some progress has been made on Lola.  She is slowly getting some where and would be farther along if I hadn't gotten side tracked by starting new things.

In other news, the boy child is going to Michigan next week.  And the girl child is learning what heat with humidity is like.  :0)  Yes I smile over that as she is my drama queen and I got to hear this week about how the heat in Idaho doesn't compare.  She seems to forget I have lived all over and know about these things.  She of course told me this on a day when it was 108 degrees and I was sitting in a 91 degree house.  I just have to shake my head because some days she just cracks me up.

Well, I am off to join my next afghan square in the round.  This should be interesting! 

Happy Stitching!